Euhe ̄meros/Himerios (ca 150 – 350 CE?)
Euhe ̄meros (in MS Parisinus gr. 2322) or Himerios (in MS Phillipps 1538); addressee of
A’ letter on ailments of the spleen, preserved in the Hippiatrika (Hippiatrica Parisina
549 = Hippiatrica Berolinensia 40.1). Euhe ̄meros is described as hippiatros, horse-doctor.
McCabe (2007).
Anne McCabe
Eukleide ̄s “Palatianus” (100 BCE – 80 CE)
A in G, Antid. 2.10 (14.162–163 K.), records his viper anti-venom, use-
ful also for quartan fevers. Apparently a Roman citizen of the tribe “Palatinus”: V, LL
5.56.
Fabricius (1726) 155.
PTK
E ⇒ E
Eukte ̄mo ̄n of Athens (440 – 410 BCE)
Astronomer and geographer. With M, he observed the summer solstice of 13
Skirophorion, 432 BCE, and established the 19-year soli-lunar cycle. He also set up a para-
pe ̄gma. Although tracing seasons and weather patterns through fixed star phases is a part
of Greek culture already in H, and of Babylonian and other cultures, a public track-
ing device may well be a late 5th c. invention. Our principal sources, (pseudo?) G,
Calendarium and P, Phaseis, mention three 5th c. BCE parape ̄gma-authors,
D, Eukte ̄mo ̄n, and Meto ̄n. Of these, Eukte ̄mo ̄n’s is the most elaborately
preserved in these works as well as in the Anonymous in MS Vindob. Gr. philos. 108 and one
of two parape ̄gmata from Mile ̄tos. Eukte ̄mo ̄n divided the seasons: summer (90 days), fall
(90 days), winter (92 days), spring (93 days). If he divided the year into 12 parts of 30 or 31
days each, and started the year at about the summer solstice by assigning all months
30 days, then to get the total to 365 days, he gives the last five months 31 days each,
accounting for this division of seasons. Perhaps, this also comes with some knowledge that
spring is, in fact, the longest season. Eukte ̄mo ̄n is probably the author to whom A,
De ora marit., 47, 337–380, attributes a geographical work that at least discussed the western
Mediterranean. If so, Eukte ̄mo ̄n also resided in the Athenian colony of Amphipolis, some-
time in 437– 424 BCE.
A. Rehm, “Das Parapegma des Euktemon,” Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akad. der Wissenschaft. phil.-hist.
Kl. 1913; RE 18.4 (1949) 1295–1366 (s.v. “Parapegma”), Idem; Idem (1941); R. Hannah, “Euctemon’s
Parapegma,” in C.J. Tuplin and T.E. Rihll, Science and Mathematics in Ancient Greek Culture (2002)
76 – 132.
Henry Mendell
Eumakhos of Kerkura (25 BCE – 75 CE)
Wrote Root Gathering wherein he states that the narcissus is called akakallis and krotalon (Ath.,
Deipn. 15 [681e]); Wellmann guesses the date-range; indeed the name is rare after the 1st c.
CE, but is attested from the 6th c. BCE (LGPN).
RE 6.1 (1907) 1073 (#5), M. Wellmann.
GLIM
EUMAKHOS OF KERKURA