30m), and side-to-side. The machine, steered by 100 men, weighed about 160 metric tons
(A M. pp. 21–22 W.; V 10.15).
Irby-Massie and Keyser (2002) 164–166.
PTK and GLIM
Heirodotos (of Boio ̄tia?) (205 – 185 BCE?)
G (CMLoc 9.6 [13.311–312 K.]) quotes A’ record of the cure of
“Astainos” by “Eikodotos” using a remedy for foreskin constriction, containing lanolin and
other fats (two varieties of goose-fat, plus deer or camel marrow), rose oil, terebinth, etc.
“Astainos” might be for Astinos (LGPN 1.92, 2.76, 4.57: 4th–2nd cc. BCE), but the citation
implies a well-known person, suggesting instead the general Aristainos of Megalopolis
(P, Philop. 17; P Book 24, frr.11–13). Although names in “Eikad-” are
attested (LGPN 2.138, 3A.137, 4.115), reading ΕΙΡΟ- for ΕΙΚΟ- allows “Heirodotos,”
known from Boio ̄tia around the time of Aristainos: LGPN 3B.130.
Fabricius (1726) 253, s.v. Icodotus.
PTK
Hekataios (Pharm.) (250 BCE – 25 CE)
Physician whose suppurative plaster contained galbanum, frankincense soot, pitch, bees-
wax, and terebinth mixed with iris ointment, recommended especially for shallow wounds
(C 5.19.16, 26.35C).
RE 7.2 (1912) 2769 (#6), H. Gossen.
GLIM
Hekataios of Abde ̄ra (323 – 290 BCE)
Student of Pyrrho and philosophical writer. In addition to On the Poetry of Homer and He ̄siod,
he wrote On the Hyperboreans, an idealizing ethnography of the imaginary peoples of the far
north, whom he located on an island across the Frozen Sea. He accompanied Ptolemy I
So ̄te ̄r to Egypt and wrote a treatise on Egypt, now lost but used by D S
(1.10–98). Hekataios’ historical, geographical and ethnographical sketch of Egypt followed
H, although he also utilized priestly sources and his own observations. His
reasonably accurate geographical overview included eyewitness descriptions of the pyr-
amids of Giza, the temples of Thebes, and the tomb of Ozymandias (the Ramesseum). The
work contained the first Greek account of Jewish history and ethnography, although
scholars suspect a number of citations of being too sympathetic to the Jews, and therefore
later forgeries.
Ed.: FGrHist 264.
O. Murray, “Hecataeus of Abdera and Pharaonic Kingship,” JEA 56 (1970) 141–171; B. Bar-Kochva,
Pseudo-Hecataeus, On the Jews. Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora (1996); J. Dillery, “Hecataeus of Abdera:
Hyperboreans, Egypt, and the Interpretatio Graeca,” Historia 47 (1998) 255–275.
Philip KaplanHEIRODOTOS (OF BOIO ̄TIA?)