Hiero ̄numos of Rhodes (260 – 230 BCE)
Scholarch of the Peripatos, and writer of biographies. P, Quaest. Conv. 1.8 (626
A–B) credits him with a theory of vision based upon corpuscular (non-atomic) emission.
T.S. Ganson, “Third-century Peripatetics on Vision,” and P. Lautner, “The Historical Setting of
Hieronymus fr.10 White,” in Fortenbaugh and White, RUSCH 12 (2004), 355–362 and 363–374;
BNP 6 (2005) 317 (#7), H.B. Gottschalk.
PTK
Hierophilos Sophiste ̄s (550 – 1050 CE)
Wrote a dietetic calendar, often dated to the 12th c; however, he might be earlier (7th/9th
c.). A poem on the same topic by Theodo ̄ros Prodromos (fl. ca 1130) shows close similarities
to Hierophilos’ work and establishes a terminus, whereas a Syriac calendar also shows close
parallels, allowing a date as early as the 6th c., when Syriac medical literature was first
translated from Greek. Although the epithet sophiste ̄s ( physician) recalls the late antique
medical milieu, both name and epithet may be apocryphal, added to a previously anonym-
ous work to recall H, whose work included dietetics. Whatever its period and
origin, this typically Byzantine text is mainly based on G’s system of health preserva-
tion, with the dietary properties of food and all the human activities that might affect health:
bathing, unguents, and sexual intercourse.
Ed.: J.Fr. Boissonade, in Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la blibliothèque du roi et autres bibliothèques 11 (1827)
178 – 273; Idem, in Anecdota Graeca e codicibus regiis 3 (1831) 409–421; Ideler 1 (1841/1963) 409–417;
A. Delatte, Anecdota atheniensia et alia 2 (1939) 456–466.
Ch. Daremberg, in Archives des missions scientifiques et littéraires 3 (1854) 19–20; Diels 2 (1907) 49;
L. Oeconomos, Actes du VIème Congrès International d’Études Byzantines (1950) 1.169–179; M. Formentin,
I codici greci di medicina nelle tre Venezie (1978) 83.
Alain Touwaide
H (A.) ⇒ H
Hikatidas (200 BCE – 75 CE)
P 28.83–84 records that Hikatidas claimed sex relieved quartan fevers (cf. A) –
so long as the woman is commencing menstruation. The name is recorded once elsewhere,
LGPN 1.234. Cf. perhaps H or H.
Fabricius (1726) 253, s.v. Icetidas.
PTK
Hikesios (325 BCE – 75 CE)
Known to P (1.ind.14–15, 14.120) as the author of a technical treatise on winemaking.
Pliny seems to distinguish him from the doctor of Smurna, but an identification cannot be
ruled out.
RE 8.2 (1913) 1593–1594 (#5), H. Gossen.
Philip Thibodeau
HIKESIOS