RE 1.1 (1893) 745, M. Wellmann; KP 1.117 (#2), Fr. Kudlien; Kudlien (1968) 1098; DSB 1.74–75, Idem;
OCD3 36, J.T. Vallance; BNP 1 (2002) 313–314, V. Nutton.
Alain Touwaide
Agathodaimo ̄n, pseudo (250 BCE – 300 CE)
Pseudonymous authority first mentioned in the Greek alchemical corpus by Z
P, but also found in the C H. O A-
gives three mythical reports on the identity of this otherwise unknown author or
authors (CAAG 2.79–80). His only extant Greek works are a Demonstration and Commentary on
the Oracle of Orpheus (CAAG 2.268–271) and an aphorism (CAAG 2.115). Zo ̄simos (CAAG
2.193) cites his Teaching on the Pretincture and Olumpiodo ̄ros (loc. cit.) mentions his Alchemical
Book (Biblos Khe ̄meutike ̄), both lost. He is also associated with the verse Riddle of the Philosophical
Stone of Herme ̄s and Agathodaimo ̄n (CAAG 2.267–268), an excerpt from the Sibylline Oracles
(lines 141–146) which had been given an alchemical interpretation by, at least, the time of
Olumpiodo ̄ros (CAAG 2.71). Texts attributed to Agathodaimo ̄n are extant in Arabic.
Ullmann (1972) 175–177.
Bink Hallum
Agathodaimo ̄n of Alexandria (after 178 CE)
Several MSS of P’s Geo ̄graphike ̄ huphe ̄ge ̄sis (including 13th c. Vat. Urb. gr. 82, 14th c.
Florent. Laurent. XXVIII 49, and 15th c. Venet. Marc. gr. 516) contain at the end of Book
8 (where the world-map is divided into 26 regional maps) a small notice that one Agathod-
aimo ̄n Alexandreus me ̄khanikos has drawn the whole oikoumene ̄ (hupetupo ̄sato, hupetupo ̄sa or
hupetupo ̄se). In spite of intensive research, it is still today impossible to decide whether this
sentence means the drawing of all Ptolemaic maps or simply the drawing of the Ptolemaic
world map.
H. von Mzˇik, Denkschriften Akademie Wien 59.4 (1916), appendix 2; RE S.3 (1918) 59, Jos. Fischer; RE
S.10 (1965) 737–741, E. Polaschek.
Andreas Kuelzer
Agathokle ̄s (50 BCE – 75 CE)
Wrote a work On Nutrition, after D “K” (Schol. Nik. The ̄r. 622), and is cited
by A, in Gale ̄n CMGen 5.12 (13.832–833 K.), for an erusipelas remedy, and
by P 22.90 for an antidote to “bull’s blood.” Lucian’s joke merely uses the name,
Kataplous 7.
BNP 1 (2002) 317 (#12), V. Nutton.
PTK
Agathokle ̄s of Atrax (300 BCE – 175 CE)
Wrote On fishes (Halieutika) in prose (Ath. Deipn. 1 [13c] = Souda K-1596); cf. P
C. Perhaps identical to the Agathokle ̄s whom P includes as a foreign authority
on geography (1.ind.4–6), if that is not a reference to the memoirs of the tyrant Agathokle ̄s
of Surakousai.
AGATHOKLE ̄S OF ATRAX