RE 1.1 (1893) 759 (#33), E. Oder.
PTK and GLIM
Agathokle ̄s of Khios (325 – 90 BCE)
Authored a treatise on agriculture possibly covering cereals, livestock, poultry, viticulture,
and arboriculture (cf. P, 1.ind.8, 10, 14–15, 17–18) that C D excerpted
(V, RR 1.1.8–10, cf. C, 1.1.9).
RE 1.1 (1893) 759 (#32), E. Oder.
Philip Thibodeau
Agathokle ̄s of Mile ̄tos (250 BCE – 50 CE?)
Cited for a paradoxon by -P, On Rivers 18.3, and likely fictive.
RE 1.1 (1893) 759 (#27), M. Wellmann.
PTK
A ⇒ B A A
Agatho ̄n of Samos (300 – 50 BCE?)
Anethnically credited with an accurate Periplous of the Pontos by a scholiast, and credited
by -P (most of whose citations are fictive) with a Skuthika, whose sole
fragment describes a marvelous plant, and a book On Rivers, whose two fragments describe
marvelous plants.
FGrHist 801 (Periplous), 843 (Skuthika, On Rivers); BNP 1 (2002) 318 (#2), K. Brodersen.
PTK
Agathosthene ̄s (unknown date)
Mentioned among paradoxographers discussing aquatic phenomena (Tzetze ̄s Chil. 8.144,
645). Whether he is identical to Aglaosthene ̄s, author of Naxiaka (Müller FHG 4.294), is
uncertain.
RE 18.3 (1949) 1137–1166 (§24, 1159–1160), K. Ziegler.
Jan Bollansée, Karen Haegemans, and Guido Schepens
Agathotukhos (ca 325 BCE – ca 300 CE)
Wrote on veterinary medicine. Three fragments, quoted by T, are preserved
in the Hippiatrika: a drench for fever (Hippiatrica Parisina 5 = Hippiatrica Berolinensia 1.25), a
remedy for arthritic glanders (Hippiatrica Parisina 35 = Hippiatrica Berolinensia 2.24), and a
description of symptoms of liver trouble with treatments (Hippiatrica Parisina 546 = Hip-
piatrica Berolinensia 32.4). These passages also figure in the Arabic translation of
Theomne ̄stos.
CHG v.1; Hoyland (2004); McCabe (2007) 201.
Anne McCabe
AGATHOKLE ̄S OF KHIOS