Me ̄trodo ̄ros son of Epikharmos, pseudo (200 BCE – 100 CE?)
E’ son, credited by I (VP 241) with a medical treatise ( probably
pseudepigraphical, cf. Thesleff 1965: 121–122) where supposedly P’ teachings
were applied.
DPA 4 (2005) 502–503 (#143), Bruno Centrone and C. Macris.
Bruno Centrone
Me ̄trodo ̄ros of Alexandria (ca 130 – 170 CE)
S’ student, P P’s teacher (G CMG 5.10.1, p. 401),
wrote commentaries on the H C, E, and was acclaimed with
Sabinus as more accurate than previous Hippokratic scholars (CMG 5.10.2.1, pp. 17–18).
Gale ̄n sharply criticizes numerous interpretative errors, chiding Sabinus and his followers
for their unique view of the dangers of pustules (5.10.2.2, pp. 46–47).
Smith (1979) 151, n.71, 152, n.73; Ihm (2002) #176–178; BNP 8 (2006) 838–839 (#8), V. Nutton.
GLIM
Me ̄trodo ̄ros of Buzantion (180 – 80 BCE)
Father of L B, mentioned among famous ichthyologists by A
(NA, epilogue).
RE 15.2 (1932) 1482 (#25a), W. Kroll.
Arnaud Zucker
Me ̄trodo ̄ros of Khios (400 – 350 BCE)
Atomist philosopher and student of D. His major work On Nature (peri
phuseo ̄s) combined skeptical views about the possibility of knowledge with an atomic
analysis of the nature of reality. Following De ̄mokritos, he taught that everything was made
up of atoms and the void, and that there are an infinite number of worlds (kosmoi). He
also discussed meteorology and astronomy.
Ed.: DK 70.
RE 15.2 (1932) 1475–76 (#14), W. Nestle; KP 3.1280 (#4), H. Dörrie; Long and Sedley (1987) §1D;
OCD3 977, W.D. Ross; ECP 342, J.S. Purinton; DPA 4 (2005) 506–508, R. Goulet; BNP 8 (2006)
836 – 837 (#1), I. Bodnár.
Walter G. Englert
ME ̄TRODO ̄ROS SON OF EPIKHARMOS, PSEUDO