P ⇒ M
Periandros (ca 360 – ca 335 BCE)
A good doctor who wrote bad verse – on unspecified topics (P, Spartan Sayings
218F).
RE 19.1 (1937) 717 (#2), W. Kroll.
PTK
Perigene ̄s (200 BCE – 50 CE)
Perigene ̄s “Organikos” (E A-103, p. 23 Nachm.; cf. A) was a surgeon
and engineer. His medical apparatus contributed to refinements in bone surgery. Peri-
gene ̄s wrote a Me ̄khanika in which he described three bandages: one called “thais,” also
ascribed to M (-G De Fasciis 16 [18A.789 K.]), a second called the
“helmet bandage,” seemingly his own invention (ibid. 35 [18A.797 K.]), and a “cranes-
bill” bandage for a luxated humerus (ibid. 80 [18A.814 K.]). A preserves
three remedies for breathing disorders (G, CMLoc 7.2–3 [13.33–34, 69–70, and 73
K.]).
RE S.11 (1968) 1054–1055 (#7), M. Michler; Idem (1968) 89, 132.
GLIM
Perikle ̄s (150 BCE – 300 CE)
Wrote a lost commentary on the Cutting-off of a Ratio by A P, according
to P, Coll. 7.6.
Jones (1986) 386, 511; Netz (1997) #133.
PTK
Perikle ̄s of Ludia (ca 430 – 480 CE)
Philosopher associated with P (M N, Vit. Pr. 29) whose Theologia
Platonica was dedicated to him (Theol. Plat. 1.1, p. 5.7 S-W). In his interpretation of P’s
Parmenide ̄s 131d–e, he refers to the idea of the Small, concluding that Smallness is
not divisible (Proklos, in Parm. 872.18–32). He claims that the very first matter is body
without qualities, a view he attributes to Plato, A, and the Stoics (S, in
Phys. = CAG 9 [1882] 227.23–26). Perikle ̄s may also have participated in theurgic rituals
(Marinos, Vit. Pr. 29).
RE S.7 (1940) 899 (#8), R. Beutler; PLRE 2 (1980) 860.
Peter Lautner
Periplus Maris Erythraei (40 – 70 CE)
An Egyptian Greek, author of a periplous of the Erythraean Sea, as the Greeks called the
Indian Ocean and its branches including the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. Drawing on
personal experience, the author described the African route down to the ancient town of
Raphta (situated at the mouth of the Pangani river in present-day Tanzania), and the
PERIPLUS MARIS ERYTHRAEI