and author of a work about the practice of medicine in his home city in 45 books. Nothing
more is known about these books on Durrakhian doctors, unless the Philo ̄nide ̄s cited by
Athe ̄naios, Deipn.15 (675a-e: in turn quoting an A, 676c, and 691f–692b), is the
same writer who produced the quoted On Perfumes and Wreaths. If so, the physicians of
Durrakhion were known for their drinking-parties, remedies for hangovers, and how one
oiled the head with redolent perfumes and unguents for “medical reasons.” “[The imbibers]
were persuaded to oil the head since the ill-effects of the wine would be lessened if they [did
so] before they began their drinking-bout” (Ath., Deipn. 15 [692a-b]). Philo ̄nide ̄s explains
that the application of unguents prevented partly-charred elements taken into the stomach
from contributing to fevers engendered in the “dry” head, empty when drinking began.
PIR2 P-378.
John Scarborough
Philo ̄nide ̄s of Khersone ̄sos (335 – 305 BCE)
Bematist of Alexander, from the Khersone ̄sos region of Crete (F1); he measured the
Sikuo ̄n to E ̄lis road (P 2.181, 7.84). Pliny 1.ind.5 and 5.129 cites an anethnic Philo ̄nide ̄s,
probably the same man, for ACAMANTIS as an alternate name of the Kilikian Sea. Cf.
B and D E.
FGrHist 121.
PTK
Philo ̄nide ̄s of Laodikeia “ad Mare” (ca 210 – 150 BCE)
Philosopher, mathematician, and statesman. The primary source for Philo ̄nide ̄s’ life is a
biography fragmentarily preserved in PHerc. 1044 whose title and author are unknown;
P is a possible candidate. Philo ̄nide ̄s is also mentioned in the preface to Book 1
of A’ Conics, and, together with his father Philo ̄nide ̄s and brother Dikaiarkhos,
in two inscriptions from Athens and Delphi. Philo ̄nide ̄s was born, probably in the last years
of the 2nd c. BCE, at Laodikeia “on the Sea,” in southern Syria. His family was politically
important, and Philo ̄nide ̄s and his brother followed their father in completing diplomatic
missions between Greek cities and Seleukid kings, including Antiokhos IV Epiphane ̄s and
De ̄me ̄trios I So ̄te ̄r; in recognition of their services all three were awarded Athenian citizen-
ship and honored by the priests of Eleusis. In his youth, Philo ̄nide ̄s met Apollo ̄nios, who
introduced him at Ephesos to another mathematician, Eude ̄mos of Pergamon (otherwise
unknown), who became his teacher. Philo ̄nide ̄s also had contacts with other mathematicians
including D K and Z. His training as an Epicurean
philosopher appears to have begun under one A, whose commentary on Books
1 – 33 of E’ On Nature was later the target of one of Philo ̄nide ̄s’ critical writings;
during two sojourns in Athens he also studied with two other Epicureans, B
T and Thespis (otherwise unknown). In addition to the attack on Artemo ̄n, Philo ̄nide ̄s
composed his own commentary on Book 8 of On Nature. His chief historical significance,
however, is for the light cast on chronology, prosopography, and social history of Hellenistic
intellectual circles by his apparently amicable relations with contemporary mathematicians
and philosophers, including adherents of rival sects such as the Academic K
and the Stoic D B.
I. Gallo, Frammenti Biografici da Papiri, v.2 (1980) 23–166.
Alexander Jones
PHILO ̄NIDE ̄S OF LAODIKEIA “AD MARE”