interest in medicine may refer to our author rather than the philosopher (VH 9.22), if
it does not refer to the pseudo-Puthagoras of D; cf. also P
A. Ziegler distinguishes the physician from the author of the Homeric treatise.
RE 24 (1963) 305 (#12b), H. Diller and K. Ziegler.
PTK and GLIM
Puthagoras (of Alexandria?) (275 – 265 BCE)
Officer under Ptolemy Philadelphos, whose lost On the Red Sea described stones (I in
P 37.24), musical instruments of the Trogodutes (Ath., Deipn. 4 [183f], 14 [634a]), and
the long-tailed monkey (A, NA 17.8).
NP 10.654 (#6), H.A. Gärtner.
PTK
P S ⇒ P
Puthagoras of Samos, pseudo (Astrol.) (ca 1 – 150 CE)
Three extant treatises on occult sciences are attributed to P S. Two
are astrological, The Pebble (CCAG 11.2.124–125), describing planetary influences on char-
acter (from Saturn inward to the Moon), and On the Forms and Indications of the 12 Signs of the
Zodiac (CCAG 11.2.135–138), which has been shown to depend on D S
(Pingree 1978: 292–299). The third is an untitled work on numerological onomancy, which
takes the form of a letter addressed to his son Te ̄lauge ̄s (CCAG 11.2.139). H
R cited this text in extenso (Haer. 4.13.1–14.20).
Diels (1905) 87–88; P. Tannery, “Notice sur des fragments d’Onomatomancie arithmétique” (1886),
repr. in Mémoirs scientifiques 9 (1929) 17–50.
Bink Hallum
Puthagoras of Zakunthos (500 – 450 BCE?)
Professional kitharodos and theoretician probably active in the mid-5th c. BCE (according to
D L 8.46), he is also recalled by A for his theoretical interests
in describing different forms of scales without achieving a complete enumeration of
their possible structures and without investigating the general principles governing them
(El. Harm. 36.33). As stated by a fragment of A K in Athe ̄naios,
Deipn. 14 (637b–f), he became famous for the invention of an instrument resembling the
Delphic tripod (hence called tripous), a triple kithara where three sets of strings were put on a
revolving base with a big common sound-box, so that the Dorian, Phrygian, and Lydian
harmoniai could all be played.
M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music (1992) 226.
E. Rocconi
Putheas of Massalia (ca 320 – 305 BCE)
Explorer and geographer of uncertain date; D’ criticism (S 2.4.2)
seems our earliest reference. P described him as a private individual and a
PUTHEAS OF MASSALIA