Rhe ̄ginos (ca 65 – 180 CE)
Physician, listed among the Methodists post-dating T and T (G
MM 2.7.5 [10.52–53 K. = p. 27 Hankinson]), omitted by Tecusan 2004.
Edelstein (1935) col. 358 = (1967) p. 173.
GLIM
Rhe ̄torios (600 – 700 CE?)
Extremely shadowy figure, apparently participated in forming large compilations of Greek
astrological texts now found in many Byzantine codices. His authentic contribution is
obscured by misattributions by later Byzantine scholars and by frequently speculative iden-
tifications of authors on the part of the editors of the CCAG (1898–1940), still the only pub-
lished repository for the majority of the relevant texts. Pingree hypothesized that Rhe ̄torios
assembled a lost enormous anthology of astrological chapters that was the common ancestor
of selections preserved in two MSS now in Paris.
Ed.: D.E. Pingree, Rhetorii Aegyptii compendium astrologicum [.. .], imprimendum curavit S. Heilen (Teubner,
forthcoming).
D.E. Pingree, “Antiochus and Rhetorius,” CPh 72 (1977) 203–223.
Alexander Jones
Rhoikos of Samos (550 – 500 BCE)
Son of Phileus, sculptor and architect of an archaic Temple of He ̄ra at Samos ( begun ca
530 BCE, He ̄raion IV ), then the largest temple in Greece (ca 55 × 110 m). H
(3.60) names Rhoikos the first architect of this temple; later authors link him with
T S for this and other projects. V (7.pr.12) names them as
co-authors of a book on the temple. Pausanias (10.18.5) cites Rhoikos as sculptor of a
statue at the Artemesion at Ephesos. Under Rhoikos’ supervision, the problem of stable
foundations for the temple at Samos was solved.
Svenson-Ebers (1996) 7–49; KLA 2.351–352, H.J. Kienast.
Margaret M. Miles
Ripalus (50 BCE – 80 CE)
A in G, CMLoc 7.3 (13.64 K.), records his cough-syrup for phthisis
and recurrent fevers, composed of nard, myrrh, cinnamon, black and white pepper, poppy
juice, henbane seed, etc., in honey-wine. He called his recipe Ambrosia or Me ̄nodo ̄rios, pre-
sumably from M S.
Fabricius (1726) 383.
PTK
Romula (180? – 400? CE)
A A 16.141 (Zervios 1901: 171) records her uterine fumigation, compounding
cinnamon, saffron, kostos, myrtle, spikenard, sturax, etc. (cf. T). He describes
her as kurias, an honorific for women over 40, in use by the late 2nd c. CE, and probably out
of use once Christianity became dominant: cf. Williger in RE 12.1 (1924) 176–183.
(*)
PTK
ROMULA