Amphinomos (365 – 325 BCE)
Mentioned four times by P, twice with known followers of P, but not in his
sketch of the history of geometry (In Eucl. pp. 65–68 Fr.). These references suggest that
Amphinomos was interested in metamathematical rather than mathematical issues: the
circle of S and Amphinomos held that, since geometry treats eternal entities, one
should not call anything established in it a problem (77.15–78.8); Amphinomos denied that
geometry explains why its results are true (202.9–11), and classified problems in terms of the
number of solutions they admit (220.7–12); finally mathematicians “around” M
and Amphinomos discussed the convertibility of propositions of the form “All A are B”
(254.4–5).
DPA 1 (1989) 173, R. Goulet.
Ian Mueller
Amphio ̄n (250 BCE – 95 CE)
A P., in G CMGen 4.13 (13.736 K.), preserves his wound-plaster of
copper flakes (D 5.78–79), litharge, and khalkitis, ground in olive oil and
vinegar.
Fabricius (1726) 56.
PTK
Amuntas (Geog.) (ca 320 – ca 230 BCE)
Wrote an account of Alexander’s journey, Stages in Asia or Stages in Persia. A
B Epit. 2.358 (CAG S.1.1 [1885] 106) cites him on the iron-ore-eating mice of
Tere ̄do ̄n in Babylonia, repeated by A NA 5.14, who also transcribes his somewhat
paradoxographical account of Caspian-region rats and foxes (NA 17.17). Athe ̄naios, Deipn. 2
(67a), quotes him on Persian mountain products (terebinth, squill, and walnuts), and, 11
(500d), on the “manna” exuded from oak leaves and used to make a sweet drink (cf. T-
, HP 3.7.6). Although the name is common from an early date, especially in
northern Greece (LGPN), he may be the same as the Amuntas involved in a conspiracy
against Ptolemy Philadelphos, ca 250 BCE.
FGrHist 122; KP 1.322 (#1), G. Wirth.
PTK
Amuntas (Med.) (350 BCE – 200 CE)
Wrote on bandages, as recorded by O, Coll. 48.31 (CMG 6.2.1, p. 278); similar
bandages are described by pseudo-G, de Fasciis 58, 61, 89 (18A.805–806, 807–808,
818 K.).
Michler (1968) 88–89, 131.
PTK
Amuntas of He ̄rakleia Pontike ̄ (365 – 325 BCE)
Among P’ pupils (P, Pap. Herc. 1021, col. 6: Gaiser 1988: 183). Many
scholars think that Ibn al-Qift
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