D L (3.46), and P (In Eucl. p. 67.8 Fr.) refer to this same pupil
as Amuklas or Amuklos. That he is from He ̄rakleia Pontike ̄ is inferred from Philode ̄mos’
description of Amuntas and a H as He ̄rakleians. Proklos, linking Amuklas with
M and D, says that they “made the whole of geometry more
perfect (or complete).”
J. Lippert, Ibn al-Qifti’s Tarih al-hukama’ (1903); Lasserre (1987) 7; K. Gaiser, Philodems Academica (1988).
Ian Mueller
Amuntianos (160 – 180 CE)
Wrote a history of Alexander dedicated to Marcus Aurelius (Schol. Bern. Verg. Georg. 2.137),
parallel lives of Dionysius (tyrant of Surakousai) and Domitian, of Philip of Macedon and
A, and a biography of Olympias (Pho ̄tios Bibl. 131). In On Elephants, he claimed
“all Ethiopian elephants, males and females alike, have ‘tooth-horns’” in contrast to the
female Indian elephant (Schol. Pind. Ol. 3.52).
FGrHist 1072.
GLIM
Amuthao ̄n (120 BCE – 80 CE?)
Prepared ointments containing bdellium, frankincense, and galbanum, in a beeswax
and terebinth base. A P., in G CMGen 7.6 (13.967 K.), cites his
ointment for joints etc., as above, plus henna oil, ammo ̄niakon incense, and myrrh. P-
A cites two of his remedies for stiff or distorted joints, found unattributed or
otherwise attributed in A in Gale ̄n: (1) 4.55 (CMG 9.1, p. 381) = CMGen 7.6
(13.969 K.: L’) = 7.7 (13.977 K.), contents as above, plus opopanax, pepper, etc.;
and (2) a simpler version 7.17.33 (CMG 9.2, p. 355) = CMGen 7.7 (13.983 K.); also in
C F 42.8, 43.11 (CUF pp. 112, 121). O, Syn. 3.57 (CMG 6.3, p. 83),
and A A 10.11 (p. 578 Cornarius) record his very similar recipe for splenetic
disorders, cited as well known by the Hipp. Cant. 31.2 (2.166–167 ed. Oder-Hoppe).
C A, Chron. 2.211 (CML 6.1.1, p. 672), prescribes his malagma for
phthisis, and Aëtios 8.63 (CMG 8.2, p. 512) mentions his remedy for orthopnoia. The
rare name is attested as Amutheo ̄n and Amuthaoun (LGPN 2.26, 3B.28).
RE S.11 (1968) 29–30, M. Michler.
PTK
Anakreo ̄n (Astron.) (300 – 100 BCE?)
Nothing is known about this poet of Alexandrian time. According to The Second Life of Aratos,
he is said to have written an elegiac poem entitled Phainomena from which I H
(Astr. 2.6.2) quotes a single pentameter about the constellation Lyra (CA 130).
E. Maass, Aratea (1892) 150; BNP 1 (2002) 631, M. Di Marco.
Christophe Cusset
ANAKREO ̄N (ASTRON.)