rather modified Epicureanism (cf. entries A, T, and later
S). Grouping diseases and therapies into “communities” (koino ̄tetes) allowed dis-
tinguishing “acute” from “chronic” illnesses, thereby also giving superficial precision to
recommended treatments (e.g., Tecusan frr.67 [surgery/bleeding] and 180 [chronic
wounds]), as well as circumscribing the ailments (frr.46 [ileus], 54 [epilepsy], 62 [paralysis],
65 [excessive “flowings”], 70–73 [hemorrhagia], 85 [dropsy], 95 [gout/podagra], 146
[fevers], and 310 [uterine prolapse]), which in turn suggested applicable drugs and com-
pounds. Gale ̄n and C A ascribe about nine titles to Thessalos: The Canon,
Commentary on Hippocrates’ Aphorisms, The Communities, Letter to Nero, On Medicines, The Method,
Regimen, Surgery, and Syncritics (Tecusan pp. 107–108).
Ed.: P. Boudreaux in CCAG 8.3 (1912) 132–165; H.-V. Friedrich, Thessalos von Tralles. griechisch und
lateinisch (1968); Tecusan (2004) “Thematic Synopsis: Thessalus,” pp. 84–85, 91–92, 98, and 103.
Edelstein (1935/1967); RE 6A.1 (1936) 168–182, H. Diller; D.E. Pingree, “Thessalus Astrologus,”
CTC 3 (1976) 83–86; J.Z. Smith, “The Temple and the Magician,” in Map is Not Territory: Studies in
the History of Religion (1978) 172–189; Frede (1982); G. Fowden, The Egyptian Hermes (1986); John
Scarborough, “The Pharmacology of Sacred Plants, Herbs, and Roots,” in C.A. Faraone and
D. Obbink, edd., Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion (1991) 138–174.
John Scarborough
Theuda ̄s “Sarkophagos” (30 BCE – 80 CE)
Called “flesh-eater” or “coffin” (sarkophagos), and quoted approvingly, by A, in
G CMGen 6.14 (13.925–926 K.), for a plaster used on cancers, fistulas, etc., and con-
taining terebinth, litharge (for which “some” substitute orpiment), copper flakes, verdi-
gris, and frankincense, in beeswax. The more common form of the name (LGPN 1.222,
2.224, 3A.208, 4.168); contrast Theoda ̄s (LGPN 1.213, 4.162). Prior to T
L; and hardly the same as T A; but cf. S.
(*)
PTK
Theudios of Magnesia (365 – 325 BCE)
Mentioned by P after A, M, and D and before
A K, all of whom worked together in P’s Academy, he excelled
in mathematics and other parts of philosophy, and put the elements of geometry in good
order, generalizing many results (In Eucl. p. 67.8–21 Fr.).
RE 6A.1 (1936) 244–246, K. von Fritz.
Ian Mueller
T A ⇒ T
Thrasualke ̄s of Thasos (well before 350 BCE)
Held that there are only two winds, the North and the South (S 1.2.21), and was
A’s source for the view that flooding of the Nile was caused by summer rains in
the far south (ibid. 17.1.5: discussed by Aristotle in the fragments of On the Rising of the Nile; cf.
A C O F N).
Ed.: V. Rose, Aristotelis Fragmenta (1886), frr. 246 – 248; DK 35.
Henry Mendell
THRASUALKE ̄S OF THASOS