Andronikos (Paradox.) (250 BCE – 300 CE)
Otherwise unidentifiable author whom the P P (§12) cites for
a self-generating mineral from Spain.
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PTK
Andronikos (Pharm.) (250 BCE – 80 CE)
A, in G CMLoc 7.5 (13.114 K.), gives his recipe for orthopnoia: anise,
“Ethiopian” cumin, ammo ̄niakon incense, castoreum, myrrh, and sulfur, formed into
pills, to be taken at bedtime with water.
BNP 1 (2002) 688 (#6), W. Portmann.
PTK
Andronikos of Kurrhos (ca 150 – 125 BCE)
Astronomer; built at Athens the Horologion (“Tower of the Winds”), an octagonal marble
tower with an internal water-clock and a sundial on each face (V, RR 3.5.17). Topping
the tower was a weather-vane in the shape of a Triton or sea-monster, whose rod held in the
right hand hovered above the side carved with a representation of the prevailing wind
(V 1.6.4), thereby signifying wind direction.
RE 1.2 (1894) 2167–2168 (#28), E. Fabricius; C. Mee and A.J.S. Spawforth, Greece: An Archaeologial Guide
(2001) 74–76.
GLIM
Andronikos of Rhodes (100 – 20 BCE)
Peripatetic philosopher, “the eleventh (scholarch) after A” according to
A, De interpr. 5.28–29; ancient sources connect him especially to an edition of
A’s and T’ treatises, previously rather neglected if not partially
lost: during the 1st c. BCE (in the first half: Moraux and Gottschalk; ca 40 – 20: Düring) he
“published Aristotle’s and Theophrastos’ writings and prepared those catalogues (pinakes) of
them” which were still used in P’s time (cf. Sulla 26). Moreover, “he divided them
into pragmateiai, having put together treatises on the same subject into one work” (P-
, Plot. 24). Since all of Andronikos’ works are lost (many lost already in late antiquity:
e.g. there is no reason to believe that his Peri diaireseo ̄s was available any longer to B,
De diuisione, PL 64.875D), it is unclear how responsible he is for the shape of the extant
works of Aristotle (e.g. our Metaphysics). The catalogue of Aristotle’s writings preserved in
Arabic attributed to a Ptolemaios is regarded as deriving from Andronikos’ list. But as far as
we can see, his main contribution seems to concern the collection, constitution or comple-
tion of the Aristotelian corpus, which he made more available for further exegesis, so that
he can be regarded as a main founder of the Aristotelian commentary tradition. He wanted
to order the corpus into a curriculum, “starting with logic, for this is concerned with proof”
(cf. I P in Cat. 5.18–23); logic in turn presupposes the Categories, a text
scarcely influential hitherto, on which Andronikos wrote an explanatory paraphrase, start-
ing the series of a long and dense exegetical tradition on this work. In his pinakes, five books
at least, he recorded the titles (which he eventually discussed, rejecting e.g. a previous title
ANDRONIKOS OF RHODES