inscription, followed by a prose resolution. Pliny gives a prose version (without the sphragis
mentioning Antiokhos), as the culmination of his book about garden plants. Commended
against vipers (v.15–16), spiders and scorpions, this theriac is a sort of panacea (see N-
). The initial sphragis shows Antiokhos to be an inventor of remedies akin to A
III and M. The author of the metrical inscription is no longer thought to be
Antiokhos; nor is it T’s student E, pace Wellmann (see RE 6.904.68–
905.3), assuming it is the Methodist physician and not E E (Gale ̄n
13.291.10 K.) that Askle ̄piade ̄s had in mind in his prographe ̄ (Antid. 185.1 K.). The theriac
and other recipes in verse were to be found in his work on pharmacology – that is all the
prographe ̄ means. Pliny mentions that Antiokhos III the Great used it. Except for a possible
confusion between Antiokhos III and VIII, one may suppose that it could well have been
invented by Antiokhos III’s private physician, A S.
RE 1.2 (1894) 2483.7–12, M. Wellmann; SH 412A; BNP 1 (2002) 765 (#10), A. Mehl; Jacques (2002)
2.308–309 (see –).
Jean-Marie Jacques
Antiokhos of Athens (30 BCE – 260 CE)
Greek astrological author of uncertain date (perhaps 2nd c. CE), but earlier than P-
, who quotes him in his astrological Eisago ̄ge ̄ (38). Antiokhos wrote two treatises on
astrology, both lost. A summary of his Eisago ̄gika is extant in a 15th c. codex (Par. gr. 2425),
from which it is apparent that Porphurios appropriated the content of many of its chapters
without acknowledgement. The The ̄sauroi, a treatise of similar scope, was one of the princi-
pal sources of a complex family of astrological epitomes, some associated in the MSS with
R. Antiokhos is often cited as an authority on genethlialogy and interrogatory
astrology in the Arabic tradition, where his influence was probably by way of translations
from the Greek compilations of late antiquity.
D.E. Pingree, “Antiochus and Rhetorius,” CPh 72 (1977) 203–223.
Alexander Jones
Antiokhos of Surakousai (430 – 410 BCE)
Wrote chronicles of Italy and Sicily, describing the migrations and settlements of its
peoples, cited often by S (5.4.3, 6.1.1–15, and 6.3.2) and others. Gomme-
Andrewes-Dover 4.198–205 present the argument for Antiokhos as a source of T-
6.2–5 (and probably 3.88.2–3, 3.90.1, 6.96.2, and 6.104.2).
FGrHist 555; A.W. Gomme, A. Andrewes, and K.J. Dover, A historical commentary on Thucydides v.
4 (1970).
PTK
Antipatros (Pharm.) (30 BCE – 80 CE)
Greek physician, perhaps contemporary with A (Wellmann); the compound medi-
cines linked with his name imply a floruit no earlier than the 1st c. CE. G mentions the
Methodist A postdating T T (Introd. 4, 14.684 K.), per-
haps the source of the following citations. C A cites letters in at least
three books, attributed to Antipatros, treating medical topics (Chron. 2.157 [CML 6.1.1,
ANTIOKHOS OF ATHENS