wills of earlier Peripatetic scholarchs and may have written about H,
So ̄crate ̄s and/or E. Stoics in the next century, wishing to distance their school
from the Cynic tendencies of earlier Stoics, attempted unsuccessfully to reassign to him
the books of the Stoic Aristo ̄n of Khios (fr.8 = D L 7.163). Though
no scientific writings have been attributed to him, he is credited with incidental observations
on mitigating hangovers (frr.10–11) and on the deleterious physical and mental effects of
drinking water from certain springs (fr.17).
BNP 1 (2002) 1119–20 (#3), R.W. Sharples; P. Stork et al., “Aristo of Ceos: The Sources, Text and
Translation,” David E. Hahm, “In Search of Aristo,” and R.W. Sharples, “Natural Philosophy in
the Peripatos after Strato,” in Fortenbaugh and White, RUSCH 13 (2006) 1–177, 179–215 and
312 – 20.
David E. Hahm
Aristo ̄n of Khios (100 – 60 BCE)
Peripatetic who argued with E A over the priority of their
published theories of the rise of the Nile (S 17.1.5).
KP 1.571–572 (#3), H. Dörrie.
PTK
A ⇒ H
Aristophane ̄s (250 BCE – 100 CE)
P A 7.17.34 (CMG 9.2, p. 356) records his emollient of beeswax, liquid
pitch, panax-juice, and vinegar (cf. 4.55 [9.1, p. 380]). The name is almost unattested after
the 1st c. CE (LGPN).
(*)
PTK
Aristophane ̄s of Buzantion (ca 230 – 180 BCE)
Born ca 257 BCE; prominent scholar and head of the Alexandrian library (195–180), wrote
numerous critical editions and treatises on classical poets, and lexicographical compilations
(Lexeis or Glo ̄ssai). He also abridged the Aristotelian zoological corpus (Epitome by Aristophanes
of the writings of Aristotle on living creatures), partly preserved in a Byzantine zoological Sylloge
dedicated to Constantine VII Porphurogenne ̄tos (10th c. CE), with additional extracts
mainly borrowed from A, T, K and the -A
D M A. Originally in four books, the Epitome excerpted,
summarized and reorganized Peripatetic zoological material, mainly but not exclusively
from History of Animals, and including later material (e.g., T: 1.98, etc.), to
provide a practical handbook. This digest demonstrates an original structure. Aristophane ̄s
treats first general questions on mammals (Book 1), then systematically describes principal
mammalian species and ovoviviparous fishes (Book 2); he seems to have posited general
questions on ovoviviparous animals in Book 3 and then described them specifically in Book
4 (both lost), rejecting the remaining animals as unworthy (Epit. 2.2–3).
Aristophane ̄s’ didactic and synthetic introduction focuses on zoological classification
ARISTO ̄N OF KHIOS