improve on contemporary accounts of the heavens (cf. A, Phain.) by mapping the
celestial sphere scientifically (in prose: cf. P, De Pyth. 18) and, perhaps, to construct
a precisely marked celestial globe.
E. Maass, Aratea 2 (1892) 123, 151; Goldstein and Bowen (1991).
Alan C. Bowen
Arkadios (200? – 500 CE)
A commentator on P’s Almagest criticized by E in his commentary on De
Sphaer. et Cyl. 2.4 (3.120.8 H.) for his account of compound ratio. Knorr conjectured that
this account is found at the end of the P P’ S, but the
argument, though not impossible, is weak.
Knorr (1989) 168.
Alain Bernard
Arkhagathos of Lako ̄nika (fl. 219 BCE)
P 29.12–13 preserves the tale, by the historian Cassius Hemina (ca 150 BCE), of
Arkhagathos as the first Greek doctor to come to Rome, his receipt of citizenship, and
practice at public expense of surgery and cautery in the centrally-sited “Crossroads of
Acilius.” His plaster of misu, burnt copper, litharge and psimuthion, in terebinth resin,
is recorded by C, 5.19.27, used by T, and still in use in the time of S
(C A Chron. 4.7 [CML 6.1.2, p. 778]).
BNP 1 (2002) 975–976 (#3), V. Nutton.
PTK
Arkhebios/Arkesios (190 – 25 BCE)
Wrote on Corinthian proportions, the Ionic temple of Askle ̄pios at Tralleis whose construc-
tion he may have overseen (V 7.pr.12: where the MSS have ARGEL(L)IVS) – cf.
7.5.5 regarding Apaturios of Alabanda at Tralleis – and argued against using the Doric
order in temple construction because of faulty and inconsistent proportions (ibid. 4.3.1:
where the MSS have (T)ARCHESIVS). A better restoration than the rare Arkesi- (for which cf.
only LGPN 1.80, 2.64) might be Arkhebios. Tralleis was the seat of the Pergamene governor
189 – 133 BCE (P Book 21, fr.46.1–10), and its Askle ̄pieion may date to this period.
RE 2.1 (1895) 1169, E. Fabricius.
PTK and GLIM
Arkhede ̄mos (Veterin.) (before ca 300 CE?)
Author of a recipe for an ointment for foals quoted by A, preserved in the Hippiatrika
(Hippiatrica Parisina 837 = Hippiatrica Berolinensia 130.14). Apsurtos describes Arkhede ̄mos as
hippotrophos, “horse-keeper” or “breeder.”
CHG v.1; McCabe (2007).
Anne McCabe
ARKADIOS