Aspasios (Pharm.) (250 BCE – 90 CE)
A P., in G CMLoc 9.5 (13.302 K.), records his remedy for dysentery:
parsley, pomegranate, heath-fruit, and opium, reduced in myrtle. Possibly Askle ̄piade ̄s’ ref-
erence was originally to A.
Fabricius (1726) 92.
PTK
Asterios (120 BCE – 540 CE)
A A 7.117 (CMG 8.2, p. 398) records his collyrium, an opium-laced mixture
of minerals (antimony, calamine, and psimuthion) and aromatics (cassia, myrrh, and
spikenard).
Fabricius (1726) 92.
PTK
Astrampsukhos (ca 1st – 9th c. CE?)
Legendary Persian magus; the name appears in a list given by D L (pr.2)
of Z’s successors in the period before the Persians were defeated by Alexander.
Several works of occult nature circulated under Astrampsukhos’ name in antiquity: the
popular Sortes Astrampsychi, a set of oracular questions and answers (in some MSS prefaced
with a dedication by “Astrampsukhos the Egyptian” to an unknown Ptolemaios, also falsely
attributed in one MS to Leo ̄n the Wise; 3rd c. CE papyri provide a terminus ante quem for the
work); a dream-book in verse (dated by Oberhelman between the 6th and 9th centuries CE);
and a spell for the prosperity of a workshop (PGM 8.1–63, labeled a love-charm). According
to the Souda A-4251, a book on the healing of donkeys was also attributed to Astrampsu-
khos; this, however, is not preserved.
Ed.: N. Rigault et al., Artemidori Daldiani et Achmetis Sereimi f. Oneirocritica, Astrampsychi et Nicephori versus etiam
oneirocritici (1603); G.M. Browne, Sortes Astrampsychi, v.1 (1983), R. Stewart, v.2 (2001).
RE 2.2 (1896) 1796–1797, E. Riess; P. Tannery, “Astrampsychus,” REG 11 (1898) 96–106; S. Ober-
helman, “Prolegomena to the Byzantine Oneirokritika,” Byzantion 50 (1980) 489–491; R. Stewart,
“The Textual Transmission of the Sortes Astrampsychi,” ICS 20 (1995) 135–47; BNP 2 (2003) 121–122,
C. Harrauer; McCabe (2007) 5.
Anne McCabe
Astrologos of 379 (379 CE)
Anonymous author of a brief text “prognostications from the positions of the fixed stars,”
forming part of a long compilation of astrological texts in Greek ascribed to “Palkhos” but
actually the work of the 14th c. Byzantine astrologer Eleutherios Eleios. The author claims
Egyptian ancestry, and to be writing in a location having the latitude of Rome, giving his
date of writing as the consulate of Olybrius and Ausonius (379 CE). His text catalogues
astrological influences determined by a list of bright stars, the selection of which was clearly
influenced by P’s Phaseis, though the positions of the stars derive from the Almagest
with adjustment for precession. This short catalogue of stars was repeatedly reworked with
updated precessional corrections in late antiquity and the Byzantine period.
ASPASIOS (PHARM.)