Athenodo ̄ros of Tarsos (ca 60 – 20 BCE)
Athe ̄nodo ̄ros “Caluus” from the village of Kana near Tarsos (C Att. 16.11.4, 14.4),
son of Sando ̄n, was, like A D, a court philosopher and tutor to A.
S mentions Athe ̄nodo ̄ros as one of his companions and a source for government at
Petra (16.4.21). Athe ̄nodo ̄ros’ writings include a work on tides (Strabo ̄n 1.1.9, 1.3.12, 3.5.7),
in which he argued that ebb and flux are analogous to breathing, and that sub-oceanic
springs may exist whose flux raises the tide. Late in life, he returned to Tarsos to expel the
despot Boëthos who was placed in power there by M. Antonius (Strabo ̄n 14.5.14). He died
at the age of 82. Sometimes confused with a coeval philosopher of the same name, also
from Tarsos (Athe ̄nodo ̄ros Kordulion); one of the two argued that divination is reliable and
a skill (D L 7.149).
FGrHist 746; GGP 4.2 (1994) 711–712, P. Steinmetz; OCD3 203, J. Annas; ECP 100, I. Vasiliou; BNP 2
(2003) 252–253 (#3), K.-H. Hülser.
GLIM
Atime ̄tos (10 – 40 CE)
Taught S L (120) the colic remedy of C, which included Indian
nard, opium, black pepper, etc., in honey. A P., in G CMLoc 4.7
(12.771 K.: emending from AΤIMHΤP-), cites him for a collyrium containing psimu-
thion, khalkanthon, pompholux, opium, and saffron. He was associated with the
emperor Tiberius, and may be the same as the ocularis Attius Atimetus, known from his
collyrium stamps. See A H.
RE 2.2 (1896) 2253 (#10), M. Wellmann; S.3 (1918) 17, W. Kroll; Korpela (1987) 180.
PTK
Attalos (Med.) (130 – 170 CE)
G, MM 13.15 (10.909–916 K.) describes his elder contemporary Attalos, a student of
S; Gale ̄n disparages his treatment of the Cynic Theagene ̄s via plasters of honey-
bread, affusions of warmed olive oil, and a diet of porridge. He is perhaps the same as
Statilius Attalus, personal physician to Antoninus Pius and M. Aurelius. A P-
, Dyn. 72.5, refers to the “plaster we received from Attalos” (more likely a contemporary
than A III P), also to be found in T M, Book 6.
The preface to a late-Latin commentary on O lists “Attalion” (perhaps our man)
among earlier commentators on the H C, A.
RE 3A.2 (1929) 2186 (Statilius #11), F.E. Kind; Korpela (1987) 180; Ihm (2002) #32.
PTK
Attalos III of Pergamon, Philome ̄to ̄r (138 – 133 BCE)
Last monarch of the Pergamene kingdom, which he famously bequeathed to Rome in his
will. He probably served as patron to N K, and authored a treatise
on agriculture known to C D (V, RR 1.1.8–10; cf. C
1.1.8); to judge from references in P, 1.ind.10–11, 14–15, 17–18, it discussed beekeep-
ing, cereals, viticulture, and arboriculture. He reportedly devoted his final years to garden-
ing, pharmacology, and bronze-smithing (Justin 36.4.1–5; cf. Pliny 1.ind.33). H, in
ATTALOS III OF PERGAMON, PHILOME ̄TO ̄R