G.J. Toomer, Ptolemy’s Almagest (1984); B. L. van der Waerden, “Greek Astronomical Calendars. III.
The Calendar of Dionysios,” AHES 29 (1984) 125–130; Alexander Jones, “A Posy of Almagest
Scholia,” Centaurus 45 (2003) 69–78.
Alexander Jones
Dionusios (Geog.) (285 – 245 BCE)
Sent by Ptolemy Philadelphos to India, and may have written an Indika, according to P
6.58, who also cites a Dionusios for data on Euboia (4.64) and on the pyramids (36.79).
FGrHist 653, 717.
PTK
Dionusios (Lithika) (70 – 200 CE)
Together with S (L.), attributed with a prose lapidary, in the 14th c. Vaticanus
graecus 578. This lapidary was probably written in Egypt during the early Roman imperial
age. What is ascribable to Dionusios and what to So ̄krate ̄s is difficult to determine, but
Dionusios is thought to have been the illustrator. It is also debated whether our author
should be identified with D A, to whom ancient sources also
attribute an On stones, surviving only in fragments.
Ed.: Halleux and Schamp (1985) 139–144, 166–167 (text); G. Giannakis, Orpheo ̄s Lithika, Ke ̄rugmata –
So ̄kratous kai Dionusiou peri litho ̄n (1987).
RE 5.1 (1903) 977 (#133), M. Wellmann; K.W. Wirbelauer, Antike Lapidarien (1937) 31–42; Eugenio
Amato, Dionisio di Alessandria. Descrizione della Terra abitata (2005) 69–73.
Eugenio Amato
Dionusios (Med.) (ca 340 – 300 BCE)
Known for his treatment of wounds. He advocated using pressure, particularly through
tight bandages to staunch the flow of blood (C A, Chron. 2.186 [CML
6.1.1, p. 658]). Several references in other writers might refer to this Dionusios, though
because the name was so common, it is far from certain: C 6.6.4, 6.18.9C, S-
L 212 (called a surgeon), and P 20.19, 219, and 22.67. Pliny (20.113–115)
cites perhaps this Dionusios, in conjunction with K K (), on various
remedies from male parsley. Wellmann and others have suggested identification with
D O.
RE 5.1 (1903) 976 (#132), M. Wellmann; von Staden (1989) 424; BNP 4 (2004) 114 (#24), V. Nutton.
Robert Littman
Dionusios (Methodist) (ca 50 – 75 CE)
Physician, listed among the Methodists post-dating T and T
(G 10.53 K. = fr.162 Tecusan; -G, Introd. 14.684 K. = fr.283;
I A, pr.2 = fr.219), probably identifiable with the author
whom M cites on the “naturalness” of certain unhealthy sanguineous constric-
tions and laxities (fr.305). Of the numerous medical Dionusioi, Tecusan suggests that the
Methodist may be identifiable with either (a) the pharmacologist whose recipes treated
eye-sores and hemorrhoids (C 6.6.2, 4, 6.18.9 = frr.104, 107; etc.); (b) the
DIONUSIOS (METHODIST)