quoted 34 times, is considered Athe ̄naios’ main source, although indirect, for Book 7 on
fishes.
GGLA 1 (1891) 850; RE 5.2 (1905) 1563 (#3), M. Wellmann.
Arnaud Zucker
Do ̄rotheos of Athens (325 BCE? – 79 CE)
Author of a medical poem quoted by P (22.91) for a herb called condrion that could be
helpful for stomach and digestive ailments. Do ̄rotheos is also cited among Pliny’s sources:
1.ind.12 (on the nature of trees) and 1.ind.13 (on foreign trees). He is probably different from
D H.
FGrHist 145; RE 5.2 (1905) 1571 (#19), M. Wellmann.
Claudio Meliadò
Do ̄rotheos of He ̄liopolis (250 BCE – 95 CE)
Consulted by A P. in G Antid. 2.14 (14.183, 187 K.) on cures for
snake bites. Perhaps identical to Do ̄rotheos medicus, possibly from Egypt, whom P
T mentioned (On Marvels 26). Identification of this doctor with the Do ̄rotheos
quoted by P (22.91) is doubtful.
RE 5.2 (1905) 1571 (#19), M. Wellmann.
Jan Bollansée, Karen Haegemans, and Guido Schepens
Do ̄rotheos of Khaldaea (250 BCE – 50 CE?)
Wrote On stones. P-P De fluu. 23.3 (1165A) preserves a single fragment of the
second book, regarding the stone sikuonos. Among various identifications proposed are
D S, and the homonymous author of the Pandekte ̄ quoted by Clement of
Alexandria, Str. 1.21.133. According to Jacoby, he is entirely fictive.
E. Hiller, “Zur Quellenkritik des Clemens Alexandrinus,” Hermes 21 (1886) 126–133 at 129; GGM
1.; RE 5.2 (1905) 1571 (#15), E. Schwartz; Schlereth (1931) 114–115; Jacoby (1940) 95–96;
FGrHist 289; Halleux and Schamp (1985) , n.8; De Lazzer (2000) 64–66; De Lazzer (2003)
81 – 82.
Eugenio Amato
Do ̄rotheos of Sido ̄n (50 – 100 CE)
Authored a widely influential astrological poem in Greek hexameters, comprising five
books, addressed to “his son, Herme ̄s.” Only brief excerpts of the original text survive in
quotations by later authors, but an Arabic translation of a lost Pahlavi version of the whole
is extant (see P, T I). At the beginning of the poem, Do ̄rotheos,
calling himself an Egyptian, claims to have traveled through Babylo ̄n as well as Egypt, but
these are presumably fictions. That Do ̄rotheos was active in the 1st c. CE is established by
eight horoscopes dating from 7 BCE to 43 CE and included for illustrative purposes. Do ̄ro-
theos’ work, notwithstanding its use of verse as a medium, is a practical handbook. The first
four books address interpreting personal horoscopes to determine the individual’s character
and the course of his life; the fifth concerns katarkhic astronomy.
DO ̄ROTHEOS OF ATHENS