Glaukide ̄s (350 BCE – 100 CE)
Physician, thinking quinces, phaulia, and strouthia the three best fruits, distinguished between
the varieties, in contrast to the grammarian Nikandros of Thuateira who claimed all
quinces are called “strouthia” (Ath., Deipn. 3 [81a, d] = FGrHist 343). Meineke thinks he is
likely identifiable with G T, but “Glaukiade ̄s” is attested thrice in the 4th/
3rd cc. BCE (LGPN 1.107, 2.93, 3B.91), as is “Glaukide ̄s/as” five times in the 5th/4th cc. BCE
and once in the 1st c. BCE/1st c. CE (LGPN 1.108, 2.93, 3A.99), and even “Glaukude ̄s,”
once in the 3rd c. BCE (LGPN 1.108).
RE 7.1 (1910) 1401 (#2), H. Gossen.
GLIM
Glauko ̄n/Glaukos (Med.) (120 BCE – 77 CE)
P 22.77 records that Glauko ̄n praised the medicinal benefits of the unidentified plant
boupleuron, as did N (i.e., The ̄r. 586, in an anti-venom: Jacques 2002: 170), who
prescribes the seeds; Glauko ̄n employed the root in wine to the same end, but the leaves in
wine for afterbirth-expulsion, and for swollen lymph-nodes. A P., in
G CMLoc 4.7 (12.743 K.), credits Glaukos with a pain-relieving collyrium containing
aloes, saffron, Indian buckthorn, myrrh, fresh roses, and opium, reduced in wine, formed
into pills, and stored away from light. (The disputatious Glaukos of P, Precepts of
Health 1 [122BC, 124D] is likely distinct and later.) Cf. G or perhaps A
G.
RE 7.1 (1910) 1403 (#9), H. Gossen; 1421 (#40), Idem.
PTK
Glaukos (Geog. I) (ca 200 – 100 BCE?)
Wrote an Arabian Antiquaries in four books, a perie ̄ge ̄sis with historical and ethnographical
data, describing the coastline, as well as cities and peoples in Arabia, and Parthia along the
Euphrates (F3).
FGrHist 674.
GLIM
Glaukos (Geog. II) (300 BCE – 220 CE)
The sole surviving fragment of his Pontika, treating the sea’s left bank, describes melugion, a
drink more inebriating than wine, made from honey boiled with water and “a certain herb”
( perhaps the Skuthian hemp, cf. H 4.75). The land produces much honey and
beer made from millet.
FGrHist 806.
GLIM
Glaukos of Khios (ca 620 – 560 BCE)
Metal-worker who invented welding (or perhaps soldering: H 1.25). He was
famous for the iron stand he created for a silver krate ̄r dedicated by Aluatte ̄s II (617–560) at
the temple of Apollo at Delphi (Paus. 10.16).
RE 7.1 (1910) 1421–1422 (#46), C. Robert; KP 2.812 (#8), H. Marwitz.
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