Luko ̄n of Troas (ca 280 – 225 BCE)
Student of S, and his successor as scholarch of the Peripatos; celebrated for
eloquence; died at 74 of gout. A, Apol. 36, credits him with investigating fish
(along with A, T, and E R), probably an error
for L R. The fragment quoted by the grammarian Herodian (ca 220 CE)
on salt, “dug up sweet or foul smelling,” might refer to natural philosophy.
W.W. Fortenbaugh and S.A. White, RUSCH 12 (2004) frr.13, 15; BNP 7 (2005) 924 (#4), R.W. Sharples;
DPA 4 (2005) 197–200, J.-P. Schneider.
PTK
Lukos of Macedon (130 – 160? CE)
Student of Q and bête-noire of G, who never met him, but sought to refute his
work on anatomy (On My Own Books, 2.101 MMH). He taught the doctrine of E-
that urine is a residue of food (Gale ̄n, Nat.Fac. 1.17, 3.152 MMH), and argued that all
forms of heat are the same, a long fragment being preserved in Gale ̄n’s sophistic refutation
(CMG 5.10.3, pp. 19–23). His commentaries on the H C, E,
Books 3 and 6 (and others?), were criticized by Gale ̄n as excessively interventionist, and as
displaying Empiricist tendencies (CMG 5.10.2.2, pp. 225, 239 and 5.10.2.1, pp. 16–17,
respectively). Recipes of a Lukos, this man or the Neapolitan, are found in O,
Coll. 8.25 (CMG 6.1.1, pp. 278–282) and 8.43 (p. 293) against dysentery and for “downward
purges” (cf. also CMG 6.1.2, p. 28, 6.2.1, p. 46, 6.3, pp. 22, 88, 119); and P A
5.3.1 (CMG 9.2, pp. 7–8) and 5.13.4 (p. 17), antidotes against hudrophobia and viper bites.
Manetti and Roselli (1994) 1582–1589; Ihm (2002) #159–165; BNP 7 (2005) 939–940 (#13), A.
Touwaide.
PTK
Lukos of Neapolis (130 – 70 BCE)
The Lukos included by G MM 2.7.23 (10.142–143 K. = p. 71 Hankinson) in a list of
Empiricist physicians is certainly to be identified with the Licus Neapolitanus whose recipe
P mentions at 20.220 (and whom he mentions amongst the sources of Books 20–27).
Some remedies (also of gynecological interest) mentioned by O and P
A, and also the dietetic fragment preserved by the Homeric scholia Townl. Il. 6.260,
might derive from the same work on pharmacology (although in these cases the author
might also be L M). He dealt with exegesis of the H C:
we know about a commentary in at least two books on De locis, from which E and
Pho ̄tios derived some lemmata.
Ed.: Deichgräber (1930) 20, 204–205 (fragments), 261.
RE 13.2 (1927) 2407–2408, F.E. Kind; KP 3.819 (#13), F. Kudlien; Ihm (2002) #166; BNP 7 (2005)
938 – 939 (#10), A. Touwaide.
Fabio Stok
Lukos of Rhe ̄gion (ca 360 – 280 BCE)
Greek historian, adoptive father of the tragedian Lykophro ̄n of Euboian Khalkis, wrote a
history of Libya and a work on Sicily, both containing geographical and ethnographical
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