Philippos of Macedon (120 – 10 BCE?)
A P. in G Antid. 2.8 (14.149–150 K.) credits “Philippos of Macedon”
with a complex antidote, including cassia, cinnamon, saffron, “Ethiopian” cumin, kostos,
pepper, the Egyptian incense kuphi, etc. (Diller suggests he was royal). A A
9.49 ( pp. 553–554 Cornarius) records that H altered Philippos’ simple dysentery rem-
edy of acacia, lime, orpiment, and realgar, in plantain juice or dry wine; cf. P
A 3.42.3 (CMG 9.1, p. 234), 7.12.47 (9.2, p. 317). Those two must be distinct from
P R; P 1.ind. 29 – 30 cites a Philippus for medicine from animals,
and O, Syn. 9.5.2 (CMG 6.3, p. 277), records a simple asthma remedy by
Philippos, who may also be our man. The Philippos of E ̄peiros whose prognosis C
3.21 records, and shown ignorant by an unnamed student of K K (II)
( perhaps A), must, however, be a distinct earlier person.
RE 19.2 (1938) 2367–2370 (#49–51), H. Diller.
PTK
Philippos of Medma (ca 350 – 200 BCE?)
A “remarkable man,” born to wealthy and well-known family. He wrote On Winds, describing
winds and their activities by region (S B, s.v. Medma), presumably
similar to T’ treatment. Our meteorologist is plausibly, though not certainly,
identifiable with the homonymous astronomer from Opous (von Fritz).
RE 19.2 (1938) 2558 (#70–71), P. Treves; 2351–2367 (#42), K. von Fritz.
GLIM
Philippos of Opous (365 – 335 BCE)
Reputed to have edited P’s Laws and to have written the supplement, Epinomis. He
wrote on many topics, arguing, from its appearance as the observer moves from right to
left, that the rainbow is due to reflection, and that lunar eclipses arose from the interposition
of either the Earth or counter-Earth, as in some late Pythagoreans. He endorsed the
19-year solar/lunar cycle of M and E and composed his own parape ̄gma
(cf. Eukte ̄mo ̄n). He may have produced an annuary table of midday shadows for Greece.
His writings on geometry apparently concerned issues important for Plato’s philosophy,
including critiques of contemporary formulations of theorems. The Epinomis may be the
earliest extant Greek work to name all the planets, and identifies Egypt/Syria as a source for
awareness of Herme ̄s’ Star (Mercury) and the name of Aphrodite ̄’s Star (Venus).
L. Tarán, Plato, Philip of Opus, and the Pseudo-Platonic Epinomis (1975); Neugebauer (1975) 574, 739–740;
Lasserre (1987) 157–188, 365–393, 591–659.
Henry Mendell
Philippos (of Pergamon?) (130 – 190 CE)
Empiricist physician, exegete of the H C (G, In Hipp. Epid. VI:
CMG 5.10.2.2, p. 412). Gale ̄n, in his juvenile work On medical experience (150/151 CE),
expounds the quarrel about the principles of medicine that arose between Philippos and the
Dogmatic P, later teacher of Gale ̄n at Smurna (§ 8 – 30: identification of the characters
is supplied by On My Own Books 2, 9 [2.97, 115 MMH]).
PHILIPPOS (OF PERGAMON?)