doctrines are discernible in the H C, H and in D
K.
Ed.: Wellmann (1901) 65–93, frr.109–116.
RE 19.2 (1938) 2405–2408, H. Diller; T.J. Tracy, Physiological Theory and the Doctrine of the Mean in Plato
and Aristotle (1969) 28–32; KP 4.756, F. Kudlien; Gourevitch (1989) 248–251; OCD3 1163, J.T.
Vallance; BNP 11 (2007) 46–47 (#1), V. Nutton.
Daniela Manetti
Philistio ̄n of Pergamon (180 – 190 CE)
Student in Alexandria of M (himself S’ student), who read the
H C, E, 2 (5.138 Littré), as prescribing the consumption of
cephalopods to cure barrenness, on the grounds that the clinginess of their feet would
induce the womb to cling to the semen. G rejects this, and records how Philistio ̄n’s
wealthy and fastidious patient fired and shamed Philistio ̄n, In Hipp. Epid. II (CMG 5.10.1,
pp. 401–403).
BNP 11 (2007) 47 (#2), V. Nutton.
PTK
Philode ̄mos of Gadara (85 – 40 BCE)
Epicurean poet, teacher, and philosopher, and one of the most important figures for the
transmission of Epicurean philosophy to the Romans in the 1st c. BCE. He was born in
Gadara in Syria ca 110 BCE, and studied with the Epicurean teacher Z S in
Athens. He moved to Italy ca 75 BCE, where the Roman noble L. Calpurnius Piso Caesoni-
nus became his patron. Philode ̄mos taught and wrote poetry and philosophy at Hercula-
neum and Neapolis, and his students included the Roman poets V and Horace.
Philode ̄mos was famous in contemporary Roman society for his poetry, but he also wrote a
number of philosophical treatises that have survived in fragments among the Herculaneum
papyri. These papyri formed part of the library of Piso’s villa in Herculaneum and were
buried when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE (about 120 years after Philode ̄mos’ death).
Excavations at Piso’s villa (also known as the “Villa of the Papyri”) began in the 18th c., and
with painstaking effort many of the papyri, numbering about 1800, have been gradually
deciphered and edited. Among Philode ̄mos’ works that have come to light are a History of
Philosophers, On Epicurus, On Rhetoric, On Plain Speaking, On the Good King According to Homer, On
Signs, On Poems, On Music, On Anger, On Death, On the Gods, and On Piety.
KP 4.759–763, G. Schmidt; Long and Sedley (1987) §18F-G, 23H, 25J, 42G-H, J; OCD3 1165 – 1166,
D. Obbink; Idem, On Piety, Part I (1996); BNP 11 (2007) 68–73, T. Dorandi.
Walter G. Englert
Philogene ̄s (unknown date)
Cited by Tzetze ̄s, In Lykophr. 603, which Philogene ̄s refers to Lokroi, and 1085, on the Italian
River Lame ̄tos, west of Kroto ̄n (RE 12.1 [1924] 544, H. Philipp; BAGRW 46-D4); perhaps a
geographer.
RE 19.2 (1938) 2483 (#2), W. Kroll.
PTK
PHILISTIO ̄N OF PERGAMON