Theodotos (120 – 80 BCE)
Eye specialist from whom a type of remedy was called Theodotion: it cured abcesses of the
eyelid and various eye conditions, more particularly the muio-kephalon pathos (a type of
inflammation where the uvea juts out into the shape of a fly-head). One may determine his
date because, according to C 6.6.5B, he added some ingredients to Attalium, an eye-
wash named after A III, and because of the fact that Celsus 6.6.6 provides the
earliest testimony for a similar remedy, the famous eye-wash that Theodotos called akharis-
ton, as its rapid efficiency favored ingratitude. The Theodotia were used until the end of
antiquity, with some alterations in their formulae (see M B, P
A, and A T, passim). In the seventh book of his Iatrika about
eye conditions, A A refers eight times to the Theodotion formulated by the eye
specialist S I (e.g. 7.36 = CMG 8.2, p. 287.28).
RE 5A.2 (1934) 1959–1960 (#24), H. Diller; NP 12 (2002) 348 (#7), V. Nutton.
Jean-Marie Jacques
Theokhre ̄stos (250 BCE – 77 CE)
Mentioned by a scholion on Apollo ̄nios of Rhodes 4.1750 as the author of a Libyka, probably
identical to the paradoxographer quoted by P (1.ind.37, 37.37). The Souda Theta-166
attributes a Libyan history to a Theokritos. Although the latter is said to have been from
Khios, the fact that he is only mentioned in relation with local Libyan tradition suggests
Libyan origins. Identity between the two authors is uncertain, but probable.
RE 5A.2 (1934) 1704 (#3), R. Laqueur.
Jan Bollansée, Karen Haegemans, and Guido Schepens
Theokle ̄s (400 BCE – 200 CE)
Wrote a work on animals, which included (in the fourth book) an account of sea monsters
larger than triremes near Syrtis (A, HA 17.6). Aelianus cites him with A,
O, and O, as if he too were 4th/3rd cc. BCE.
(*)
GLIM
Theokritos (250 BCE – 80 CE)
A, in G CMGen 6.5 (13.885 K.), records that he added Eretrian earth,
khrusokolla, orpiment, and sal ammoniac, to an otherwise herbal plaster. Besides the
bucolic poet, the name is well-known, though more frequent before the Greco-Roman
period (LGPN).
(*)
PTK
Theokude ̄s (500 – 25 BCE)
Listed early in an approximately chronological catalogue of minor artisans and artists who
compiled rules of architectural symmetry (V 7.pr.14). Cf. the homonymous
6th–5th c. BCE sculptor of Akraiphia (Boio ̄tia) (LGPN 3B.192).
RE 5A.2 (1934) 2030, E. Fabricius.
PTK and GLIM
THEOKUDE ̄S