The work, with its propagandistic undertones, was finished in 62 BCE; of seven extant
fragments five, preserved in S, describe countries traversed by Pompey’s army,
including the sources of the Tanais (Don) (F 3); the position of the country of the Amazons
(F 4); and the size of Armenia (F 6). Theophane ̄s was the first and the only Greek visitor
known to have recorded impressions of Albania, Asian Iberia, and the Caucasus. His work
thus served as a source for P and Strabo ̄n.
Ed.: FGrHist 188.
B.K. Gold, “Pompey and Theophanes of Mytilene,” AJPh 106 (1985) 312–327; P. Pédech, “Deux
grecs face à Rome au Ier siècle av. J. C.: Métrodore de Scepsis et Théophane de Mitylène,” REA 93
(1991) 65–78; V.I. Anastasiadis and G.A. Souris, “Theophanes of Mytilene: A new inscription
relating to his early career,” Chiron 22 (1992) 377–383.
Daniela Dueck
Theophilos (Geog.) (120 BCE – 110 CE)
Cited by M T in P, Geog. 1.14, on the sea-voyage from the east coast
of Africa 20 days’ sail to the spice-lands (i.e., post Hippalos): if S’s silence (16.4.14)
is reliable, he is post-20 BCE. Cf. the geographers D and D.
RE S.9 (1962) 1393–1394 (#7a), Fr. Gisinger.
PTK
Theophilos (Lithika) (250 BCE – 50 CE?)
Lapidary writer whose On stones -P De fluu. 24.1 (1165D) mentions with
regard to the Tigris. Pseudo-Plutarch attributes two further tracts to Theophilos: Italika
(Parall. min. 13B) and Peloponnesiaka (32A). Laqueur and Jacoby consider Theophilos fictitious.
On the contrary, Schlereth argues that our man corresponds to Theophilos Zenodoteus,
mentioned in a scholion to N K (The ̄r. 12a [pp. 39–40 Crugnola])
regarding a story similar to pseudo-Plutarch’s testimony on the Tigris.
Ed.: FGrHist 296.
Schlereth (1931) 123–124; RE 5A.2 (1934), 2139 (#11), R. Laqueur; De Lazzer (2003) 88–89.
Eugenio Amato
Theophilos (Agric.) (325 – 90 BCE)
Agricultural author whose work was excerpted by C D (V,
RR 1.1.9–10). Perhaps identical to the T who wrote on geography or else the
T who wrote on lithika.
RE 5A.2 (1934) 2138 (#12), W. Kroll.
Philip Thibodeau
Theophilos (Pharm.) (120 BCE – 540 CE)
A A 7.114 (CMG 8.2, p. 382) cites his collyrium, good for children and
trachoma: calamine, copper, opium, and verdigris in gum and water, apply in egg-white;
another in A T (2.19 Puschm.) substitutes acacia, saffron, Indian nard,
and myrrh for the verdigris. Aëtios also cites his wound-cream: roasted copper and
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