Moschion
(Μοσχίων).
1. A tragic and comic poet, mentioned more than once by Stobaeus, who has preserved the names of three of his plays. 1. Θεμιστοκλῆς. 2. Τήλεφος. 3. Φεραῖοι. (Stobaeus, Stob. Ecl. Phys. 1.38; Clem. Al. Strom. vi. p. 623; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 311.)
2. A Greek writer, who drew up an account of the construction of the enormous ship which was built by command of Hieron, under the direction of the celebrated Archimedes. [Hieron; Archimedes.] Moschion's account is quoted at length by Athenaeus (v. p. 206d, 209, e).
3. A celebrated cook, who was purchased by Demetrius Phalereus, and speedily realised a large fortune from the perquisites allowed him by his extravagant master. (Athen. 12.542.) A parasite of the same name seems to have enjoyed sufficient notoriety to be mentioned in more than one passage quoted by Athenaeus (vi. p. 246b. c, ix. p. 382d). [C.P.M]
(Μοσχίων).
1. Works Περὶ τῶν Γυναικείων Παθῶν, De Mulierum Passionibus
The author of a short Greek treatise, Περὶ τῶν Γυναικείων Παθῶν, De Mulierum Passionibus, who is supposed to have lived in the beginning of the second century after Christ, as he mentions Soranus (100.151). Nothing is known of the writer's personal history, nor can it be determined with certainty whether he is the same person as either of the physicians mentioned below. The work is composed in the form of question and answer, and is an interesting little book, containing much useful and valuable matter. It is supposed to have been written originally in Latin, and to have been translated into Greek by some late author: this Greek text is all that now remains. Editions
It was first published in Casp. Wolf's Collection of Writers on Female Diseases, Basil. 1566, 4to., and in the two subsequent editions of that work. These editions contain eleven chapters at the end which are supposed to be spurious, and omit the author's preface. Probably the latest and best edition is that by F. O. Dewez, 8vo. Vienn. 1793, Greek and Latin. Further Information
See Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. xii. p. 702, ed. vet.; Choulant, Handb. der Bücherkunde für die Aeltere Medicin.
2. A physician quoted by Soranus (ap. Gal. De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc. 1.2, vol. xii. p. 416), Andromachus (ibid. 7.2, vol. xiii. p. 30), and Asclepiades Pharmacion (ap. Gal. De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. 3.9, vol. xiii. p. 646), and who lived, therefore, in or before the first century after Christ. He may perhaps be the same person who was called Διορθωτής, Corrector, because, though he was one of the followers of Asclepiades of Bithynia, he ventured to controvert his opinions on some points. (Galen, De Differ. Puls. 4.16, vol. viii. p. 758).
A physician of the same name is mentioned also by Soranus (De Arte Obstetr. p. 184), Plutarch (Sympos. 3.10.2), Alexander Trallianus (1.15, p. 156), Aetius (4.3.13, p. 755), Pliny (Plin. Nat. 19.26.4), and Tertullian (De Anima, 100.15). [W.A.G]
(Μοσχίων), the son of Adamas, an Athenian sculptor, made, in conjunction with his brothers Dionysodorus and Ladamas, a statue of Isis in the island of Delos. The names of the artists are preserved by an inscription on the statue, which is now at Venice. (Winckelmann, Gech. d. Kunst, bk. 9.2.10.) [P.S]
(Μοσχίων). A Greek gynaecologist, who lived about the second century A.D. A short treatise of his remains is edited by Dewez (Vienna, 1793).
- father of boxer Hippomachus: Paus. 6.12.6, and of boxer Theotimus: Paus. 6.17.5
- serves under Alexander against Darius: Paus. 6.17.5