Medius Larissaeus

Medius (Graece Mήδιoς), origine Larissaeus, Oxythemidis filius et Oxythemidis iunioris avunculus, fuit Alexandri Magni sectator et amicus; rex enim apud eum cenavit in ultimis vitae diebus. Medius postea (fortasse una cum Cyrsilo quodam) commentum de expeditione sive de geographia Asiae scripsit, quod semel citat Strabo de origine Armeniae disserens.

Opus

• Cyrsili et Medii commentum

Fontes

• Arrianus, Indica 18
• Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 7. 24-25
• Plutarchus, "Vita Alexandri" 75
• Plutarchus, "Vita Demetrii" 19
• Plutarchus, Moralia 65c
• Vita Alexandri Macedonis (Pseudo-Callisthenes, recensio A) 3.31.4-9
• "Liber de morte Alexandri Magni" (Epitome Mettensis) 97
• Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 17.117, 19.69,75,77, 20.50
• Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae

Bibliographia

• Helmut Berve, Das Alexanderreich auf prosopographischer Grundlage (Monaci: Beck, 1926) i.521 (vol. 2 pp. 261-262)
• "Prosopography of Antigonos's Friends and Subordinates" in Richard A. Billows, Antigonos the One-Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenistic State (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990) no. 68, p. 400
• F. Geyer, "Medios (2)" in Paulys Real-Enzyklopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft edd. G. Wissowa et alii (Stuttgart, 1893-1972 ~ ~)
• Felix Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (Lugduni Batavorum: Brill, 1923- ) no. 129/130. Kommentar (1930) p. 442
• "Medius (2)" in William Smith, ed., Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (Londinii: Taylor & Walton, 1844-1849 ~)