A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

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totle, who lived probably in the sixth or fifth Demetrius Poliorcetes and Philippus, who died in
century B. C., as he is called iaTpds dipXaos (Diog. B. C. 306 (Plut. Demetr. 2). In B. C. 320 she is
Laeirt. v. 3. ~ 61). mentioned as entering into negotiations with Do2. A native of Berytus in Phoenicia, one of cimus, when that general was shut up with the
whose medical formulae is quoted by Galen (De other adherents of Perdiccas, in a fortress of
Colmpos. Medicamn. sec. Loc. iv. 8. vol. xii. p. 749). Phrygia: but having induced him to quit his
He is probably the same person who appears to be stronghold, she caused him to be seized and dequoted by Andromachus the Younger (ap. Galen. tained as a prisoner (Diod. xix. 16). After the
ibid. ix. 5. vol. xiii. p. 290) and Asclepiades Phar- battle of Ipsus she fled from Cilicia (where she
macion (ibid. p. 303), simply as a BqplhToLs, and who had awaited the issue of the campaign) with her
must have lived some time in or before the first son Demetrius to Salamis in Cyprus, B. C. 301.
century after Christ. Sprengel and others suppose (Id. xxi. Exc. Hoeschel. p. 480.) Here she proStraton of Berytus to have been the same person as bably died, as we hear nothing of her when the
the follower of Erasistratus, which may possibly island fell into the power of Ptolemy some years
be true, but cannot be proved; while, on the other afterwards.
hand, it may be plausibly argued that this physi- 3. Daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes and Phila,
cian is called o B77pu'1os, in order to distinguish the daughter of Antipater. In B. C. 300, at which
him from his more celebrated namesake. time she could not have been more than seventeen
3. A pupil of Erasistratus in the third century years of age, her hand was solicited by Seleucus,
B. C., who appears to have lived on very intimate king of Syria, and she was conducted by her father
terms with his tutor. (Diog. Laert. v. 3. ~ 61; Demetrius to Rhosus, on the Pierian coast, where
Galen. De Ven. Sect. adv. Erasistr. Rom. Deg. her nuptials were celebrated with the utmost magc. 2, vol. xi. p. 197; Oribas. Coll. Medic. xlv. 23, nificence (Plut. Demetr. 31, 32). Notwithstandp. 60, ed. Mai.) He wrote a work to explain the ing the disparity of their ages, she appears to have
difficult words found in the writings of Hippo- lived in perfect harmony with the old king for
crates, which is mentioned by Erotianus (Gloss. some years, and had already borne him one child,
Hippocr. s. v. a4tC7v). Like the rest of the followers when it was discovered that her step-son Antioof Erasistratus, he was averse to blood-letting chus was deeply enamoured of her, and Seleucus,
(Galen. De Ven. Sect. adv. Erasistr. c. 2, vol. xi. in order to save the life of his son, which was enp. 151), but could not give any very good reasons dangered by the violence of his passion, gave up
for his opinion. He is probably the physician Stratonice in marriage to the young prince, whom
quoted by Alexander Trallianus (i. 15, pp. 156, he at the same time constituted king of the pro157), and Aiitius (i. 2, 3, iv. 1, 7, 46, pp. 64, 616, vinces of Upper Asia. (Plut. Dem. 38; Appian.
628). He was tutor to Apollonius of Memphis Syr. 59; and the other authorities cited under
(Galen. De Diff. Puls. iv. 17, vol. viii. p. 759), ERASISTRATUS, where the well-known circumand not his father, as some have supposed. [APoL- stances of this story are more fully related.) The
LONIUS*, p. 246.] See Sprengel's Gesch. der union commenced under such strange auspices
Arzneik. vol. i. pp. 559, 561, ed. 1846. seems to have been a prosperous one, but we find
4. A slave at Rome in the former half of the little subsequent mention of Stratonice. She bore
first century B. C., who was bought by Sassia, the three children to Antiochus: 1. Antiochus II.,
mother of Cluentius, to prepare poisons for her; surnamed Theos; 2. Apama, married to Magas,
and who was afterwards crucified for murder and king of Cyrene; and 3. Stratonice [No. 4.]. The
robbery. (Cic. pro Cluent. cc. 63-66). [W. A. G.] city of Stratoniceia in Caria was named after her,
STRATON, a sculptor, who, with Xenophilus, but whether it was founded in her honour by
made, for the temple of Asclepius at Argos, the Seleucus or by Antiochus, is uncertain. (Strab.
white marble statues of the god, and of his at- xiv. p. 660; Steph. Byz. s. v. ZrpaTro0V'LcEra.)
tendant Hygieia; near which were placed the 4. Daughter of the preceding and of Antiochus
statues of the artists themselves. (Paus. ii. 23. I., was married to Demetrius II., king of Mace~ 4.) [P. S.] donia. (Euseb. Arm. i. p. 164.) The period of
STRATONI'CE (.rpaTozViK71). 1. One of the their marriage is unknown; but she appears to
daughters of Thespius, and by Heracles the mo- have remained in Macedonia till about B. c. 239,
ther of Atromus. (Apollod. ii. 7. ~ 3.) when she quitted Demetrius in disgust, on account
2. A daughter of Pleuron and Xanthippe. of his second marriage with Phthia, the daughter
(Apollod. i. 7. ~ 7.) of Olympias, and retired to Syria. Here she in
3. The wife of Melaneus and the mother of vain incited her nephew Seleucus II. to avenge
Eurytus. (Hes. Fragm. 48.) [L. S.] the insult offered her by declaring war against
STRATONI'CE (-'rpaoviKqf). 1. A sister of the Macedonian king. According to another acPerdiccas II., king of Macedonia, who was given by count, she was in hopes to induce Seleucus himself
him in marriage to the Thracian prince SEUTHES, to marry her; but that monarch was wholly occuthe nephew of Sitalces, as a reward for the service pied with the recovery of Babylonia and the upper
rendered him by the former in persuading Sitalces provinces of the empire. While he was thus ento withdraw from Macedonia. (Thuc. ii. 101.) gaged, Stratonice took advantage of his absence to
2. Daughter of Corrhaeus (a Macedonian other- raise a revolt against him at Antioch; but she was
wise unknown), and wife of Antigonus, king of easily expelled from that city on the return of
Asia, by whom she became the mother of two sons, Seleucus, and took refuge in Seleucia, where she
was besieged, taken prisoner, and put to death.
* Straton is here too positively said to have been (Justin. xxviii. 1; Agatharchides, ap. Joseph. c.
the native of Berytus; he ought to have been called Apion. i. 22; Niebuhr, KI. Schriften, p. 254;
the follower of Erasistratus, who may possibly have Droysen, Hellenism. vol. ii. p. 414.)
been " the native of Berytus," but cannot be proved 5. A daughter of Antiochus II., king of Syria,
to have been so. married to Ariarathes III., king of Cappadocia.