Areius

(Ἀρεῖος), a surname of Zeus, which may mean either the warlike or the propitiating and atoning god, as Areia in the case of Athena. Under this name, Oenomaus sacrificed to him as often as he entered upon a contest with the suitors of his daughter, whom he put to death as soon as they were conquered. (Paus. 5.14.5.) [L.S]

(Ἄρειος), or Arius, a citizen of Alexandria, a Pythagorean or Stoic philosopher in the time of Augustus, who esteemed him so highly, that after the conquest of Alexandria, he declared that he spared the city chiefly for the sake of Arcius. (Plut. Ant. 80, Apophth. p. 207; D. C. 51.16; Julian. Epist. 51; comp. Strab. xiv. p.670.) Areius as well as his two sons, Dionysius and Nicanor, are said to have instructed Augustus in philosophy. (Suet. Aug. 89.) He is frequently mentioned by Themistius, who says that Augustus valued him not less than Agrippa. (Themist. Orat. v. p. 63d. viii. p. 108b. x. p. 130b. xiii. p. 173c. ed. Petav. 1684.) From Quintilian (2.15.36, 3.1.16) it appears, that Areius also taught or wrote on rhetoric. (Comp. Senec. consol. ad Marc. 4; Aelian, Ael. VH 12.25; Suid. s. v. Θέων.) [L.S]

(Λεκάνιος Ἄρειος), a Greek physician, one of whose medical formulae is quoted by Andromachus (ap. Gal. De Compos. Medical. sec. Gen. 5.13, vol. xiii. p. 840), and who must therefore have lived in or before the first century after Christ. He may perhaps be the same person who is several times quoted by Galen, and who is sometimes called a follower of Asclepiades, Ἀσκληπιάδειος (De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, 5.3, vol. xii. p. 829; ibid. 8.5, vol. xiii. p. 182 * In this latter passage, instead of Ἀρείου Ἀσκληπιάδου we should read Ἀβείου Ἀσκληπιαδείου. [Asclepiades Areius.]; De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. 5.15, vol. xiii. p. 857), sometimes a native of Tarsus in Cilicia (De Compos. Medicaem. sec. Locos, 3.1, vol. xii. p. 636; ibid. 9.2, vol. xiii. p. 247), and sometimes mentioned without any distinguishing epithet. (De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, 10.2, vol. xiii. p. 347; De Compos. Medical. sec. Gen. 5.11, 14. vol. xiii. pp. 827, 829, 852.) He may perhaps also be the person who is said by Soranus (Vita Hippoer. init., in Hipp. Opera, vol. iii. p. 850) to have written on the life of Hippocrates, and to whom Dioscorides addresses his work on Materia Medica. (vol. i. p. 1.) Whether all these passages refer to the same individual it is impossible to say for certain, but the writer is not aware of any chronological or other difficulties in the supposition. [W.A.G].