Heliodo'rus
1. Of Larissa.
Works
He was the author of a little work on optics, entitled
Κεφάλαια τῶν̓ Ὀπτικῶν, which seems to be a fragment or abridgement of the larger work, which is entitled in some MSS.
Δααμιανον̂ φιλοσοφου τοῦ Ἡλιοσ῀ώρου Λαρισσαίου περὶ ὀπτικῶν ὑποθέσεων Βιβλία β́ which makes it doubtful whether his true name was Dalmianus or Heliodorus.
The work is chiefly taken from Euclid's
Optics.
Editions
The work was printed at Florence, with an Italian version, by Ignatius Dante, with the Optics of Euclid, in 1573, 4to.;
at Hamburgh by F. Lindenbrog, 1610, 4to;
at Paris, by Erasmus Bartholinus, 1657, 4to (reprinted 1680);
at Cambridge, in Gale's Opuscula Mythologica, 1670, 8vo. (but it is omitted in the Amsterdam edition, 1688); and
lastly, with a Latin version and a dissertation upon the author, by A. Matani, Pistorii, 1758, 8vo.
Other works
Some other scientific works of Heliodorus are mentioned.
Further Information
Fabric.
Bibl. Graec. vol. viii. p. 128.
