Archelaus ( grc, Ἀρχέλαος) was the author of a poem consisting of upwards of three hundred Greek
iambics, entitled Περὶ τῆς ῾Ιερᾶς Τέχνης (''Perì tês Hierâs Tékhnēs'', in Latin "De Sacra Arte").
Nothing is known of the events of his life; his date also is uncertain, but the poem is evidently the work of a comparatively recent writer, and must not be attributed to any of the older authors of this name.
This poem was published for the first time in the second volume of
Julius Ludwig Ideler
Julius Ludwig Ideler (3 September 1809, in Berlin – 17 July 1842, in Berlin) was a German philologist and naturalist. He was the son of astronomer Christian Ludwig Ideler.
From 1828 he studied medicine, mathematics and natural sciences at th ...
's ''Physici et Medici Graeci Minores'' in 1842; but a few extracts had previously been inserted by J. S. Bernard, in his edition of
Palladius, ''De Febribus'' in 1745.
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