The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists: The Greek tradition and its many heirs

RE 2.2 (1896) 1633–1634, M. Wellmann; Watson (1966) 8–10, 15–16, 60–61; Fabricius (1972) 192 – 198, 246–253; BNP 2 (2003) 99 (#9 ...

all three, but Vallance thinks Askle ̄piade ̄s was rejecting the then-popular notions (also mechanical) of E. None of ...

child, and later they reared daughters. He also taught in Alexandria and apparently returned to Aphrodisias ca 485 CE. He wrote ...

Aspasia (120? – 540? CE) Cited by A  A, Book 16, for gynecological remedies and practices, more often than S. ...

Aspasios (Pharm.) (250 BCE – 90 CE) A P., in G CMLoc 9.5 (13.302 K.), records his remedy for dysentery: par ...

Ed.: CCAG 5.1 (1904) 196–206. D.E. Pingree, “The Astrological School of John Abramius,” DOP 25 (1971) 189–215; S. Feraboli, “L’e ...

places Athe ̄nagoras at the Persian court before the expedition against Egypt by Artaxerxe ̄s III “O ̄khos,” 357 BCE. RE S.5 (19 ...

Athe ̄naios, practicing in Rome, opened a new avenue in medical thinking, loosely and variously defined by Gale ̄n, most explici ...

Athe ̄naios of Kuzikos (390 – 345 BCE) Mathematician and geometer, and member of P’s Academy (P In Eucl. p. 67 Fr.). R ...

Athenodo ̄ros of Tarsos (ca 60 – 20 BCE) Athe ̄nodo ̄ros “Caluus” from the village of Kana near Tarsos (C Att. 16.11.4, 14. ...

G CMGen 1.13 (13.414–416 K.), cf. 1.17 (13.446–447 K.), records his wound plaster containing white pepper, litharge, and ps ...

and diurnal signs (Sagittarius omitted: M 1.150–154, 2.358–384, cf. A Met. 1.5 [986a]) in accord with the Pythago ...

Ed.: GGM 2.177–189; P. van de Woestijne, La descriptio orbis terrae d’Avienus (1961). KP 1.788–789, M. Fuhrmann; PLRE 1 (1971) 3 ...

praefectus of Illyria (Aus. Epic. 2; Lect. 5 – 14; Parent. 3). He spoke Greek better than Latin (Epic. 2.9), possibly because he ...

Axios (45 BCE – 100 CE) Ocularis of the Roman British fleet. K  H preserves two recipes: his collyrium based on ...

B Babylonian Astronomy (ca 1800 BCE – ca 100 CE) A tradition of celestial divination, the oldest cuneiform record of which goes ...

and Greek awareness of their Babylonian inheritance is indicated by mention of Orchenoi (P.Oxy. 4139, line 8: Jones [1999]), “pe ...

inadvertent connection of the end-title of the first treatise with the beginning of the second, but the second is entirely diffe ...

W.D. Smith, “Galen on Coans versus Cnidians,” BHM 47 (1973) 569–585; Idem (1979) 202–204; von Staden (1989) 484–500; OCD3 230, I ...

Balbus (102 – 106 CE?) Nothing is known of this man’s life. If the beginning of his treatise does refer to Trajan’s expedition t ...