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

library and a walking museum” (Vit. Soph. 4.1.3), widely known as “the critic” (P In Tim. 1.14.7), or “the greatest critic ...

Castricius (ca 30 BCE) Roman author of a treatise on gardening (Kepourika) utilized by P (1.ind.19); quite possibly identica ...

author of a doxographical work (De haeresibus, prol.: PL 42, col.23), he cannot be earlier than the 4th c. CE. It is worth quoti ...

thinker who framed his project as a preservation and elaboration of Z’s ideas. It is difficult now to determine to what ex ...

C- ⇒ K- C ⇒ M. T C Claudianus (Alch.) (1st – 7th c. CE?) Cited in the list of poie ̄tai (makers of gold, CAAG ...

names drew on the botanical works of T (3.18.8). Verus knew varieties of apple named after A and C. M, an ...

Constantinus (250 – 360 CE) Greek physician, whom O cites as the author of a soap formula made of several plant ingredi ...

A. Cornelius Celsus (15 – 35 CE) Life. Encyclopedist, worked during the Tiberian age (at pr.69 he states that he knew Cassius, t ...

The influence of Empiricism can be seen also in the structure of De Medicina, for this work deals only with therapeutics, and no ...

(luxata), wound-caused suppurations and ulcerations, extraction of missiles which have entered the body, with specific direction ...

M on the properties of Ocean surrounding the world (3.5), and by both on the navig- able route between the Arabian Gulf and G ...

Cornelius Valerianus (ca 36 CE) Mentioned by P in the index for Books 8, 10, 14–15 (on plants and animals), as the source fo ...

D Dadis (325 – 90 BCE) Agronomist whose work was known to C D (V, RR 1.1.9–10; cf. C, 1.1.11). RE 4.2 ...

wounds (20.103–104). Dalio ̄n “the herbalist” prescribes a poultice of anise and parsley as well as an anise-dill drink for wome ...

Theo ̄n of Alexandria (not the astronomer), geometry and other sciences with M, and philosophy with Ze ̄nodotos and A ...

Khoaspes and thence to Susa; and he placed the Hyperboreans north of the Arimaspians, beyond the Rhipaean mountains. Ed.: FGrHis ...

Damis of Kolopho ̄n (195 – 185 BCE?) Designed a sambuke ̄, perhaps for Kolopho ̄n’s successful emergency defense against Antiokh ...

building for musical performances called O ̄deion. He was ostracized around 440 BCE (four ostraka were found with his name) and ...

saffron, frankincense, myrrh, and natron constitute a mild antibiotic, but the saffron oil as an ingredient makes this remedy ph ...

D ⇒ D Dasius (120 BCE – 80 CE) Cited by Martial 6.70.6, along with A and Symmachus (cf. 5.9, 7.18.10), presumabl ...