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

in three sections, treats Roman liquid quantities (of wine, olive oil, and honey), including quantities for the amphora (keramio ...

Dioskouride ̄s of Anazarbos (ca 40 – 80 CE) The De materia medica (Greek: Peri hule ̄s iatrike ̄s) is one of the most influentia ...

them); Book 2 takes up animals and parts of animals, pharmaceuticals fashioned from various insects, crustaceans, arthropods, re ...

zu der Faksimileausgabe (1970); DSB 4 (1971) 119–123, J.M. Riddle; M. Ullmann, “Pharmaceutics,” in Islamic Medicine (1978) 103–1 ...

Dissoi Logoi (ca 400 BCE) Short anonymous treatise, written in Doric and transmitted in the MSS on the folii following the text ...

Domninos of Larissa (ca 430 – ca 475 CE) Neo-Platonist philosopher and mathematician, studied under S with P, who r ...

quoted 34 times, is considered Athe ̄naios’ main source, although indirect, for Book 7 on fishes. GGLA 1 (1891) 850; RE 5.2 (190 ...

Ed.: D.E. Pingree, Dorothei Sidonii Carmen Astrologicum (1976). Irby-Massie and Keyser (2002) 93–96 (partial trans.). Alexander ...

R.B. Kebric, In the Shadow of Macedon: Duris of Samos (1977); D. Knoepfler, “Trois historiens hellénis- tiques: Douris de Samos, ...

Dulcitius (180 – 360 CE) O, Ecl. Med. 114.8 (CMG 6.2.2, p. 289), cites his remedy against warts of all kinds (thumoi, m ...

E Egnatius (of Spain?) (ca 100 – 50 BCE?) Wrote a poem De Rerum Natura in at least three books, of which M (Sat. 6.5.2, ...

theories are described in some detail in the doxographical tradition (DK 51 A1–5), implying that he wrote a treatise on natural ...

Pseudo-Elias (Pseudo-David) (600 – 726 CE?) Anonymous collection of 51 lectures, replete with medical learning, on P’ I ...

Empedokle ̄s of Akragas (ca 460 – 430 BCE) Philosopher-poet and natural scientist, born ca 483 BCE, author of one or two lost di ...

Within this framework, Empedokle ̄s aimed to be as encyclopedic as possible. Both the fragments and doxography include passages ...

J. Vahlen, Ennianae poesis reliquiae, 3rd ed. (1928); E.H. Warmington, Remains of Old Latin, v. 1 (Loeb 1935); O. Skutsch, Enniu ...

Epaphroditos and Vitruuius Rufus (200 – 300 CE?) A collection of geometrical problems to be found in Latin gromatic MSS (i.e. co ...

believed that the Tanais (Don) river originated in a sea of unknown extent. He attributed the cause of the great earthquake and ...

ceaseless motion, traveling at a constant and incredibly high speed. Compound bodies and the worlds of which they are a part are ...

underlying principles of matter (e.g., atoms and the void) or the heavens, realms that we cannot examine directly, he argued tha ...