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

Flauius (?) (270 – 305 CE) Fellow-teacher with L in Nikome ̄deia, and author of a poetic De Medicinalibus (cf. Q. S ...

PIR2 F-241. PTK T. Flauius Vespasianus (70 – 78 CE) The Roman emperor “Titus” (reigned 79– 81 CE) is credited by P 2.89 with ...

(reference to pax Romana), do not support Fonteian authorship, Weinstock (47–48) proposes, nonetheless, that the attributions ma ...

L. Fullonius Saturninus (300 – 470 CE) Eminent and profound astrologer, used by A (Sidonius Apollinaris Ep. 8.11.10; Car ...

G Gaius (Platonist) (100 – 140 CE) Active in Asia Minor, renowned among later Platonists. Scholars long believed in a school of ...

5.11, 13.830 K.), the “oculist” (CMLoc 4.8, 12.771 K.), “godlike” Gaius (CMLoc 3.1, 12.628 K.) and, more frequently, simply “Nea ...

acratic contemporaries: On Good and Bad Humor 6.755–756 K.). In a late work On My Own Books (wherein Gale ̄n catalogues his genu ...

distinction is made in terms of theoretical commitment (or the lack of it). Rationalists believe that medicine must have a sound ...

works) is very impressive; but his human anatomy is vitiated by the fact that he was rarely, if ever, able to dissect human cada ...

This survey is necessarily brief and partial, and the bibliography is merely indicative. I have been unable even to sketch the b ...

Ed.: H. Wagner, Galeni qui fertur Libellus ΕΙ ΖΩΙΟΝ ΤΟ ΚΑΤΑ ΓΑΣΤPΟΣ (1914); C.M. Colucci, Galeno, se ciò che è nell’ utero è un ...

Definitiones medicae,” in P. Potter, G. Maloney and J. Desautels, edd., La maladie et les maladies dans la Collection hippocrati ...

that of A  A (14.689, 698 K.). Similarly, the author’s concepts of pulse and fever (14.729–730 K.), and phlebo ...

for spleen disorders. In his youth, he appears to have corresponded with L  A; the letters attest his knowledge o ...

in surviving pieces of Greek music, although notational symbols also appear in the treatises of A Q and B ...

processes, fits with Geminus’ own procedure in the Introductio and is reflected in later Stoicizing literature, notably K ...

D 3.3.1, followed by P 25.71, credits him with introducing gentian to the pharmacopoeia. BNP 5 (2004) 763–764, L ...

Geo ̄rgios of Pisidia (ca 610 – ca 634 CE) Born ca 580, deacon and archivist of Saint-Sophia, a remarkable and admired poet, wro ...

Temkin (1932); Idem, “Studies on Late Alexandrian Medicine. I. Alexandrian Commentaries on Galen’s De Sectis Ad Introducendos,” ...

Glaukide ̄s (350 BCE – 100 CE) Physician, thinking quinces, phaulia, and strouthia the three best fruits, distinguished between ...