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

Gluko ̄n (250 – 25 BCE) S L 206 – 207 records his two plasters, the “I,” best of its kind, suitable for trepana ...

Grattius Faliscus (30 BCE – 8 CE) Author of a Cynegeticon in 541 hexameters. Mentioned in O, who might have considered the po ...

considerable poetic talent. In his panegyric for Basil he articulated a doctrine of nature which gave a high position to the nat ...

Solomon’s temple, the Mausoleum, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Alexandrian Pharos, and the theatre of some He ̄rakleia, perhaps La ...

H Habro ̄n (100 – 200 CE) One of the sources named by T, at the end of his Quaestiones Physicae. The name is especia ...

Hanno of Carthage (ca 480 BCE) King (suffete) of Carthage in the early 5th c., probably a relative of the Himilko ̄n who command ...

Harpalos (Astron.) (500 – 400 BCE) Proposed an oktaete ̄ris, with intercalated months differing from K’, as well as a ...

Harpokratio ̄n (80 BCE – 80 CE) A records, in G CMLoc 3.1 (12.629 K.), his remedy for purulent ears comprising po ...

Harpokratio ̄n of Argos (160 – 200 CE) Platonist student of A (P In Tim. 1.305 Diehl), the confidant of some Roman e ...

indicate that Pliny had first-hand access to his work, and was not simply relying on Cassius’ anthology. Varro’s “Nikesios of Ma ...

30m), and side-to-side. The machine, steered by 100 men, weighed about 160 metric tons (A M. pp. 21–22 W.; V ...

Hekataios of Mile ̄tos (ca 520 – 490 BCE) Mythographer and geographer, of whom H made use. Hekataios traveled to Egypt, ...

Helenos (before ca 950 CE) Author of a recipe for ointment for cysts in horses preserved in the B recension of the veterinary co ...

He ̄liodo ̄ros of Alexandria (Astron.) (475 – 510 CE) Born ca 445 CE to Hermeias and Aide ̄sia, a close relative of S. Af ...

He ̄liodo ̄ros of Athens (250 BCE – 95 CE) A tragic poet and paradoxographer, who wrote a didactic poem Apolutika pros Nikomakho ...

Hellenizing School (Arm., Yunaban Dproc
; ca 570 – ca 730) This term has been given to a group of translators, many unknown, who ...

taught Isido ̄ros (Damaskios, Vita Isid. fr.160 Zintzen). He ̄raiskos’ interests centered on philo- sophical explanation of reli ...

H “L” ⇒ H  K H “P” ⇒ H  H P He ̄rakleide ...

of the fragments are preserved in D L. Epitomes of A’s Politeia and Nomina Barbarica have been transmitte ...

infinite space (a belief he shared with others, like De ̄mokritos and some Pythagoreans). Moreover, he carefully described the m ...