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

Antonio Panaino (Iranian authors) Facoltà di Conservazione dei Beni Culturali, Ravenna, Italy Holt N. Parker (Damaste ̄s, Me ̄tr ...

Foreign Languages and Literatures, Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg Maryland, USA Anna Somfai (Calcidius, Isidore of Hisp ...

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Evangelos Venetis Heinrich von Staden Bonna Wescoat Stephen Wheeler Craig Williams Georg Woehrle* Ehsan Yarshater* Jim Zetzel Ne ...

Deichgr. K. Deichgräber, Die griechische Empirikerschule (Berlin 1930; augmented repr. 1965) EK L. Edelstein and I.G. Kidd, Posi ...

Works (of reference and editions) cited by abbreviation of title: ACA Ancient Commentators on Aristotle Series (London and Ithac ...

CML Corpus Medicorum Latinorum (Berlin 1915–) CTC Catalogus translationum et commentariorum, 8 vv. to date (Washington 1960, 197 ...

HWPhil Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie 12 vv. (Basel and Stuttgart 1971–2004) KLA Künstlerlexikon der Antike 2 vv. (Muni ...

SAM Studies in Ancient Medicine, 33 vv. to date (Leiden 1990–) SDS Storia della scienza (Rome 2001–), ed. S. Petruccioli SEP Sta ...

P.Lit.Lond. Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London 1927), ed. H.J.M. Milne P.Lund. Aus der Papyrussammlu ...

M. Berthelot, Les origines de l’alchimie (Paris 1885). I. Bodnár and W.W. Fortenbaugh, edd., Eudemus of Rhodes (2002) = RUSCH 11 ...

W.L.H. Duckworth (ed. M.C. Lyons and B. Towers), Galen. On anatomical procedures, the later books (Cambridge 1962). D. Dueck, St ...

C.R.S. Harris, The Heart and the Vascular System in Ancient Greek Medicine from Alcmaeon to Galen (Oxford 1973). T.L. Heath, A h ...

Idem and D.N. Sedley, The Hellenistic Philosophers 2 vv. (Cambridge 1987). J. Longrigg, Greek rational medicine: Philosophy and ...

H.M. Parker, “Women Doctors in Greece, Rome, and the Byzantine Empire,” in L.R. Furst, ed., Women healers and physicians: climbi ...

Idem, “Rupture and Continuity: Hellenistic Reflections on the History of Medicine” in van der Eijk (1999) 143–187. F. Steckerl, ...

H.C. Wood, Jr. and C.H. LaWall, et al., edd., The Dispensatory of the United States of America, 21st ed. (Philadelphia and Londo ...

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A A ⇒ A Abas (or Aias) (500 – 330 BCE) Greek physician, quoted only by the L  (8.45–9.4), who attribu ...