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

a skilled pharmacological technologist, as evinced by the five multi-staged, multi-ingredient compounds recorded in the Latin tr ...

(Timaeus, Parmenides, Phaedrus and, possibly, Alcibiades I, Phaedo, Philebus and Sophist) and A (Categories, Prior Analy ...

I- ⇒ I- Idios (250 BCE – 80 CE) G (CMLoc 9.5 [13.297 K.]) quotes A’ record of his enema, com- pounded of quickl ...

its narrower and longer predecessor of ca 485 BCE, burnt by the Persians in 480/479 BCE. Iktinos designed a wider temple, with 8 ...

I T A ⇒ P. B. 9782 Innocentius (350 – 360 CE?) Vir perfectissimus and auctor, known as the writer of a tract ...

Io ̄anne ̄s Esdras (1100 – 1200 CE) Credited with an unpublished treatise on urine preserved in a Greek MS (Città del Vaticano, ...

Io ̄anne ̄s of Alexandria (500 – 700 CE?) Physician (iatrosophiste ̄s) and teacher in the Alexandrian school; his name is typica ...

Aristotle. Later commentaries on the Physics (517) and the Meteorologica (after 529), however, display a marked shift toward a m ...

contemporary practicing physicians. If the collection does derive from such a milieu, it might represent a hospital’s accumulate ...

()-Z, P, A, A, H, A, O ̄  T, P  A, and P ...

the Peloponnesian phytonym rhute ̄ (Ruta graveolens L.), from another work On the Peloponnesian cities. C 5.22.5 describes ...

Getica). The Getica is based on the lost history of the Goths by C, and scholars debate the extent of Iordanes’ borrow ...

probably the main source of Pliny and later encyclopedists for natural history in exotic countries. His work was lost and unknow ...

563, the new dome was 6 m deeper, more stable, but less “awe inspiring” (Agathias, History 5.9). Isido ̄ros and John of Constant ...

is probably also the author of a survey of the east commissioned by A before Gaius’ expedition to Armenia, against the Pa ...

A’ Ko ̄nika in Eutokios’ commentaries probably derive from Isido ̄ros’ revision (Decorps 2000: 82). The Isido ̄ros in ...

Isigonos of Nikaia (50 BCE – 70 CE) Author of high standing (Aulus Gellius 9.4), composed a work of Apista, of which fragments s ...

Itineraries (from ca 100 CE) Although Greeks listed notable points on coastal voyages (periploi), the compilation of equivalent ...

“Ethiopian” cumin, myrrh, parsley, two kinds of pepper, spikenard, etc., in dried goat’s blood and honey. PLRE 2 (1980) 638. PTK ...

RE 10.1 (1918) 11–12 (#4), H. Gossen; Frede (1982); Scarborough (1982); R.J. Hankinson, “Method- ism” in Cause and Explanation i ...