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

I ⇒ (1) A; (2) F; (3) I Iulius Africanus (ca 190 – 235 CE) Born ca 160 CE; in addition to his five books ...

I A ⇒ A Iulius Bassus (ca 10 – 40 CE) Friend of S N (C A, Acut. 3.135 [Drabkin, p. 3 ...

Pompey’s execution on Ptolemy XIII’s orders. Caesar reigned in Rome until his assassin- ation by a senatorial mob in 44. In Caes ...

of varying length on the zodiac, planets and meteorology. It is not the adaptation of the second part of Aratos’ Phainomena (ord ...

C (1.1.14) praised. He ascribed the decline of viticulture in his day to an ignor- ance of good practice on the part of ...

based on Greek sources and apparently interpolated, and an astronomical treatise in four books are probably by C. Iulius Hyginus ...

account of the foundation and history of Rome and goes on to describe Italy and other regions of the three known parts of the wo ...

from Syria (where he was military tribune in 35); he owned properties near Rome and repeatedly relates personal experience. His ...

D. Iunius Silanus (ca 146 BCE) Led the group of translators whom the Roman Senate commissioned to render into Latin the 28 books ...

obviously a drastic purge with aromatic properties (saffron, myrrh, thyme, cinnamon) ren- dering this solution palatable to the ...

K Kaikalos (?) of Argos (400 – 300 BCE?) Author of a poem about fishing (Halieutika), lived before O  K (Ath., De ...

Kallikrate ̄s (Astrol.) (50 – 150 CE?) In a collection of epitomes of such astrologers as T, K, B- , ...

pre-Iktinian phase of the building dated to the time of Kimo ̄n (460s); Svenson-Evers, by contrast, has assigned Kallikrate ̄s t ...

Kallimakhos of Kure ̄ne ̄ (ca 285 – ca 245 BCE) Born ca 310 BCE in Kure ̄ne ̄ and perhaps a descendant of the formerly ruling Ba ...

Kallimakhos Jr. of Kure ̄ne ̄ (260 – 230 BCE) The son of Stase ̄no ̄r and Megatima ̄, the latter the sister of K, seni ...

summer solstice fell on the same day as the lunar conjunction and a day before the visible new moon. Kallippos’ cycle was used b ...

Ed.: FGrHist 124. Robinson (1953) 1.45–77; Pearson (1960) 22–49; A.B. Bosworth, “Aristotle and Callisthenes,” Historia 19 (1970) ...

Sitzungsberichte der Prussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 23 (1904) 752–759; D.E. Pingree, “The Indian and Pseudo-I ...

Kárpos of Antioch (10 BCE – 40 CE?) “Ho me ̄khanikos,” worked in mathematics, astronomy, and mechanics. I, In Categ., m ...

Keskintos, Inscription of (150 – 50 BCE) The surviving lower half of an anonymous Greek votive inscription recording a list of p ...