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

Khalkideus (250 BCE – 95 CE) A P., in G CMGen 5.4 (13.803–804 K.), records his wide-spectrum plaster (“on t ...

may be the doctor who diagnosed Tiberius’ impending demise, Suet. Tib. 72, T, Ann. 6.50. RE 3.2 (1899) 2140 (#7), M. Wellm ...

G, Antid. 2.4 (14.126–129 K.), versified his antidote (priced at 1,000 drachmas the dose), which had been employed by A ...

rolling framework allowing the large column-drums to be moved to the construction site easily and quickly (Vitr. 10.2.11). He al ...

According to archaeological data, Dara’s urban projects were completed by Emperor Anastasios I following the establishment of a ...

sight, causing madness, “comas,” and liver complaints, hence explaining why goats avoid it (Pliny 20.119). C preserves his ...

Kimo ̄n (250 BCE – 30 CE) A P., in G CMLoc 3.1 (12.637 K.), records his remedy for purulent ears, compounde ...

Klearkhos of Soloi (ca 330 – 290/280 BCE) Born ca 370/360 BCE; A’s pupil, Peripatetic philosopher, possibly from Soloi o ...

Kleide ̄mos of Athens (380 – 340 BCE) Considered the oldest atthidographer (Pausanias 10.15.5, who with a few later sources name ...

Kleitomakhos (Hasdrubal) of Carthage (155 – 110 BCE) Son of Diogne ̄tos, born 187/186, taught philosophy at Carthage in Punic, s ...

The Caelestia is an astronomical digression, and the only surviving part of a series of lectures on all aspects of Stoic philoso ...

Kleo ̄n (of Kuzikos?) (100? – 20 BCE) C 6.6.5 reports two of his collyria, one with saffron, poppy-juice and rose oil in gu ...

Kleopatra of Alexandria (Queen of Egypt, 51 – 30 BCE) Born 69 BCE. In On the Manufacture of Medicaments, G (12.403–405, 432 ...

cites Kleophantos with A as the authors of a multi-ingredient Mithridateios anti- dote compounded from myrrh, varieties ...

three years of 13 months (C 18.5, p. 37). Assuming he gave a length of the year in days, the actual number is unknown ( ...

Ko ̄dios Toukos (250 BCE – 95 CE) A P., in G Antid. 2.7 (14.147 K.), cites him for an antidote (also used b ...

Kommiade ̄s (325 BCE – 75 CE) Greek author of a treatise on winemaking read by P (14.120). The name is otherwise unattested, ...

Kosma ̄s of Alexandria, Indikopleuste ̄s (530 – 570 CE) Merchant who wrote a Christian Topography between 535 and 547. Kosma ̄s ...

Phaino ̄n (“bright”), Jupiter Phaëtho ̄n (“shining”), Mars Puroeis (“fiery”), and Mercury Stilbo ̄n (“scintillating”), names att ...

its being to an outside entity upon which it depended. Plutarch likewise attests that he adopted a non-literal reading of the cr ...