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

SH 504 – 526. C. Farinelli “Lobone di Argo, ovvero la psicosa moderna del falso antico,” Annali dell’ Istituto Universitario Ori ...

Philale ̄the ̄s’ doxographical work, at least for the doctrines of A  P, but he knows also discussions for ...

Diels 2 (1907) 58; G.A. Lindeboom, “Luke the Evangelist and the ancient Greek writers on medicine,” Janus 52 (1965) 143–148; G. ...

examine the nature of the atom, Books 3 and 4 explore the nature of the soul, and Books 5 and 6 explicate the nature of the worl ...

Luko ̄n of Troas (ca 280 – 225 BCE) Student of S, and his successor as scholarch of the Peripatos; celebrated for eloquen ...

information. Together with T  T, Lukos was considered an author- ity on the western part of the oikoumene ̄. F ...

Lusimakhos (325 – 90 BCE) Author of a treatise on agriculture excerpted by C D (V, RR 1.1.8–10, cf. C, ...

M M- ⇒ M- M ⇒ A Macharius (of Rome?) (395 – 400 CE) Rufinus, Apol. 1.11.19, records that Macharius, a Christian, ...

M ⇒ V M Maecius Aelianus (100? – 155 CE) The oldest man among G’s teachers, outstanding in experienc ...

Magnus arkhiatros (90 – 130 CE) G, The ̄r. Pis. 12 – 13 (14.261–263, 267 K.), records his antidote (employing amo ̄mon, cin ...

his Pneumaticism. If the chronology in Gale ̄n and Caelius Aurelianus is correct, Mag- nus was a first generation Pneumaticist w ...

(13.80 K.) and an enema of minerals including alum, quicklime, orpiment, and realgar: ibid. 9.5 (13.296 K.). A P ...

Makhairio ̄n (100 BCE – 110 CE) K  H, in G, CMGen 5.3 (13.796–797 K.), cites his terebinth- based wound pl ...

for this period, he may be identical to the plebian tribune Mamilius who in 55 BCE helped to pass a bill designed to remedy defe ...

K, among Egyptian doctors. P  A 7.13.4 (CMG 9.2, p. 324) records his wound-ointment composed of calamine, bu ...

Mantias (ca 15 CE) Wrote Concerning the Phenomena Observed during the Rarefaction and Condensation of Bodies, of which one fragm ...

was noted, moreover, for his excellent dietetics and regimen (Gale ̄n, CMGen 2.1 [13.462 K.]). Mantias, however, did not compose ...

the De pulsibus and Peri sfigmon by a pseudo-S. Although all these works generally overlap one another, Marcellinus’ vers ...

certainly a Christian (see esp. pr.3; 21.2; 23.29; 25.13); but he is unlikely to be the “illustri- ous person in the employ of T ...

epistle) and his three fellow-citizens above mentioned (only Ausonius is mentioned later in the work, in reference to a remedy e ...