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

A. Önnerfors, “Marcellus, De medicamentis. Latin de science, de superstition, d’humanité,” in Le latin médical, ed. Sabbah (1991 ...

Mediterranean) in three books (GGM 1.563–573), of which only fragments are extant. His Periplous te ̄s exo ̄ thalasse ̄s, howeve ...

dactylic poems such as A’ Phainomena (in 1,140 verses) and N’ The ̄riaka (in 1,370 verses) into iambic meters, all ...

RE 14.2 (1930) 1759–1767, O. Schissel von Fleschenberg; DPA 4 (2005) 282–284, H.D. Saffrey. Peter Lautner Marinos of Tyre (100 C ...

RE 14.2 (1930) 1840–1848, P. Wessner; P. Hadot, Porphyre et Victorinus 2 vv. (1968); idem, Marius Victorinus. Recherches sur sa ...

Martialius/Martianus (150 – 190 CE) Erasistratean who wrote on anatomy, and whom G had in mind as the object of his attack ...

Maximianus (ca 300 – 565 CE) A  T (2.57 Puschm.) records his collyrium, composed of one part each of the two co ...

stemma ( p. ) suggests a double origin in the 4th c. and what are labeled alii fontes uarii generis. The text itself is a tan ...

Mege ̄s of Sido ̄n (10 BCE – 30 CE) Surgeon from Sido ̄n (kheirourgos: G, CMLoc 5.3 [13.845 K.]; ho Sido ̄nios: Gale ̄n, MM ...

(elaio ̄n) – on various parts of the human body. Reading like a horoscope in predicting the course of a human life, the essay pr ...

gargles, one with saffron, kostos, roses, and sumac, the other with rush-flower, alum, cassia, saffron, Illyrian iris, Indian na ...

and terminology than later sources. Since, from the Hellenistic catalogue of the works of Aristotle preserved by D L ...

Melitianus (350 – 500 CE?) Wrote in Latin a geographical work on Africa, cited by the R C 3.5, and there said to ...

constructions of curves which were later determined to be definable as conic sections (Knorr 1982). Menaikhmos’ solution uses a ...

RE S.6 (1935) 297, W. Kroll. GLIM Menandros of Prie ̄ne ̄ (325 – 90 BCE) Wrote a work on agriculture excerpted by C D ...

(Strabo ̄n 13.3.22–23). He also explained the name “Musian” as the Ludian word for the beech tree, common in Musia (idem 12.8.3) ...

Menelaos (Pharm.) (100 BCE? – 95 CE) A P., in G Antid. 2.11 (14.173 K.), records Menelaos’ salve to treat h ...

aphronitron, saffron, poppy-juice, bitter almonds, galbanum, and vinegar. O Coll. 7.22 reports Menemakhos’ instructions ...

bears life and heat. There are infinite number of such juices of plants, which are distributed in pairs: bitter/sweet, harsh/oil ...

Ed.: GGM 1.563–573. Diller (1952) 151–164; F.J. González Ponce, “El Periplo Griego antiquo: Verdadera Guí a de viajes o mero gén ...