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

Paulos of Alexandria (350 – 400 CE) Wrote an introduction to astrology in Greek prose, Eisago ̄gika, approximately datable by it ...

coast. The author declares he has personally seen Greece, the Asian cities, Tyrrhenia and Sicily, almost all of Libya and Cartha ...

Pausistratos of Rhodes (200 – 190 BCE) Commander of the Rhodian fleet, betrayed by Antiokhos’ admiral Poluxenidas (Livy 36.45, 3 ...

Peitho ̄n (of Antinoeia?) (330 – 390 CE?) Geometer, contemporary with S  A, who preserves Peitho ̄n’s definition ...

of the H C, A by “Pelops” mentioned by (the Latin) pseudo- O In Hipp. Aph., pr., and attributed ...

P ⇒ M Periandros (ca 360 – ca 335 BCE) A good doctor who wrote bad verse – on unspecified topics (P, Sparta ...

Arabian-Indian route at least down to Cape Comorin at the southern tip of India. He probably spent some time in India: Indian na ...

Persis (325 – 90 BCE) Agricultural writer whose work C D excerpted (V, RR 1.1.9–10). Persis (a woman’s name) i ...

The Petosiris-Nekhepso fragments (frr.6–12 Riess) include omens from phenomena such as eclipses with their colors and the direct ...

Finally he is said to be closer to P because he too regarded bile as an effect of disease rather than a cause. RE 19.1 ( ...

Peutinger Map (300 – 330 CE?) Large maps of the Roman world were made from A’ time onwards, but only one survives – as a ...

11.25.3–4). The conduits, called phaiakoi after Phaiax, with 23 separate branches totaling 14.6 km, emptied into and helped drai ...

Phao ̄n (420 – 350 BCE) Listed by G, In Hipp. Reg. Acute (15.455 K. = CMG 5.9.1, p. 135), with E, P, and ...

hollows, arises a numerous second generation of gods, the five-nook generation ( problem- atic, since Theopompos entitles Pherek ...

soaked plasters to assure healing and prevention of inflammation. Significant fragments of Philagrios’ works emerge from multi-i ...

corrupted to Philaretos, a well-attested name (LGPN). Our Philaretos wrote On pulses, a treatise on the diagnostic method typica ...

Philinos, however, initiated the two major genres of the school, i.e., H exegesis and pharmacology. As for Hippokratic ...

Philippos of Macedon (120 – 10 BCE?) A P. in G Antid. 2.8 (14.149–150 K.) credits “Philippos of Macedon” wi ...

Ed.: Deichgräber (1930) 400–406, 408. RE 19.2 (1938) 2369–2370 (#51), H. Diller; KP 4.752 (#23), F. Kudlien; BNP 11 (2007) 41 (# ...

Philippos wrote profusely on medicines (Gale ̄n, CMLoc 7 [13.14 K.], CMGen 2 [13.502 K.]: “those around Arkhigene ̄s and Philip” ...