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

to the Olympic Games in 240, suggesting a long life. Before moving to Alexandria, he lived in Athens (where his friends include ...

He is hardly likely to be identifiable with the homonymous Stoic (contrast Kudlien; cf. T113 EK). F. Kudlien, “Poseidonios und d ...

A (of Tyre?) in claiming that a providential deity – leading the diviner to select the particular victim whose internal ...

Poseido ̄nios of Macedon (335 – 325 BCE) Designed a helepolis, described in B, Belop. 4 ( pp. 51–56 W.), for Alexander the ...

Ed.: U.C. Bussemaker, Poetae Bucolici et Didactici (1862) 132–134. PTK P ⇒ P Praxagoras of Ko ̄s (325 – 275 BCE) Gr ...

Ed.: Steckerl (1958). RE 22.2 (1954) 1735–1739, K. Bardong; OCD3 1241 – 1242, J.T. Vallance; BNP 11 (2007) 782–783, V. Nutton. D ...

works. His contribution to scientific writing lies solely in the incomplete Metaphrasis [ para- phrase] of Theophrastos’ On Sens ...

(LGPN 4.29; see also 3A.377), and primarily from the 4th c.: PLRE 1 (1971) 741, 2 (1980) Cf. perhaps P. Fabricius (1726 ...

Proklos of Laodikeia (Syria), “Prokle ̄ios” (150 – 480 CE) Son of Themiso ̄n and hierophant, according to the Souda Pi-2472. He ...

knowledge everything relevant to attain “true reality” (pragmata) and Platonic theology. The literature upon which Proklos relie ...

Knorr convincingly refuted Mogenet’s previous attribution to E and proposed instead A, but the argument is weak. M ...

( John Tzetze ̄s, Chil. 7.647). Distances along coast-lines are given in stades (with the exception of north-eastern Europe). Th ...

Pro ̄tarkhos (Mech. and Pharm.) (220 – 180 BCE?) Named only by C, as one of those who, like N and H ...

Proxenos (120 – 30 BCE) Used by A M and commended by G, his “harmonious” remedy for long- standing coughs and fev ...

RE 23.2 (1959) 1863 (#81), H. Diller; Michler (1968) 83–84, 122–125. GLIM Ptolemaios (Erasi.) (250 BCE – 100 CE?) Erasistratean ...

Ed.: Deichgräber (1930) 20, 172 (fragments), 258. RE 23.2 (1959) 1861 (#72), A. Dihle, 1863 (#80–82), H. Diller; C.A. Viano, “Lo ...

Düring (1932); Barker (1989); Mathiesen (1999); NP 10.571–572, R. Harmon; NDSB 6.172–173, E. Rocconi. David Creese Ptolemy (“Cla ...

circle’s center. The model for Mars illustrates these concepts (figure). Planet B is assumed to revolve uniformly around an epic ...

Ptolemy appropriated from his predecessors is difficult to determine because of Ptolemy’s silences and the dearth of other Greek ...

and measuring angles of refraction at boundaries between different media (air, water, and glass). The treatise in four books on ...