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

animate uterus, “.. .although he admits that in some ways it behaves as if it were” (King 1998: 223; cf. Gourevitch 1984: 121–12 ...

So ̄ranos’ dependence on earlier medical traditions and dogmas is apparent as he composes his medico-historical doxography. Both ...

So ̄sagoras, cited from the 3rd–1st cc. BCE, is known at Amorgas, Nisuros, and at Maroneia in Thrake ̄ (LGPN 1.420, 4.323). RE 3 ...

So ̄sigene ̄s (II) (ca 125 – 190 CE) Peripatetic philosopher, teacher of A  A, author of On Vision (now lost ...

So ̄simene ̄s (350 BCE – 77 CE) Cited as a foreign authority on medicines from plants, after D and before T (P ...

So ̄takos (320 – 270 BCE) Lapidary author (On stones) according to A P. 36, and whom P 1.ind. 36 – 37 includ ...

the Ionic and the Italic. There is no evidence that philosophical schools (except perhaps for the Pythagoreans) existed before P ...

12.10 = T30) describes this system as “episodic” (i.e., like dramas consisting of a series of disconnected episodes). It seems t ...

Sphujidhvaja (269/270 CE) Composed in 269/270 CE a Sanskrit verse adaptation, entitled Yavanaja ̄taka (YJ) or Greek Horoscopy, o ...

Stadiasmus Maris Magni (200 – 300 CE) Description of the coast-lines (periplous) of the Mediterranean, based on older sources. O ...

Among philosophical works are commentaries in the Alexandrian tradition on A- ’s De Interpretatione and the third book o ...

of theories and admission of the differences. This form of the status quaestionis of existing theories constitutes one of the mo ...

Stephanos of Buzantion (525 – 565 CE) Greek grammarian, probably from Constantinople and a contemporary of Justinian I. Author o ...

S ⇒ I S Strabo ̄n of Amaseia (ca 30 BCE – 24 CE) Greek geographer and historian, born ca 64 BCE in Amaseia ...

of the Roman Empire and the boundaries of the oikoumene ̄. Strabo ̄n’s Geography in focus, terms and methodology, belongs with t ...

( p. 58 Ihm) records his remarks on the field-mouse (mugale ̄), and on the poisonous plant ephe ̄meron (§56, p. 69 Ihm). R  ...

A. Scholars dispute the degree to which the introduction to He ̄ro ̄n’s Pneumatics, which evidently borrows a proof fro ...

p. 303). Gale ̄n (ibid. p. 287) preserves his interpretation of Epidemics 6.5.15 (5.320 Littré), that the humor black bile indee ...

RE 4A.1 (1931) 563, W. Kroll; F. Lasserre, “Abrégé inédit du commentaire de Posidonios au Timêe de Platon (Pap. Gen. inv. 203),” ...

Sunero ̄s (of Campania?) (200 BCE – 95 CE) A P., in G CMLoc 4.8 (12.774–776 K.), records two of his collyri ...