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

RE 1.1 (1893) 1063 (#21), M. Wellmann. GLIM Aiskhrio ̄n (325 – 90 BCE) Wrote a work on agriculture possibly treating cereals, li ...

Akesias of Athens (350 – 230 BCE) Wrote on culinary art (Ath., Deipn. 12 [516c]). Proverbially, patients under his care declined ...

250 CE, but see Di Maria ). Two MSS also attribute shorter tracts, Life of Aratos and Peri exe ̄ge ̄seo ̄s, commenting on the ...

Albinus of Smurna (130 – 170 CE) Wrote a brief Introduction to Plato’s dialogues (Prologos or Eisago ̄ge ̄), preserved in the P ...

Beiträge zur Geschichte der Medizin 2 (1925); M. Stoffregen, Eine frühmittelalterliche lateinische Übersetzung des byzantinische ...

bodies, which supervenes upon the physical mixture (krasis) of their organic components (see De prouidentia 148 Zonta, 75–77 Rul ...

causation. The author (§§ 26 – 30) divides causes into prokatartika (predisposing), proe ̄goumena (antecedent), and sunezeugmena ...

Alexander of Lukaia (250 – 30 BCE) Wrote a Phainomena, according to B  S (P), entirely lost; H- , A ...

and Antagoras of Rhodes: it is uncertain whether he had a special cultural task there or not. He was best known as a tragedian, ...

and warmly curious, kindly and sensitive physician, a clinician quite willing to listen to local “experts” as much as he might c ...

Alkamene ̄s of Abudos (500 – 300 BCE) Greek physician, who, according to the Peripatetic doxography in L -  (7 ...

Ed.: J. Whittaker and P. Louis, Alcinoos. Enseignement des doctrines de Platon (CUF 1990); J. Dillon, trans., Alcinous. The Hand ...

Alko ̄n (40 – 55 CE) Surgeon working in Rome, famously wealthy and famously fined: P 29.22, Iosephus, Ant. Iud. 19.157 (Alku ...

Amarantos of Alexandria (20 BCE – 95 CE) Grammarian, wrote a commentary on Theokritos (Schol. Theokr. 4.57, 7.154) and On the Th ...

P and the P. The work engages with interpretations of creation from P, A and D (Hexaemer ...

two treatises rebutting P’ view that the intelligibles are outside the intellect (18.11–17). Porphurios criticized Amel ...

Ammo ̄nios, M. Annius (ca 40 – 85 CE) P depicts his teacher Ammo ̄nios (born ca 5 CE) as an impressive and stimulating in ...

Amo ̄me ̄tos (of Kure ̄ne ̄?) (280 – 245 BCE) Wrote geographical paradoxa, including Voyage up from Memphis and On the Attakori ...

Amphinomos (365 – 325 BCE) Mentioned four times by P, twice with known followers of P, but not in his sketch of the hi ...

D L (3.46), and P (In Eucl. p. 67.8 Fr.) refer to this same pupil as Amuklas or Amuklos. That he is from He ...