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

the guide to the divine (Ep. 105, 142) and strove towards virtue, contemplation and a life according to intellect (Ep. 137, 140, ...

Phaidros derived from Syrianus’ lessons, and Proklos’ two major commentaries in Tim. and in Parm. are strongly indebted to Syria ...

T T ⇒ P. C T T ⇒ S L. Tarutius of Firmum Picenum (75 – 30 BCE) Roman astrologer, wrote On Star ...

between air and water, related to Aristotle’s aithe ̄r, to account for smell (Philoponos De Aet. Mundi 13.15 [pp. 520–521 Rabe]) ...

“M. Telentius” (an unattested nomen) at CMGen 7.6 (13.973 K.). All five of these are probably the same as Scribonius’ teacher “V ...

of a 20-man commission set up by I C in 59 to redistribute public land in southern Italy. During the civil war he led ...

section is devoted to swine (4), and detailed accounts are given of wool-shearing (11.5–12), the breaking of horses (7.12–14), a ...

Philosophia, which established as a theoretical possibility that 288 distinct schools of phil- osophy could exist (A CD ...

Ed.: D. Flach, Marcus Terentius Varro. Gespräche über die Landwirtschaft 3 vv. (1996–2002). RE S.6 (1935) 1172–1277, H. Dahlmann ...

name is primarily Hellenistic (LGPN), and need not refer solely to the hetaira of Alexander and Ptolemy I (D  S 1 ...

Tharseas/Thraseas/Tharrias (170? – 100 BCE) Physician whose name is spelled in three different ways. (1) Tharseas is used by A ...

between square numbers (perfect squares) and the rest, which they called oblong; given a geometric representation of these numbe ...

spurious are Theano ̄’s letters, of uncertain date (proposed chronologies range from the 3rd c. BCE to the 2nd c. CE) which main ...

S. Sepp, Pyrrhonëische Studien (1893); M. Wellmann, “Asklepiades aus Bithynien von einem herrschenden Vorurteil befreit,” NJb 21 ...

explain the third principle of the Empiricist “tripod,” the “transition to the similar” (Gale ̄n Subf. emp. 4). He distinguished ...

RE 5A.2 (1934) 1860–1863 (#41), K. Ziegler (prints relevant passages); KP 5.692–693 (#II.4), Idem; PLRE 2 (1980) 1091 (#29); NP ...

√ 2 that was found by Hippasos. Theodo ̄ros’ discoveries were further incorporated in the general theory of irrational magnitude ...

Theodo ̄ros of Samos (590 – 530 BCE) Son of Telekle ̄s, architect of an early archaic Temple of He ̄ra at Samos, also a sculptor ...

C A’ Acute and Chronic Diseases appear to be direct adaptations from The- odorus’ Logicus 8 (on hudrophobia [Rose ...

J. Preuss, Biblical and Talmudic Medicine, trans. F. Rosner (1978) 19–20; S. Kottek, “Alexandrian medicine in the Talmudic corpu ...