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

O. Schmidt, On the Relation Between Ancient Mathematics and Spherical Astronomy (1943); DSB 13.319–321, I. Bulmer-Thomas. Alexan ...

Theodotos (120 – 80 BCE) Eye specialist from whom a type of remedy was called Theodotion: it cured abcesses of the eyelid and va ...

Theologumena arithmeticae (ca 330 – 350 CE?) Ascribed to I  K, but with uncertainty. The treatise is a collecti ...

CE, provides a terminus post quem for Theomne ̄stos’ work. Theomne ̄stos appears to have been acquainted with medical theory and ...

purposes like the calculation of horoscopes. Theo ̄n’s LC directly fulfils this demand, provid- ing detailed guidance through th ...

(875 CE) and is the source of S S’s treatise (6th c., ed. Nau 1899), but this has been criticized (Sezgin, GAS 5 [19 ...

Theo ̄n of Smurna (ca 100 – 130 CE) Philosopher. A surviving bust of Theo ̄n the “Platon- ist philosopher,” dedicated by his son ...

The work, with its propagandistic undertones, was finished in 62 BCE; of seven extant fragments five, preserved in S, des ...

roasted misu, with myrrh, omphakion, and saffron, in Khian or other dry old wine and Attic honey, 7.45 (p. 299). The name is too ...

plant organisms and their environments shows him to have been an ecologist. Preserved by Pho ̄tios is an excerpt (fr.435 FHSG) f ...

hail, dew and the like, as well as the Moon’s halo and earthquakes. In general, Theophras- tos attempts to correlate varieties o ...

Aristotle left implicit. Theophrastos willingly entertained multiple explanations for certain phenomena. For the most part, he r ...

educated in rhetoric at Alexandria (Whitby 1986: ), he moved to Constantinople to study law before 610 (Hist. 8.12.3–7; perh ...

lady,” (CAAG 2.246), implies that she was of patrician if not imperial status, while a Latin term rarely used in Greek literatur ...

Thessalos and Drako ̄n in antiquity were held to be the founders of the Dogmatists, who believed that they should investigate no ...

rather modified Epicureanism (cf. entries A, T, and later S). Grouping diseases and therapies into “c ...

Thrasuandros (300 – 30 BCE) A  A mentions his pill for dysentery: 9.35, 42 (Zervos 1911: 363, 385). The rare name is ...

intervals and defined such terms as interval and harmony. T  S (Exposition of Plato’s Mathematics) preserves materia ...

various theaters of war around the Aegean suggest the language of periploi and periodoi ge ̄s. He shows interest in the origins ...

to Thumaridas his “Bloom” (epanthe ̄ma), which formulates in complex prose the idea that if x + y 1 +... + yn− 1 = a and x + yi ...