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

K. Deichgräber; Matthews (1975; repr. 1990, 1998) 68, 72–73, and 399–400 [postscript to 1990 repr.]; V. Nutton, “Archiatri and t ...

The nomen Vitruuius (“Vitruvius”) is the only name known with certainty from most MSS, the cognomen Pollio comes from a single M ...

probably contemporaries, and their common source was probably A, whom he cites (7.pr.14). Vitruuius is often more “p ...

L. Volusius Maecianus (ca 140 – 170 CE) Important member of the “court society” of the 2nd c. CE, assigned to high imperial offi ...

W Wuzurgmihr (ca 531 – 579 CE) Persian astrologer, active during the kingdom of Xusraw I (531–579), generally identified with th ...

X Xanite ̄s (?) (250 BCE – 80 CE) A in G, CMLoc 9.6 (13.311 K.), records the “very useful” ΞΑΝΙΤΗΣ hedrike ̄, com ...

Xenagoras (of He ̄rakleia Pontike ̄?) (330 – 210 BCE?) Wrote a chronology and a work On Islands (cf. the work of E  K ...

M. Wellmann, “Xenokrates aus Aphrodisias,” Hermes 42 (1907) 614–630; RE 9A.2 (1967) 1529– 1531 (#8), F. Kudlien; OCD3 1628, W.D. ...

Xenokrate ̄s of Khalke ̄do ̄n (ca 375 – 314/3 BCE) Student of P and Head of the Academy for 25 years after the death of S ...

Xenophane ̄s of Kolopho ̄n (540? – 478? BCE) Born ca 570 BCE, an itinerant Greek bard and philosopher, criticized traditional cl ...

leadership deep in hostile territory, elected new leaders, including Xenopho ̄n, and traveled back to Greece. Xenopho ̄n was lat ...

Pliny, give measurements in days of sail, indicating their navigational origin and purpose. A  M used Xenopho ̄ ...

Y Yavanes ́vara (149/150 CE) Anonymous author in 149/150 CE of a Sanskrit prose translation of an unidentified Greek (probably A ...

Z Zakhalias of Babylo ̄n (ca 120 – 63 BCE?) Babylonian physician, possibly Jewish. P (37.169) cites his views about the medi ...

a returning Turkish embassy under Maniach (Menander Prot., fr.19, FHG 4.227). A fully detailed report on the journey, lasting tw ...

G. Vlastos, “Zeno,” in P. Edwards, ed. The Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1967) 8.369–379; A. Grünbaum, Modern Science and Zeno’s P ...

Ze ̄no ̄n (Med.) (ca 200 – 150 BCE?) Physician, perhaps identical to Z  L, wrote on pharmacology and Hippokratic ...

ethics seems to have been his ultimate priority. Ze ̄no ̄n’s physics emphasized a unified kosmos whose substance is itself divin ...

Ze ̄nophilos (100 BCE – 360 CE) Physician whose antidote for inflamed bladders and kidney stones comprised cassia, sarxiphagos, ...

Zeuxis “the He ̄rophilean” (ca 80 – 10 BCE) S 12.8.20 notes that “.. .in my own time.. .,” a Zeuxis had established a “la ...