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

Zo ̄ilos (of Cyprus?) (ca 305 BCE) According to P, De ̄me ̄trios 21.4–5, an engineer who made in Cyprus two tho ̄rakes of ...

Zo ̄puros of Alexandria (130 – 70 BCE) Surgeon and pharmacologist, active in Alexandria, teacher of the Empiricist A-  ...

compilation of H origin was translated into Pahlavi at the time of Xusraw I; the Greeks, and later the Arabs (and Persian ...

proclaimed Christian dogma in advance (Bibl. 170). The Souda’s short entry on Zo ̄simos (Z-168) calls him a philosopher of Alexa ...

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Gazetteer We list here all 290 or more sites and all 35 or more regions from which ca 1000 ancient scientists are attested or co ...

(P, Book 16, frr. 29 – 34), and made a free city by Rome (Livy 33.30). PECS 5, G.E. Bean; OCD3 1 – 2, St. Mitchell; BAGRW ...

A, E, N, P (?). Alabanda (mod. Araphisar; 37 ̊ 38 ’ N, 27 ̊ 57 ’ E): old Karian city upstream from Tral ...

Tigris, north of Resˇ
aina and Constantia, west-south-west of Artemita. Under Rome from 66 BCE (cf. Syria); fortified against th ...

Antioch on the Orontes: for example, (A) Antioch Epiphane ̄s on the Maiandros (mod. Aliagaçiftligi near Azizabat, BAGRW 61-H2/65 ...

became a Christian center (cf. Syria). PECS 66 – 67, J.-P. Rey-Coquais; OCD3 118, A.H.M. Jones and S. Sherwin-White; BAGRW 68-B3 ...

far inland, and south of Corinth and Sikuo ̄n. Prosperous in Mycenaean times, rival of Sparta from early times, responsible for ...

displacing native Karians; allied with Athens in the 5th c. BCE, and with the Ptolemies in the Hellenistic era. Prosperous from ...

east bank of the Euphrate ̄s, claimed to be the center of the kosmos; made magnificent by Nebuchadnezzar II (604– 562 BCE); sele ...

allied with Athens (395–386) and then independent from 379 BCE, and defeated Sparta 371 BCE. Under Macedon from 362 BCE; after A ...

A, A, D, E, H, L, M (?), M, P, S, T. ...

C, E, H, K, K, K, N, T. Catina ⇒ Katane ̄ Centuripae (mod. Centuripe; 3 ...

OCD3 390 – 391, J.B. Salmon; BAGRW 58-D2; BNP 3 (2003) 797–804, Y. Lafond and E. Wirbelauer. D, E, N, ...

De ̄los (mod. De ̄los; 37 ̊ 24 ’ N, 25 ̊ 16 ’ E): Aegean island, north of Paros and east of Suros, early religious center (dedic ...

(cf. Alexandria, Cyprus, Kure ̄ne ̄, and Nisibis). Officially Christian by ca 200 CE, and a center of Syriac culture and Christi ...