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

P. Eleutheropolis (mod. Bet Guvrin; 31 ̊ 36 ’ N, 34 ̊ 53 ’ E): previously named Baitogabra (Iosephus, Bell. Iud. 4.447; P ...

P, T. Eretria (mod. Eretria; 38 ̊ 24 ’ N, 23 ̊ 48 ’ E): on south coast of Euboia, near Khalkis, with whom long ...

Gade ̄s (mod. Cádiz; 36 ̊ 32 ’ N, 06 ̊ 18 ’ W): originally a small island enlarged by silting and joined to the mainland by a br ...

C A. Halikarnassos (mod. Bodrum; 37 ̊ 01 ’ N, 27 ̊ 25 ’ E): Karian city controlling the sea route between Ko ̄s and ...

name existed in Egypt: (A) the “Lesser” (Tell Ayid, 31 ̊ 02 ’ N, 32 ̊ 12 ’ E), in the Delta west and upstream of Pe ̄lousion (BA ...

Book 16, fr.12). The population was mixed, but the culture was fully Greek. Probably an Ionian ally against Darius, and then all ...

People: M (?), P (?). Ituke ̄ ⇒ Utica Jerusalem (mod. Jerusalem; 31 ̊ 47 ’ N, 35 ̊ 13 ’ E): ancient Jewish city; Ant ...

Karkhe ̄do ̄n ⇒ Carthage Karuanda (mod. Salih Adası; 37 ̊ 09 ’ N, 27 ̊ 31 ’ E): an island with sheltered anchorage, between Mund ...

Keo ̄s ⇒ Ioulis Kerkura (mod. Kerkura, i.e., “Corfu”; 39 ̊ 40 ’ N, 19 ̊ 45 ’ E): island in Ionian sea off western coast of E ̄pe ...

 B, s.v., refer to a Khalkis of Thrake ̄, no such site has been found, and M. Zahrnt, Olynth und die Chalkidier [1971] ...

province; autonomous 44 BCE; again a province of Rome from 72 CE. Prosperous and densely populated; ravaged by Goths 276– 277 CE ...

Aegean to the east, colonized by Dorians (ca 900 BCE). Under Persians from ca 700 BCE, allied with Athens in the 5th–4th centuri ...

D. Kusumapura or Pa ̄t ̇ aliputra (mod. Patna; 25 ̊ 36 ’ N, 85 ̊ 08 ’ E): on the south bank of the Ganges, founded 490 B ...

and Lukaonia (mod. Ladik, BAGRW 63-A4); (B) on the Orontes or “ad Libanum” (mod. Tell Nebi Mend, BAGRW 68-C4); (C) Pontike ̄ (mo ...

A. Kazhdan; OCD3 816, B. Helly; BAGRW 55-C1; BNP 7 (2005) 251–253 (#3), H. Kramolisch and E. Wirbelauer; EJ2 12.494, S. Marcus a ...

across the mountains and facing Euboia). East Lokris was federal in the 5th c. BCE, capital at Opous and allied with Sparta; lat ...

Occupied by Persia 512– 479 BCE; united by Philip II from ca 360 BCE, who dominated Greece after the battle of Khairo ̄neia 338 ...

many of its own colonies; had a stable aristocratic constitution. Allied with Rome against Hannibal, 215 BCE; aggression by loca ...

Memphis (mod. Mit Rahina; 29 ̊ 51 ’ N, 31 ̊ 15 ’ E): on west bank of the Nile, about 30 km upstream of the apex of the Delta; fi ...

M, M. Milan ⇒ Mediolanum Mile ̄tos (mod. Balat; 37 ̊ 31 ’ N, 27 ̊ 17 ’ E): ancient Hittite city, then large coas ...