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

Anakreo ̄n (Pharm.) (after 100 BCE?) Wrote On Root-Cutting (peri rhizotomike ̄s), recording that some called “horse-celery” by t ...

with Arithmetic (Arm. Xraxcˇanakank
, lit., “Things for festal occasions”). These too are possibly the oldest extant texts of th ...

the middle-Byzantine period: ODB 86 – 87, Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit 1.1 (1999) 228–341. RE 1.2 (1894) 2067 (# ...

Tradition of Vindanius Anatolius of Berytus’ Sunago ̄ge ̄ geo ̄rgiko ̄n epite ̄deumato ̄n,” WZKM 94 (2004) 73 – 108; McCabe (200 ...

Anaxagoras’ principle of infinite divisibility allowed him to account for change on any scale, even a microscopic one. His conte ...

or someone named Anaxilaos (hardly the alchemist A  L), along with S  R, is cited for variant ...

Anaximandros was a pioneer of naturalistic explanations. Although he seems to have ascribed divine properties to the boundless s ...

Andreas (of Athens?) (345 – 355 CE) Brother of a bishop Magnus, composed a Paschal canon valid for 353– 553 CE, and a work on Pa ...

Andreas, employing both mechanical and pharmaceutical treatments, was widely cited for the latter. He observed that bandages cou ...

the king to warn of the effects of immoderate drinking (P 14.58) is insufficient proof to declare him Alexander’s private ph ...

predecessors. In spite of that, however, Gale ̄n reproduced from Andromakhos’ works over 50 lengthy extracts. RE 1.2 (1894) 2154 ...

Andronikos (Paradox.) (250 BCE – 300 CE) Otherwise unidentifiable author whom the P P (§12) cites for a se ...

for Categories: pro to ̄n topo ̄n, i.e. “Before the Topics”), the beginnings, and the length of each treatise (e.g. he disregard ...

Androtio ̄n’s Atthis, chief source for A’ Athenian Constitution and Philokhoros’ Atthis, was a standard work on Attic h ...

Caesar’s arrival in Rome and the siege of Marseilles; in Books IV–VIII the civil war in Spain, Illyria and Africa, Caesar’s arri ...

engaged with moral themes. It covers the field known as meteorology in antiquity, which included the study of earthquakes, volca ...

⇒ D S T ⇒ D P ⇒ D P  D O T ⇒ D L ⇒ E  ...

⇒ P P E ⇒ P M ⇒ P P ⇒ P L ⇒ P ⇒ D  ⇒ P ⇒ P ...

(Saffrey 1995: 6). The work (CAAG 2.395–421) consists of 30 chapters, with commentary, following the early authors (-H ...

Anoubio ̄n of Diospolis (1st c. CE?) Astrologer featuring in the fictitious account of pseudo-Clement, Homiliae (4.6), as an ass ...