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

Hagnodike ̄
Hipposiade ̄s
Huriadas
Iounias (⇒ Iunia)
Irio ̄n
Kaikalos
Kloniakos (not a name?)
Kommiade ̄s (⇒ Kosmiade ̄s)
Lingo ̄n

• Logadios
  Macharius
  Magistrianus
  Melitianus
  Minue ̄s
  Nepualios


• Nonnosos


• O ̄dapsos
  Okianos

Olumnios

Olumpionikos

Pephrasmenos

* Phokos

Platuse ̄mos

Podanite ̄s

Polustomos

Prothlius

* Salpe ̄

Samithra

Sandarius

Skopinas

* Stuppax

Theotropos

Timokleanos

Velchionius (Etruscan)

Xanite ̄s (not a name?)

Names by Category

Female writers (30 or under 2%): rare, but less so than in any other field of ancient
literature; note that several of these names are restored as feminine from transmitted mas-
culine names. Many other obscure names may well conceal female writers, since scribes
notoriously masculinize names (cf. perhaps Aigeias, Arsenios, Diophil-, Eugamios, Faustinus,
Laodikos, Marpe ̄ssos, Marsinus, Penthesileus, Prosdokhos, and Ze ̄nario ̄n); and several
obscure names may be female (e.g., Samithra).

Aisara of Lucania
Antiokhis of Tlo ̄s
Aquila Secundilla
Aspasia
Elephantine ̄
Eugeneia
Euge ̄rasia
Hagnodike ̄ of Athens
Hupatia of Alexandria
Isis, pseudo (alch.)
Isis, pseudo (pharm.)
Iuliana Anicia
Iunia/Iounias
Kleopatra VII of Alexandria
Laïs

Maria

Me ̄trodo ̄ra

Muia

Olumpias of Thebes

O ̄rigeneia

Pandrosion

Persis

Ptolemaïs of Kure ̄ne ̄

Romula

Salpe ̄

Samithra?

So ̄teira

Thaïs

Theano ̄

Timaris

Monotheists (82 or 4%): although most writers of ancient science were polytheists, some
were monotheists; these 20 figures are identified more or less certainly as Jewish:

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