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

Evangelos Venetis
Heinrich von Staden
Bonna Wescoat
Stephen Wheeler

Craig Williams

Georg Woehrle*

Ehsan Yarshater*

Jim Zetzel

Needless to say, they should not be held accountable for any defects of this work.

Abbreviations and Bibliography

b. = born
c. = century (pl.: “cc.”)
ca = circa
d. = died
ed. = edition/editor (pl.: “edd.”)
f. = folio (pl.: “ff.”)
fr. = fragment (pl.: “frr.”)
mod. = modern
n. = note (pl.: “nn.”)

n.d. = no date

# = number

ns = new series

pr. = preface/proem/prologue

repr. = reprinted

§ = section

s. = series

S. = Supplement

v. = volume (pl.: “vv.”)

The bibliographic closing date of the EANS was 31 December 2007: items
appearing after that date could not be taken into account; in a few cases con-
tributors were aware of items forthcoming, and those are cited as such.
Abbreviations of journal titles are according to L’Année Philologique (Paris
1924 – ).

Texts of authors in the encyclopedia:

Are cited according to the edition(s) given in the relevant entry (q.v.); see esp. G. Note
also:

• Editions cited by an abbreviation of their title are also listed below under “Works (of
  reference and editions) cited by abbreviation”.


• Editions cited by author-date (e.g., those in the Loeb and CUF series) are also listed
  below under “Frequently-cited” works.


• Editions cited by name of editor(s), without date or title, are listed here:

Athan. P. Athanassiadi, Damascius, The Philosophical History (Athens 1999)
BDM U.C. Bussemaker, Ch. Daremberg, and A. Molinier, Oeuvres d’Oribase 6 vv. (Paris
1851 – 1876)
Cornarius J. Cornarius, Aetii medici graeci contractae ex veteribus medicinæ Tetrabiblos, etc. (Basel
1542)
DK H. Diels and W. Kranz, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 2 vv. (Zürich and Berlin
1964: 11th ed.) – cited by section and fragment number
DR Ch. Daremberg and Ch.É. Ruelle, Oeuvres de Rufus d’Éphèse (Paris 1879; repr.
1963)

INTRODUCTION