H
Habro ̄n (100 – 200 CE)
One of the sources named by T, at the end of his Quaestiones Physicae. The
name is especially common at Athens, and seems unattested after the 2nd c. CE (LGPN). Cf.
H A, I (P.), and S, also named as sources.
RE 1.2 (1894) 1808, E. Oder.
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Hagnodike ̄ of Athens (290 – 260 BCE)
Disguised herself as a man in order to learn better midwifery from H (in
Alexandria?), and, after practicing in Athens, was tried on the Areopagos for impropriety.
She revealed herself a woman, whereupon the Athenians modified their laws to allow free-
born women to study medicine: H, Fabulae 274.10–13, who includes her among
mythical “first discoverers.” The name seems otherwise unattested (Pape-Benseler; LGPN).
Most other midwives credited with remedies are later (A, E, etc.), but cf.
perhaps S. A recipe for skin disorders (composed of oak-gall, myrrh, lead, and
psimuthion) attributed to “the midwife” by A, in G CMGen 5.13
(13.840 K.), could belong to Hagnodike ̄.
von Staden (1989) 38–41 and T8; Parker (1997) 146.
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Halieus (250 – 10 BCE)
H, in G CMGen 2.2 (13.785–786 K.), records his ointment for wounds and
scorpion-stings, containing frankincense, galbanum, litharge, and Sino ̄pian earth, in
a beeswax, olive oil, and terebinth base; repeated by A P., ibid. 3.9
( pp. 645–646) = 5.4 ( p. 802). A, ibid. 7.13 ( p. 1032), records his akopon
potion, containing aphronitron, frankincense, galbanum, verdigris, etc. in a vinegar
and terebinth base; two other akopa were revised by V P. A
A 12.41 ( p. 672 Cornarius) and 14.53 ( p. 797 Cornarius) cites plasters. The name is
almost unattested (cf. LGPN 3A.27), but may represent the occupational epithet “Fisherman”
transformed into a proper name, cf. P, T, or T.
RE 7.2 (1912) 2252 (#2), H. Gossen.
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