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

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Kaikalos (?) of Argos (400 – 300 BCE?)


Author of a poem about fishing (Halieutika), lived before O  K (Ath.,
Deipn. 1 [13b] and Souda K-1596). His name is uncertain: Athe ̄naios’ MSS have Kaiklon,
while Souda calls him Kikilios. On this basis, Birt conjectured Kikinos and Meineke, more
plausibly, Kaikalos.


SH 237; A. Zumbo, “Ateneo 1, 13b–c e il ‘canone’ degli autori alieutici,” in P. Radici Colace and
A. Zumbo, Atti del Seminario Internazionale di Studi “Letteratura scientifica e tecnica greca e latina” (2000)
163 – 170; BNP 3 (2003) 871, S. Fornaro.
Claudio Meliadò


K ⇒ K.


Kallianax (ca 280 – 230 BCE?)


He ̄rophilean physician whose treatise on early He ̄rophileans is quoted by Z in
G In Hipp. Epid. VI (CMG 5.10.2.2, p. 203). Kallianax recited H and the tra-
gedians to patients experiencing anxiety before death to underscore its inevitability to
everyone, including heroes (e.g., Patroklos); only the Immortals escape death.


von Staden (1989) 478–479; BNP 2 (2003) 960, V. Nutton.
GLIM


Kallias of Arados (310 – 300 BCE)


Replaced D  R, to construct an anti-catapult crane, but failed to coun-
ter the helepolis of E  A, and was dismissed in favor of Diogne ̄tos
(V 10.16.3–7).


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Kallikle ̄s (200 BCE – 150 CE)


Empiricist mentioned by Gale ̄n, MM 2.7.23 (10.142–143 K. = p. 71 Hankinson), in a
non-chronological list including S, M, etc. (the name “Kallikle ̄s” is very
common).


Fabricius (1726) 106.
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