Amarantos of Alexandria (20 BCE – 95 CE)
Grammarian, wrote a commentary on Theokritos (Schol. Theokr. 4.57, 7.154) and On the
Theater, wherein he cited an epigram of I (Ath., Deipn. 8 [343f], 10 [414e]). A-
P. in G CMLoc 7.4 (13.84–85 K.) cites his recipe for a lozenge to expel
blood: wine and Attic honey, heated and cooled, to which are added gum, pomegranate
flowers, frankincense, and Samian earth, again heated and cooled. Explicitly naming
Amarantos a grammarian, Gale ̄n details his multi-ingredient remedy for sore feet, which
Amarantos used himself, including (not exhaustively) Pontic rhubarb, white pepper, parsley,
shelf-fungus, St. John’s wort, yellow iris, eryngo, cardamom, shepherd’s-purse, acacia,
licorice juice, roses, butcher’s broom, ginger, gentian, seeds of parsley and wild turnip,
frankincense, Pontic nard, and cassia: Antid. 2.17 (14.208–209 K.).
RE 1.2 (1894) 1728–1729 (#3), G. Wentzel.
GLIM
M. Ambiuius (30 BCE – 20 CE)
Wrote a treatise known to C (12.4.2) on storing wine and other agricultural
produce.
RE 1.2 (1894) 1804 (#2), E. Klebs; GRL §203.
Philip Thibodeau
A ⇒ H
Ambrose (Ambrosius) of Milan (374 – 397 CE)
Theologian and bishop of Milan,
Ambrose (b. ca 340 CE) held senatorial
rank and received a liberal education at
Rome in Greek and Latin. Prior to his
election as bishop in 374 CE, his career fol-
lowed the traditional cursus for public life
culminating in the governorship of
Aemilia (approximately modern Emilia)
and Liguria.
Only theological works written as
bishop survive, and these are deeply
indebted to the Classical tradition and
neo-Platonism. His De officiis reflects a
thorough reading of C, while his
Hexaemeron (ca 389 CE: on the days of cre-
ation) follows B C,
although not without original contribu-
tion. Knowledge of the natural world
found in the Hexaemeron is literary and
homiletic, treating nature as a landscape
for moral contemplation: cf. A Ambrose Reproduced with kind permission of
the Parrocchia di S.Ambrogio, Milan
AMBROSE (AMBROSIUS) OF MILAN