Georgia L Irby-Massie
Biographic Data
| ID | 5720437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Georgia L Irby-Massie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Georgia L |
| FAMILY NAME | Irby-Massie |
| SIGNATURE | IRBY-MASSIE G L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
T
Tacitus Þ P. Cornelius
M
Mac- Þ Mak
W
Persian astrologer, active during the kingdom of Xusraw I (531–579), generally identified with the famous vizir, son of Bōxtag, of the same Sasanian ŝāh, an association debated by scholars ( cf. Burzōy) . According to Arabic sources, Wuzurgmihr (also Buzurĵmihr and other spellings) translated Vettius. Valens .&s; Anthologies into Pahlavi, augmenting the Greek with Indian and Iranian sources concerning katarkhic and interrogative astrology, “conti…
K
Author of a poem about fishing ( Halieutika), lived before Oppianus of Kilikia (Ath., Deipn . 1 [13b] and Souda K-1596). His name is uncertain: Athēnaios&s; MSS have Kaiklon, while Souda calls him Kikilios . On this basis, Birt conjectured Kikinos and Meineke, more plausibly, Kaikalos .
Z
Babylonian physician, possibly Jewish. Pliny (37.169) cites his views about the medicinal and magical qualities of precious stones, noting that his books were dedicated to “King Mithradates” (probably Mithradatēs VI). Our Zakhalias may be identical to the otherwise unattested “Zalakhthes” in the summary of Arkhigenēs&s; comments on amulets for epilepsy preserved by Alexander of Tralleis (1.567 Puschm.); “Zalakhthes” is there credited with knowled…
S
Author of a book on gardening ( Kepourika) which he dedicated to Maecenas. In it he stated that rue, savory, mint, and basil were harmed by contact with iron (Pliny 19.177).
E
Wrote a poem De Rerum Natura in at least three books, of which Magrobius ( Sat . 6.5.2, 12) preserves two very short passages: in fr . 1 Blänsdorf, Egnatius speaks about metal working, and in fr . 2, he describes the Moon (Phoebē) setting or disappearing at dawn. Egnatius lived between Accius and Vergil (150–50 bce ), and probably was a contemporary of Lucretius . Bergk and Baehrens identified him with the Egnatius Celtiber mentioned by Catullus …
F
Faber ⇒ Tektōn
O
Early Pythagorean ( Iamblikhos V.Pyth. 267) under whose name is preserved an apocryphal treatise deeply influenced by Peripatetic doctrines: the universe is eternal, indestructible and ungenerated; it undergoes no change, by remaining always identical with itself. The whole divides into a celestial or superlunary region, which, inhabited by divinities, is in perpetual motion and governs the constantly changing sublunary realm, inhabited by mortal…
Q
Andromakhos in Alēn , CMGen 7.13 (13.1034 K.), records Quadratus&s; akopon , of a baker&s;s dozen ingredients. The cognomen is recorded from the late Republic – MRR 1.196 (L. Ninnius, tr. pl. 58 bce) , 2.239=3.224, and plausibly restored in LGPN 2.271 –and later, e.g., Tacitus , Ann. 6.7 and PIR2 I-507.
Y
Anonymous author in 149/150 ce . of a Sanskrit prose translation of an unidentified Greek (probably Alexandrian) text on horoscopy a translation known only from the surviving Sanskrit verse version Yavanajātaka composed by Sphujidhvaja . in 269/270. The title Yavaneāvara then meant literally “lord of the Greeks,” evidently a high position among the Greek residents of western India under the western Kṣatrapa rulers in the Śaka or Skuthian dominion…
C
C- Þ K
X
Andromakhos in Galen, CMLoc 9.6 (13.311 K.), records the “very useful” X hedrike, composed of beeswax, butter, goose-fat, deer-marrow, a little rose-water, etc. The name, otherwise unattested, may be a brand-name, a distortion of Azanitēs, Podanitēs, or else emendable to Naxitēs ( cf. Nexarēs), a remedy from Naxos ( cf. Naukratitēs).
P
Paccius ⇒ Antiokhos
I
Damaskios , Philosophical History 5.84 (pp. 206–213 Athan.), attests most fully to the political, intellectual, and medical prominence of Iakōbos “The Cooler” (from his habit of prescribing cold baths for a number of diseases) in the reign of Leo the Thrakian (457–474 ce ); the Souda (I-12, 13), John Malalas&s; Chronicle, Marcellinus&s; Chronicle, the Chronichon Pascale 284–628 AD, and Alexander of Tralleis add details regarding the remarkable ca…
R
Pliny records his advice that human milk benefits the bowels and serves as an emmena-gogue: 28.74 (note 1.ind.28). To be distinguished from Cicero &s;s two clients, and unlikely to be the epic poet contemporary with Ovid ( Ex Ponto 4.16.5; FLP 332); the name is not rare enough to identify him with the Epicurean Rabirius in Cicero, Acad. 1.5, much less the Rubrius of Pliny 29.7; cf. also LGPN 1.398, MRR 2.35, 2.273.
Note To Users
Entries whose inclusion in this work is doubtful have their lemma italic; entries with uncertain name have a “ (?)” suffixed.
N
Known to Greeks as a Babylonian mathēmatikos (astronomer), together with Kidēnas and Sudinēs ( cf. Strabōn 16.1.6). Naburianos is assumed to be the Greek version of the Babylonian name Nabuūrimannu or Nabuūrimanni appearing in the colophon of a Babylonian astronomical cuneiform tablet ( ACT #18, lower edge of reverse 1). The tablet is broken, however, so the reading is uncertain. The colophon designates the tablet as a tersētu or “computed table”…
U
Brother of the late Neo- Platonist Isidōros of Alexandria ( Souda O-914 [Oulpianos], deriving partly from Damaskios &s; Vita Isidori). His natural talent for solving mathematical problems, noted in particular by Syrianus the younger (= Syrianus 4 in PLRE 2 [1980] 1051–1052; RE 4A.2 [1932] 1775 [#2], K. Praechter), made him famous at Athens; by contrast, he produced no philosophical arguments of any worth (a commonplace in Damaskios), nor are any …
D
Agronomist whose work was known to C Assius Dionusios ( Varro , RR 1.1.9–10; cf . Columella , 1.1.11).
G
Active in Asia Minor, renowned among later Platonists . Scholars long believed in a school of Gaius as the main center of Platonic activity in the 2nd c, arguing from similarities between the Didaskalikos, falsely attributed to Albinus , and Apuleius &s; De Platone et eius dogmate . Gaius, however, was probably not the common source of these works. Galēn studied under two of Gaius&s; disciples, of whom only Albinus is known by name ( De aff. dign…
L
Before his conversion to Christianity ( ca 300 ce ), Lactantius composed an extant Latin poem Phoenix, describing the home of the bird at the eastern edge of the flat Earth (1–30), and her life and singing for Apollo (31–58). The phoenix lives a millennium, then flies to a Syrian palm ( phoenix), where she builds a nest of incense, on which she bursts into flame, from the ashes of which a worm forms and becomes an egg, out of which hatches a new …
V
Valens Þ (1) M. Terentius Valen s; (2) Vettius Valens
A
Aarōn ⇒ Ahrun
B
A tradition of celestial divination, the oldest cuneiform record of which goes back to ca 1800 bce , produced systematic observation of the Moon, Sun, planets, and fixed stars. In addition to celestial divination, early astronomical texts, such as the Astrolabes, a tradition mainly concerning fixed stars originating in the middle of the 2nd millennium bce (Hunger and Pingree 50–57), reflect knowledge of the seasonal heliacal rising of fixed stars…
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T
Tacitus Þ P. Cornelius
M
Mac- Þ Mak
W
Persian astrologer, active during the kingdom of Xusraw I (531–579), generally identified with the famous vizir, son of Bōxtag, of the same Sasanian ŝāh, an association debated by scholars ( cf. Burzōy) . According to Arabic sources, Wuzurgmihr (also Buzurĵmihr and other spellings) translated Vettius. Valens .&s; Anthologies into Pahlavi, augmenting the Greek with Indian and Iranian sources concerning katarkhic and interrogative astrology, “conti…
K
Author of a poem about fishing ( Halieutika), lived before Oppianus of Kilikia (Ath., Deipn . 1 [13b] and Souda K-1596). His name is uncertain: Athēnaios&s; MSS have Kaiklon, while Souda calls him Kikilios . On this basis, Birt conjectured Kikinos and Meineke, more plausibly, Kaikalos .
Z
Babylonian physician, possibly Jewish. Pliny (37.169) cites his views about the medicinal and magical qualities of precious stones, noting that his books were dedicated to “King Mithradates” (probably Mithradatēs VI). Our Zakhalias may be identical to the otherwise unattested “Zalakhthes” in the summary of Arkhigenēs&s; comments on amulets for epilepsy preserved by Alexander of Tralleis (1.567 Puschm.); “Zalakhthes” is there credited with knowled…
S
Author of a book on gardening ( Kepourika) which he dedicated to Maecenas. In it he stated that rue, savory, mint, and basil were harmed by contact with iron (Pliny 19.177).
E
Wrote a poem De Rerum Natura in at least three books, of which Magrobius ( Sat . 6.5.2, 12) preserves two very short passages: in fr . 1 Blänsdorf, Egnatius speaks about metal working, and in fr . 2, he describes the Moon (Phoebē) setting or disappearing at dawn. Egnatius lived between Accius and Vergil (150–50 bce ), and probably was a contemporary of Lucretius . Bergk and Baehrens identified him with the Egnatius Celtiber mentioned by Catullus …
F
Faber ⇒ Tektōn
O
Early Pythagorean ( Iamblikhos V.Pyth. 267) under whose name is preserved an apocryphal treatise deeply influenced by Peripatetic doctrines: the universe is eternal, indestructible and ungenerated; it undergoes no change, by remaining always identical with itself. The whole divides into a celestial or superlunary region, which, inhabited by divinities, is in perpetual motion and governs the constantly changing sublunary realm, inhabited by mortal…
Q
Andromakhos in Alēn , CMGen 7.13 (13.1034 K.), records Quadratus&s; akopon , of a baker&s;s dozen ingredients. The cognomen is recorded from the late Republic – MRR 1.196 (L. Ninnius, tr. pl. 58 bce) , 2.239=3.224, and plausibly restored in LGPN 2.271 –and later, e.g., Tacitus , Ann. 6.7 and PIR2 I-507.
Y
Anonymous author in 149/150 ce . of a Sanskrit prose translation of an unidentified Greek (probably Alexandrian) text on horoscopy a translation known only from the surviving Sanskrit verse version Yavanajātaka composed by Sphujidhvaja . in 269/270. The title Yavaneāvara then meant literally “lord of the Greeks,” evidently a high position among the Greek residents of western India under the western Kṣatrapa rulers in the Śaka or Skuthian dominion…
C
C- Þ K
X
Andromakhos in Galen, CMLoc 9.6 (13.311 K.), records the “very useful” X hedrike, composed of beeswax, butter, goose-fat, deer-marrow, a little rose-water, etc. The name, otherwise unattested, may be a brand-name, a distortion of Azanitēs, Podanitēs, or else emendable to Naxitēs ( cf. Nexarēs), a remedy from Naxos ( cf. Naukratitēs).
P
Paccius ⇒ Antiokhos
I
Damaskios , Philosophical History 5.84 (pp. 206–213 Athan.), attests most fully to the political, intellectual, and medical prominence of Iakōbos “The Cooler” (from his habit of prescribing cold baths for a number of diseases) in the reign of Leo the Thrakian (457–474 ce ); the Souda (I-12, 13), John Malalas&s; Chronicle, Marcellinus&s; Chronicle, the Chronichon Pascale 284–628 AD, and Alexander of Tralleis add details regarding the remarkable ca…
R
Pliny records his advice that human milk benefits the bowels and serves as an emmena-gogue: 28.74 (note 1.ind.28). To be distinguished from Cicero &s;s two clients, and unlikely to be the epic poet contemporary with Ovid ( Ex Ponto 4.16.5; FLP 332); the name is not rare enough to identify him with the Epicurean Rabirius in Cicero, Acad. 1.5, much less the Rubrius of Pliny 29.7; cf. also LGPN 1.398, MRR 2.35, 2.273.
Note To Users
Entries whose inclusion in this work is doubtful have their lemma italic; entries with uncertain name have a “ (?)” suffixed.
N
Known to Greeks as a Babylonian mathēmatikos (astronomer), together with Kidēnas and Sudinēs ( cf. Strabōn 16.1.6). Naburianos is assumed to be the Greek version of the Babylonian name Nabuūrimannu or Nabuūrimanni appearing in the colophon of a Babylonian astronomical cuneiform tablet ( ACT #18, lower edge of reverse 1). The tablet is broken, however, so the reading is uncertain. The colophon designates the tablet as a tersētu or “computed table”…
U
Brother of the late Neo- Platonist Isidōros of Alexandria ( Souda O-914 [Oulpianos], deriving partly from Damaskios &s; Vita Isidori). His natural talent for solving mathematical problems, noted in particular by Syrianus the younger (= Syrianus 4 in PLRE 2 [1980] 1051–1052; RE 4A.2 [1932] 1775 [#2], K. Praechter), made him famous at Athens; by contrast, he produced no philosophical arguments of any worth (a commonplace in Damaskios), nor are any …
D
Agronomist whose work was known to C Assius Dionusios ( Varro , RR 1.1.9–10; cf . Columella , 1.1.11).
G
Active in Asia Minor, renowned among later Platonists . Scholars long believed in a school of Gaius as the main center of Platonic activity in the 2nd c, arguing from similarities between the Didaskalikos, falsely attributed to Albinus , and Apuleius &s; De Platone et eius dogmate . Gaius, however, was probably not the common source of these works. Galēn studied under two of Gaius&s; disciples, of whom only Albinus is known by name ( De aff. dign…
L
Before his conversion to Christianity ( ca 300 ce ), Lactantius composed an extant Latin poem Phoenix, describing the home of the bird at the eastern edge of the flat Earth (1–30), and her life and singing for Apollo (31–58). The phoenix lives a millennium, then flies to a Syrian palm ( phoenix), where she builds a nest of incense, on which she bursts into flame, from the ashes of which a worm forms and becomes an egg, out of which hatches a new …
V
Valens Þ (1) M. Terentius Valen s; (2) Vettius Valens
A
Aarōn ⇒ Ahrun
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