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credits Crateuas with Dionysius and Metrodorus as the first to provide such illustrations with their descriptions of various plants, although he complains that the images he knew of were frequently misleading. Only two direct fragments of these works are known to have survived into the present day.
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in various histories, surviving sources from antiquity only attest that they were in correspondence with one another and that Crateuas credited the Pontic king with the discovery of a plant named
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believed these were based on now-lost manuscripts of Crateuas dating to the 2nd or 3rd century, although others have argued that it may only be the text which derives from Crateuas's work.
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was well regarded in its time, however, and was one of the main sources for Dioscurides's work, which was the primary herbology for Europe during the
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Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen: Philologisch-Historische Klasse
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in his honour. The exact plant described remains unknown, although some scholars have connected it to
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includes numerous images captioned with short texts beginning with the name Crateuas. Wellmann and
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Der Wiener Dioskurides: Codex Medicus Graecus 1 der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek
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claimed to have consulted a complete illustrated manuscript of Crateuas's guide in
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Little is known of Crateuas's life. Although he is often closely linked with
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Crateuas is known to have written a scholarly three-volume
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Singer, Charles (1927), "The Herbal in the Antiquity",
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miniature
Vienna Dioscurides
Galen


P. lanceolata
Vienna Dioscurides
Latin
Greek
Greek
doctor
pharmacologist
others of the same name
epithet
Mithridates VI
Pontus
Dorstenia tambourissa
Erythronium denscanis
herbal
alphabetized
Pliny the Elder
Luigi Anguillara
Istanbul
Middle Ages
Vienna Dioscurides
Anicia Juliana
Constantinople
Singer
Linnaeus

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