by the Greek physician Nicander in Colophon.

Nicander of Colophon has also left us two epics, one on remedies for poisons, the other on the bites of venomous beasts.

* Travels of Nicander Nucius of Corcyra traveller of the 16th century in England ( 1841 )

* Martyrs Marcian, Nicander, Hyperechius, Apollonius, Leonides, Arius, Gorgias, Selenias, Irenius, and Pambo of Egypt and others with them ( 4th century )

The works of Nicander were praised by Cicero ( De oratore, i. 16 ), imitated by Ovid and Lucan, and frequently quoted by Pliny and other writers.

( with A. F. Scholfield ), Nicander: the poems and poetical fragments ( Cambridge, 1953 )

* Karl August Nicander ( 1799 – 1839 ), Swedish lyric poet

Virgil used other Greek writers as models and sources, some for technical information, including the Hellenistic poet Aratus for astronomy and meteorology, Nicander for information about snakes, the philosopher Aristotle for zoology, and Aristotle's student Theophrastus for botany, and others, such as the Hellenistic poet Callimachus for poetic and stylistic considerations.

The genus is named for Greek poet Nicander, who wrote about plants.

Many descriptions of the amphisbaena say its eyes glow like candles or lightning, but the poet Nicander seems to contradict this by describing it as " always dull of eye ".

* February 7 – Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet ( b. 1799 )

* March 20 – Karl August Nicander, a Swedish poet ( d. 1839 )

Other well-known members were Arvid Afzelius, an editor of the ground-breaking anthology of Swedish folksong, Svenska visor från forntiden, the lyric poet Karl August Nicander, Swedish teacher Pehr Henrik Ling and Gustaf Vilhelm Gumaelius ( 1789-1877 ) author of the historical novel, Tord Bonde.

In his account of a visit to Copenhagen in 1827, the Swedish poet Karl August Nicander fondly remembers Assistens Cemetery:

The amphisbaena has been referred to by the poets, such as Nicander, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and A. E. Housman, and the amphisbaena as a mythological and legendary creature has been referenced by Lucan, Pliny the Elder, Isidore of Seville, and Thomas Browne, the last of whom debunked its existence.

Compiled by Tracy, 1987: 452 note 3, which also mentions a fragmentary line possibly by Nicander.

* Nicander ed.

The manner of the narrative is a laconic and conversational prose: " this completely inartistic text ," as Sarah Myers called it, offers the briefest summaries of lost metamorphoses by more ambitious writers, such as Nicander and Boeus.

With the formation of the Alexandrian School c. 330 BCE medicine flourished and written herbals of this period included those of the physicians Herophilus, Mantias, Andreas of Karystos, Appolonius Mys, and Nicander.

Tegnér, Geijer, Afzelius, and Nicander became the most famous members of the Gothic League.

The second pair are Apollonius Mys and Nicander.

At the end of the 7th century BCE, Mimnermus of Colophon struck on the innovation of using the verse for erotic poetry.

Greek historian Theopompus, writing in the 4th century BCE, reported that " purple for dyes fetched its weight in silver at Colophon Asia Minor.

Starting from the late 8th century BC, the Greeks established a settlement first at Siris, founded by fugitives from Colophon.

Colophon was the strongest of the Ionian cities and renowned both for its cavalry and for the inhabitants ' luxurious lifestyle, until Gyges of Lydia conquered it in the 7th century BC.

In Roman times, after Lysimachus ' conquest, Colophon failed to recover ( unlike Lebedos ) and lost its importance ; actually, the name was transferred to the site of the port village of Notium, and the latter name disappeared between the Peloponnesian War and the time of Cicero ( late 5th century BC to 1st century BC ).

The " Notitiae Episcopatuum " mentions Colophon or Colophone, as late as the 12th or 13th century, as a suffragan of Ephesus.

But according to the better authority of Herodotus ( i. 94 ) and Xenophanes of Colophon, the Lydians were the first coiners of money at the beginning of the 7th century, and, further, the oldest known Aeginetan coins are of later date than Pheidon.

" Xenophanes of Colophon ( c. 500 BC ) thought that the Earth was flat, with its upper side touching the air, and the lower side extending without limit.

About 700 BC Gyges, first Mermnad king of Lydia, invaded the territories of Smyrna and Miletus, and is said to have taken Colophon as his son Ardys did Priene.

Antimachus, of Colophon or Claros, Greek poet and grammarian, flourished about 400 BC.

Mimnermus (, Mímnermos ) was a Greek elegiac poet from either Colophon or Smyrna in Ionia, who flourished about 630 – 600 BC.

This possibility is likely, given that many ancient Greek philosophers are thought to have lived over the age of 90 ( e. g., Xenophanes of Colophon, c. 570 / 565 – c. 475 / 470 BC, Pyrrho of Ellis, c. 360 – c. 270 BC, Eratosthenes of Cirene, c. 285 – c. 190 BC, etc .).

Xenophanes of Colophon (, ; c. 570 – c. 475 BC ) was a Greek philosopher, theologian, poet, and social and religious critic.

The distribution of the Ionic Greek dialect in historic times indicates early movement from the mainland of Greece to the Anatolian coast to such sites as Miletus, Ephesus, and Colophon, perhaps as early as 1000 BC, though the contemporaneous evidence is scanty.

Xenophanes of Colophon in 530 BC anticipated Kant's epistemology in his reflections on certainty.

In this work, Proclus also listed the first mathematicians associated with Plato: a mature set of mathematicians ( Leodamas of Thasos, Archytas of Taras, and Theaetetus ), a second set of younger mathematicians ( Neoclides, Eudoxus of Cnidus ), and a third yet younger set ( Amyntas, Menaechmus and his brother Dinostratus, Theudius of Magnesia, Hermotimus of Colophon and Philip of Opus ).

Xenophanes of Colophon ( 570-470 BCE ), declared God to be the eternal unity, permeating the universe, and governing it by his thought.

* R. Kattel, " The Political Philosophy of Xenophanes of Colophon ", Trames 1 ( 51 / 46 ) ( 1997 ), 125-142

From 1935 to 1938, The Colophon entered a new phase with less lofty production values ( at a price of $ 4 per year ), before returning to a higher level of quality in 1939 with the ' New Graphic Series '.

# Onesiphorus, bishop of Colophon ( Asia Minor ), and later of Corinth.

* Ephesus, Colophon, Lebedus, Teos, Clazomenae and Phocaea, in Lydia and-or the region known today as Ionia ( both also in Asia Minor, Lydia extending inland much farther relative to Ionia ), speaking another dialect ;