Poems and Poetical Fragments
Poems and Poetical Fragments Medicine, zoology, botany and mineralogy are the themes of Nicander's two extant poems of the Hellenistic period - "Theriaca" and "Alexipharmaca". His didactic poetry,…
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Poems and Poetical Fragments
Medicine, zoology, botany and mineralogy are the themes of Nicander's two extant poems of the Hellenistic period - "Theriaca" and "Alexipharmaca". His didactic poetry, along with that of his approximate contemporary Aratus, had some influence on later poets, notably Virgil and Ovid. Fragments of other poems also survive, including some fairly substantial pieces of his "Georgica".
This fully annotated English translation of Nicander's work was first published in 1953.