Paxamus
Paxamus, or Paxamos (Greek: Πάξαμος), was an ancient Greek author from the Hellenistic period. He composed a cookbook titled On Cooking and an agricultural textbook titled On Farming. Athenaeus, another Greek writer, mentioned Paxamus once in his work titled Deipnosophists.
Also recorded as Paxamos · Paxames
Paxamus
- Born
- 500
- Occupation
- writer · historian
- Languages
- Ancient Greek
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Paxamus, or Paxamos (Greek: Πάξαμος), was an ancient Greek author from the Hellenistic period. He composed a cookbook titled On Cooking and an agricultural textbook titled On Farming. Athenaeus, another Greek writer, mentioned Paxamus once in his work titled Deipnosophists.
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Perhaps the inventor of barley biscuits named after him called "paximathia". He was quoted in the Geoponica, a Byzantine text on agriculture.
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- 1.Friedrich Salomon Krauss: Das Geschlechtleben in Glauben, Sitte und Brauch und Gewohnheitsrecht. Der Japaner., Leipzig 1911, S. 206 (Digitalisat)
- 2.Nicolas Rigault: Glossarium Τακτικόν μιξοβάρβαρόν de verborum significatione, quae ad novellas Impp. qui., Paris 1701, S. 137 (Digitalisat)
- 3.Georgios D. Bambiniotis: Ετυμολογικό Λεξικό, Athen 2011, ISBN 978-960-9582-00-1, S. 1035 (Lemma: παξιμάδι)
- 4.August Postolka: Geschichte der Thierheilkunde von ihren Anfängen bis auf die Jetztzeit, Wien 1887, S. 71 (Digitalisat)
- 5.Franz Susemihl: Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur in der Alexandrinerzeit, Leipzig 1891, S. 842–844 (Digitalisat)
- 6.Suda, (Lemma: Πάξαμος) (Digitalisat)
- 7.Karl Müller: Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum, Collegit, disposuit, notis et prolegomenis illustravit, indicibus instruxit Carolus Müllerus, Band 4, Paris 1851, S. 472 (Digitalisat)
- 8.Athenaios: Deipnosophistai, 9, 19 (Digitalisat)
- 9.Hieronymus: Adversus Iovinianum 1, 40 (Digitalisat)
- 10.Franz Fiedler: Antike Erotische Bildwerke in Houbens Römischem Antiquarium zu Xanten, Xanthen 1839, S. 25 (Digitalisat)
- 11.Geoponica 2,4; 2,43; 4,9; 5,29; 7,10; 7,23; 9,17; 10,12; 10,34; 10,54; 10,62; 10,84; 12,17; 12,32; 12,40; 13,4; 13,7; 13,10; 14,17; 15,6; 15,10; 17,13; 18,21 und 20,6 (Digitalisat)
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