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Book: Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome

Chapter: Maia

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.20035

Blurb:

(before AD 210)

Maia’s remedy for cracks or chaps of the skin comes to us from Galen, but indirectly, appearing in a passage in which Galen is citing Andromachus Junior, and it was apparently he who attributed the recipe to a female author whom he called Maia (Galen 13.840 cf.13.837).

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