Encyclopedia - Eratosthenes: Encyclopedia Ii - Eratosthenes - Short Summary Of Eratosthenes' Life
He was born in Cyrene (in modern-day Libya), but worked and died in Ptolemaic Alexandria. He is noted for devising a system of latitude a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Callimachus: Encyclopedia - Callimachus
Callimachus (ca. 305 BC- ca. 240 BC) was a Greek poet and grammarian, a native of Cyrene and a descendant of the illustrious house of the...   » Read the article

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Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC Decades: 290s BC 280s BC 270s BC 260s BC 250s BC - 240s BC - 230s BC 220s BC ...   » Read the article

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Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC Decades: 280s BC 270s BC 260s BC 250s BC 240s BC - 230s BC - 220s BC 210s BC ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aratus: Encyclopedia - Aratus
Aratus (Greek Aratos) (ca. 315 BC/310 BC – 240 BC) was a Macedonian Greek poet, known for his technical poetry. Aratus - Biography. He...   » Read the article

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Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC Decades: 280s BC 270s BC 260s BC 250s BC 240s BC - 230s BC - 220s BC 210s BC ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antioch: Encyclopedia - Antioch
Antioch on the Orontes (Greek Αντιοχεια ἡ επι Δαφνη) is located on the eastern side (left bank) of the Orontes River ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Claudius Gens: Encyclopedia Ii - Claudius Gens - Gens Claudia Branches
There were three of four major branches of the Claudian gens at the end of the Republic. Those with the cognomen Nero were prominent patr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mercenary War: Encyclopedia Ii - Mercenary War - Course Of The Revolt
After the First Punic War concluded in 241 BC, Carthage demobilized its mercenary force in Sicily, and the soldiers were brought to Carth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aratus: Encyclopedia Ii - Aratus - Writings
Aratus' principal work, the Phaenomena ("Appearances"), versifies one or more works of Eudoxus of Cnidus. In 1,154 hexameters he lays bar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Flat Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Flat Earth - Antiquity
Belief in a flat Earth is found in humankind's oldest writings. In early Mesopotamian thought the world was portrayed as a flat disk floa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antioch: Encyclopedia Ii - Antioch - History Of Antioch
Antioch - Prehistory. The site appears not to have been found wholly uninhabited. A settlement, Meroe, boasting a shrine of Anait, call...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mercenary War: Encyclopedia Ii - Mercenary War - Relations With Rome
Initially, a smaller mercenary revolt occurred on Sardinia, and that army took control of the island. When the conflict in Africa began t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eratosthenes: Encyclopedia Ii - Eratosthenes - The Mysterious Astronomical Distances
Eusebius of Caesarea in his Praeparatio Evangelica includes a brief chapter of three sentences on celestial distances (Book XV, Chapter 5...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eratosthenes: Encyclopedia Ii - Eratosthenes - Measurement Of The Earth
Eratosthenes knew that on the summer solstice at local noon on the Tropic of Cancer, the Sun would appear at the zenith, directly overhea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eratosthenes: Encyclopedia Ii - Eratosthenes - Other Work
Eratosthenes' other contributions include: The Sieve of Eratosthenes as a way of finding prime numbers. Possibly, the measurement of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Flat Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Flat Earth - The Early Church
There is evidence that the round Earth was accepted by many Christians. For example, Emperor Theodosius II of the Byzantine Empire placed...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Flat Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Flat Earth - The Middle Ages
Flat Earth - Early Middle Ages. Europe's view of the world between 600 and 1000 is difficult to determine because of the general scarci...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Flat Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Flat Earth - Modern Times
During the 19th century, the Romantic conception of a European "Dark Age" gave much more prominence to the Flat Earth model than it ever ...   » Read the article