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- Apion (20s BC - ca. 45 AD), Graeco-Egyptian grammarian, sophist and commentator on Homer, was born at the Siwa Oasis, and flourished in the first...
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- Eratosthenes (Greek ; 276 BC - 194 BC) was a Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer. His contemporaries nicknamed him "beta" (Greek for...
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- Paulus Alexandrinus was an astrological author from the late Roman Empire. His extant work, "Eisagogika", or Introductory Matters (or...
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- Plotinus was a major philosopher in the ancient world and is widely considered the father of Neoplatonism. Much of our biographical information...
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- Claudius Ptolemaeus, known in English as Ptolemy, was a Greek mathematician, geographer, astronomer, and astrologer who lived in Roman Egypt....
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- The name Ptolemy or Ptolemaeus comes from the Greek "Ptolemaios", which means warlike. There have been many people named Ptolemy or Ptolemaeus, the...
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- Ptolemy XV Philopator Philometor Caesar, nicknamed Caesarion (little Caesar) Greek: Πτολεμαίος ΙΕ' Φιλοπάτωρ Φιλομήτωρ Καίσαρ, Και...
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- Ptolemy III Euergetes,, reigned 246 BC-222 BC) is sometimes called Ptolemy III Euergetes I. The third ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt, he...
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- Athenaeus, of Naucratis in Egypt, Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourished about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century A.D....
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- Hero (or Heron) of Alexandria was a Hellenistic engineer and geometer who flourished in Alexandria, Roman Egypt. Among his most famous inventions...
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