Apion

male, deceased (45)
Alexandria, Grammarian, anti-Semitic, ancient greek, homer, Jewish person…HellenisticEgyptian
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...
Eratosthenes

Eratosthenes

male
death by starvation, circumference of the earth, Geometer, Egyptian, HellenisticEgyptian, Librarian of Alexandria
Eratosthenes (Greek ; 276 BC - 194 BC) was a Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer. His contemporaries nicknamed him "beta" (Greek for...

Paulus Alexandrinus

male
writer, ancient greek, Roman-era Greek, Alexandria, Culture of ancient Rome, Dorotheus of Sidon…HellenisticEgyptian, hellenistic
Paulus Alexandrinus was an astrological author from the late Roman Empire. His extant work, "Eisagogika", or Introductory Matters (or...
Ptolemy

Ptolemy

male, deceased (168)
Ægyptus, Philosophy of music, Astrological writer, ancient roman, mathematician, geographia…Egyptian, HellenisticEgyptian, Hellenistic civilization, Hellenistic culture
Claudius Ptolemaeus, known in English as Ptolemy, was a Greek mathematician, geographer, astronomer, and astrologer who lived in Roman Egypt....

Ptolemy

male
etymologies, Ptolemaeus, Greek names, Hellenistic Egypt, Claudius Ptolemaeus, ancient egypt…HellenisticEgyptian
The name Ptolemy or Ptolemaeus comes from the Greek "Ptolemaios", which means warlike. There have been many people named Ptolemy or Ptolemaeus, the...
Plotinus

Plotinus

male, 1804 years old
writer, ancient greek, philosopher, Roman-era Greek, HellenisticEgyptian, Neoplatonist
Plotinus was a major philosopher in the ancient world and is widely considered the father of Neoplatonism. Much of our biographical information...
Caesarion

Caesarion

male
Ancient Roman ally, Ptolemy XV Philopator Philometor Caesar, Ancient Roman allies, Ancient Roman enemies, HellenisticEgyptian, Pharaohs of the Ptolemaic dynasty
Ptolemy XV Philopator Philometor Caesar, nicknamed Caesarion (little Caesar) Greek: Πτολεμαίος ΙΕ' Φιλοπάτωρ Φιλομήτωρ Καίσαρ, Και...
Ptolemy Iii Euergetes

Ptolemy Iii Euergetes

male
septuagint, Third Syrian War, Alexandria, babylon, stela, leap day…HellenisticEgyptian, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Egyptian calendar
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...

Athenaeus

male
thratta, in the times of Marcus, Suidas, Essayist, ancient greek, Book XIII…Egyptian, HellenisticEgyptian
Athenaeus, of Naucratis in Egypt, Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourished about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century A.D....
Hero Of Alexandria

Hero Of Alexandria

female, deceased (70)
hero, windwheel, Hellenistic civilization, Ægyptus, Egyptian, hellenistic…HellenisticEgyptian
Hero (or Heron) of Alexandria was a Hellenistic engineer and geometer who flourished in Alexandria, Roman Egypt. Among his most famous inventions...