Eratosthenes

Eratosthenes

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

Zenodotus

male
Grammarian, librarian, ancient greek, Educator, Ptolemaic dynasty, suda…library of alexandria, LibrarianofAlexandria, Alexander of Aetolia, Lycophron of Chalcis
Zenodotus, Greek grammarian, literary critic, and scholar on Homer; first librarian of the Library of Alexandria; pupil of Philetas of Cos; a...
Apollonius Of Rhodes

Apollonius Of Rhodes

male
Alexandria, Scholar, library, 3rd century BC, Argonautica, LibrarianofAlexandria…library of alexandria
Apollonius of Rhodes, also known as Apollonius Rhodius, early 3rd century BC - after 246 BC, was an epic poet, scholar, and director of the Library...
Aristophanes Of Byzantium

Aristophanes Of Byzantium

male
mediterranean, Alexander, Classical Greek, Homeric scholarship, LibrarianofAlexandria, Lingua Franca…librarian, library of alexandria
Aristophanes of Byzantium (c. 257 BC–c. 185 BC/180 BC) was a Greek scholar, critic and grammarian, particularly renowned for his work in Homeric sc...
Aristarchus Of Samothrace

Aristarchus Of Samothrace

male
from East Macedonia and Thrace, dropsy, aristarch, Samothrace, LibrarianofAlexandria, Homeric scholarship…library of alexandria, librarian
Aristarchus (220? - 143 BC?), from the Greek island of Samothrace, was a grammarian and is noted as the most influential of all scholars of Homeric...