Callimachus

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Callimachus (Greek: ; ca. 305 BC- ca. 240 BC) was a native of Cyrene and claimed to be a descendant of Battus. He was a noted poet, critic, and...
Antiochus Iv Epiphanes

Antiochus Iv Epiphanes

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Antiochus IV Epiphanes (ca. 215-164 BC) ruled the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire from 175 BC until his death. He was a son of Antiochus III the Great...
Hipparchus

Hipparchus

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Hipparchus (Greek ; ca. 190 BC - ca. 120 BC) was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of the Hellenistic period. Hipparchus was born...
Ptolemy

Ptolemy

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Ptolemy or Ptolomaeus, son of Mennaeus (Mennæus) was tetrarch of Iturea and Chalcis from about 85 BCE to 40 BCE, in which year he died. He tried t...
Hermes Trismegistus

Hermes Trismegistus

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Hermes Trismegistus or Mercurius ter Maximus in Latin, is the syncretism of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian Thoth. In Hellenistic Egypt, the...
Zeno Of Citium

Zeno Of Citium

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Zeno of Citium was a Greek philosopher from Citium (Gr: Κίτιον), Cyprus. Zeno belongs to the Stoic school of thought of the Hellenistic period...
Apollonius Of Rhodes

Apollonius Of Rhodes

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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...

Lysippos

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Lysippos was a Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC. Lysippos, Skopas and Praxiteles are considered the three great sculptors of the Classical...

Theodotion

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Theodotion (d. ca. 200 A.D.) was a Hellenistic Jewish scholar, perhaps working in Ephesus, who translated the Hebrew Bible into Greek. Whether he...
Earl Doherty

Earl Doherty

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Earl Doherty, currently living in Canada, is the author of "The Jesus Puzzle", a work published in 1999 by Canadian Humanist Publications arguing...