The Greek geographer Strabo, writing ca.

The contemporary Greek geographer Strabo testifies that the Cimbri still existed as a Germanic tribe, presumably in the " Cimbric peninsula " ( since they are said to live by the North Sea and to have paid tribute to Augustus ):

Strabo, the Greek geographer, reported the practice's existence in Egypt when he visited in 25 BCE.

There is reference on a Greek papyrus from 163 BCE to the procedure being conducted on girls in Memphis, the ancient Egyptian capital, and Strabo ( c. 64 BCE – c. 23 CE ), the Greek geographer, reported it when he visited Egypt in 25 BCE.

Hipparchus of Nicaea, or more correctly Hipparchos (; c. 190 BC – c. 120 BC ), was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of the Hellenistic period.

The 2nd-century Greek geographer Pausanias provides the greatest amount of information in the eighth book of his Description of Greece, where he discusses Lykaion ’ s mythological, historical, and physical characteristics in detail.

Strabo, a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher, in his Geography ( c. AD 24 ), wrote in detail about Moses, whom he considered to be an Egyptian who deplored the situation in his homeland, and thereby attracted many followers who respected the deity.

Pytheas of Massalia, or Latin Massilia ( Ancient Greek Πυθέας ὁ Μασσαλιώτης, 4th century BC ), was a Greek geographer and explorer from the Greek colony, Massalia ( modern day Marseilles ).

He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology.

The Greek historian and geographer Agatharchides had documented ship-faring among the early Egyptians: " During the prosperous period of the Old Kingdom, between the 30th and 25th centuries B. C., the river-routes were kept in order, and Egyptian ships sailed the Red Sea as far as the myrrh-country.

In the second century BC, the Greek geographer Pausanias relates the story of Lycaon, who was transformed into a wolf because he had ritually murdered a child.

* Ptolemy, Greek astronomer, astrologer and geographer

* Eratosthenes ( c. 276 – 194 BC ), Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer

* Strabo, Greek geographer

* Ptolemy, Greek mathematician, geographer, astronomer, and astrologer

* Pausanias, Greek historian and geographer

* Posidonius, Greek philosopher, astronomer and geographer ( 51 BC ) ( b. c. 135 BC )

The major source of materials on the Celts of Gaul was Poseidonios of Apamea, whose writings were quoted by Timagenes, Julius Caesar, the Sicilian Greek Diodorus Siculus, and the Greek geographer Strabo.

Sudovia and neighboring Galindia were two Baltic tribes or nations mentioned by the Greek geographer Ptolemy in the 2nd Century A. D. as Galindai and Soudinoi, ( Γαλίνδαι, Σουδινοί ).

* The Greek geographer Strabo of Amaseia, in Geography 16. 1 –. 6, writes: " In Babylon a settlement is set apart for the local philosophers, the Chaldaeans, as they are called, who are concerned mostly with astronomy ; but some of these, who are not approved of by the others, profess to be writers of horoscopes.

Strabo ( 7. 3. 6 ) thinks that the Black Sea was called " inhospitable " before Greek colonization because it was difficult to navigate, and because its shores were inhabited by savage tribes.

Both terms, vasco and basque, are inherited from Latin ethnonym Vascones which in turn goes back to the Greek term οὐασκώνους ( ouaskōnous ), an ethnonym used by Strabo in his Geographica ( 23 CE, Book III ).

" Besides its mention of Cicero, Moses is the only non-Greek writer quoted in the work, and he is described " with far more admiration than even Greek writers who treated Moses with respect, such as Hecataeus and Strabo.

Greek sources including Strabo say that Midas committed suicide by drinking bulls ' blood during an attack by the Cimmerians, which Eusebius dated to around 695 BC and Julius Africanus to around 676 BC.

What is known about the easternmost satraps and borderlands of the Achaemenid Empire are alluded to in the Darius inscriptions and from Greek sources such as the Histories of Herodotus and the later Alexander Chronicles ( Arrian, Strabo et al .).

Subsequent Greek historians — such as Ctesias, Diodorus, Strabo, Polybius and Plutarch — held up Thucydides ' writings as a model of truthful history.

* The Greek geographer Strabo of Amaseia, in Geography 16. 1 –. 6, writes: " In Babylon a settlement is set apart for the local philosophers, the Chaldaeans, as they are called, who are concerned mostly with astronomy ; but some of these, who are not approved of by the others, profess to be writers of horoscopes.

The Ancient Greece | Greek geographer Strabo in a 16th-century engraving

Although Strabo cited the antique Greek astronomers Eratosthenes and Hipparchus, acknowledging their astronomical and mathematical efforts towards geography, he claimed that a descriptive approach was more practical, such that his works were designed for statesmen who were more anthropologically than numerically concerned with the character of countries and regions.

On the other hand, vates was used in Latin to denote a poet with clairvoyance powers and according to the Ancient Greek writers Strabo, Diodorus Siculus, and Poseidonius, the vates ( ουατεις ) were also one of three classes of Celtic priesthood, the other two being the druids and the bards.

* Strabo, Greek historian, geographer and philosopher ( d. c. AD 24 )

The Greek historian Strabo writes " they extended their empire even as far as the Seres ( China ) and the Phryni.

During Roman times, Tergeste was defined an " Illyrian city " by Artemidorus of Ephesus, a Greek geographer, and " Carnic " by Strabo.

The Greek geographer Strabo, writing in the 1st century AD, identified Homer's Ithaca with modern Ithaca.

* 1874 – Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled " Who's to Blame?

Today, Scientific American publishes 18 foreign-language editions around the globe: Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian ( discontinued after 15 issues ), Polish, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish.

* Desiderius Erasmus publishes a new Greek translation of the New Testament.

* Oribase, Greek doctor, publishes a treatise on paralysis and bleedings.

* 300 Euclid, Greek mathematician, publishes Elements, treating both geometry and number theory ( see also Euclidean algorithm ).

* Meleager publishes his Garland, the earliest known anthology of Greek poetry.

* 1543 – Andreas Vesalius publishes De Fabrica Corporis Humani which corrects Greek medical errors and revolutionizes European medicine

* 1121-Al-Khazini, a Muslim scientist of Byzantine Greek descent, publishes The Book of the Balance of Wisdom, the first study on the hydrostatic balance.

AHEPA publishes The AHEPAN, which is the second largest Greek American publication in circulation.

It also publishes an English ' Electronic Daily News Bulletin ' containing all the Greek news.

* 385 BC – Plato publishes Symposium in which Phaedrus, Eryixmachus, Aristophanes and other Greek intellectuals argue that love between males is the highest form, while sex with women is lustful and utilitarian.

It publishes the monthly newspaper Odigitis ( Greek: Οδηγητής, " guider ") and hosts Odigitis festivals in most of the major towns and cities of Greece.

Laikos Dromos headerM-L KKE publishes the " Laikos Dromos " ( Greek: Λαϊκός Δρόμος ), a biweekly newspaper.

For example, it operates a Placement Service, gathers statistical information about the demographics of classicists, hears complaints of violations of professional ethics, provides advice and funding for major research projects ( such as the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World ), and publishes monographs, textbooks and software.

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