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

* Greek geographer Strabo publishes Geography, a work covering the world known to the Romans and Greeks at the time of Emperor Augustus – it is the only such book to survive from the ancient world.

* 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.

The connection to Phoenician religion claimed by Herodotus I. 105, 131 ) has led to inconclusive attempts at deriving Greek Aphrodite from a Semitic Aštoret, via hypothetical Hittite transmission.

Historian Elizabeth Eisenstein claimed that the fall of Constantinople in 1453 had threatened the importance and survival of Greek scholarship, but publications such as those by the Aldine Press secured it.

In 1779, he named this part of the air " oxygen " ( Greek for " becoming sharp " because he claimed that the sharp taste of acids came from oxygen ), and the other " azote " ( Greek " no life ").

A 2nd century CE Greek known as Heraclitus the paradoxographer --- not to be confused with the 5th century BCE Greek philosopher Heraclitus --- claimed Euhemeristically that Cerberus had two pups which were never away from their father, as such Cerberus was in fact a normal ( however very large ) dog but artists incorporating the two pups into their work made it appear as if his two children were in fact extra heads.

John Ernest Grabe found an otherwise unreported saying of Jesus, attributed to the Apostle Barnabas, amongst the Greek manuscripts in the Baroccian collection in the Bodleian Library ; which he speculated might be a quotation from this lost gospel ; and John Toland claimed to have identified a corresponding phrase when he examined the surviving Italian manuscript of the Gospel of Barnabas in Amsterdam before 1709.

He learned Russian and Greek, employing a system that he used his entire life to learn languages — Schliemann claimed that it took him six weeks to learn a language and wrote his diary in the language of whatever country he happened to be in.

These Heraclids were a group of Dorian kings who conquered the Peloponnesian kingdoms of Mycenae, Sparta and Argos ; according to the literary tradition in Greek mythology, they claimed a right to rule through their ancestor.

Paul Maier states that the first case is generally seen as hopeless, given that a Jew, Josephus would not have claimed Jesus as the Messiah, and that the second option is hardly tenable given the presence of the reference in all Greek manuscripts ; thus a large majority of modern scholars accept the third alternative, i. e. partial authenticity.

The woman may also refer to Mnemosyne, the Greek personification of memory and mother of the muses, referring directly to Coleridge's claimed struggle to compose this poem from memory of a dream.

Unlike the positivists, he did not claim that metaphysical statements must be meaningless ; he also claimed that a statement which was " metaphysical " and unfalsifiable in one century ( like the ancient Greek philosophy about atoms ) could, in another century, be developed into falsifiable theories that have the metaphysical views as a consequence, and thus become scientific.

In early Greek and Roman history, a few philosophers claimed that although every child has one absolute mother, it did not follow that every child had one absolute father (" mater semper certa est ").

And it has been claimed, though controversially, that there were elements of socialist thought in the politics of classical Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle.

Thales ( 7th – 6th century BC ), the first Greek philosopher claimed that the first principle of all things is water.

The Spartans claimed the command of land forces, and since the Greek ( hereafter referred to as " Allied ") fleet would be dominated by Athens, Themistocles tried to claim command of the naval forces.

Greek musician Stavros Logarides claimed Vangelis had copied the melody of " Titles " from one of his compositions called " City of Violets ".

Before the establishment of the League of Corinth, even though the Macedonians apparently spoke a dialect of the Greek language and claimed proudly that they were Greeks, they were not considered to fully share the classical Greek culture by many of the inhabitants of the southern city states, because they did not share the polis based style of government.

Zenobia claimed to be a descendant of Dido, Queen of Carthage ; Sampsiceramus, the King of Emesa ; and the Ptolemaic Greek Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt.

From the Historia it is clear that he also knew French and possibly Italian, but there is not enough evidence to determine whether he learned Greek, Persian, and Arabic, as is sometimes claimed.

# Finally ( 4. 13 ), a legend which Herodotus attributed to the Greek bard Aristeas, who claimed to have got himself into such a Bachanalian fury that he ran all the way northeast across Scythia and further.

Fortunately for Bacchylidean scholarship, a papyrus came to light in Egypt at the end of the nineteenth century with a text of Greek uncials, which a local claimed to have found in a ransacked tomb, between the feet of a mummy.

Virginia Tsouderou, who became Deputy Foreign Minister in the Mitsotakis government, and journalist Giorgos Karatzaferis ( later the founder and leader of a right-wing party, LAOS ) claimed that terrorism in Greece was controlled by Papandreist officers of Hellenic National Intelligence Service ( the Greek security and intelligence service ), and named Kostas Tsimas ( the head of EYP ) and Colonel Alexakis as two of the supposed controllers of 17N.