Hellenistic

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Epicurus

Epicurus (342-271): Greek philosopher, founder of a school that is named after him, Epicurism. Epicurus We live happiest when we are free…

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Eratosthenes of Cyrene

Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c.275-192): mathematician, geographer, astronomer, social theorist, historian, scholar, librarian in Alexandria.One of the students of the great poet Callimachus of Cyrene was Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c.275-192 BCE), who became librarian in the Museum, the scientific institute of…

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Eretria

Eretria (Greek Ἐρέτρια, "the rowers' town"): city and port on the Greek island of Euboea.Early History Eretria, Temple of Apollo, Statue…

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Etazeta of Bithynia

Etazeta: second wife of king Nicomedes I of Bithynia, queen in her own right from 255 until 254.When Nicomedes I of Bithynia died in 255 BCE, he left sons from two marriages: from Ditizele, a lady from Hellespontine Phrygia, he…

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Euclid

Euclid (c.300 BCE): Greek mathematician, author of the Elements. Twelfth-century manuscript of a seventh-century Armenian translation of Euclid's Elements The great mathematician…

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