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ptolemy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | ptolemaic dynasty |
| Type of | dynasty |
ptolemy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
Alexandrian astronomer (of the 2nd century) who proposed a geocentric system of astronomy that was undisputed until the late Renaissance
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | claudius ptolemaeus |
| Derivation | ptolemaic |
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Ptolemy II Philadelphus, the Macedonian ruler of Egypt, renamed it Philadelphia.
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Ptolemy combined the mathematical, philosophical and physiological traditions.
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Ptolemy is found guilty of treason, as Mark Antony suspected, and is arrested.
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Ptolemy, though he mentions the river Selinus, has no notice of a town of the name.
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Ptolemy also contributed substantially to cartography and to the science of optics.
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Ptolemy may just provide the information to understand the source of water on Earth.
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Ptolemy was left with Egypt, Seleucus with the Levant, Mesopotamia, and points east.
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Ptolemy, an officer under Alexander the Great, was nominated as the satrap of Egypt.
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Ptolemy lists a huge number of cities, tribes, and sites and places them in the world.
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- Alexandrian astronomer (of the 2nd century) who proposed a geocentric system of astronomy that was undisputed until the late Renaissance
- An ancient dynasty of Macedonian kings who ruled Egypt from 323 BC to 30 BC; founded by Ptolemy I and ended with Cleopatra
- Claudius Ptolemy (/u02C8tu0252lu0259mi/; Greek: u039Au03BBu03B1u03CDu03B4u03B9u03BFu03C2 u03A0u03C4u03BFu03BBu03B5u03BCu03B1u1FD6u03BFu03C2, Klau00FAdios Ptolemau00EEos, ; Latin: Claudius Ptolemaeus; c. AD 100 u2013 c.u2009170) was a Greco-Egyptian writer, known as a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. He lived in the city of Alexandria in the Roman province of Egypt, wrote in Koine Greek, and held Roman citizenship...
- Ptolemy (Greek: u03A0u03C4u03BFu03BBu03B5u03BCu03B1u1FD6u03BFu03C2); died 309 BC) was a nephew of Antigonus, and who served as a general to Alexander the Great (338u2013323 BC) who afterwards became king of Asia.
- Ptolemy the Gnostic, or Ptolemaeus Gnosticus was a disciple of the Gnostic teacher Valentinius, and is known to us for an epistle he wrote to a wealthy woman named Flora, herself not a gnostic.
- In Greek mythology, Ptolemy was an ancestral ruler of Thebes, living in the 12th century BCE. His father was Damasichthon; his son, Xanthus. Since the Homeric root to Ptolemy includes no T the name is reconstructed as Polemy.
- The name Ptolemy or Ptolemaeus comes from the Greek Ptolemaios, which means warlike. There have been many people named Ptolemy or Ptolemaeus, the most famous of which are the Greek-Egyptian astronomer Claudius Ptolemaeus and the Macedonian founder and ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt, ...
- Ptolemy son of Philip, an officer who commanded the leading squadron of Macedonian cavalry that of Socrates at the passage of the Granicus ,Arr. Anab. i. 14. It is supposed by Gronovius (ad Arr. I. c. ...
- (Ptolemies) The Macedonian dynasty, descended from one of Alexander the Great's officers, that ruled Egypt for three centuries (323-30 B.C.E.). ...
