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2 giorni fa · Through his daughter by Cleopatra, Antony was ancestor to the royal family of Mauretania, another Roman client kingdom, while through his sole surviving son Iullus, he was ancestor to several famous Roman statesmen.
1 giorno fa · Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator ( Koinē Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Θεά Φιλοπάτωρ [note 5] lit. Cleopatra "father-loving goddess"; [note 6] 70/69 BC – 10 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. [note 7] A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and ...
3 giorni fa · Claudius Ptolemy lived in the city of Alexandria in Egypt from about 100 to 170 CE. At that time Egypt was a Roman province and Ptolemy may have been a Roman citizen. A geographer and astronomer, Ptomely's book Geographia, influenced mapmakers on questions such as the size of the earth for centuries. Geographia had been translated into Arabic ...
4 giorni fa · The influence of the Library declined gradually over the course of several centuries. This decline began with the purging of intellectuals from Alexandria in 145 BC during the reign of Ptolemy VIII Physcon, which resulted in Aristarchus of Samothrace, the head librarian, resigning and exiling himself to Cyprus. Many other scholars, including Dionysius Thrax and Apollodorus of Athens, fled to ...
3 giorni fa · While Egidio Colonna and Coluccio Salutati lauded monarchy, and Brunetto Latini, Ptolemy of Lucca, and Marsilius of Padua embraced an ‘ [u]nqualified republicanism’, Black points out that Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Girolamo Savonarola, and Niccolò Machiavelli adopted more relativistic approaches, and omitted to endorse any one ...
4 giorni fa · Annotation. Ptolemy was an ancient geographer working in Rome in the 2nd century AD. This famous map, that attempted to comprehend the entirety of the known world at the time, came from his popular and influential book "Geographia." Like all maps now, Ptolemy accounted for space in ways that geographers had never done before, based on ...
2 giorni fa · The granite statue of the falcon god Horus of Edfu stands in the court of Edfu Temple at the entrance to the pronaos. The well-preserved Ptolemaic temple of Horus was established during the reign of Ptolemy III Euergetes I (246-222 B.C.) on the site of earlier temple constructions and worked on later by Ptolemy X Alexander I (107-88 B.C.) and Ptolemy XII Auletes (Neos Dionysos, 80-69/8 B.C.).
