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Pytheas was a central source of information on the North Sea and the subarctic regions of western Europe to later periods, and possibly the only source. The only ancient authors we know by name who certainly saw Pytheas' original text were Dicaearchus, Timaeus, Eratosthenes, Crates of Mallus, Hipparchus, Polybius, Artemidorus and Posidonius. [88]
The Greek explorer Pytheas of the Greek city of Massalia (now Marseille, France) is the first to have written of Thule, after his travels between 330 and 320 BC.Pytheas mentioned going to Thule in his now lost work, On The Ocean Τὰ περὶ τοῦ Ὠκεανοῦ (ta peri tou Okeanou).
Pythias' third husband was Metrodorus, a physician; Diogenes Laertius relates that they had a son named Aristotle. [3] References This page was last edited on ...
Still from Universal's film Damon and Pythias (1914). In 1564, the material was made into a tragicomic play by the English poet Richard Edwardes (Damon and Pythias).; The best-known modern treatment of the legend is the German ballad Die Bürgschaft, [2] written in 1799 by Friedrich Schiller, based on the Gesta Romanorum version.
The name "West European Isles" is one translation of the islands' name in the Gaelic languages of Irish [214] and Manx, [215] with equivalent terms for "British Isles". [216] [217] In Old Icelandic, the name of the British Isles was Vestrlönd, 'the Western lands'. The name of a person from the British Isles was a Vestmaðr, 'a man from the ...
Pytheas (Ancient Greek: Πυθέας) of Athens was an orator who wrote speeches and other works. [1] Pytheas opposed fellow orators Demosthenes and Demades . [ 2 ] In 323 BC, he was a persecutor of Demosthenes in the Harpalus bribery scandal.
Two names, one U.S. rape suspect. In November 2022, the Scottish judge overseeing the extradition case ruled that Arthur Knight and Nicholas Alahverdian were the same person — a conclusion he ...
Pytheas is a small lunar impact crater located on the southern part of the Mare Imbrium, to the south of the crater Lambert. It was named after ancient Greek navigator and geographer Pytheas of Massalia.