Ptolemy

Hypatia: The Last Academic – Part One

By Mary Naples, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom They came to her by land. They came to her by sea. They came to her from the farthest reaches of the Roman Empire and they came to her from close by. Amongst the literati, Hypatia (355-415 CE), acclaimed philosopher and leading mathematician, was a rock star. She

Written on May 3, 2022 at 6:50 pm, by Mary Naples

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Categories: Mathematicians

Tags: Alexandria, Christian, Euclid, Hypatia, Mathematician, Pagan, Ptolemy, Theon

The Herdsman of the Stars

By Danielle Alexander, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Even to the modern mind, the starry abyss above us encourages a sense of awe and wonder. In the ancient times, they linked their mythos to the heavens and told tales of how the star clusters, or constellations, came to be. One of these constellations of the Northern

Written on January 22, 2020 at 12:10 pm, by Danielle Alexander

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Categories: Mythology

Tags: Athenian Icarius, Atlas, Bootes, Constellations, Dionysus, Library of Alexandria, Mount Eryx, mythology, Palace of Knossos, Ptolemy, Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, virgo, zeus

The Eternal City

Written by Brendan Heard, Author of the Decline and Fall of Western Art The Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt is a unique reference point in classical history. Most notably, our very notion of classical wisdom itself largely depends on this period, insofar as it played a role in the documentation, preservation, and accumulation of the wisdom

Written on September 27, 2019 at 9:48 am, by Brendan Heard

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Categories: History

Tags: Alexander the Great, Alexandria, Claudius Ptolemy, Cleopatra, Egypt, Euclid, Library of Alexandria, Ptolemy, The library of Alexandria

Ptolemy, the Man who Reached the Stars

By Mónica Correa, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom The study of the earth, stars and space started millennia ago. With a lot of observation and subsequent writings, men such as Ptolemy built the foundations of our understanding of the universe that surrounds us. Today we know that his name was, in fact, Klaudios Ptolemaios. He

Written on May 17, 2019 at 9:50 am, by Monica Correa

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Categories: Astronomy

Tags: Almagest, Astronomer, Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia, Harmonics, Klaudios Ptolemaios, Mathematician, Ptolemy

Hypatia: The Last Academic – Part One

By Mary Naples, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom They came to her by land. They came to her by sea. They came to her from the farthest reaches of the Roman Empire and they came to her from close by. Amongst the literati, Hypatia (355-415 CE), acclaimed philosopher and leading mathematician, was a rock star. She

Written on February 1, 2019 at 3:26 pm, by Mary Naples

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Categories: Mathematicians

Tags: Alexandria, Christian, Euclid, Hypatia, Mathematician, Pagan, Ptolemy, Theon

Euclid: The Father of Geometry

By Jocelyn Hitchcock, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom We all know the varsity team: Einstein, Newton, Pythagoras, Descartes. These names are drilled into our heads all through grade school math and history classes, and possibly accompanied by an under-the-breath curse from a disgruntled calculus or physics student. However, another mathematician should receive our attention: Euclid of

Written on December 12, 2018 at 4:54 pm, by Jocelyn Hitchcock

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Categories: Mathematicians

Tags: Alexandria, Egypt, Euclid, Euclid's life, Euclid's work, Proposition 1.47, Ptolemy, Pythagorean Theorem, The Elements