Eratosthenes
historical figure · 3 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Stromata
Eratosthenes, polymath and chronographer, cited for dating Homer more than a hundred years after Troy's capture.
And Eratosthenes sets the age of Homer after the hundredth year from the capture of Ilium.
And Eratosthenes records the times thus:
From this to the archon Euaenetus, in whose time they say Alexander crossed into Asia, as Phanias says seven hundred and fifteen years, as Ephorus seven hundred and thirty-five, as Timaeus and Cleitarchus eight hundred and twenty, as Eratosthenes seven hundred and seventy;
Elements
Greek scholar to whom Archimedes addressed his treatise the Method (Ephodos).
This Method (or Plan of attack), addressed to Eratosthenes, is none other than the ἐφόδιον on which, according to Suidas, Theodosius wrote a commentary, and which is several times cited by Heron in his Metrica;
The Rights of War and Peace
Greek scholar cited via Strabo for condemning the practice of driving away refugees.
To drive away refugees, says Strabo, from Eratosthenes, is acting like barbarians;