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ASKALON (Ancient city) PALESTINE
Eutocius, (Eutokios) of Ascalon, the commentator on Apollonius of Pesga and on
Archimedes, must have lived about A. D. 560. At the end of some of his commentaries
on Archimedes he says he used " the edition recognised by Isidore of Miletus,
the mechanic, our master." This Isidore was one of Justinian's architects,
who built the church of St. Sophia. The Greek originals of the following works
of Eutocius are preserved: (Commentaries on the first four books of the Conics
of Apollonius; on the Sphere and Cylinder, on the Quadrature of the Circle, and
on the Two Books on Equilibrium, of Archimedes. These have been printed in the
Greek edition of Apollonius, and in the two Greek editions of Archimedes; and
Latin versions have been given with several of the versions of these two writers,
sometimes complete, sometimes in part. There has been no separate print of Eutocius.
These commentaries were of ordinary value, as long as geometrical help in understanding
the text was required. Torelli wishes that Eutocius had applied himself to all
the writings of Archimedes. But they have a merit which will preserve them, independently
of their mathematical value; they contain incidentally so much information on
the lost writings of Greek geometers, and on the methods of Greek arithmetic,
that they are integrant parts of the history of Greek learning. Torelli found
them frequently give, by way of citation, a more satisfactory text of Archimedes
than that of the remaining mannscripts, which he attributes to the goodness of
Isidore's edition: " haec causa fuit, cur Archimedem in Eutocii domo conquirerem
ubi melius quandoque quam in propria habitabat." (Torelli Pref. in Archimed.;
Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
480 - 540
Eutocius. A native of Ascalon of about A.D. 560. He is known for his commentaries on Apollonius of Perga, the geometrician, and Archimedes, four of which have been preserved.
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GAZA (Town) PALESTINE
470 - 530
Procopius. Prokop was an adviser to Justinian's general Belisarius. He wrote
critical historical reports about the campaigns against the Vandals in North Africa,
the Sassanian Persians, the Ostrogoths in Italy,
and about the character of the emperor.
This text is cited July 2003 from the Hyperhistory Online URL below.
Choricius (Chorikios), a rhetorician and sophist of Gaza, the pupil of Procopius
of Gaza, and afterwards of another sophist of the same place, flourished in the
reign of Justinian, about A. D. 520. His orations formed, in the time of Photius,
a collection under the title of meletai kai suntaxeis logon diaphoroi. They were
on very various subjects, but chiefly panegyrical. Photius makes particular mention
of a funeral oration for the rhetorician's teacher (Cod. 160). Twenty-one of Choricius's
orations exist in MS.
PALESTINE (Country) MIDDLE EAST
Genethlius, (Genethlios), of Patrae, in Palestine, a Greek rhetorician, who lived
between the reigns of the emperors Philippus and Constantine. He was a pupil of
Mucianus and Agapetus, and taught rhetoric at Athens, where he died at the early
age of twenty-eight. He was an enemy and a rival of his countryman Callinicus.
Suidas (s. v. Genethlios), to whom we are indebted for this information, enumerates
a variety of works which Genethlius wrote, declamations, panegyrics, and commentaries
on Demosthenes; but not a trace of them has come down to us. (Comp. Eudoc. p.
1100; Hesych. Miles. s. v. Penethlios.)
ASKALON (Ancient city) PALESTINE
Eubius, (Eubios).. A Stoic philosopher of Ascalon, who is mentioned only by Stephanus of Byzantium (s. v. Askalon.)
Isidorus (Isidoros) of GAZA, a Neo-Platonic philosopher, the friend of Proclus and Marinus, whom he succeeded as chief of the school. He again retired, however, into private life. His wife, according to Suidas (s. v. Hupatia), was Hypatia, herself also celebrated in the history of philosophy; but it seems doubtful whether Suidas has not committed an anachronism in this statement. (Wernsdorf, Dissert. iv. de Hypatia, philosopha Alexandrina). His mother, Theodote, was also one of a family of philosophers, being the sister of Aegyptus, the friend of Hermeias. (Suid. s. v. Ermeias.) The life of Isidorus, by Damascius, is quoted by Photius, Biblioth. Cod. 242; see also Suid. s. v. Isidooos, Surianos, Marinos, Sarapion.
NEAPOLIS (Ancient city) PALESTINE
450 - 500
Marinus (Marinos), of Flavia Neapolis, in Palestine, a philosopher and rhetorician,
was the pupil and successor of Proclus, respecting whose life he wrote a work,
which is still extant; he also wrote some other philosophical works (Suid. s.
v.). An epigram of his, on his own life of Proclus, is preserved in the Greek
Anthology. (Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p. 446; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. iii. p. 153,
vol. xiii. p. 915). Proclus died A. D. 485; Marinus, therefore, lived under the
emperors Zeno and Anastasius. The publication of his life of Proclus is fixed
by internal evidence to the year of Proclus's death; for he mentions an eclipse
which will happen when the first year after that event shall have been completed
(p. 29; Clinton, Fast. Roam. sub an.). Marines' life of Proclus was first published
with the works of Marcus Antoninus, Tigur. 1559, 8vo., reprinted Lugd. Bat. 1626,
l2mo.; next with the work of Proclus on Plato's theology, Hamburg, 1618, fol.:
the first separate edition was that of Fabricius, with valuable Prolegomena, Hamburg,
1700, 4to., reprinted Lund. 1703, 8vo. Boissonade has re-edited the work, with
a much improved text, and valuable notes of his own, in addition to the Prolegomena
and notes of Fabricius, Lips. 1814, 8vo. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ix. p. 370;
Vossius, de Hist. Graec. p. 319, ed. Westermann.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2006 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
ASKALON (Ancient city) PALESTINE
Apelles, of Ascalon, was the chief tragic poet in the time of Caligula, with whom he lived on the most intimate terms. (Philo, Legat. ad Caium; Dion Cass. lix. 5; Suet. Cal. 33)
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