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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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Eubius, (Eubios).. A Stoic philosopher of Ascalon, who is mentioned only by Stephanus of Byzantium (s. v. Askalon.)
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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