Dionysius of Cyrene
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Dionysius of Cyrene
, lived c. 150 BC, was a Stoic
philosopher and mathematician
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He was a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon and Antipater of Tarsus
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He was famed as a mathematician, and he is probably the Dionysius whose arguments are attacked by Philodemus
in his book On Signs , where Dionysius is reported as arguing that the Sun must be very large because it reappears slowly from behind an obstruction.
Cyrene, Libya
Cyrene was an ancient Greek colony and then a Roman city in present-day Shahhat, Libya, the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities in the region. It gave eastern Libya the classical name Cyrenaica that it has retained to modern times.Cyrene lies in a lush valley in the Jebel Akhdar...
, lived c. 150 BC, was a Stoic
STOIC
STOIC was a variant of Forth.It started out at the MIT and Harvard Biomedical Engineering Centre in Boston, and was written in the mid 1970s by Jonathan Sachs...
philosopher and mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
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He was a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon and Antipater of Tarsus
Antipater of Tarsus
Antipater of Tarsus was a Stoic philosopher. He was the pupil and successor of Diogenes of Babylon as leader of the Stoic school, and was the teacher of Panaetius...
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He was famed as a mathematician, and he is probably the Dionysius whose arguments are attacked by Philodemus
Philodemus
Philodemus of Gadara was an Epicurean philosopher and poet. He studied under Zeno of Sidon in Athens, before moving to Rome, and then to Herculaneum. He was once known chiefly for his poetry preserved in the Greek anthology, but since the 18th century, many writings of his have been discovered...
in his book On Signs , where Dionysius is reported as arguing that the Sun must be very large because it reappears slowly from behind an obstruction.