Theon
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Theon may refer to:
- Theon of SamosTheon of SamosTheon of Samos was an ancient Greek painter during the era of Alexander the Great, is mentioned by Quintilian as a good artist of the second rank. If we may trust the somewhat flimsy stories told about him, his forte consisted in a lifelike, or perhaps, as Brunn puts it, a theatrical...
, painter - Theon of SmyrnaTheon of SmyrnaTheon of Smyrna was a Greek philosopher and mathematician, whose works were strongly influenced by the Pythagorean school of thought. His surviving On Mathematics Useful for the Understanding of Plato is an introductory survey of Greek mathematics.-Life:Little is known about the life of Theon of...
(c. 70–c. 135), philosopher and mathematician - Theon of AlexandriaTheon of AlexandriaTheon was a Greek scholar and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt. He edited and arranged Euclid's Elements and Ptolemy's Handy Tables, as well as writing various commentaries...
(c. 335–c. 405), last curator of the Alexandrian Library - Theon (1st century BC)Theon (1st century BC)Theon of Alexandria was a grammarian who taught at Rome in the reigns of the emperors Augustus and Tiberius, and was succeeded by Apion. He was the son of the grammarian Artemidorus of Tarsus, and the head of the school at Alexandria....
, literary critic and lexicographer - Theon (rhetorician) (c. 500), teacher of DamasciusDamasciusDamascius , known as "the last of the Neoplatonists," was the last scholarch of the School of Athens. He was one of the pagan philosophers persecuted by Justinian in the early 6th century, and was forced for a time to seek refuge in the Persian court, before being allowed back into the empire...
- Theon, vocalist for LovexLovexLovex is a rock band from Tampere, Finland.- History :Lovex started in 2001–2002, when several members and one former member, who had previously played in other bands, decided to start their own band to play rock music and have fun. As of 2004 they have written and recorded a number of songs, and...
- Theon Greyjoy, a character in George R R Martin' fantasy series A Song of Ice and FireA Song of Ice and FireA Song of Ice and Fire is a series of epic fantasy novels by American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin. Martin began writing the series in 1991 and the first volume was published in 1996. Originally planned as a trilogy, the series now consists of five published volumes; a further two...
People with the surname
- Aelius TheonAelius TheonAelius Theon was an Alexandrian sophist and author of a collection of preliminary exercises for the training of orators. He probably lived and wrote in the mid to late 1st century AD and his treatise is the earliest treatment of these exercises...
(mid to late first century A.D.), teacher of rhetorics - Alma TheonAlma TheonAlma Theon , born Mary Chrystine Woodroffe Ware , was an occultist and clairvoyant, and wife and co-worker of Max Theon....
(1843–1908), clairvoyant and occultist - Max ThéonMax TheonMax Théon perhaps born Louis-Maximilian Bimstein, was a Polish Jewish Kabbalist and Occultist. In London while still a young man, he inspired The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor in 1884, but seemed to have little to do with the day to day running of the organisation, or indeed its actual teachings...
(1848–1927), kabbalist and occultist
See also
- Theon Senior (crater)Theon Senior (crater)Theon Senior is a lunar impact crater that is located to the northwest of the crater Delambre, and south of D'Arrest. It forms a matching pair with Theon Junior, about two crater diameters to the south-southeast. The satellite crater Theon Senior A can be found to the north...
- Theon Junior (crater)Theon Junior (crater)Theon Junior is a lunar impact crater that is located just to the west-southwest of the crater Delambre. It forms a matching pair with Theon Senior, only a couple of crater diameters to the north-northwest. The crater is circular and bowl-shaped, with a small floor at the bottom of the high,...
- Theion (disambiguation)