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    François (2024). Pythéas, explorateur du Grand Nord. Les Belles Lettres. ISBN 9782251455280.. Kaplan, Philip G. (2013). "Pytheas of Massalia". In Bagnall...
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    Pytheas is a small lunar impact crater located on the southern part of the Mare Imbrium, to the south of the crater Lambert. It was named after ancient...
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  • Pytheas (Ancient Greek: Πυθέας) of Athens was an orator who wrote speeches and other works. Pytheas opposed fellow orators Demosthenes and Demades. In...
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  • needed to properly tie his observations of the stars to the observations of Pythéas (a Greek astronomer and explorer), made 2000 years earlier. In 1715, Louville...
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    explorer Pytheas of Massalia, who travelled from his home in Hellenistic southern Gaul to Britain in the 4th century BC. The term used by Pytheas may derive...
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    was changed to Pituffik Space Base on April 6, 2023. The Greek explorer Pytheas of the Greek city of Massalia (now Marseille, France) is the first to have...
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    The first written reference to Scotland was in 320 BC by Greek sailor Pytheas, who called the northern tip of Britain "Orcas", the source of the name...
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    author to describe the coast of Holland and Flanders was the geographer Pytheas, who noted in c. 325 BC that in these regions, "more people died in the...
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    Arktika 2007 Mir submersibles Sagalevich Chilingarov Iceland Greenland Pytheas Brendan Papar Vikings Naddodd Garðar Ingólfr Norse colonization of North...
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    Arktika 2007 Mir submersibles Sagalevich Chilingarov Iceland Greenland Pytheas Brendan Papar Vikings Naddodd Garðar Ingólfr Norse colonization of North...
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    fascination with geography; he was well-read in the works of Eratosthenes and Pytheas, and perhaps wanted to discover the source of the river, but turned back...
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  • London. "Lost Holst manuscripts discovered in New Zealand". Classic FM. Retrieved 23 July 2017. Gustav Holst at Pytheas Center for Contemporary Music...
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    censor. An exchange of a political document for sexual favors between Pythéas and Glycère caused a change in the line "prenez-moi pour amant" ("take...
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  • exploration Phoenician maritime expansion Sardinia Circumnavigation of Africa Pytheas' voyage to Britain Roman circumnavigation of Britain Timeline Military...
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    works of the Greek explorer Pytheas of Massalia; later Greek writers such as Diodorus of Sicily and Strabo who quote Pytheas' use of variants such as Πρεττανική...
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    Classique Internationale.[citation needed] Marseille was the birthplace of: Pytheas (fl. fourth century BC), Greek merchant, geographer and explorer Petronius...
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    geographical accounts. During his exploration of northwest Europe (c. 320 BC), Pytheas of Massalia called the island Iérnē (written Ἰέρνη).[citation needed] In...
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  • Marseille. Its existence has been denied by other scholars.[citation needed] Pytheas Barry Cunliffe, Iron Age Britain, English Heritage, London, 1995, p 38...
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    1st century AD. Various references to the region can also be found in Pytheas, Pomponius Mela, Tacitus, Ptolemy, Procopius and Jordanes, usually in the...
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