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Aphrodite of Knidos (redirect from Aphrodite of cnidus)
The Aphrodite of Knidos (or Cnidus) was an Ancient Greek sculpture of the goddess Aphrodite created by Praxiteles of Athens around the 4th century BC....
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Sostratus of Cnidus (/ˈsɒstrətəs/; Greek: Σώστρατος ὁ Κνίδος; born 3rd century BC) was a Greek architect and engineer. He is said to have designed the...
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near Cnidus. According to Isocrates, King Evagoras I of Cyprus contributed the greatest part of the forces under Conon for the sea fight off Cnidus. Sources...
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Ctesias (redirect from Ctesias of Cnidus)
fifth century BC), also known as Ctesias of Cnidus, was a Greek physician and historian from the town of Cnidus in Caria, then part of the Achaemenid Empire...
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Aretades of Cnidus (Greek: Ἀρητάδης ὁ Κνίδιος) was an ancient Greek historian from the city of Cnidus. He wrote a work on the history of Macedon (Greek:...
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Demeter of Knidos (redirect from Demeter of Cnidus)
Return to Cnidus, BritishMuseum.org, retrieved 30 November 2013 Martin-Luther Universität: "Dermeter of Knidos". B. Ashmole, 'Demeter of Cnidus', Journal...
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genus Cnidus: Cnidus akaensis Synave, 1962 c g Cnidus bingervillei Synave, 1965 c g Cnidus candida Synave, 1971 g Cnidus candidus Synave, 1971 c Cnidus conspersa...
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Agatharchides (redirect from Agatharchides of Cnidus)
Agatharchos) of Cnidus was a Greek historian and geographer (flourished 2nd century BC). Agatharchides is believed to have been born at Cnidus, hence his appellation...
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Praxiteles (section Aphrodite of Cnidus)
three having disappeared. The Leconfield Head (a head of the Aphrodite of Cnidus type, included in the 2007 exhibition at the Louvre) in the Red Room, Petworth...
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Diocles of Cnidus (Greek: Διοκλῆς) was an Academic Skeptic philosopher, who is mentioned as the author of Διατριβαί (Discussions) from which a fragment...
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motion of the planets were developed in the 4th century BC by Eudoxus of Cnidus and Callippus of Cyzicus. Their younger contemporary Heraclides Ponticus...
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Euchrysops cnejus (redirect from Euchrysops cnejus cnidus)
not hairy." (de Niceville.) Euchrysops cnejus cnejus Euchrysops cnejus cnidus Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914 (Torres Strait Islands, northern Australia to Southport...
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(Δωρίς ἡ ἐν Ἀσίᾳ),[citation needed] and included: Cos, on the island of Cos; Cnidus in Caria; Halicarnassus in Caria; Lindus, on the island of Rhodes; Ialysus...
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Corinthian War (section Cnidus)
their advantage after their fleet was destroyed at the naval Battle of Cnidus against the Persian fleet, which effectively ended Sparta's attempts to...
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Thomas; R.P. Pullan (1862). A History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus & Branchidæ. Day & son. p. 57. "Artaxerxes III Ochus ( 358 BC to 338 BC...
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important cities of Lindus, Ialysus and Camirus, which together with Kos, Cnidus and Halicarnassus (on the mainland) made up the so-called Dorian Hexapolis...
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visited Alexandria in the late first century BC, reported that Sostratus of Cnidus had a dedication to the "Saviour Gods" inscribed in metal letters on the...
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U+223A ∺ GEOMETRIC PROPORTION (∺) Linear map Correlation Eudoxus of Cnidus Golden ratio Inverse-square law Proportional font Ratio Rule of three (mathematics)...
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Hellenistic era,[citation needed] first introduced to Greece by Eudoxus of Cnidus in the 4th century BC. The original work of Eudoxus is lost, but it survives...
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synthesis of theories from earlier Greek mathematicians, including Eudoxus of Cnidus, Hippocrates of Chios, Thales and Theaetetus. With Archimedes and Apollonius...
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of both Cleitarchus (a historian of Alexander the Great) and Ctesias of Cnidus. Diodorus ascribes the construction to a "Syrian king". He states that the...
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Complex motions repeat every 'perfect' year. Eudoxus' model Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 340 BCE) and later Callippus Geocentric, first geometric-mathematical...
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respectively, a result which Archimedes states was later proved by Eudoxus of Cnidus. Plutarch also reports that Democritus worked on a problem involving the...
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foreshadowing the concept of the limit, ancient Greek mathematician Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 390 – 337 BC) developed the method of exhaustion to prove the formulas...
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in modern terminology, if their ratio is a rational number. Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 390−340 BC) provided a definition of the equality of two irrational...
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of land victories, but many of her ships were destroyed at the Battle of Cnidus by a Greek-Phoenician mercenary fleet that Persia had provided to Athens...
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whom an account was preserved by Diodorus Siculus from Agatharchides of Cnidus, and by Artemidorus Ephesius in Strabo. They were a pastoral people, living...
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his followers from eating beans and wearing woolen garments. Eudoxus of Cnidus, a student of Archytas and Plato, writes, "Pythagoras was distinguished...
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