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*** The ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy, and consider how and why his geocentric theory of the universe held sway for so many centuries. In his seminal astronomical work, the Almagest, written in the 2nd century AD, Ptolemy proposed that the Earth was at the centre of the universe and explained all the observed motions of the Sun, Moon, planets and stars with a system of uniform circular motions which he referred to as 'epicycles'. But Ptolemy was a polymath and did not confine his study of the stars to mathematical equations. He was also interested in astrology and his book on this topic, the Tetrabiblos, tackled the spiritual aspects of the cosmos and its influence on individual lives and personalities.Ptolemy's model of the universe remained the dominant one for over a thousand years. It was not until 1543, and Copernicus's heliocentric theory of the world, that the Ptolemaic model was finally challenged, and not until 1609 that Johannes Kepler's New Astronomy put an end to his ideas for good. But how and why did Ptolemy's system survive for so long? ***
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The word "planet" comes from the Greek word "planetos" meaning wandering star (thus, unlike the Earth, in Ptolemy's model, the Sun and Moon were planets). Because of retrograde, for centuries unexplainable movements, the heavenly bodies in Ptolemy's model does not move by ellipses but rather by curves called epicycles.
This animation shows simplified Ptolemy's model of the Universe with Moon as a first, and Sun as a fourth planet orbiting around Earth. All planets except Moon and Sun are moving on epicycles whit their centres positioned on circles called deferent. Last sphere, after Saturn, is a sphere of Stars. In this particular figure, orbital periods are adjusted so they always draw the same path.
The background sound is Simphonies of planets recorded by NASA Voyager.
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For the astronomer, see Ptolemy; for others named "Ptolemy" or "Ptolemaeus", see Ptolemy (disambiguation).
Ptolemy I Soter I (Ancient Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Σωτήρ, Ptolemaĩos Sōtḗr, i.e. Ptolemy (pronounced /ˈtɒləmi/) the Savior), also known as Ptolemy Lagides, c. 367 BC – c. 283 BC, was a Macedonian general under Alexander the Great, who became ruler of Egypt (323–283 BC) and founder of both the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the Ptolemaic Dynasty. In 305/4 BC he demanded the title of pharaoh.
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he Waldseemüller map, Universalis Cosmographia, is a printed wall map of the world by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, originally published in April 1507. It is known as the first map to use the name "America". Its main map, and his globe gores of the same date, depict the American continents in two pieces. These depictions differ from the small inset map in the top border, which shows the two American continents joined by an isthmus. The name America is placed on what is now called South America on the main map, this being the first map known to use this name. As explained in Cosmographiae Introductio, the name was bestowed in honor of the Italian Amerigo Vespucci. The map is drafted on a modification of Ptolemy's second projection, expanded to accommodate the Americas and the high latitudes.[1] A single copy of the map survives, presently housed at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Waldseemüller also created globe gores, printed maps designed to be cut out and pasted onto spheres to form globes of the Earth.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldseemüller_map
The Ptolemy world map is a map of the world known to Hellenistic society in the 2nd century. It is based on the description contained in Ptolemy's book Geography, written c. 150. Based on an inscription in several of the earliest surviving manuscripts, it is traditionally credited to Agathodaemon of Alexandria. Perhaps the most significant contributions of Ptolemy's maps are the first uses of longitudinal and latitudinal lines as well as specifying terrestrial locations by celestial observations. The Geography was translated from Greek into Arabic in the 9th century and played a role in the work of al-Khwārizmī before lapsing into obscurity. The idea of a global coordinate system revolutionized European geographical thought, however, and inspired more mathematical treatment of cartography.
Ptolemy's work probably originally came with maps but none has been discovered. Instead, the present form of the map was reconstructed from Ptolemy's coördinates by Byzantine monks under the direction of Maximus Planudes shortly after 1295. It probably was not that of the original text, as it uses the less favored of the two alternate projections offered by Ptolemy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy%27s_world_map
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Ptolemy on Alexander The Great
Alexander III (late July, 356 BC--June 10, 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, in Greek "Megas Alexandros", King of Macedon (336 BC-323 BC), was one of the most successful military commanders of the ancient world. Following the unification of the multiple city states of Ancient Greece under the rule of his father, Philip II of Macedon, Alexander conquered the Persian Empire, including Anatolia, Syria, Egypt, Bactria and Mesopotamia, and extended the boundaries of his own empire as far as India. Alexander integrated non-Greeks into his army and administration, leading some scholars to credit him with a "policy of fusion."
May all mortals from now on live like one people in concord and for mutual advancement. Consider the world as your country, with laws common to all and where the best will govern irrespective of tribe. I do not distinguish among men, as the narrow-minded do, both among Greeks and Barbarians. I am not interested in the descendance of the citizens or their racial origins. I classify them using one criterion: their virtue.
"Alexander's Oath given a"There is no part of my body but my back which has not a scar..."
In 332-331 BC Alexander was welcomed as a liberator in Egypt and was pronounced the son of Zeus by Egyptian priests of the god Ammon at the Oracle of the god at the Siwah oasis in the Libyan Desert. He founded Alexandria in Egypt, which would become the prosperous capital of the Ptolemaic dynasty after his death.
Dhu al-Qarnain is Alexander the Greek, the king of Persia and Greece, or the king of the east and the west, for because of this he was called Dhul-Qarnayn [meaning, "the two-horned one"]... Ibn Hisham
If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes. After Diogenes of Sinope who was lying in the sun, responded to a query by Alexander asking if he could do anything for him with a reply requesting that he stop blocking his sunlight. As quoted in "On the Fortune of Alexander" by Plutarcht Opis", as quoted by Nikos Martis
If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost parts of land and sea, to push the bounds of Macedonia to the farthest Ocean, and to disseminate and shower the blessings of the Hellenic justice and peace over every nation, I should not be content to sit quietly in the luxury of idle power, but I should emulate the frugality of Diogenes. But as things are, forgive me Diogenes, that I imitate Herakles, and emulate Perseus, and follow in the footsteps of Dionysos, the divine author and progenitor of my family, and desire that victorious Hellenes should dance again in India and revive the memory of the Bacchic revels among the savage mountain tribes beyond the Kaukasos... As quoted in "On the Fortune of Alexander" by Plutarch
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Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (1992)
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Why the Copernican and Ptolemaic views of the solar system actually look the same from the earth.
(Prepared for Science A-17, Harvard University, Fall 1999.)
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Alexander's Successors are not content with just a part of the empire. Ptolemy and Seleucus are at each other's throats and have brought with them the bulk of their armies for a decisive engagement
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Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (/ˈtɒləmi/; Greek: Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος, Klaúdios Ptolemaîos, [kláwdios ptolɛmɛ́ːos]; Latin: Claudius Ptolemaeus; c. AD 100 – c. 170) was a Greco-Egyptian writer, known as a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. He lived in the city of Alexandria in the Roman province of Egypt, wrote in Koine Greek, and held Roman citizenship. Beyond that, few reliable details of his life are known. His birthplace has been given as Ptolemais Hermiou in the Thebaid in an uncorroborated statement by the 14th-century astronomer Theodore Meliteniotes. This is a very late attestation, however, and there is no other reason to suppose that he ever lived anywhere else than Alexandria, where he died around AD 168.
Ptolemy was the author of several scientific treatises, three of which were of continuing importance to later Byzantine, Islamic and European science. The first is the astronomical treatise now known as the Almagest, although it was originally entitled the "Mathematical Treatise" (Μαθηματικὴ Σύνταξις, Mathēmatikē Syntaxis) and then known as the "Great Treatise" (Ἡ Μεγάλη Σύνταξις, Ē Megálē Syntaxis). The second is the Geography, which is a thorough discussion of the geographic knowledge of the Greco-Roman world. This manuscript was used by Christopher Columbus as the map for his westward-bound path to Asia, in which he discovered the hitherto unknown lands of the Americas. The third is the astrological treatise in which he attempted to adapt horoscopic astrology to the Aristotelian natural philosophy of his day. This is sometimes known as the Apotelesmatika (Ἀποτελεσματικά) but more commonly known as the Tetrabiblos from the Greek (Τετράβιβλος) meaning "Four Books" or by the Latin Quadripartitum.
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Alexander the Great
Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great (Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μέγας, Aléxandros ho Mégas [a.lék.san.dros ho mé.gas], from the Greek ἀλέξω (alexō) "defend" and ἀνδρ- (andr-), the stem of ἀνήρ (anēr) "man" and means "protector of men"), was a King (Basileus) of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty, an ancient Greek royal house. Born in Pella in 356 BC, Alexander succeeded his father, Philip II, to the throne at the age of twenty. He spent most of his ruling years on an unprecedented military campaign through Asia and northeast Africa, and by the age of thirty he had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world, stretching from Greece to Egypt into northwest India and modern-day Pakistan. He was undefeated in battle and is widely considered one of history's most successful military commanders.
During his youth, Alexander was tutored by the philosopher Aristotle until the age of 16. After Philip's assassination in 336 BC, Alexander succeeded his father to the throne and inherited a strong kingdom and an experienced army. Alexander was awarded the generalship of Greece and used this authority to launch his father's Panhellenic project to lead the Greeks in the conquest of Persia. In 334 BC, he invaded the Achaemenid Empire, ruled Asia Minor, and began a series of campaigns that lasted ten years. Alexander broke the power of Persia in a series of decisive battles, most notably the battles of Issus and Gaugamela. He subsequently overthrew the Persian King Darius III and conquered the Achaemenid Empire in its entirety. At that point, his empire stretched from the Adriatic Sea to the Indus River.
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Aphex Twin
Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), best known by his alias Aphex Twin, is an English electronic musician and composer based in London. He is best known for his influential and idiosyncratic work in electronic music styles such as IDM and ambient techno in the 1990s, for which he won widespread critical acclaim. He is also the co-founder of Rephlex Records with Grant Wilson-Claridge.
Initially releasing acid and techno records as AFX and under other aliases, James's first received widespread acclaim for his 1992 album Selected Ambient Works 85-92 and his subsequent 1993 release Selected Ambient Works Volume II. He rose to mainstream popularity with his 1997 EP, Come To Daddy and his 1999 single "Windowlicker". Taking a 14-year hiatus following the release of his 2001 album Drukqs to mixed reviews, James returned in 2014 with a new album, Syro, earning him critical praise and a win for Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Album.
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James was born in Limerick, Ireland, but he grew up in Lanner, Cornwall, UK, with two older sisters, in a "very happy" childhood during which they "were pretty much left to do what [they] wanted". He enjoyed living there, feeling apart from nearby cities and the rest of the world. James attended Redruth School in Redruth, Cornwall, and claimed to have produced sound on a Sinclair ZX81 (a machine with no sound hardware) at age 11:
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41:30Ptolemy and Ancient Astronomy (In Our Time, 17/11/11)
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*** The ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy, and consider how and why his geocentric theory of the universe held sway for so many centuries. In his seminal astronomical work, the Almagest, written in the 2nd century AD, Ptolemy proposed that the Earth was at the centre of the universe and explained all the observed motions of the Sun, Moon, planets and stars with a system of uniform circular motions which he referred to as 'epicycles'. But Ptolemy was a polymath and did not confine his study of the stars to mathematical equations. He was also interested in astrology and his book on this topic, the Tetrabiblos, tackled the spiritual aspects of the cosmos and its influence on individual lives and personalities.Ptolemy's model of the universe remained the dominant one for over a thousand years. It was not until 1543, and Copernicus's heliocentric theory of the world, that the Ptolemaic model was finally challenged, and not until 1609 that Johannes Kepler's New Astronomy put an end to his ideas for good. But how and why did Ptolemy's system survive for so long? *** GUESTS: Liba Taub Jim Bennett Charles Burnett -
6:00ptolemy's model of the universe
ptolemy's model of the universeptolemy's model of the universe
http://www.principiauniversi.com/ The word "planet" comes from the Greek word "planetos" meaning wandering star (thus, unlike the Earth, in Ptolemy's model, the Sun and Moon were planets). Because of retrograde, for centuries unexplainable movements, the heavenly bodies in Ptolemy's model does not move by ellipses but rather by curves called epicycles. This animation shows simplified Ptolemy's model of the Universe with Moon as a first, and Sun as a fourth planet orbiting around Earth. All planets except Moon and Sun are moving on epicycles whit their centres positioned on circles called deferent. Last sphere, after Saturn, is a sphere of Stars. In this particular figure, orbital periods are adjusted so they always draw the same path. The background sound is Simphonies of planets recorded by NASA Voyager. -
11:40Ptolemy I Soter
Ptolemy I SoterPtolemy I Soter
For the astronomer, see Ptolemy; for others named "Ptolemy" or "Ptolemaeus", see Ptolemy (disambiguation). Ptolemy I Soter I (Ancient Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Σωτήρ, Ptolemaĩos Sōtḗr, i.e. Ptolemy (pronounced /ˈtɒləmi/) the Savior), also known as Ptolemy Lagides, c. 367 BC – c. 283 BC, was a Macedonian general under Alexander the Great, who became ruler of Egypt (323–283 BC) and founder of both the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the Ptolemaic Dynasty. In 305/4 BC he demanded the title of pharaoh. This video is targeted to blind users. Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA Creative Commons image source in video -
2:01Ptolemy's Solar Hypotheses
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40:42The Flat Earth : Van Muller And Ptolemy Maps
The Flat Earth : Van Muller And Ptolemy MapsThe Flat Earth : Van Muller And Ptolemy Maps
he Waldseemüller map, Universalis Cosmographia, is a printed wall map of the world by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, originally published in April 1507. It is known as the first map to use the name "America". Its main map, and his globe gores of the same date, depict the American continents in two pieces. These depictions differ from the small inset map in the top border, which shows the two American continents joined by an isthmus. The name America is placed on what is now called South America on the main map, this being the first map known to use this name. As explained in Cosmographiae Introductio, the name was bestowed in honor of the Italian Amerigo Vespucci. The map is drafted on a modification of Ptolemy's second projection, expanded to accommodate the Americas and the high latitudes.[1] A single copy of the map survives, presently housed at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Waldseemüller also created globe gores, printed maps designed to be cut out and pasted onto spheres to form globes of the Earth.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldseemüller_map The Ptolemy world map is a map of the world known to Hellenistic society in the 2nd century. It is based on the description contained in Ptolemy's book Geography, written c. 150. Based on an inscription in several of the earliest surviving manuscripts, it is traditionally credited to Agathodaemon of Alexandria. Perhaps the most significant contributions of Ptolemy's maps are the first uses of longitudinal and latitudinal lines as well as specifying terrestrial locations by celestial observations. The Geography was translated from Greek into Arabic in the 9th century and played a role in the work of al-Khwārizmī before lapsing into obscurity. The idea of a global coordinate system revolutionized European geographical thought, however, and inspired more mathematical treatment of cartography. Ptolemy's work probably originally came with maps but none has been discovered. Instead, the present form of the map was reconstructed from Ptolemy's coördinates by Byzantine monks under the direction of Maximus Planudes shortly after 1295. It probably was not that of the original text, as it uses the less favored of the two alternate projections offered by Ptolemy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy%27s_world_map -
4:53Ptolemy on Alexander The Great
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Ptolemy on Alexander The Great Alexander III (late July, 356 BC--June 10, 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, in Greek "Megas Alexandros", King of Macedon (336 BC-323 BC), was one of the most successful military commanders of the ancient world. Following the unification of the multiple city states of Ancient Greece under the rule of his father, Philip II of Macedon, Alexander conquered the Persian Empire, including Anatolia, Syria, Egypt, Bactria and Mesopotamia, and extended the boundaries of his own empire as far as India. Alexander integrated non-Greeks into his army and administration, leading some scholars to credit him with a "policy of fusion." May all mortals from now on live like one people in concord and for mutual advancement. Consider the world as your country, with laws common to all and where the best will govern irrespective of tribe. I do not distinguish among men, as the narrow-minded do, both among Greeks and Barbarians. I am not interested in the descendance of the citizens or their racial origins. I classify them using one criterion: their virtue. "Alexander's Oath given a"There is no part of my body but my back which has not a scar..." In 332-331 BC Alexander was welcomed as a liberator in Egypt and was pronounced the son of Zeus by Egyptian priests of the god Ammon at the Oracle of the god at the Siwah oasis in the Libyan Desert. He founded Alexandria in Egypt, which would become the prosperous capital of the Ptolemaic dynasty after his death. Dhu al-Qarnain is Alexander the Greek, the king of Persia and Greece, or the king of the east and the west, for because of this he was called Dhul-Qarnayn [meaning, "the two-horned one"]... Ibn Hisham If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes. After Diogenes of Sinope who was lying in the sun, responded to a query by Alexander asking if he could do anything for him with a reply requesting that he stop blocking his sunlight. As quoted in "On the Fortune of Alexander" by Plutarcht Opis", as quoted by Nikos Martis If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost parts of land and sea, to push the bounds of Macedonia to the farthest Ocean, and to disseminate and shower the blessings of the Hellenic justice and peace over every nation, I should not be content to sit quietly in the luxury of idle power, but I should emulate the frugality of Diogenes. But as things are, forgive me Diogenes, that I imitate Herakles, and emulate Perseus, and follow in the footsteps of Dionysos, the divine author and progenitor of my family, and desire that victorious Hellenes should dance again in India and revive the memory of the Bacchic revels among the savage mountain tribes beyond the Kaukasos... As quoted in "On the Fortune of Alexander" by Plutarch -
7:15Aphex Twin - Ptolemy
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10:22From Ptolemy to Copernicus
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Why the Copernican and Ptolemaic views of the solar system actually look the same from the earth. (Prepared for Science A-17, Harvard University, Fall 1999.) -
30:59Ptolemy vs Seleucus (Massive Battles)
Ptolemy vs Seleucus (Massive Battles)Ptolemy vs Seleucus (Massive Battles)
Alexander's Successors are not content with just a part of the empire. Ptolemy and Seleucus are at each other's throats and have brought with them the bulk of their armies for a decisive engagement
'Ptolemy' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Hellespont (2012)
Actors: Randin Graves (composer), Mario DeAngelis (producer), Michael Flynn (actor), Brad Johnson (producer), Brad Johnson (director), Danny James (actor), Andrew W. Johnson (actor), Allan Groves (producer), Allan Groves (actor), Allan Groves (writer), Joseph L. Puente (miscellaneous crew), Ron Eliot (actor), Matthew Flynn Bellows (actor), Matthew Flynn Bellows (producer), Kelsie Mathews (actress),
Genres: Action, Short,The Tree of Death (2009)
Actors: Fiona Maher (editor), Lenny Wood (actor), Fiona Maher (producer), Fiona Maher (writer), Fiona Maher (composer), Mick Colligan (actor), Kimberley Barrett (actress), Anthony Cananvan (actor), Leah Stanley (actress), Matt Carolan (actor), Simon Catherall (actor), Terry Lennaine (actor), Tom Ferguson (actor), John Ryding (actor),
Plot: Blair Witch meets Spinal Tap when director Scott Watt runs into the woods to make his debut feature. Saddled with an unreliable cast and mutinous crew, Scott soon learns that the real terror in the making of any horror film lies behind the camera.
Keywords: parody, romp, spoofGenres: Comedy,
Taglines: One man, one dream, a shed load of obstacles
Spaced Out: A Cosmic Scene (2009)
Actors: Andrew Crabtree (actor), Teresa Strebler (actress), Zac Ross (actor), Zac Ross (actor), Zac Ross (actor), Teresa Strebler (actress), David Jeffries (actor), Zac Ross (actor), Joshua Cole (actor), Joshua Cole (actor), David Jeffries (actor), David Jeffries (actor), Teresa Strebler (actress), Zac Ross (writer), Zac Ross (producer),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Alexander: Hero of Heroes (2007)
Actors: Terrence Evans (actor), Hawk Younkins (actor), John Gilbert (actor), Elyse Mirto (actress), Frank Krueger (actor), Joyce Brand (editor), Rayne Aspengren (actress), Charles Haigh (actor), Devon Michaels (actor), Richard Leroy (actor), Chris Pauley (actor), Craig Braun (actor), Carrie Ainsworth (actress), Granger Green (actress), Jamie Walsh (actress),
Plot: With the assassination of his rowdy and bawdy father King Philip in 336 BC, Alexander gathers up his Home-Boy Macedonians (30,000 or so) and crosses the Hellespont to strike Darius and the Persian Horde. The Persians, of course, torched the Acropolis three generations earlier. The Greeks (and Macedonians) never forgot. During his herculean 12-year odyssey, Alexander succeeds in creating a world empire from the Danube to the Indus. Ever the glorious conqueror, he shows not only military genius, but compassion for the conquered. Alexander's women (aside from his mother Olympias) include his life-long consort, Barsine, who takes him on erotic / chemical "trips". There is also Roxanne, the Bactrian princess / wannabe dancer, his possessive first wife and True Love. His second marriage to Stateira, Darius' clueless daughter, doesn't set well with Roxanne, which starts the tragic time-clock ticking. Roxanne opts into a regime-changing scenario-- orchestrated back in Athens by Demosthenes and Macedonian rivals.
Keywords: betrayal, womenGenres: Adventure,
Taglines: Re-Live the Legend ! In the fourth century before Christ, a young Macedonian prince led 30,000 armed and dangerous Greeks into Asia. . . . Sometimes it's hard to tell your friends from your enemies
Alexander (2004)
Actors: Jared Leto (actor), Christopher Plummer (actor), John Kavanagh (actor), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (actor), Colin Farrell (actor), Oliver Stone (actor), Stéphane Ferrara (actor), Jason Croot (actor), Tim Pigott-Smith (actor), Anthony Hopkins (actor), Féodor Atkine (actor), Brian Blessed (actor), Val Kilmer (actor), Angelina Jolie (actress), Rosario Dawson (actress),
Plot: Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians he leads his Army across the then known world venturing further than any Westerner had ever gone all the way to India.
Keywords: 25-year-old, 285-bc, 323-bc, 3rd-century-b.c., 4th-century-b.c., african-lion, alexander-the-great, alexandria-egypt, ambition, ancient-egyptGenres: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War,
Taglines: Fortune favors the bold The greatest legend of all was real
Quotes:
Alexander: I've come to believe the fear of death drives all men, Hephaistion. This we didn't learn as schoolboys.::Hephaistion: I've always believed, Alexander. But this seems so much bigger than us.::Alexander: Did Patroclus stare at Achilles when they stood side by side at the siege of troy?::Hephaistion: Patroclus died first.::Alexander: If you do... if you were to fall Hephaistion, I will avenge you, and follow you down to the house of death.::Hephaistion: I would do the same.::Alexander: On the eve of battle it's hardest to be alone.::Hephaistion: Then perhaps this is farewell, my Alexander.::Alexander: Fear not, Hephaistion. We are at the beginning.Alexander: Conquer your fear, and I promise you, you will conquer death.
Hephaistion: You know better than any great deeds are donned by men who took, and never regretted. You're Alexander! Pity and grief will only destroy you.::Alexander: Have I become so arrogant that I am blind?::Hephaistion: Sometimes to expect the best from everyone is arrogance.::Alexander: Then it's true. I have become a tyrant!::Hephaistion: No! But perhaps a stranger. We've come too far. They don't understand you anymore.::Alexander: They speak of Phillip now as if I were a passing cloud, soon to be forgotten. I've failed. Utterly.::Hephaistion: You're mortal. And they know it. And they forgive you because you make them proud of themselves.
Olympias: My little Achilles.
Olympias: My poor child. You're like Achilles; cursed by your greatness. You must never confuse your feelings with your duties, Alexander. A king must make public gestures for the common people. You will be nineteen this summer, and the girls already say you don't like them, you like Hephastion more. I understand, it's natural for a young man. But if you go to Asia without leaving a successor you risk all.::Alexander: Hephastion loves me. As I am. Not who.
Cassander: Alexander, if we must fight, do so with stealth. Use your numbers well; we should attack tonight when they least expect us.::Alexander: I didn't cross Asia to steal this victory, Cassander.::Cassander: No, you are too honorable for that, no doubt influenced from sleeping with tales of Troy under your pillow. But your father was no lover of Homer's.::Parmenion: The lands west of the Euphrates, Alexander, and his daughter's hand in marriage! Since when has a Greek ever been given such honors?::Alexander: These are not honors, Parmenion, they're bribes! Which the Greeks have accepted too long! You forget, Parmenion, that the man who murdered my father lies across the valley floor.::Parmenion: Come, Alexander, we're not really sure if it was Persian gold behind the assassination. It is no matter! Your father taught you never to surrender your reason to your passion! I urge you, with all my experience, regroup! Fall back to the coast, raise a larger force!::Alexander: I would, if I were Parmenion. But I am Alexander. And no more than earth has two suns will Asia bear two kings. These are my terms. And if Darius isn't a coward who hides behind his men then he'll come to me tomorrow. And *when* he bows down to Greece, Alexander will be merciful.
Alexander: May all those who come here after us know, when they see this altar, that titans were once here.
Alexander: A thousand ships we'll launch from here, Hephaistion! We'll round Arabia, and sail up the gulf to Egypt. From there, we'll build a channel through the desert, out to the middle sea. And then we'll move on Carthage, and that great island Cecily; they'll pay large tribute. After that the Romans - good fighters, but we'll beat them. And then explore the northern forests, and add the pillars of Heracles to the western ocean. And then one day, populations will mix and travel freely. Asia and Europe will come together. And we'll grow old, Hephaistion, looking out our balcony at this new world.
Young Alexander: One day I'll be on walls like these.
Hephaistion: [on his death bed] I'll feel better. Soon I'll be up.::Alexander: We leave for Arabia in the spring, I can't leave without you!::Hephaistion: Arabia... you used to dress me up like a sheik and wave your wooden scimitar...::Alexander: You were the only one who'd never let me win. The only one who's ever been honest with me. You saved me from myself. Please don't leave me, Hephaistion.::Hephaistion: ...I remember the young man who wanted to be Achilles, and then out did him.::Alexander: And then what happens? That was a myth only young men believe!::Hephaistion: But how beautiful a myth it was.::Alexander: How we reach, we fall! Oh, Hephaistion.::Hephaistion: I worry for you without me.::Alexander: I am nothing without you!
The Elephant's Egg (2004)
Actors: Patrick Kirst (composer), Nicholas Hosking (actor), Jerod Edington (actor), Peter Samet (editor), Brett Henenberg (producer), Gina Hendrix (costume designer), Eli Craig (producer), Sam Yousefian (actor), Sam Yousefian (producer), Sam Yousefian (writer), Manuel Urrego (actor), Sam Yousefian (director), Ken Rosier (actor), Maximilian Gutierrez (producer), Mark Robertson (producer),
Plot: Joe has a Zippo lighter engraved with a Praying Mantis by Salvador Dali. It was given to him by his recent ex-gal, Leyla. One night, after Joe has a drunken heart-to-heart with his dog, Ptolemy, he discovers that he still loves Leyla and that he wishes to have her back. Coincidentally, he also discovers that the lighter contains a Hippopotamus Genie who is willing to grant his wish. The Hippo of the Zippo tells him that in order to get the girl, he must enter the underworld and break the Elephant's Egg at the Sparkling Sea. So Joe and Ptolemy set off on a journey through a Dali painting to win back the girl.
Genres: Comedy, Short,Taglines: Joe's got a dilemma... and a talking Dog, a Hippo in his Zippo, a Man Eating Praying Mantis and he wants his girl back.
Alexander Senki (1997)
Actors: Kirk Thornton (actor), Nicholas Tse (actor), Michael Sorich (actor), Terrence Stone (actor), Toshihiko Seki (actor), Dwight Schultz (actor), Tony Pope (actor), Beau Billingslea (actor), John DiMaggio (actor), Dae-kun Lee (actor), Jordan Chan (actor), Shûichi Ikeda (actor), Bob Papenbrook (actor), Takeshi Aono (actor), John Wesley (actor),
Plot: Alexander the Great was the world's most powerful warrior. Reign is a 21st century science-fiction retelling of the legend of this Macedonian king. A visual masterpiece, Reign tells the story of Alexander's's triumphs through engaging characters, intricate plots and glorious battle sequences.
Keywords: alexandria-egypt, allegory, anime, character-name-in-title, chosen-one, city, egypt, fictional-war, geometry, goddessGenres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi,
The Search for Alexander the Great (1981)
Actors: Gabriel Byrne (actor), Julian Glover (actor), James Mason (actor), James Mason (actor), Robert Stephens (actor), Jane Lapotaire (actress), Nicholas Clay (actor), Ian Charleson (actor), Michael Williams (actor), Robert Sharples (composer),
Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance,Caesar and Cleopatra (1976)
Actors: Geneviève Bujold (actress), George Bernard Shaw (writer), Neville Phillips (actor), Alec Guinness (actor), Michael Bryant (actor), Michael J. Lewis (composer), Iain Cuthbertson (actor), Noel Willman (actor), Clive Francis (actor), Gareth Thomas (actor), Margaret Courtenay (actress), James Cellan Jones (director), Roy Stewart (actor), Michael Poole (actor), Audrey Maas (writer),
Genres: Drama,Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
Actors: Gibb McLaughlin (actor), H.F. Maltby (actor), Raymond Lovell (actor), Mihalis Kakogiannis (actor), Leo Genn (actor), John Laurie (actor), Anthony Holles (actor), Stanley Holloway (actor), Felix Aylmer (actor), Valentine Dyall (actor), Ivor Barnard (actor), Gerald Case (actor), Stewart Granger (actor), Cecil Parker (actor), Roger Moore (actor),
Plot: Cleopatra hasn't been on the throne of the pharoahs of Egypt very long when Julius Caesar pays a visit. Caesar finds the prospect of romance more tempting than he expected, since Cleopatra is a rare woman who is bright as well as beautiful. And for Cleopatra, a friendly relationship with the most powerful man in the world may pay dividends in the future.
Keywords: 1st-century-b.c., ancient-rome, based-on-play, character-name-in-title, cleopatra, control, dictator, egypt, egyptian, femme-fataleGenres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Romance, War,
Taglines: The most lavish picture ever on the screen! Days of magnificent adventure... nights of maddest revelry... a temptation in Technicolor! Never before such seductive beauty; such riotous... luxurious... loving and living
Quotes:
Julius Caesar: Go, Ptolemy. Always take a throne when it is offered to you.Julius Caesar: And so to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right, and justice, and peace, until the gods create a race of men that can understand.
Julius Caesar: What's the matter?::Cleopatra: You're bald! That's why you wear the wreath!
Julius Caesar: Is it sweet or bitter to be a queen?::Cleopatra: Bitter.::Julius Caesar: Cast out fear, and you will conquer Caeser.
Apollodorus: When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares it his duty.
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Ptolemy and Ancient Astronomy (In Our Time, 17/11/11)
*** The ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy, and consider how and why his geocentric theory of the universe held sway for so many centuries. In his seminal astronomical work, the Almagest, written in the 2nd century AD, Ptolemy proposed that the Earth was at the centre of the universe and explained all the observed motions of the Sun, Moon, planets and stars with a system of uniform circular motions which he referred to as 'epicycles'. But Ptolemy was a polymath and did not confine his study of the stars to mathematical equations. He was also interested in astrology and his book on this topic, the Tetrabiblos, tackled the spiritual aspects of the cosmos and its influence on individual lives and personalities.Ptolemy's model of the universe remained the dominant one for over ... -
ptolemy's model of the universe
http://www.principiauniversi.com/ The word "planet" comes from the Greek word "planetos" meaning wandering star (thus, unlike the Earth, in Ptolemy's model, the Sun and Moon were planets). Because of retrograde, for centuries unexplainable movements, the heavenly bodies in Ptolemy's model does not move by ellipses but rather by curves called epicycles. This animation shows simplified Ptolemy's model of the Universe with Moon as a first, and Sun as a fourth planet orbiting around Earth. All planets except Moon and Sun are moving on epicycles whit their centres positioned on circles called deferent. Last sphere, after Saturn, is a sphere of Stars. In this particular figure, orbital periods are adjusted so they always draw the same path. The background sound is Simphonies of planets recorded ... -
Ptolemy I Soter
For the astronomer, see Ptolemy; for others named "Ptolemy" or "Ptolemaeus", see Ptolemy (disambiguation). Ptolemy I Soter I (Ancient Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Σωτήρ, Ptolemaĩos Sōtḗr, i.e. Ptolemy (pronounced /ˈtɒləmi/) the Savior), also known as Ptolemy Lagides, c. 367 BC – c. 283 BC, was a Macedonian general under Alexander the Great, who became ruler of Egypt (323–283 BC) and founder of both the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the Ptolemaic Dynasty. In 305/4 BC he demanded the title of pharaoh. This video is targeted to blind users. Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA Creative Commons image source in video -
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The Flat Earth : Van Muller And Ptolemy Maps
he Waldseemüller map, Universalis Cosmographia, is a printed wall map of the world by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, originally published in April 1507. It is known as the first map to use the name "America". Its main map, and his globe gores of the same date, depict the American continents in two pieces. These depictions differ from the small inset map in the top border, which shows the two American continents joined by an isthmus. The name America is placed on what is now called South America on the main map, this being the first map known to use this name. As explained in Cosmographiae Introductio, the name was bestowed in honor of the Italian Amerigo Vespucci. The map is drafted on a modification of Ptolemy's second projection, expanded to accommodate the Americas and the hi... -
Ptolemy on Alexander The Great
Ptolemy on Alexander The Great Alexander III (late July, 356 BC--June 10, 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, in Greek "Megas Alexandros", King of Macedon (336 BC-323 BC), was one of the most successful military commanders of the ancient world. Following the unification of the multiple city states of Ancient Greece under the rule of his father, Philip II of Macedon, Alexander conquered the Persian Empire, including Anatolia, Syria, Egypt, Bactria and Mesopotamia, and extended the boundaries of his own empire as far as India. Alexander integrated non-Greeks into his army and administration, leading some scholars to credit him with a "policy of fusion." May all mortals from now on live like one people in concord and for mutual advancement. Consider the world as your country, ... -
Aphex Twin - Ptolemy
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From Ptolemy to Copernicus
Why the Copernican and Ptolemaic views of the solar system actually look the same from the earth. (Prepared for Science A-17, Harvard University, Fall 1999.) -
Ptolemy vs Seleucus (Massive Battles)
Alexander's Successors are not content with just a part of the empire. Ptolemy and Seleucus are at each other's throats and have brought with them the bulk of their armies for a decisive engagement
4 The Universe Aristotle and Ptolemy
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Ptolemy and Ancient Astronomy (In Our Time, 17/11/11)
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*** The ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy, and consider how and why his geocentric theory of the universe held sway for so many centuries. In h...
*** The ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy, and consider how and why his geocentric theory of the universe held sway for so many centuries. In his seminal astronomical work, the Almagest, written in the 2nd century AD, Ptolemy proposed that the Earth was at the centre of the universe and explained all the observed motions of the Sun, Moon, planets and stars with a system of uniform circular motions which he referred to as 'epicycles'. But Ptolemy was a polymath and did not confine his study of the stars to mathematical equations. He was also interested in astrology and his book on this topic, the Tetrabiblos, tackled the spiritual aspects of the cosmos and its influence on individual lives and personalities.Ptolemy's model of the universe remained the dominant one for over a thousand years. It was not until 1543, and Copernicus's heliocentric theory of the world, that the Ptolemaic model was finally challenged, and not until 1609 that Johannes Kepler's New Astronomy put an end to his ideas for good. But how and why did Ptolemy's system survive for so long? ***
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*** The ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy, and consider how and why his geocentric theory of the universe held sway for so many centuries. In his seminal astronomical work, the Almagest, written in the 2nd century AD, Ptolemy proposed that the Earth was at the centre of the universe and explained all the observed motions of the Sun, Moon, planets and stars with a system of uniform circular motions which he referred to as 'epicycles'. But Ptolemy was a polymath and did not confine his study of the stars to mathematical equations. He was also interested in astrology and his book on this topic, the Tetrabiblos, tackled the spiritual aspects of the cosmos and its influence on individual lives and personalities.Ptolemy's model of the universe remained the dominant one for over a thousand years. It was not until 1543, and Copernicus's heliocentric theory of the world, that the Ptolemaic model was finally challenged, and not until 1609 that Johannes Kepler's New Astronomy put an end to his ideas for good. But how and why did Ptolemy's system survive for so long? ***
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Jim Bennett
Charles Burnett
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ptolemy's model of the universe
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http://www.principiauniversi.com/
The word "planet" comes from the Greek word "planetos" meaning wandering star (thus, unlike the Earth, in Ptolemy's model, the...
http://www.principiauniversi.com/
The word "planet" comes from the Greek word "planetos" meaning wandering star (thus, unlike the Earth, in Ptolemy's model, the Sun and Moon were planets). Because of retrograde, for centuries unexplainable movements, the heavenly bodies in Ptolemy's model does not move by ellipses but rather by curves called epicycles.
This animation shows simplified Ptolemy's model of the Universe with Moon as a first, and Sun as a fourth planet orbiting around Earth. All planets except Moon and Sun are moving on epicycles whit their centres positioned on circles called deferent. Last sphere, after Saturn, is a sphere of Stars. In this particular figure, orbital periods are adjusted so they always draw the same path.
The background sound is Simphonies of planets recorded by NASA Voyager.
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http://www.principiauniversi.com/
The word "planet" comes from the Greek word "planetos" meaning wandering star (thus, unlike the Earth, in Ptolemy's model, the Sun and Moon were planets). Because of retrograde, for centuries unexplainable movements, the heavenly bodies in Ptolemy's model does not move by ellipses but rather by curves called epicycles.
This animation shows simplified Ptolemy's model of the Universe with Moon as a first, and Sun as a fourth planet orbiting around Earth. All planets except Moon and Sun are moving on epicycles whit their centres positioned on circles called deferent. Last sphere, after Saturn, is a sphere of Stars. In this particular figure, orbital periods are adjusted so they always draw the same path.
The background sound is Simphonies of planets recorded by NASA Voyager.
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Ptolemy I Soter
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For the astronomer, see Ptolemy; for others named "Ptolemy" or "Ptolemaeus", see Ptolemy (disambiguation).
Ptolemy I Soter I (Ancient Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Σωτήρ, P...
For the astronomer, see Ptolemy; for others named "Ptolemy" or "Ptolemaeus", see Ptolemy (disambiguation).
Ptolemy I Soter I (Ancient Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Σωτήρ, Ptolemaĩos Sōtḗr, i.e. Ptolemy (pronounced /ˈtɒləmi/) the Savior), also known as Ptolemy Lagides, c. 367 BC – c. 283 BC, was a Macedonian general under Alexander the Great, who became ruler of Egypt (323–283 BC) and founder of both the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the Ptolemaic Dynasty. In 305/4 BC he demanded the title of pharaoh.
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For the astronomer, see Ptolemy; for others named "Ptolemy" or "Ptolemaeus", see Ptolemy (disambiguation).
Ptolemy I Soter I (Ancient Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Σωτήρ, Ptolemaĩos Sōtḗr, i.e. Ptolemy (pronounced /ˈtɒləmi/) the Savior), also known as Ptolemy Lagides, c. 367 BC – c. 283 BC, was a Macedonian general under Alexander the Great, who became ruler of Egypt (323–283 BC) and founder of both the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the Ptolemaic Dynasty. In 305/4 BC he demanded the title of pharaoh.
This video is targeted to blind users.
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Ptolemy's Solar Hypotheses
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An illustration of Ptolemy's two hypotheses presented in Book III, Chapter 3 of the Almagest.
Music: Múm - Green Grass Of Tunnel
Video by Noah Litvin
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An illustration of Ptolemy's two hypotheses presented in Book III, Chapter 3 of the Almagest.
Music: Múm - Green Grass Of Tunnel
Video by Noah Litvin
http://noahlitvin.com
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The Flat Earth : Van Muller And Ptolemy Maps
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he Waldseemüller map, Universalis Cosmographia, is a printed wall map of the world by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, originally published in April 15...
he Waldseemüller map, Universalis Cosmographia, is a printed wall map of the world by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, originally published in April 1507. It is known as the first map to use the name "America". Its main map, and his globe gores of the same date, depict the American continents in two pieces. These depictions differ from the small inset map in the top border, which shows the two American continents joined by an isthmus. The name America is placed on what is now called South America on the main map, this being the first map known to use this name. As explained in Cosmographiae Introductio, the name was bestowed in honor of the Italian Amerigo Vespucci. The map is drafted on a modification of Ptolemy's second projection, expanded to accommodate the Americas and the high latitudes.[1] A single copy of the map survives, presently housed at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Waldseemüller also created globe gores, printed maps designed to be cut out and pasted onto spheres to form globes of the Earth.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldseemüller_map
The Ptolemy world map is a map of the world known to Hellenistic society in the 2nd century. It is based on the description contained in Ptolemy's book Geography, written c. 150. Based on an inscription in several of the earliest surviving manuscripts, it is traditionally credited to Agathodaemon of Alexandria. Perhaps the most significant contributions of Ptolemy's maps are the first uses of longitudinal and latitudinal lines as well as specifying terrestrial locations by celestial observations. The Geography was translated from Greek into Arabic in the 9th century and played a role in the work of al-Khwārizmī before lapsing into obscurity. The idea of a global coordinate system revolutionized European geographical thought, however, and inspired more mathematical treatment of cartography.
Ptolemy's work probably originally came with maps but none has been discovered. Instead, the present form of the map was reconstructed from Ptolemy's coördinates by Byzantine monks under the direction of Maximus Planudes shortly after 1295. It probably was not that of the original text, as it uses the less favored of the two alternate projections offered by Ptolemy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy%27s_world_map
wn.com/The Flat Earth Van Muller And Ptolemy Maps
he Waldseemüller map, Universalis Cosmographia, is a printed wall map of the world by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, originally published in April 1507. It is known as the first map to use the name "America". Its main map, and his globe gores of the same date, depict the American continents in two pieces. These depictions differ from the small inset map in the top border, which shows the two American continents joined by an isthmus. The name America is placed on what is now called South America on the main map, this being the first map known to use this name. As explained in Cosmographiae Introductio, the name was bestowed in honor of the Italian Amerigo Vespucci. The map is drafted on a modification of Ptolemy's second projection, expanded to accommodate the Americas and the high latitudes.[1] A single copy of the map survives, presently housed at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Waldseemüller also created globe gores, printed maps designed to be cut out and pasted onto spheres to form globes of the Earth.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldseemüller_map
The Ptolemy world map is a map of the world known to Hellenistic society in the 2nd century. It is based on the description contained in Ptolemy's book Geography, written c. 150. Based on an inscription in several of the earliest surviving manuscripts, it is traditionally credited to Agathodaemon of Alexandria. Perhaps the most significant contributions of Ptolemy's maps are the first uses of longitudinal and latitudinal lines as well as specifying terrestrial locations by celestial observations. The Geography was translated from Greek into Arabic in the 9th century and played a role in the work of al-Khwārizmī before lapsing into obscurity. The idea of a global coordinate system revolutionized European geographical thought, however, and inspired more mathematical treatment of cartography.
Ptolemy's work probably originally came with maps but none has been discovered. Instead, the present form of the map was reconstructed from Ptolemy's coördinates by Byzantine monks under the direction of Maximus Planudes shortly after 1295. It probably was not that of the original text, as it uses the less favored of the two alternate projections offered by Ptolemy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy%27s_world_map
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Ptolemy on Alexander The Great
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Ptolemy on Alexander The Great
Alexander III (late July, 356 BC--June 10, 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, in Greek "Megas Alexandros", King of...
Ptolemy on Alexander The Great
Alexander III (late July, 356 BC--June 10, 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, in Greek "Megas Alexandros", King of Macedon (336 BC-323 BC), was one of the most successful military commanders of the ancient world. Following the unification of the multiple city states of Ancient Greece under the rule of his father, Philip II of Macedon, Alexander conquered the Persian Empire, including Anatolia, Syria, Egypt, Bactria and Mesopotamia, and extended the boundaries of his own empire as far as India. Alexander integrated non-Greeks into his army and administration, leading some scholars to credit him with a "policy of fusion."
May all mortals from now on live like one people in concord and for mutual advancement. Consider the world as your country, with laws common to all and where the best will govern irrespective of tribe. I do not distinguish among men, as the narrow-minded do, both among Greeks and Barbarians. I am not interested in the descendance of the citizens or their racial origins. I classify them using one criterion: their virtue.
"Alexander's Oath given a"There is no part of my body but my back which has not a scar..."
In 332-331 BC Alexander was welcomed as a liberator in Egypt and was pronounced the son of Zeus by Egyptian priests of the god Ammon at the Oracle of the god at the Siwah oasis in the Libyan Desert. He founded Alexandria in Egypt, which would become the prosperous capital of the Ptolemaic dynasty after his death.
Dhu al-Qarnain is Alexander the Greek, the king of Persia and Greece, or the king of the east and the west, for because of this he was called Dhul-Qarnayn [meaning, "the two-horned one"]... Ibn Hisham
If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes. After Diogenes of Sinope who was lying in the sun, responded to a query by Alexander asking if he could do anything for him with a reply requesting that he stop blocking his sunlight. As quoted in "On the Fortune of Alexander" by Plutarcht Opis", as quoted by Nikos Martis
If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost parts of land and sea, to push the bounds of Macedonia to the farthest Ocean, and to disseminate and shower the blessings of the Hellenic justice and peace over every nation, I should not be content to sit quietly in the luxury of idle power, but I should emulate the frugality of Diogenes. But as things are, forgive me Diogenes, that I imitate Herakles, and emulate Perseus, and follow in the footsteps of Dionysos, the divine author and progenitor of my family, and desire that victorious Hellenes should dance again in India and revive the memory of the Bacchic revels among the savage mountain tribes beyond the Kaukasos... As quoted in "On the Fortune of Alexander" by Plutarch
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Ptolemy on Alexander The Great
Alexander III (late July, 356 BC--June 10, 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, in Greek "Megas Alexandros", King of Macedon (336 BC-323 BC), was one of the most successful military commanders of the ancient world. Following the unification of the multiple city states of Ancient Greece under the rule of his father, Philip II of Macedon, Alexander conquered the Persian Empire, including Anatolia, Syria, Egypt, Bactria and Mesopotamia, and extended the boundaries of his own empire as far as India. Alexander integrated non-Greeks into his army and administration, leading some scholars to credit him with a "policy of fusion."
May all mortals from now on live like one people in concord and for mutual advancement. Consider the world as your country, with laws common to all and where the best will govern irrespective of tribe. I do not distinguish among men, as the narrow-minded do, both among Greeks and Barbarians. I am not interested in the descendance of the citizens or their racial origins. I classify them using one criterion: their virtue.
"Alexander's Oath given a"There is no part of my body but my back which has not a scar..."
In 332-331 BC Alexander was welcomed as a liberator in Egypt and was pronounced the son of Zeus by Egyptian priests of the god Ammon at the Oracle of the god at the Siwah oasis in the Libyan Desert. He founded Alexandria in Egypt, which would become the prosperous capital of the Ptolemaic dynasty after his death.
Dhu al-Qarnain is Alexander the Greek, the king of Persia and Greece, or the king of the east and the west, for because of this he was called Dhul-Qarnayn [meaning, "the two-horned one"]... Ibn Hisham
If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes. After Diogenes of Sinope who was lying in the sun, responded to a query by Alexander asking if he could do anything for him with a reply requesting that he stop blocking his sunlight. As quoted in "On the Fortune of Alexander" by Plutarcht Opis", as quoted by Nikos Martis
If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost parts of land and sea, to push the bounds of Macedonia to the farthest Ocean, and to disseminate and shower the blessings of the Hellenic justice and peace over every nation, I should not be content to sit quietly in the luxury of idle power, but I should emulate the frugality of Diogenes. But as things are, forgive me Diogenes, that I imitate Herakles, and emulate Perseus, and follow in the footsteps of Dionysos, the divine author and progenitor of my family, and desire that victorious Hellenes should dance again in India and revive the memory of the Bacchic revels among the savage mountain tribes beyond the Kaukasos... As quoted in "On the Fortune of Alexander" by Plutarch
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Aphex Twin - Ptolemy
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Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (1992)
2008 Remaster
This audio comes from a verified lossless source.
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From Ptolemy to Copernicus
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Why the Copernican and Ptolemaic views of the solar system actually look the same from the earth.
(Prepared for Science A-17, Harvard University, Fall 1999.)
Why the Copernican and Ptolemaic views of the solar system actually look the same from the earth.
(Prepared for Science A-17, Harvard University, Fall 1999.)
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Why the Copernican and Ptolemaic views of the solar system actually look the same from the earth.
(Prepared for Science A-17, Harvard University, Fall 1999.)
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Ptolemy vs Seleucus (Massive Battles)
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Alexander's Successors are not content with just a part of the empire. Ptolemy and Seleucus are at each other's throats and have brought with them the bulk of t...
Alexander's Successors are not content with just a part of the empire. Ptolemy and Seleucus are at each other's throats and have brought with them the bulk of their armies for a decisive engagement
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4 The Universe Aristotle and Ptolemy
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Ptolemy and Ancient Astronomy (In Our Time, 17/11/11)
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ptolemy's model of the universe
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Ptolemy I Soter
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Ptolemy's Solar Hypotheses
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The Flat Earth : Van Muller And Ptolemy Maps
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Ptolemy on Alexander The Great
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Aphex Twin - Ptolemy
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From Ptolemy to Copernicus
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Ptolemy vs Seleucus (Massive Battles)
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Ptolemy
Ptolemy
People at the city say he's buried underground
They're turning over the stones but there's nothing
here to be found
Looking to the desert in a cool moonlight
Nobody watching, there is no one out tonight
Standing in the shadow there's a real mean guy
And I don't know if I'll make it and I don't know if
I'm gonna die tonight
Take a caravan to the limit of the city
Smoke the hookah pipes where the people have no pity
Ptolemy
The dogs will howl in the market square
You'll bargain for your life but you leave their
treasures there
Don't you go astray on the wrong side of the city
Fighting for your life where the people have no pity
Ptolemy
I wish I'd never listened
To that old high priest
He told me of the riches
They buried beneath
Down in the crypt where the men fear to tread
She danced the seven veils and the boy was nearly dead
Don't you go astray on the wrong side of the city
Fighting for your life where the people have no pity
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Saudi nationals connected to the government in Riyadh may have aided some of the Sept. 11 hijackers in the U.S ... intelligence officials who approved releasing the report, as families of some of the 3,000 victims of the attacks have long demanded, emphasized that they didn’t consider it accurate or reliable ... WN.com, Jim Berrie ....
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Bastille Day revelers were targeted in what is being called a terrorist attack by a truck carrying hand grenades and other weapons drove onto a sidewalk for more than a mile, killing 77 people before police were able to shoot and kill the driver according to The Associated Press. Some outlets have reported the suspect was a local in Nice who was originally from Tunisia ... I saw bodies flying like bowling pins along its route." ... ....
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Europe backs lunar drilling technology
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The European Space Agency has signed a contract to build a prototype drill and chemistry lab that will be flown on a Russian mission to the Moon in 2021. Known as Prospect, the instrument package will be a key contribution to Moscow's Luna-Resurs venture ... The €8m (£10m) deal was signed at the Farnborough Air Show ... Its chemistry lab is a descendent of the Ptolemy mass spectrometer flown on Philae ... @BBCAmos. ....
We've entered an investment 'bizarro world'
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Poland, 1503. A young man named Nicolaus Copernicus returns home after years spent studying Catholicism and astrology among the priests and clerics of Italy. He is schooled in the ideas of Ptolemy, the Ancient Greek who had originally popularized the idea that the planets, sun and moon revolved around the earth. This idea had become accepted as fact and had been taught that way for over a thousand years ... *** ... The Reformed Broker ... Source. ... ....
Adrift on the Nile: What to expect from Egypt’s luxurious Nile cruise
Edit Indian Express 12 Jul 2016
As our EgyptAir flight lands on the tarmac early in the morning, Aswan seems a world away from the bustle of Cairo. The air is redolent of rest and languor at Egypt’s ancient southern frontier and the Nile is at its most magnificent here ... by being on the Nile ... The Nile in Cairo ... 1 ... Nile was once known for its crocodiles and the temple dedicated to Sobek, built during the time of Ptolemy VI, was a mark of veneration for the sacred animal....
Innovation and the UK’s “Hidden Heroes” (Crafts Council)
Edit Public Technologies 06 Jul 2016
(Source. Crafts Council). Craft makers are the 'hidden heroes' of the UK's innovation economy, and government and business must better understand and better invest in the sector or risk losing a £3.4 billion industry to global competitors in Europe and Asia. This is the key finding of a major new report from the UK Crafts Council ... In a similar example, weaver and textile artist Ptolemy Mann recently collaborated with Johnson Tiles....
Egyptian charm
Edit Deccan Herald 25 Jun 2016
She lay there. On her back. Wrapped in layers of linen. Her hands folded on her chest. Her face invisible. She lay quiet. The linen frayed at the edges and the painted motifs faded with age. I stood by her. I knew not her name. She must have been 14. I knew not her age ... Where I stood, once stood the world’s largest library, the famous Alexandria Library, which was founded by Ptolemy in 3rd century BC, and had thousands of papyrus scrolls....
What’s Chennai’s true age? Over 2,000 years, say records
Edit The Times of India 24 Jun 2016
The Chennai region was a part of Tondaimandalam ... Greco-Egyptian writer Ptolemy observed that the region was named Aruvarnoi and that the territory roughly extended between South Pennar and North Pennar, which together came to be called as Tondaimandalam or Tondainadu, after the conquest by Tondaiman Ilam Tiraiyan, who took over the Chola empire from Karikala Chola and Nedumudikilli ... Stay updated on the go with Times of India News App....
Laureation Address: Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd (University of St Andrews)
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(Source. University of St Andrews) ... His first book Polarity and Analogy was published in 1966 ... It is also packed with detailed readings, with original analysis of dozens of works by Plato and Aristotle, Galen and the Hippocratic texts on medicine, writers like Anaximander, Eudoxus and Ptolemy on cosmology and astronomy, Euclid, Archimedes, Pappus and Proclus on mathematics, and many more, along with their numerous Chinese counterparts....
Watch the night sky
Edit The Hindu 15 Jun 2016
June 30 is World Meteor Watch Day. Meteors are also known as ‘shooting stars’. Look up into the night sky and you might see a sudden streak of light ... Make a wish ... This is believed to have originated in Greece around AD 127-151, when Greek astronomer Ptolemy wrote that sometimes the Gods out of curiosity, peered down at the Earth from between the spheres ... Its very name has a Greek origin ... What is it? ... Journey to discovery ... saw it....
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory celebrates its birthday - and there's just one year left to see it
Edit Digital Spy 14 Jun 2016
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is directed by Sam Mendes and had its debut between the filmmaker's hit Bond movies Skyfall and Spectre ... Charlie Bucket – who alternates from night-to-night – is played by one of Guillermo Bedward, Noah Crump, Archie Durrant and Ptolemy Gidney ... ....
The Glory of Pergamon in New York
Edit The New York Review of Books 14 Jun 2016
The Antigonids, from the family of Alexander’s general Antigonus the One-Eyed, assumed control in Macedonia, the Ptolemies became rulers of Egypt, Seleucus took over greater Syria to constitute a Seleucid kingdom, and finally Philetairos, the son of Attalus, took possession of Pergamon ... It was the emperor Caligula himself who had this young Ptolemy murdered....
Preacher: Season 1, Episode 2 – See Review
Edit Empire 06 Jun 2016
Various elements of the episode will be discussed in this review, so beware spoilers. And watch the episode before you read on, lest you face the wrath of the almighty. Or Cassidy... 1881 ... You can practically taste the dust in your mouth ... The scene at the church also introduces another slightly off member of the community, Linus (Ptolemy Slocum), the local school bus driver who is having sexual thoughts about one of his young charges ... MVP....
Maps of the Moon Mountains Once Thought to Be the Source of the Nile
Edit Slate 29 Mar 2016
While the Mountains of the Moon likely sprung from an ancient Arab idea, the legends survive mainly thanks to accounts by classical explorers and historians, namely Ptolemy. Ptolemy’s Geographia, written around 150 A.D ... In the second century A.D., when Ptolemy was around, European expeditions to the interior of Africa had rarely been successful enough to create an accurate picture of the geography....
The story of cities, day 1: how Alexandria laid foundations for the modern world
Edit The Guardian 14 Mar 2016
Cities is supported by. Rockefeller Foundation ... Twitter ... Twitter ... Within a decade, he had died in Babylon; his successor in Egypt, Ptolemy I, orchestrated an audacious kidnap of the body as it was en route to burial in Alexander’s native Macedon (modern-day Macedonia) and brought it instead to Alexandria where it was ensconced in a colossal tomb ... Ptolemy wanted Alexander in death because it helped legitimise his own authority in life ... ....
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