Theon of Samos (Ancient Greek: Θέων ὁ Σάμιος) was an ancient Greek painter during the era of Alexander the Great, is mentioned by Quintilian as a good...

Samos (/ˈseɪmɒs/, also US: /ˈsæmoʊs, ˈsɑːmɔːs/; Greek: Σάμος, romanized: Sámos) is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos...

surviving text of Ptolemy's Almagest, based on the title of her father Theon's commentary on Book III of the Almagest. Hypatia constructed astrolabes...

investigates the heliocentric model of the solar system proposed by Aristarchus of Samos by having an object dropped from the mast of a moving ship, which demonstrates...

collegial relations with scholars based there, including his friend Conon of Samos and the head librarian Eratosthenes of Cyrene. The standard versions of...

'Sacred Island', although some historians say that it was formerly called Samos and was then given the name of Samothrace by Thracians who at one time dwelt...

rotated around the sun. Finally, in the 3rd century BCE, Aristarchus of Samos (sometimes called the "Ancient Copernicus") was the first and only premodern...

collection of Hellenistic myths about the constellations Aristarchus of Samos (c. 310 – c. 230 BC), a Greek mathematician who calculated the distance...

province of the Ottoman Empire Nikos Stavridis (1910–1987): Samos, Principality of Samos, then an autonomous principality under Ottoman suzerainty Pyrros...

Arethas Aristo Aristodicus Artemidorus Grammaticus Artemon Asclepiades of Samos Asclepiodotus (poet) Asinius Quadratus Athenaeus Automedon Bacchylides Besantinus...