Eudoxus
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Eudoxus or Eudoxos was the name of two ancient Greeks
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece is a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity. Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era. Included in Ancient Greece is the...
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- Eudoxus of CnidusEudoxus of CnidusEudoxus of Cnidus was a Greek astronomer, mathematician, scholar and student of Plato. Since all his own works are lost, our knowledge of him is obtained from secondary sources, such as Aratus's poem on astronomy...
(c. 408 BC400s BC-Deaths:* Theramenes* Alcibiades, Athenian politician * Darius II, emperor of Persia...
– c.347 BC), Greek astronomer and mathematician. - Eudoxus of CyzicusEudoxus of CyzicusEudoxus of Cyzicus was a Greek navigator who explored the Arabian Sea for Ptolemy VIII, king of the Hellenistic Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt.-Voyages to India:...
(fl. 130 BC130s BC-Births:* 138 BC – Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Roman politician, dictator 82-79 BC * 133 BC – Mithridates VI, King of Pontus-Deaths:* 137 BC – King Dutugemunu of Sri Lanka* 135 BC – Simon Maccabaeus, of Judea...
), Greek navigator.