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    Philo (redirect from Philon of Alexandria)
    Philo of Alexandria (/ˈfaɪloʊ/; Ancient Greek: Φίλω-ν, romanized: Phílōn; Hebrew: יְדִידְיָה, romanized: Yəḏīḏyāh; c. 20 BCE – c.  50 CE), also called...
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    Hamburg 1961 (Philosophische Bibliothek 80), ISBN 978-3-7873-0930-6 Philon von Alexandria: Über die Freiheit des Tüchtigen. Über das betrachtende Leben. Über...
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  • of Antiochus VI Philo of Alexandria (Greek: Φίλων, Philōn; c. 20 BCE – c. 50 CE), also called Philo Judaeus, of Alexandria, in the Roman province of...
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     439 Evans 1998, p. 343 Walter, N. Jüdisch-hellenistische Literatur vor Philon von Alexandrien (unter Ausschluss der Historiker), ANRW II: 20.1.67-120 Barr...
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    common after the manner of the Spartans. One Pythagorean maxim was "koinà tà phílōn" ("All things in common among friends"). Both Iamblichus and Porphyry provide...
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    1897:35. Brown, Semitic Influence in Hellenic Mythology, 1898:112ff. "Philôn, who of course regarded Kronos as an Hellenic divinity, which indeed he...
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  • carried him around the stadium on their shoulders. Κοινὰ τὰ φίλων. Koinà tà phílōn. "The things of friends are common" The proverb is mentioned in the Republic...
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    (Latin) Heron of Alexandria [11] Archived 2012-06-02 at the Wayback Machine On Artillery (Belopoiika/Belopoeica/βελοποιικά, Greek) Philon of Byzantium [12]...
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    using lead strips. The excavator suggested that it was imported from Alexandria in Egypt. Many statues have been foundin the house. A large room accessed...
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    wheel. Philon of Byzantium was one of the first who used gears in water raising devices. Gears appear in works connected to Hero of Alexandria, in Roman...
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    {\displaystyle \pi } is an irrational number. It was not until 1882 that Ferdinand von Lindemann succeeded in proving more strongly that π is a transcendental number...
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  • "Acts of Geometrical Construction in the Spherics of Theodosios". From Alexandria, Through Baghdad. Springer. pp. 227–237. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-36736-6_11...
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    13.8 Thucydides ii:34 Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed. (1996), s.v. "Philon of Larissa." See the table in The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy...
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  • ISBN 978-1-107-37591-8. Retrieved 19 July 2023.  Prichard, Constantine Estlin (1870). "Philon (3. the Academic)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman...
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    plan and structure of a building. A notable instance is the arsenal of Philon at the Peiraeus which has been completely reconstructed on paper by architects...
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  • antiquity. Lincoln: University of Nebraska. Drachmnan, A. G. (1948). Ktesibios, Philon and Heron. Drachmann, A. G. (1953). "Remarks on the ancient catapults"....
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