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- Tiresias was the son of Everes and the nymph Chariclo; he was a blind prophet, the most famous soothsayer of ancient Greece. The most famous account of the origin of his blindness and his prophetic talent is as follows.
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Eratosthenes Eratosthenes of Cyrene (/ɛrəˈtɒsθəniːz/; Greek: ἐρατοσθένης ὁ κυρηναῖος, IPA: [eratostʰénɛːs]; c. 276 BC[1] – c. 195/194 BC[2]) was a Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist. He was a man of learning, becoming the chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria.
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Venus (mythology) Venus (/ˈviːnəs/ , Classical Latin: /ˈwɛnʊs/) is the Roman goddess whose functions encompassed love, beauty, sex, fertility, prosperity and desire. In Roman mythology, she was the mother of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy.enus embodies sex, love, beauty, enticement, seduction, and persuasive female charm among the community of immortal gods; in Latin orthography, her name is indistinguishable from the Latin noun venus ( sexual love  and  sexual desire ), from which it derives.
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- Eratosthenes of Cyrene ( ; Greek : Ἐρατοσθένης ὁ Κυρηναῖος , IPA: ; c. 276 BC – c. 195/194 BC ) was a Greek mathematician , geographer , poet , astronomer , and music theorist . He was a man of learning, becoming the chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria .
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- Eratosthenes was born in Cyrene, Shahhat, Libya in 276 BC and died  in Alexandria, Egypt in 194 BC. He was an astronomer,  mathematician, and geographer, who eventually beca…me the chief  librarian at the Library of Alexandria.
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Eratosthenes Eratosthenes of Cyrene was a Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist. He was a man of learning, becoming the chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria. He invented the discipline of geography, including the terminology used today. He is best known for being the first person to calculate the circumference of the Earth, which he did by comparing altitudes of the mid-day sun at two places a known North-South distance apart. His calculation was remarkably accurate. H
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Isidore of Miletus Isidore of Miletus (Greek: ἰσίδωρος ὁ μιλήσιος; Medieval Greek pronunciation: [iˈsiðoros o miˈlisios]; Latin: Isidorus Miletus) was one of the two main Byzantine Greek architects (Anthemius of Tralles was the other) that Emperor Justinian I commissioned to design the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople from 532-537.
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- Ptolemy was a Roman citizen of Egypt who had wrote in Greek. He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and a poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. He lived in Egypt under a Roman rule and is believed to have been born in the town of Ptolemais Hermiou in the Thebaid.
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Gabriel Iglesias Gabriel Iglesias. Gabriel Jesus Iglesias (born July 15, 1976), known professionally as Gabriel Iglesias and comically as Fluffy, is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer and voice actor. He is known for his shows I'm Not Fat… I'm Fluffy and Hot & Fluffy.
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- Another account says that Tiresias accidentally saw Athena naked, and she covered his eyes with her hands, thus rendering him blind. When Tiresias' mother Chariclo asked Athena to restore her son's sight, the goddess could not undo her own action but gave him the gift of prophecy as compensation.
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Auriga Auriga. Auriga or the Charioteer is a constellation in the northern hemisphere, first documented by Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century. The constellation's shape resembles the pointed helmet of a charioteer.
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THE FINANCIER Some time later, Zeus and Hera were arguing over who had more pleasure in sex, the man or the woman: Zeus said it was the woman, while Hera claimed men got more pleasure from the act. To settle the argument, they consulted Tiresias, since he had experienced life as both sexes, and Tiresias sided with Zeus. In her anger, Hera struck Tiresias blind. Since Zeus could not undo the act of another deity, he gave Tiresias the gift of prophecy in compensation.
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Thales of Miletus Thales of Miletus. Thales of Miletus (/ˈθeɪliːz/; Greek: θαλῆς (ὁ μῑλήσιος), Thalēs; c. 624 – c. 546 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, mathematician and astronomer from Miletus in Asia Minor (present-day Milet in Turkey). He was one of the Seven Sages of Greece.
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- Themistocles made Xerxes, king of Persia, post apace out of Grecia, by giving out, that the Grecians had a purpose to break his bridge of ships, which he had made athwart Hellespont.
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Isidore of Miletus Isidore of Miletus (Greek: Ἰσίδωρος ὁ Μιλήσιος; Medieval Greek pronunciation: [iˈsiðoros o miˈlisios]; Latin: Isidorus Miletus) was one of the two main Byzantine Greek architects (Anthemius of Tralles was the other) that Emperor Justinian I commissioned to design the cathedral Hagia Sophia in Constantinople from 532-537.
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- Eratosthenes was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, he is  considered the inventor of geography. In fact, he is credited as  the first one that calculated the earth's cir…cumference. He was  born in the year 276 BC and died in the year 195 or 194 BC, thus,  he lived 80 or 81 years.
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The Oedipus Plays The blind prophet Tiresias warns Creon that the gods disapprove of his leaving Polynices unburied and will punish the king's impiety with the death of his own son. After rejecting Tiresias angrily, Creon reconsiders and decides to bury Polynices and free Antigone. But Creon's change of heart comes too late.
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Erastus Erastus the chamberlain, or rather the public treasurer, of Corinth, who was one of the early converts to Christianity. ( Romans 16:23 ) According to the traditions of the Greek Church, he was first treasurer to the church at Jerusalem, and afterwards bishop of Paneas.
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The Odyssey Tiresias meets Odysseus when Odysseus journeys to the underworld in Book 11. He shows Odysseus how to get back to Ithaca and allows Odysseus to communicate with the other souls in Hades. Nestor-King of Pylos and a former warrior in the Trojan War.
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Themistocles Themistocles (/θəˈmɪstəˌkliːz/ ; Greek: θεμιστοκλῆς [tʰemistoklɛ̂ːs] Themistokles; Glory of the Law; c. 524–459 BC) was an Athenian politician and general. He was one of a new breed of non-aristocratic politicians who rose to prominence in the early years of the Athenian democracy.hemistocles grew up in a period of upheaval in Athens. The tyrant Peisistratos had died in 527 BC, passing power to his sons, Hipparchus and Hippias. Hipparchus was murdered in 514 BC, and in response to this, Hippias became paranoid and started to rely increasingly on foreign mercenaries to keep a hold on power.
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- Confidence votes 36.2K. Odysseus sees a bunch of random souls as soon as he prepares the offering(to get Tiresias to come up in the underworld to visit him and tell him his future) Odysseus sees his mom, Anticeleia, he sees as well Achilles, Ajax, Agamemnon, and of course Tiresias.
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Mimas (moon) Mimas (moon) Mimas is a moon of Saturn which was discovered in 1789 by William Herschel. It is named after Mimas, a son of Gaia in Greek mythology, and is also designated Saturn I. With a diameter of 396 kilometres (246 mi) it is the smallest astronomical body that is known to be rounded in shape because of self-gravitation
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Bootes Bootes. Bootes, or the Herdsman, is a constellation in the northern hemisphere, first documented by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century. Its name means herdsman or plowman in Greek.The Greeks used to call the constellation Arctophylax (bear watcher or bear keeper).ootes. Bootes, or the Herdsman, is a constellation in the northern hemisphere, first documented by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century. Its name means herdsman or plowman in Greek.
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The Father of Geography The Father of Geography. Apparently Eratosthenes could be described as the first geographer. He was born in 276 BC in Cyrene (now Libya) and died at the pretty good age of 82 in Alexandria. He was a mathematician and philosopher (weren't they all in those days) and was the first person to measure the circumference of the earth. He was accused of being a jack of all trades but master of none.