- A
polymath or
polyhistor is an
individual whose knowledge spans many
different subjects,
known to draw on
complex bodies of
knowledge to
solve specific...
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Lucius Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor (Ancient Gr****: Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Πολυΐστωρ;
flourished in the
first half of the 1st
century BC; also
called Alexander...
- 64 BC – AD 17) was a
Latin author, a
pupil of the
scholar Alexander Polyhistor, and a
freedman of Augustus, and
reputed author of the
Fabulae and the...
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Rerum Memorabilium ("A
Collection of
Curious Things"), Mirabilia, and
Polyhistor, the
latter title being favoured by the
author himself. The work is indeed...
- Sc****ing von Glogau) (c. 1445 – 11
February 1507) was a
notable Polish polyhistor at the turn of the
Middle Ages and Renaissance—a philosopher, geographer...
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historian Alexander Polyhistor, and in the
Stromata (hereafter
abbreviated as Strom.) of
Clement of Alexandria. A
sixth p****age
which Polyhistor attributes to...
-
survived via the
abridgment and
copying of
historians including Alexander Polyhistor, Josephus, Abydenus, and Eusebius.
Mayer Burstein suggests that Berossus'...
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including Hecataeus of
Abdera (quoted by
Diodorus Siculus),
Alexander Polyhistor, Manetho, Apion,
Chaeremon of Alexandria,
Tacitus and
Porphyry also make...
- from the
central Slovak dialect in 1843.
Slovakia is also
known for its
polyhistors, of whom
include Pavol Jozef Šafárik,
Matej Bel, Ján Kollár, and its...
-
characterized as "decadent" by ****tus Empiricus.
According to
Alexander Polyhistor,
quoted by
Diogenes Laërtius.
According to a
tradition reported by Diogenes...
