In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...
“Their Greek names, Heliodorus and his father Apollonius, indicate a Hellenized population,” said Ido Tzangan, a researcher at the Antiquities Authority. “Both names are linked to the sun gods in ...
THE assertion made in the opening lines of the preface to the book now before us, that “to the great majority of mathematicians at the present time, Apollonius is nothing more than a name and his ...
The picturesque town of Cavtat in Konavle hides the birthplace of the famous painter Vlaho Bukovac, the mausoleum of the Račić family, the work of the sculptor Ivan Meštrović, but also the story of a ...
APOLLONIUS COMPUTATIONAL BUSINESS SOLUTIONS (OPC) PRIVATE LIMITED is a Private Limited Company, governed by the Companies Act as a company limited by shares. Classified as a Non-government company, it ...
Apollonius of Tyana exposed a deadly illusion when he revealed that a young bride in Corinth was actually a life-draining lamia in disguise. Credit: Philip Burne Jones, Wikimedia Commons, Public ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
An ancient vase depicting the death of Talos, the bronze automaton created by the god Hephaestus to guard the island of Crete ArchaiOptix via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 “May not machines ...
THIS review of the achievements and hopes of psychical research appears to be written without bias and with an undiminished confidence in the future. It wisely concentrates on the psychological ...
Few figures in Ancient Greek literature have been as consequential and enigmatic as Apollonius of Rhodes. Born around 295 BC, this poet of the Hellenistic period was, above all, a scholar who dared to ...
Kitty Smith is a member of the Australian Society for Classical Studies. Once yelled at women seen to be pestering or annoying – or at feminists questioning and threatening the status quo – “harpy” ...
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