Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: Italy ("Magna Graecia")

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Theocritus, Greek Poet
(flourished c. 270 BCE)

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Name: Theocritus
Dates: flourished c. 270 BCE
Place: Italy ("Magna Graecia")
Language: Greek
Who he was: Greek poet who wrote Idylls
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

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Archimedes, Greek Scientist
(c. 287-c. 212 BCE)

by Domenico Fetti

Just the Facts:

Name: Archimedes
Dates: c. 287-c. 212 BCE
Place: Born and died in Syracuse, Italy ("Magna Graecia")
Language: Greek
Who he was: Greek mathematician and scientist known for On Floating Bodies; The Sand Reckoner
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (+10YP)

Herodotus, Greek Historian
(c. 484-c. 425)

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Name: Herodotus
Birth: Unknown Date, 484 BCE, Halicarnassus, Turkey
Death: Unknown Date, 425 BCE, Thurii, Italy ("Magna Graecia")
Language: Greek
Who he was: Greek historian whose The Histories were the first use of the word in the modern sense (it had meant "inquiries")
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Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

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Theocritus, Greek Poet(flourished c. 270 BCE)

Archimedes, Greek Scientist(c. 287-c. 212 BCE)

Herodotus, Greek Historian(c. 484-c. 425)

Theocritus, Greek Poet
(flourished c. 270 BCE)

Archimedes, Greek Scientist
(c. 287-c. 212 BCE)

Herodotus, Greek Historian
(c. 484-c. 425)