Erasistratus of Ceos
c. 304 BCE–c. 250 BCE · Alexandria
Alexandrian anatomist and physiologist; advanced the study of the brain, nerves, and circulation alongside Herophilus.
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AlexandriaEgypt
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About Alexandria
Alexandria is the main Mediterranean port of northern Egypt and the country's second city. Founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE, it became the capital of the Ptolemies, whose Museum and Great Library made it the leading centre of Hellenistic learning. It also held one of the largest Jewish communities of antiquity, where the Greek Bible translation known as the Septuagint was produced and Philo wrote. Church tradition traces its patriarchate to Mark the Evangelist, and its catechetical school was led by Clement and Origen. Arab forces under Amr ibn al-As took the city in 641, and it remained a commercial and scholarly hub of the Islamic world; the Sufi master Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari was born there.
In Alexandria at the same time
Hecataeus of Abdera, Herophilus of Chalcedon, Lycophron, Callimachus, Apollonius Rhodius, Eratosthenes of Cyrene
Across the traditions, in Alexandria at the same time
In the same place & time
Sages whose lives overlapped with Erasistratus of Ceos’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Hecataeus of Abdera, Herophilus of Chalcedon, Lycophron, Callimachus, Apollonius Rhodius, Eratosthenes of Cyrene, Aristophanes of Byzantium
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Erasistratus of Ceos’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
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