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nemfrog · 11 months
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Geocentric advocacy. Astronomy : a popular handbook. c. 1913.
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nero-draco · 5 months
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mapsontheweb · 6 months
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The world according to Herodotus, Erathosthenes, and Ptolemy; work by Eckart Olshausen
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dduane · 1 year
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yukisetsura · 5 months
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Ptolemaeus
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illustratus · 1 year
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The Observatory of Alexandria with an astronomer measuring the heavens with some instruments (cross staff, mariner’s astrolabe) which actually belong to a much later period (source: Camille Flammarion, L’Astronomie Populaire: Description générale du ciel, Paris: 1880).
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pompomoo · 3 months
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This was painted a long time ago, but I don't know if it was put on the tumblr. It's Ptolemy after he went to the other place and Penrenuetet transforming into Ptolemy. It seems that Penrenuetet was with Ptolemy when Bartimaeus was on his expedition, so I think he was actually in the most entourage-like position. There was also a description of him transforming into Ptolemy and acting as a decoy.
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jeannereames · 2 months
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So you said you hoped they didn't use those nicknames, Alex, Heph, and Ptol. I thought Heph was a little weird, but I didn't mind the others. What nicknames would you have suggested instead? You said you suggested Greek ones. What were they?
Ah.... I'm glad somebody asked!
First, I've talked HERE about nicknames and endearments in ancient Greece. It's not the same as now. Not every culture makes nicknames by shortening. Yet even in my own novels I used nicknames to make unfamiliar names more accessible to readers.
So I get why nicknames might be valuable. But it's possible to use more likely ones!
What would be natural Greek nicknames? First, the names we know them by are Latinized, not their real names. In Dancing with the Lion I used the actual Greek, because it affected only a few and weren't that different. But here are the Latin, Greek, and known/likely nicknames.
Alexander = Alexandros (a-LEX-an-dros) = Aleko(s)
Ptolemy = Ptolemaios (tol-eh-MAI-os) = Ptolas
Hephaestion = Hephaistion (he-pais-TEE-on) = Phaistas/Phaiton
"Alex" and "Tol" aren't that far off. But "Heph"? Really? HUGH HEFNER is who immediately comes to mind: give him a pipe and a smoking robe. Maybe they thought "young people won't know..." but chatting with a 23-year-old student, that was the first thing she said. "It sounds like Hugh Hefner."
Virtually all I've heard from people is ridicule for the nicknames. This is one thing I completely disavow all responsibility for. I told them.
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kaiiihannn · 5 months
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Two swords?? A spear? A shield??
Now that's a certified classic archer right there.
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winter2468 · 26 days
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"It's been 2,129 years since Ptolemy died. He was fourteen. Eight world empires have risen up and fallen away since that day, and I still carry his face. Who do you think is the lucky one?"
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grandorderconfessions · 4 months
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porksoda-07 · 2 months
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Lil' Goldfish
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nero-draco · 5 months
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Ptolemy showed up in Fate/Zero?
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wwxchengj · 24 days
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ptolemy enters alexander's room* bang * you two ARE having sex
alexander: hephaestion do you think that achilles and patroclus they-
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i-scream-for-fate · 5 months
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Archer class Ptolemaios for the Grail Front ~White Castle by Day, Black Castle by Night~ campaign in Fate Grand Order.
Illustrator: Shizuki Morii
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jewishicequeen · 7 months
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They occupy a similar space in my brain
[ID: the “gotta be one of my favorite genders” meme. It is a picture of a black person in a white tee and blue jeans holding their hands together in front of them and looking to the right, while standing in front of a car. The top text says “ shout out to shapeshifting immortal beings wearing the shape of their long-dead human friend(possibly partner)”. The bottom text says “gotta be one of my favorite genders”. The person is surrounded by PNGs of Venti from Genshin Impact, and Bartimaeus from the Bartimaeus Sequence. End ID.]
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