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Headword:
*(elikw/nios
Adler number: epsilon,852
Translated headword: Helikonios, Heliconius
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Astronomer/astrologer.[1] [He wrote] Apotelesmatika,[2] On Signs from Zeus, and many other things.
Greek Original:*(elikw/nios, a)strono/mos. *)apotelesmatika/, *peri\ dioshmei/wn kai\ a)/lla polla/.
Notes:
If this individual is correctly named, he is otherwise unknown, and undatable. But perhaps [DW] he is
Plato's friend and contemporary
Helikon of
Kyzikos, mentioned in
Plutarch,
Dion 19, as the recipient of a talent of silver from
Dionysius II of Syracuse (
delta 1179) for having correctly predicted a solar eclipse (in 360). The thirteenth
Letter attributed to
Plato calls him (360C) a pupil of
Eudoxus (
epsilon 3429).
[1] For this designation cf. e.g.
zeta 160 (Zoroaster),
mu 801 (Meton).
[2] i.e. the influence of the constellations on human life. cf.
zeta 159 (Zoroaster again),
mu 143 (
Manetho),
pi 810 (Paulos).
Keywords: biography; geography; philosophy; religion; science and technology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 December 2005@18:45:05.
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