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Headword:
*fa/ros
Adler number: phi,114
Translated headword: Pharos, lighthouse
Vetting Status: high
Translation: When expressed as a masculine it means the Pharos in Alexandria; the one which, when
Ptolemy was king of Egypt, Sostratos son of Dexiphanes of
Knidos erected on Pharos, the island of Proteus;[1] also when Pyrrhos took over the rule of Epeiros [bequeathed to him] by Achilles.[2]
*fa/ros: a)rsenikw=s lego/menos, to\n e)n *)alecandrei/a| *fa/ron shmai/nei: o(\n a)ne/sthsen e)pi\ *ptolemai/ou basile/ws *ai)gu/ptou *sw/stratos *decifa/nous, *kni/dios, e)n *fa/rw| th=| nh/sw| *prwte/ws: o(/te kai\ *pu/rros o( u(po\ *)axille/ws th\n dunastei/an th=s *)hpei/rou parei/lhfen.
Notes:
For the Pharos, included in some lists of the Seven Wonders of the (Ancient) World, cf.
iota 111.
[1] cf. generally
Strabo 17.1.6 (web address 1). For '
Ptolemy' see next note.
[2] For Pyrrhos and Achilles cf.
Plutarch,
Pyrrhos 7.7. This date in the 290s, which would make the '
Ptolemy' of the previous sentence
Ptolemy I Soter, appears to conflict with
Eusebius' assertion that the Pharos was built under
Ptolemy II Philadelphus; modern scholars believe that
Ptolemy I began the project and his son completed it c.20 years later.
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 14 November 2001@07:06:40.
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