His works include a short poem describing how Dionysus gave mankind wine through Icarus, and he converted the astronomical poem Phaenomenona of Aratus into prose.
His works include a short poem describing how Dionysus gave mankind wine through Icarus, and he converted the astronomical poem Phaenomenona of Aratus into prose. His other works include an epic poem about the birth and deed of Hermes as well as a work of literary criticism on theatres that only produced old comedy. According to one source he was given the nickname "Beta" because he was only the second-best in everything he did. Posidonius repeated the most famous task of this thinker with the help of the star Canopus. A spurious attribution to this author is the The Constellations. According to ancient tradition he was the first thinker to calculate the circumference of the earth by using shadow differences. For 10 points, name this ancient scholar that also developed an algorithm for finding all prime numbers up until a given N, now known as his namesake sieve.
His works include a short poem describing how Dionysus gave mankind wine through Icarus, and he converted the astronomical poem Phaenomenona of Aratus into prose.
Eratosthenes