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ASTRONOMER, GEOGRAPHER
HERMIPPUS CALLIMACHAEUS (fl. 200 BC)
Life
Hermippus was a student of Callimachus and a Peripatetic philosopher. He lived in Alexandria and is cited by Plutarch, Diogenes Laertius, Athenaeus and Stobaeus. The Catalogus Vaticanus lists him as a "writer on astronomy".
Work
His principal works are:
"Life"
"Phaenomena": Poem on astronomy.
"On the polos"
"On the Seven Sages"
"On the disciples of Isocrates"
"On Pythagoras"
"On Aristotle"
"On the interpretation of dreams": 5 books.
"On astrology"
"On Egypt and Ethiopia"
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