Menelaus of Alexandria
70 CE–140 CE · Alexandria
Menelaus of Alexandria (; Ancient Greek: Μενέλαος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς, Menelaos ho Alexandreus; c. 70 – 140 CE) was a Greek mathematician and astronomer, the first to recognize geodesics on a curved surface as natural analogs of straight lines.
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AlexandriaEgypt
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About Alexandria
Alexandria (al-Iskandariyya) is the great Mediterranean port-city of northern Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE and a leading centre of learning in antiquity. After the Muslim conquest of Egypt (642) it remained a major commercial and scholarly hub; the Shadhili Sufi Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari (d. 1309) took his nisba from the city, and the modernist reformer Muhammad Abduh (d. 1905) was active in Egypt's intellectual life there and in Cairo.
Across the traditions, in Alexandria at the same time
In the same place & time
Sages whose lives overlapped with Menelaus of Alexandria’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
Across the traditions
- Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus· Rome
- John the Apostle· Rome
- Curtius Rufus, Quintus· Rome
- Pliny, the Elder· Rome
- Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius· Rome
- Berenice· Rome
- Musonius Rufus· Rome
- Quintilian· Rome
- Josephus· Rome
- Titus· Rome
- Martial· Rome
- Valerius Flaccus, Gaius· Rome
- Rabbi Yehoshua· Rome
- Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius)· Rome
- Plutarch· Rome
- Rabban Gamliel of Yavneh· Rome
- Domitian· Rome
- Epictetus· Rome
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Menelaus of Alexandria’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
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