Greek astronomy

 WIKIPEDIA
Greek astronomy is astronomy written in the Greek language in classical antiquity. Greek astronomy is understood to include the ancient Greek, Hellenistic, Greco-Roman, and Late Antiquity eras. It is not limited geographically to Greece or to ethnic Greeks, as the Greek language had become the language of scholarship throughout the Hellenistic world following the conquests of Alexander. This phase of Greek astronomy is also known as Hellenistic astronomy, while the pre-Hellenistic phase is known as Classical Greek astronomy. During the Hellenistic and Roman periods, much of the Greek and non-Greek astronomers working in the Greek tradition studied at the Musaeum and the Library of Alexandria in Ptolemaic Egypt.
The development of astronomy by the Greek and Hellenistic astronomers is considered by historians to be a major phase in the history of astronomy. Greek astronomy is characterized from the start by seeking a rational, physical explanation for celestial phenomena.^[1] Most of the constellations of the northern hemisphere derive from Greek astronomy,^[2] as are the names of many stars and planets. It was influenced by Babylonian and, to a lesser extent, Egyptian astronomy; in turn, it influenced Indian, Arabic-Islamic and Western European astronomy.

ASTRONOMY Cadmus=كادموس

ASTRONOMY Cadmus=كادموس

WIKIPEDIA: Cadmus or Kadmos (Ancient Greek: Κάδμος), in Greek mythology was a Phoenician prince,[1] the son of king Agenor and queen Telephassa of Tyre and the brother of Phoenix, Cilix and Europa. He was originally sent by his royal parents to seek out and escort his sister Europa back to Tyre after she was abducted from the shores of Phoenicia by Zeus.[2] Cadmus founded the Greek city of Thebes, the acropolis of which was originally named Cadmeia in his honor.

The asteroid 7092 Cadmus (7092 Cadmus), discovered in 1992, is named after the mythical founder of Thebes.

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EXPLANATORY NOTES- DICTIONARIES

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Learning Foreign Languages and Etymology are my hobbies.

For many years I searched for the Etymology of Greek words and afterwards with the Etymology of the words of the foreign languages I was learning and I kept the notes and the knowledge for myself.

But when I started learning Arabic I discovered that there were not Arabic Etymological Dictionaries and so I decided to share with you any information I collected but only for the Arabic words having Greek origin.

For the preparation of the etymological entries of the Arabic words of my blog I rely upon the following dictionaries:

G. Mpampiniotis Dictionary of the new Greek language 2005

S. Nisayan Turkish Etymological Dictionary

Lindell-Scott Greek-English Lexikon 1996

Andras Rajiki's Arabic Eymological Dictionary

Wikipedia

Wictionary

Google Translate

Online Etymology Dictionary

Various Dictionaries of other languages

P.S. Please write to me your comments for any errors you see in my entries.

بيثون python

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Etymology of Arabic words: the word بيثون

(bithoun) means python and derives from the greek language.
 

Wikipedia: In Greek mythology, Python (Greek: Πύθων, gen.: Πύθωνος) was the earth-dragon of Delphi, always represented in Greek sculpture and vase-paintings as a serpent. He presided at the Delphic oracle, which existed in the cult center for his mother, Gaia, "Earth," Pytho being the place name that was substituted for the earlier Krisa.[1] Hellenes considered the site to be the center of the earth, represented by a stone, the omphalos or navel, which Python guarded.

In Turkish is piton.

LEXILOGOS:

python (n.)

1.large Old World boas

2.a soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit

Python (n.)

1.(Greek mythology) dragon killed by Apollo at Delphi

Python (n.)

1.(MeSH)A family of snakes comprising the boas, anacondas, and pythons. They occupy a variety of habitats through the tropics and subtropics and are arboreal, aquatic or fossorial (burrowing). Some are oviparous, others ovoviviparous. Contrary to popular opinion, they do not crush the bones of their victims: their coils exert enough pressure to stop a prey's breathing, thus suffocating it. There are five subfamilies: Boinae, Bolyerinae, Erycinae, Pythoninae, and Tropidophiinae. (Goin, Goin, and Zug, Introduction to Herpetology, 3d ed, p315-320)