Byzantium - Notable People

Notable People

  • Homerus, tragedian, lived in the early 3rd century BC
  • Philo, engineer, lived ca. 280 BC–ca. 220 BC
  • Epigenes of Byzantium, astrologer, lived in the 3rd–2nd century BC
  • Aristophanes of Byzantium, a scholar who flourished in Alexandria, 3rd–2nd century BC

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