#ptolemy

[nemfrog]

Geocentric advocacy. Astronomy : a popular handbook. c. 1913.

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#ptolemy #solar system #geocentric #diagram #astronomy #discarded theories #nemfrog #earth #concentric circles #1913 #1910s #1915 #1k

[pompomoo]

Ptolemy&Nat＋Bart Ptolemy and Nat give me the impression of the sun and the moon, warm and cold colors. The colors of their skin and costumes also contrast with each other. They are polar opposites. But they are both stubborn and make the same choice in the end. They seem to be opposites, but they are surprisingly similar. I like this contrast between them.

#fanart #bartimaeus #nathaniel #ptolemy

[nero-draco]

#fate grand order #fgo jp #ptolemy

[mapsontheweb]

The world according to Herodotus, Erathosthenes, and Ptolemy; work by Eckart Olshausen

#maps #herodotus #erathosthenes #ptolemy #old maps

[dduane]

#Ptolemy #Bobbio Palimpsest #astronomy #ancient astronomy

[yukisetsura]

Ptolemaeus

#fate grand order #fgo #fate #fgo fanart #ptolemy #ptolemaeus #ptolemy fgo #seriously how do I spell his name #please come home grandpappy I NEED you

[narinick-blog]

The Hanged Man

Ptolemy gave me a small salute, then his head fell back gently against the wall… All light around me vanished, my consciousness departed; the Other Place pulled me away. Furiously, against my will, I accepted Ptolemy's last gift.

#bartimaeus prompts week 2024 #bartprompts24 #fanart #jonathan stroud #bartimaeus #bartimaeus trilogy #ptolemy #bartseq #tarot #the hanged man

[illustratus]

The Observatory of Alexandria with an astronomer measuring the heavens with some instruments (cross staff, mariner’s astrolabe) which actually belong to a much later period (source: Camille Flammarion, L’Astronomie Populaire: Description générale du ciel, Paris: 1880).

#observatory #astronomy #alexandria #art #camille flammarion #celestial #skies #stars #cosmos #heaven #ptolemy #hypatia #plato #astronomer #astronomers #history #egypt #antiquity #ancient #ancient greek #ancient greece #ancient egypt #greek #european #cosmology

[porksoda-07]

Doodles

#bartimaeus #ptolemy #nathaniel underwood #kitty jones #fanart

[jeannereames]

So you said you hoped they didn't use those nicknames, Alex, Heph, and Ptol. I thought Heph was a little weird, but I didn't mind the others. What nicknames would you have suggested instead? You said you suggested Greek ones. What were they?

Ah.... I'm glad somebody asked!

First, I've talked HERE about nicknames and endearments in ancient Greece. It's not the same as now. Not every culture makes nicknames by shortening. Yet even in my own novels I used nicknames to make unfamiliar names more accessible to readers.

So I get why nicknames might be valuable. But it's possible to use more likely ones!

What would be natural Greek nicknames? First, the names we know them by are Latinized, not their real names. In Dancing with the Lion I used the actual Greek, because it affected only a few and weren't that different. But here are the Latin, Greek, and known/likely nicknames.

Alexander = Alexandros (a-LEX-an-dros) = Aleko(s)

Ptolemy = Ptolemaios (tol-eh-MAI-os) = Ptolas

Hephaestion = Hephaistion (he-pais-TEE-on) = Phaistas/Phaiton

"Alex" and "Tol" aren't that far off. But "Heph"? Really? HUGH HEFNER is who immediately comes to mind: give him a pipe and a smoking robe. Maybe they thought "young people won't know..." but chatting with a 23-year-old student, that was the first thing she said. "It sounds like Hugh Hefner."

Virtually all I've heard from people is ridicule for the nicknames. This is one thing I completely disavow all responsibility for. I told them.

#asks #alexander: the making of a god #Alexander the Great #Hephaistion #Hephaestion #Ptolemy #ancient Greece #nicknames in ancient Greece #Classics #ancient Macedonia #tagamemnon #Alexander on tv

[kaiiihannn]

Two swords?? A spear? A shield??

Now that's a certified classic archer right there.

#you can't go wrong with it #fgo #ptolemy #ptolemaîos

[wwxchengj]

ptolemy enters alexander's room* bang * you two ARE having sex

alexander: hephaestion do you think that achilles and patroclus they-

#macedonia #alexander of macedon #alexander the great #alexander x hephaestion #ptolemy #greek myth #greek mythology #troy #mlm #queer #patroclus #the iliad #achilles #patrochilles #achilles and patroclus #achilles x patroclus #patroclus x achilles #history #queer history

[pompomoo]

This was painted a long time ago, but I don't know if it was put on the tumblr. It's Ptolemy after he went to the other place and Penrenuetet transforming into Ptolemy. It seems that Penrenuetet was with Ptolemy when Bartimaeus was on his expedition, so I think he was actually in the most entourage-like position. There was also a description of him transforming into Ptolemy and acting as a decoy.

#fanart #bartimaeus #ptolemy #penrenutet

[winter2468]

"It's been 2,129 years since Ptolemy died. He was fourteen. Eight world empires have risen up and fallen away since that day, and I still carry his face. Who do you think is the lucky one?"

biting tearing rending climbing up the wall

#bartimaeus trilogy #bartimaeus #bartimaeus of uruk #ptolemy

[grandorderconfessions]

#ptolemy #fate grand order #sfw

[nero-draco]

Ptolemy showed up in Fate/Zero?

#fate grand order #fate zero #ptolemy #fgo jp