Definition of Polyhistor. Meaning of Polyhistor. Synonyms of Polyhistor

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Definition of Polyhistor

Polyhistor
Polyhistor Pol`y*his"tor, n. [Gr. ? very learned.] One versed in various learning. [R.]

Meaning of Polyhistor from wikipedia

- Tithes of Richard Montagu in 1621. Use in English of the similar term polyhistor dates from the late 16th century. The term "Renaissance man" was first...
- Lucius Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor (Ancient Gr****: Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Πολυΐστωρ; flourished in the first half of the 1st century BC; also called Alexander...
- survived via the abridgment and copying of historians including Alexander Polyhistor, Josephus, Abydenus, and Eusebius. Mayer Burstein suggests that Berossus'...
- abridgement of it found in a work by the first century AD writer Alexander Polyhistor. This text consisted of a history of Babylonia (relying mostly on Berossus)...
- historian Alexander Polyhistor, and in the Stromata (hereafter abbreviated as Strom.) of Clement of Alexandria. A sixth p****age which Polyhistor attributes to...
- from the central Slovak dialect in 1843. Slovakia is also known for its polyhistors, of whom include Pavol Jozef Šafárik, Matej Bel, Ján Kollár, and its...
- Abydenus Aesopus (historian) Agatharchides Agathocles (writers) Alexander Polyhistor Anticlides Antipater Antisthenes of Rhodes Aratus of Sicyon Artap****...
- the work Concerning the Jews by the 1st century BC historian Alexander Polyhistor, which in turn quotes a p****age in Concerning the Jews of ****yria by the...
- including Hecataeus of Abdera (quoted by Diodorus Siculus), Alexander Polyhistor, Manetho, Apion, Chaeremon of Alexandria, Tacitus and Porphyry also make...
- Ganges I 23 Natural History Pliny VI. 21.9-22. 1. Indus and Ganges I 24 Polyhistor Gaius Julius Solinus 52. 6-7. Indus and Ganges I 25 Indica (Arrian) Arrian...