Marinus of Tyre
70 CE–130 CE · Tyre
Marinus of Tyre (Ancient Greek: Μαρῖνος ὁ Τύριος, Marînos ho Týrios; c. AD 70–130) was a Greek-speaking Phoenician Roman geographer, cartographer and mathematician, who founded mathematical geography and provided the underpinnings of Claudius Ptolemy's influential Geography.
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About Tyre
Tyre (Arabic Sur), an ancient Phoenician port on the Mediterranean coast of southern Lebanon, was a fortified coastal town of Bilad al-Sham, taken by the Crusaders in 1124 and recovered for Islam in 1291. As a Mediterranean harbour it lay on the routes travelled by scholars of the Syrian coast.
Across the traditions, in Tyre at the same time
In the same place & time
Sages whose lives overlapped with Marinus of Tyre’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
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Marinus of Tyre’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
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