Aristarchus may refer to:
People
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Aristarchus of Tegea (5th century BC), Greek writer
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Aristarchus of Athens, (5th century BC), one of the leaders of the Athenian coup of 411 BC
* Aristarchus of Athens, though apparently different from the above, a conversation between whom and Socrates is recorded by Xenophon in his ''
Memorabilia
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'' (2.7.)
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Aristarchus of Sparta, harmost of Byzantium in 400 BC
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Aristarchus (physician), royal physician to the court of Syria in the 3rd century BC
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Aristarchus of Samos
Aristarchus of Samos (; , ; ) was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who presented the first known heliocentric model that placed the Sun at the center of the universe, with the Earth revolving around the Sun once a year and rotati ...
(c. 310–230 BC), Greek astronomer and mathematician
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Aristarchus of Samothrace
Aristarchus of Samothrace ( ''Aristarchos o Samothrax''; BC) was an ancient Greek grammarian, noted as the most influential of all scholars of Homeric poetry. He was the head librarian of the Library of Alexandria and seems to have succeeded hi ...
(c. 220–143 BC), Greek grammarian
* Aristarchus, one of the ambassadors sent by the Phocaeans to
Seleucus IV Philopator
Seleucus IV Philopator ( Greek: Σέλευκος Φιλοπάτωρ, ''Séleukos philopátо̄r'', meaning "Seleucus the father-loving"; 218 – 3 September 175 BC), ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, reigned from 187 BC to 175 BC over a ...
, the son of Antiochus III the Great, in 190 BC
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Aristarchus of Colchis (fl. 63–50 BC), Colchian dynast, appointed by Pompey after the close of the Mithridatic Wars
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Aristarchus of Thessalonica (1st century AD), Eastern saint and early Christian mentioned in a few passages in the New Testament
* Aristarchus the Chronographer, author of a letter on the situation of Athens, and the events which took place there in the 1st century AD, and especially of the life of
Dionysius the Areopagite
Dionysius the Areopagite (; ''Dionysios ho Areopagitēs'') was an Athenian judge at the Areopagus Court in Athens, who lived in the first century. A convert to Christianity, he is venerated as a saint by multiple denominations.
Life
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* Aristarchus of Alexandria (date unknown), the author of a work on the interpretation of dreams, mentioned by
Artemidorus in the 2nd century
Other
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3999 Aristarchus, a main-belt asteroid
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Aristarchus (crater)
Aristarchus is a Lunar craters, lunar impact crater that lies in the northwest part of the Moon's near side. It is considered the brightest of the large formations on the lunar surface, with an albedo nearly double that of most lunar features. ...
, on the Moon
See also
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Aristarchos 2.3 m Telescope Project
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