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Ancient Greek astronomy
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Ancient Greek astronomy
Greek astronomy
is
astronomy
written in the
Greek language
in
classical antiquity
. Greek astronomy is understood to include the
ancient Greek
,
Hellenistic
,
Greco-Roman
, and
Late Antiquity
eras. It is not limited
geographically
to
Greece
or to ethnic
Greeks
, as the Greek language had become the language of scholarship throughout the
Hellenistic world
following the conquests of
Alexander
. This phase of Greek astronomy is also known as
Hellenistic astronomy
, while the pre-Hellenistic phase is known as
Classical Greek astronomy
. During the Hellenistic and Roman periods, much of the Greek and non-Greek
astronomers
working in the Greek tradition studied at the
Musaeum
and the
Library of Alexandria
in
Ptolemaic Egypt
.
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