Hermead: Eratosthenes

Parallels Of Eratosthenes - Eratosthenes lives in Kyrene where his mother and father perform, but, after his mother dies in a tragic accident, his father returns to work in construction. Traveling to attend school in the famous Museum of Alexandria, Eratosthenes becomes fascinated with geography. Eratosthenes studies astronomy, geography, and cartography, and gathers geographic information about the world from sailors at temples on the docks. Sailing to attend school in Athens, Eratosthenes is shipwrecked in Delos Island where he meets an exiled priestess of Athena. Arriving in Athens, Eratosthenes is driven away from the Academia and studies at the Gymnasium instead. Ptolemaios Euergetes appoints him Head of the Museum of Alexandria where he teaches philosophy and measures the size of the globe. Parallels Of Eratosthenes has 5,434 lines of blank verse.