@mjd Obviously the argument falls apart if one is looking at an English translation of Euclid because neither English nor Latin were popular languages then. (The oldest known Ancient Latin inscriptions predate Euclid's elements by a few hundred years.) Going down to the Bodleian we can read a Greek text copied in 888 AD were propositions end with the text (Prop 7 from Book I) ὅπερ ἔδει δεῖξαι corresponding to Q.E.D. (quod erat demonstrandum) or (Prop 10) ὅπερ ἔδει ποιῆσαι which corresponds to Q.E.F. (quod erat faciendum) because Prop 10 is a construction.

https://www.claymath.org/library/historical/euclid/files/elem.1.10.html

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For #TombTuesday and #EpigraphyTuesday, a fragment of a funerary Lekythos (monument in the shape of an oil jar)
4th C. BCE
Art Institute of Chicago 🖼️

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For #TombTuesday and #EpigraphyTuesday, a fragment of a funerary Lekythos (monument in the shape of an oil jar)
4th C. BCE
Art Institute of Chicago 🖼️

#AncientArt #MuseumArchive #glam #GreekRomanArt #greek #ancientgreek

Helen of Troy being played by Lupita Nyong'o. As a Greek myself, it does bother me & almost every other Greek I know, as it's simply not historically accurate. Lupita is very beautiful, but she's not Homer's girl.

People from ANY other kingdom or race in ancient Greece were ending up becoming slaves. I believe that it's beneficial to show how BAD things were, rather than adding a modern cultural spin to it. The ancient world SUCKED. Fact.

#troy #movies #greece #helenoftroy #greek #iliad #film

Daydreaming about a warm beach...Greece would do. 😊 It's super cold here in Florida right now!

ART https://fineartamerica.com/featured/grecian-dream-greek-landscape-art-sharon-cummings.html

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