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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 3700610, member: 57463&quot;]<font face="Georgia">I did some reading online - Wikipedia, Oxford Classical Dictionary, 1911 Encyc. Brit. - and they all say the same about him. So, we do not know much. OCD cites PIR2 5. 657, but I not know what that means. It also cites <i>Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft</i>, about which read here: </font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realencyclopädie_der_classischen_Altertumswissenschaft" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realencyclopädie_der_classischen_Altertumswissenschaft" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realencyclopädie_der_classischen_Altertumswissenschaft</a>.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia">OCD also says: &quot;He taught Marcus Aurelius, even writing a book on fractions and measurements for him, but failed to impress the future emperor.&quot;</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">It might be that Maecianus was just wrong. So much was lost, and not all of what survived is authoritative. My other hobby is astronomy and, not surprisingly, the history of it, especially among the classical cultures. A thousand years after &quot;everyone&quot; knew that the Earth is a sphere, someone wrote that it is flat and that Jerusalem is at the center, or whatever. It is not clear who believed that except one guy. </font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">Just on the other hand, for example, when you read Aristotle, he typically begins a discourse by citing the previous authorities on the subject. Then, he gives his own explanations. So, we can check him against other works that survived to see who believed what and who cited Aristotle later. Lucius Volusius Maecianus seems to be <i>sui generis</i>. </font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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