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a measure [7] mystron μύστρον: 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 kochliaria 11.4 mL (0.39 US fl oz; 0.40 imp fl oz) Roman ligula: konchē κόγχη: 5 kochliaria 22.7 mL (0.77 US fl oz; 0.80 imp fl oz) shell-full kyathos κύαθος: 10 kochliaria 45.5 mL (1.54 US fl oz; 1.60 imp fl oz) Roman cyathus: oxybaphon ὀξυβαφον: 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 kyathoi
Units used to measure mass were: [1] 1 dramme = 3.2 g 1 livre (also known as a pound [2]) (Venetian) = 450 g 1 mina = 1.5 kg 1 royal mine 1.5 kg 1 oka = 0.85331 royal mine = 1.280 kg [1] [2] [3] = 1 stater = 56.32 kg 1 talanton = 150 kg. One cantaro was equal to 44 oke, but the value varied from 112 to 128 lb depending on locality.
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (/ ɛr ə ˈ t ɒ s θ ə n iː z /; Ancient Greek: Ἐρατοσθένης [eratostʰénɛːs]; c. 276 BC – c. 195/194 BC) was an Ancient Greek polymath: a mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist. He was a man of learning, becoming the chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria.
It is possible to group official measurement systems for large societies into historical systems that are relatively stable over time, including: the Babylonian system, the Egyptian system, the Phileterian system of the Ptolemaic age, the Olympic system of Greece, the Roman system, the British system, and the metric system.
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In later times in Greece, it represented a much larger weight, approximately 3,000 times as much: an Attic talent was approximately 26.0 kilograms (57 lb 5 oz). [2] The word also came to be used as the equivalent of the middle eastern kakkaru or kikkar. A Babylonian talent was 30.2 kg (66 lb 9 oz). [3]
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A plethron could also be used as a unit of measured area, and reference to the unit in defining the size of a wrestling area is made by Libanius. [ 2 ] [ full citation needed ] [ non-primary source needed ] A square plethron of c. 30 by 30 meters was used as the standard dimensions of a Greek wrestling square, since such competitions were held ...