Troilus of Constantinople ( grc, Τρώϊλος) was a
sophist
A sophist ( el, σοφιστής, sophistes) was a teacher in ancient Greece in the fifth and fourth centuries BC. Sophists specialized in one or more subject areas, such as philosophy, rhetoric, music, athletics, and mathematics. They taught ' ...
from
Side
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Geometry
* Edge (geometry) of a polygon (two-dimensional shape)
* Face (geometry) of a polyhedron (three-dimensional shape)
Places
* Side (Ainis), a town of Ainis, ancient Thessaly, Greece
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in
Pamphylia
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of the late 4th and early 5th century. He taught in
Constantinople
la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه
, alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...
.
He wrote 7 books.
Suda, § tau.1080
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Bibliography
* Arnold Hugh Martin Jones, ''The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire'', 2 (AD 395–527), 1980, p. 1128
References
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