γῆ
gē

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-03-24
Primary meaning earth
Literal translation earth
Variants
γῆ gē
Edited by
earth cosmological concept

Εἰσὶ μέντοι τόποι τινὲς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, ὅπου συμβαίνει τὸν μὲν παρ’ ἡμῖν πόλον τὸν ἀεὶ φανερὸν ἐκείνοις ἀόρατον εἶναι, τὸν δὲ παρ’ ἡμῖν ἀόρατον ἐκείνοις φανερὸν εἶναι.

‘There are some places on the earth though, where it happens that the pole always visible for us is invisible to them, but that the invisible one for us is visible to them.’

— Geminus 4.3

Genre: astronomy
Date: 1st century BCE

Geminus. 1975. Géminos, Introduction aux Phénomènes, ed. G. Aujac. Paris: Les Belles Lettres. 21

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APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2025). γῆ (Lemma #5436). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5436/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T. (2025). γῆ (Lemma #5436). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5436/
MLA (9th)
Peeters, T. (2025). γῆ (Lemma #5436). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5436/
Harvard
Peeters, T. (2025) γῆ (Lemma #5436), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5436/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5436,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas},
	year = {2025},
	title = {γῆ ({Lemma} #5436)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5436/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5436/},
}