Architect Antheemius – Anthemius of Tralles
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Architect_Antheemius
https://greatestgreeks.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/isidore-of-miletus-anthemius-of-tralles/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthemius_of_Tralles
Antheemius is the infamous Serpentine architect who designed the Tetrus Prison. Your wizard needs the plans for the prison so you can rescue Teddy Hairkonnen. Unfortunately Antheemius destroyed those plans years ago.
Anthemius of Tralles (c. 474 – 533 x 558) was a Byzantine Greek from Tralles who worked as a geometer and architect in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. With Isidore of Miletus, he designed the Hagia Sophia for Justinian I.
Anthemius was a capable mathematician. In the course of his treatise On Burning Mirrors, he intended to facilitate the construction of surfaces to reflect light to a single point, he described the string construction of the ellipse and assumed a property of ellipses not found in Apollonius of Perga’s Conics: the equality of the angles subtended at a focus by two tangents drawn from a point. His work also includes the first practical use of the directrix: having given the focus and a double ordinate, he used the focus and directrix to obtain any number of points on a parabola.
Painting by Nikos Engonopoulos, 1970.
As an architect, Anthemius is best known for his work designing the Hagia Sophia (formerly an Eastern Orthodox Christian Church in Istanbul Turkey, the structure still stands and is currently a mosque). He was commissioned with Isidore of Miletus by Justinian I shortly after the earlier church on the site burned down in 532 but died early on in the project.
The minarets were added in the 15th–16th centuries when it became a mosque.
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Anthemius and Isidore by Nikos Engonopoulos is borrowed from the Greatest Greeks blog. It is copyright 1970 by Nikos Engonopoulos
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