Sudines

Sudines (Greek: Σουδινες) fl. ca. 240 BC: Babylonian sage. He is mentioned as one of the famous Chaldean mathematicians or astrologers by later Roman writers like Strabo (Geografia 16:1..6). Like his predecessor Berossos he moved from Babylonia and established himself among the Greeks; he was an advisor to king Attalos Soter of Pergamon. He is said to have published tables to compute the motion of the Moon which were used by the Greeks, until superseded by the work of Hipparchos and later by Claudius Ptolemaios. He may have been important in transmitting the astronomical knowledge of the Babylonians to the Greeks. He is also said to have been one of the first to assign astrological meaning to gemstones.

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