200 - 101 BC

Pieces of art and objects of historic interest for the period 200 BC - 101 BC

are listed in this section.

"Hipparchus thus dared to do something that would be reckless even for a god: to count

the number of stars for his successors. He thus left the sky as an inheritance to

humanity, if one had been able to find someone who would have been able to claim

this inheritance."

Pliny the Elder on Hipparchus