Dictionary - Definition of ANDRON

Definition: ANDRON


Part of Speech	Definition
Noun	1. The apartment appropriated for the males. This was in the lower part of the house.[Websters].
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)		Top

"Andron" is a common misspelling or typo for: andiron, Andrion.

Date "Andron" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology:Andron \An"dron\, noun. [Latin expression andron, Greek, from 'anh`r, 'andro`s, man.]. (references)

Specialty Expressions: ANDRON

Expressions	Domain	Definition
Andron īcus	Antiquities	1: Andron īcus. Livius. See Livius. (references)
		2: Andron īcus (Andronikos). (1) A peripatetic philosopher, a native of Rhodes, who flourished about B.C. 80. He arranged and published the writings of Aristotle, which had been brought to Rome with the library of Apellicon. He commented on many parts of these writings; but no portion of his works has reached us, for the treatise Peri Pathôn, and the Paraphrase of the Nicomachean ethics, which have been published under his name, are the productions of another. The treatise Peri Pathôn was published by Hösschel in 1593, and was afterwards printed conjointly with the Paraphrase in 1617, 1679, and 1809. The Paraphrase was published by Heinsius in 1607, at Leyden, as an anonymous work (Incerti Auctoris Paraphrasis, etc.), and afterwards under the name of Andronicus of Rhodes, by the same scholar, in 1617, with the treatise Peri Pathôn added to it. See the dissertations by Littig, Andronikos von Rhodos (1891) and by Rösener (1893). (2) Cyrrhestes, an astronomer of Athens, who erected, B.C. 159, an octagonal marble tower in that city to the eight winds, now known as the “Tower of the Winds. ” On every side of the octagon he caused to be wrought a figure in relievo, representing the wind which blew against that side. The top of the tower was finished with a conical marble, on which he placed a brazen Triton, holding a wand in his right hand. This Triton was so contrived that he turned round with the wind, and always stopped when he directly faced it, pointing with his wand over the figure of the wind at that time blowing. Within the structure was a water-clock, supplied from the fountain in a turret. Beneath the eight figures of the winds lines were traced on the walls of the tower, which, by the shadows cast upon them by styles fixed above, indicated the hour of the day, as the Triton's wand did the quarter of the wind. When the sun did not shine recourse was had to the water-clock within the tower, which building thus supplied both a vane and a chronometer. The structure still stands, though in a damaged state. To the correctness of the sundials Delambre bears testimony, and he describes the series as “the most curious existing monument of the practical gnomonics of antiquity. ” There are two entrances, facing respectively to the northeast and northwest; each of these openings has a portico supported by two columns. (See Vitruv. i. 6, 4.). (references)
Andron ītis	Antiquities	Andron ītis (andrônitis). The men's apartments in a Greek house. See Domus (Greek). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.			Top

Extended Definition: ANDRON

Andron

Andron (Greek: Ἀνδρῶν-ῶνος), or Andronitis is part of a Greek house which is reserved for men, as distinguished from the gynaeceum (gunaikeion), the women's quarters.

References

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

External links

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