Editing Sudines (section)

==Biography==

Like his predecessor [[Berossus|Berossos]], Sudines moved from Babylonia and established himself among the [[Greeks]]; he was an advisor to King [[Attalus I]] (Attalos Soter) of [[Pergamon]]. He is said (e.g., by Roman astronomer/astrologer Vettius Valens) to have published tables to compute the [[lunar theory|motion]] of the [[Moon]]; said to have been used by the Greeks, until superseded by the work of [[Hipparchus]] and later by [[Ptolemy]] (Claudius Ptolemaios). Sudines may have been important in transmitting the [[astronomical]] knowledge of the Babylonians to the Greeks, but little is known about his work and nothing about his life. He is also said to have been one of the first to assign [[astrology|astrological]] meaning to [[gemstone]]s.