"Eratosthenes" Natural Recordings by Native Speakers
Eratosthenes was a Greek mathematician who lived in the 3rd century BC. He was born in Cyrene, North Africa, and later moved to Alexandria, Egypt, where he became the chief librarian of the Great Library of Alexandria. Eratosthenes is famous for being the first person to correctly calculate the circumference of the Earth.
Erastian refers to the doctrine of the subjection of the church to the state, or the idea that the state has authority over the church. The term is derived from the name Erastus, a critic of the church's independence, who argued that the state should have control over the church's finances and decisions.