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    Chronographic Foundations
    The earliest systematic attempt to create a universal framework for sequencing events is attributed to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. His Chronographies ($\mathrm{X}\rho o\nu o\gamma \rho \alpha \varphi \iota \alpha \iota$) established the standard for synchronizing disparate cultural records by fixing the epochal event of the first recorded Ancient Olympic Games as the zero-point of historical reckoning [2]. This system relied heavily on stellar parallax measurements …