I whanau a Archimedes i te tau 287 BC i te taone nui o Syracuse, Sicily, i taua wa he koroni whai mana i Magna Graecia. Ko te ra whanau i runga i te korero a te kaituhi o Byzantine Greek a John Tzetzes i noho a Archimedes mo nga tau 75. I roto i te Sand Reckoner, ka whakahuatia e Archimedes te ingoa o tona papa ko Phidias, he tohunga whetu kaore he mea e mohiotia ana. I tuhituhi a Plutarch i roto i tana Parallel Lives ko Archimedes e pa ana ki a King Hiero II, te rangatira o Syuse. I tuhia he koiora o Archimedes e tana hoa a Heracleides engari kua ngaro tenei mahi, ka waiho nga taipitopito o tona oranga.
Ko Hiraukau, i Hīki