由于希罗的作品深受巴比伦文化的影响，所以他曾被少数学者认为他是一位带有埃及或腓尼基血统的希腊人。[3]但现代学者却认为他是一位纯希腊人。[4][1][5]数学历史学家卡尔·本雅明·博耶（C. B. Boyer）解释，希罗之所以被认为是埃及人或腓尼基人，是因为他的作品带有浓烈的巴比伦色彩。但是最少自亚历山大大帝时期起至古典时代（Classical antiquity）结束的一段时期，希腊的确与美索不达米亚有许多来往，而且不难看到巴比伦的算术和代数几何学一直对希腊化文明产生重大影响。[4]
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Boyer. Greek Trigonometry and Mensuration. A History of Mathematics. 1968年 [1991年]: 第171至172页. At least from the days of Alexander the Great to the close of the classical world, there undoubtedly was much intercommunication between Greece and Mesopotamia, and it seems to be clear that the Babylonian arithmetic and algebraic geometry continued to exert considerable influence in the Hellenistic world. This aspect of mathematics, for example, appears so strongly in Heron of Alexandria (fl. ca. A.D. 100) that Heron once was thought to be Egyptian or Phoenician rather than Greek. Now it is thought that Heron portrays a type of mathematics that had long been present in Greece but does not find a representative among the great figures - except perhaps as betrayed by Ptolemy in the Tetrabiblos.请检查|date=中的日期值 (帮助)
