• Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor (Ancient Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Πολυΐστωρ; flourished in the first half of the 1st century BC; also called Alexander of Miletus)...
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    poet and historian Alexander Philalethes, 1st century BC physician Alexander Polyhistor, Greek scholar of the 1st century BC Alexander of Myndus, ancient...
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    135-51 BC) Pseudo-Scymnus (c. 90 BC) Diodorus Siculus (c. 90-30 BC) Alexander Polyhistor (1st century BC) Roman Empire period Periplus of the Erythraean Sea...
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    survived via the abridgment and copying of historians including Alexander Polyhistor, Josephus, Abydenus, and Eusebius. Mayer Burstein suggests that Berossus'...
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  • (/hɪˈdʒaɪnəs/; c. 64 BC – AD 17) was a Latin author, a pupil of the scholar Alexander Polyhistor, and a freedman of Caesar Augustus. He was elected superintendent...
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  • Theopompus Timaeus (historian) Gaius Acilius Acesander Alexander Lychnus Alexander Polyhistor Appian Arrian Zarmanochegas Caecilius of Calacte Callinicus...
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  • historian Alexander Polyhistor, and in the Stromata (hereafter abbreviated as Strom.) of Clement of Alexandria. A sixth passage which Polyhistor attributes...
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    said "Josephus records evidence of the prolific non-Jewish polymath Alexander Polyhistor, who in turn cites the historian Cleodemus Malchus, who states that...
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    Others made him the son of Antiphemus, or Antiophemus, and Helena. Alexander Polyhistor, Clement of Alexandria and Eusebius say he was the teacher of Orpheus...
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    (Ancient Greek: Ἄραξα) was a city of ancient Lycia, according to Alexander Polyhistor, in the second book of his Lyciaca. Ptolemy places it near Sidyma...
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    Latin Dictionary, 1879, s.v. "Mauri". Diodorus Siculus; Bib. IV, 27; Alexander Polyhistor, fr. 3, F.G.H. III, p. 212; John of Antioch, fr. 13, F.H.G. IV, p...
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  • abridgement of it found in a work by the first century AD writer Alexander Polyhistor. This text consisted of a history of Babylonia (relying mostly on...
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    because, according to the 1st-century BC Greek scholar and historian Alexander Polyhistor, they were the daughters of Pleione. De Astronomica also says that...
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    of the work Concerning the Jews by the 1st century BC historian Alexander Polyhistor, which in turn quotes a passage in Concerning the Jews of Assyria...
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    had a different source, either Alexander Polyhistor (c. 65 BC) or Juba II of Mauretania (c. 50 BC–20 AD). Polyhistor's numerous works included a history...
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  • Concerning the Jews, quoted by Polyhistor and Eusebius Cleodemus Malchus, Jewish historian referenced by Alexander Polyhistor and Josephus Eupolemus, an early...
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  • and writers on world affairs, Diodorus (who wrote the Library) and Alexander Polyhistor, and some of our contemporaries record these events even more accurately...
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    which led to the etymologically related names of the island by Alexander Polyhistor (Topazius) and the early Egyptians (Topapwene) – "land of the Topaz"...
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    from the writings of Berossus, a priest of Bel in Babylon, on whom Alexander Polyhistor relied heavily for information on Mesopotamia. Among the interesting...
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  • Carystus, Sotion, Heraclides Lembos (an epitome of Sotion), Sosicrates, Alexander Polyhistor, Jason of Nysa, Antisthenes of Rhodes, and Nicias of Nicaea. The...
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  • with Eudorus, based on the extant Pythagorean fragments recorded by Alexander Polyhistor, which show little or no trace of this doctrine. In logic, Eudorus...
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    mathematician and philosopher Bryson of Heraclea, mathematician Alexander Polyhistor, scholar Ctesias, historian Ephorus, historian Cassius Dio, historian...
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    completed the stars and the sun and the moon and the five planets. Alexander Polyhistor says that Berossus asserts these things in his first book. Syncellus:...
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    historians including Hecataeus of Abdera (quoted by Diodorus Siculus), Alexander Polyhistor, Manetho, Apion, Chaeremon of Alexandria, Tacitus and Porphyry also...
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    Jewish and Greek history and had gained international circulation: Alexander Polyhistor (flourishing in 85–35 BCE); Varro (116–27 BCE); Ptolemy priest of...
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  • robust figure. Diogenes mentions three sources for the name of Plato (Alexander Polyhistor, Neanthes of Cyzicus and unnamed sources), according to which the...
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    coach – allegedly a reference to his physical girth. According to Alexander Polyhistor, quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, his actual name was Aristocles, son...
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    even characterized as "decadent" by Sextus Empiricus. According to Alexander Polyhistor, quoted by Diogenes Laërtius. According to a tradition, reported...
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  • (Sarmatia) falling into the Euxine, mentioned only in the work of Alexander Polyhistor, On the Euxine Sea, mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium as giving...
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  • leader Alexander of Aphrodisias – Peripatetic philosopher Alexander of Greece – rhetorician Alexander of Pherae – tyrant Alexander Polyhistor – writer...
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