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Achilles Tatius
Achilles Tatius
c. 115 CE–c. 155 CE · Alexandria
Achilles Tatius was a Greek novelist, generally placed in the 2nd century CE and associated with Alexandria. He is the author of the prose romance 'Leucippe and Clitophon,' one of the small group of surviving ancient Greek love-novels, noted for its adventurous plot, rhetorical set-pieces, and digressions on natural curiosities. Little is securely known about his life.
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About Alexandria
Alexandria (al-Iskandariyya) is the great Mediterranean port-city of northern Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE and a leading centre of learning in antiquity. After the Muslim conquest of Egypt (642) it remained a major commercial and scholarly hub; the Shadhili Sufi Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari (d. 1309) took his nisba from the city, and the modernist reformer Muhammad Abduh (d. 1905) was active in Egypt's intellectual life there and in Cairo.
In Alexandria at the same time
Aretaeus of Cappadocia, Dionysius Periegetes, Appian of Alexandria, Claudius Ptolemaeus, Harpocration, Apollonius Dyscolus
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Aretaeus of Cappadocia, Dionysius Periegetes, Appian of Alexandria, Claudius Ptolemaeus, Harpocration, Apollonius Dyscolus, Vettius Valens, Galen
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