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Adrianus of Tyre
Adrianus of Tyre
c. 115 CE–c. 193 CE · Tyre
Adrianus of Tyre was a Greek rhetorician and sophist of the 2nd century CE, a pupil of the celebrated orator Herodes Atticus. He taught rhetoric at Athens and later at Rome, where he held a prestigious public chair of rhetoric, and was admired in his day for his eloquence. His works are largely lost.
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Tyre (Arabic Sur), an ancient Phoenician port on the Mediterranean coast of southern Lebanon, was a fortified coastal town of Bilad al-Sham, taken by the Crusaders in 1124 and recovered for Islam in 1291. As a Mediterranean harbour it lay on the routes travelled by scholars of the Syrian coast.
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