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Aelius Theon
Aelius Theon
c. 15 CE–c. 55 CE · Alexandria
Aelius Theon was a Greek rhetorician of Alexandria, generally dated to the 1st century CE. He is best known as the author of a 'Progymnasmata,' a handbook of graded preliminary exercises for training students in composition and rhetoric, which is among the earliest and most detailed such manuals to survive. His work was influential in the teaching of rhetoric in later antiquity.
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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.
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