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Apollonius Rhodius
Apollonius Rhodius
c. 295 BCE–c. 215 BCE · Alexandria
Apollonius Rhodius was a Greek epic poet of the 3rd century BCE associated with Alexandria, where he is reported to have served as head of the great Library. He is the author of the 'Argonautica,' the surviving Hellenistic epic on Jason and the Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece, admired for its psychological portrayal of love and its learned style. His connection to Rhodes is reflected in his traditional surname.
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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
Hecataeus of Abdera, Herophilus of Chalcedon, Lycophron, Callimachus, Erasistratus of Ceos, Eratosthenes of Cyrene
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Apollonius Rhodius’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Hecataeus of Abdera, Herophilus of Chalcedon, Lycophron, Callimachus, Erasistratus of Ceos, Eratosthenes of Cyrene, Aristophanes of Byzantium, Euclid
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Apollonius Rhodius’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.