Lexicon in decem oratores Atticos
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Harpocration
Harpocration
c. 115 CE–c. 180 CE · Alexandria
Valerius Harpocration was a Greek grammarian and lexicographer of Alexandria, probably active in the 2nd century CE. He compiled a 'Lexicon of the Ten Orators,' explaining the names, terms, and references found in the classical Athenian orators, a work that preserves much information about Athenian law, history, and institutions. Little is known of his life, and his exact date is uncertain.
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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, Achilles Tatius, Apollonius Dyscolus
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