Onomasticon
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Julius Pollux
Julius Pollux
c. 135 CE–c. 192 CE · Athens
Julius Pollux (2nd century CE) was a Greek scholar and rhetorician from Naucratis in Egypt who held a chair of rhetoric at Athens under the emperor Commodus. He compiled the 'Onomasticon,' a thematic dictionary of Greek words and phrases arranged by subject, which preserves much information on antiquities, daily life, and the theater. His work survives in an abridged form.
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The intellectual capital of the Greek world, where Socrates questioned in the agora and four great schools—Plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa, and Epicurus' Garden—took root within a single square mile.
In Athens at the same time
Alcinous, Lucian of Samosata, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Philostratus Sophista, Philostratus the Athenian
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Julius Pollux’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
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In the same tradition
Alcinous, Lucian of Samosata, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Philostratus Sophista, Philostratus the Athenian
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Julius Pollux’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.