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Maximus of Tyre
Maximus of Tyre
c. 115 CE–c. 185 CE · Tyre
Maximus of Tyre (2nd century CE) was a Greek philosopher and orator of the Second Sophistic, a popularizer of Platonism. Forty-one of his short philosophical lectures survive, addressing ethical and religious questions for a general audience in an accessible, rhetorical style. They are a useful window onto the Platonism of the Roman imperial period.
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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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