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Oenomaus of Gadara
Oenomaus of Gadara
c. 85 CE–c. 145 CE · Gadara
Oenomaus of Gadara was a Greek Cynic philosopher, probably active in the early 2nd century CE. He is best known for a work attacking belief in oracles and divination, which survives in fragments quoted by the later writer Eusebius. He is also identified by some scholars with a Cynic sage mentioned approvingly in rabbinic literature.
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About Gadara
Gadara was a city of the Decapolis, near modern Umm Qais in northwestern Jordan, and a noted center of Greek literary culture. It produced the Cynic philosopher and satirist Menippus, the Epicurean Philodemus, the poet Meleager, and the Cynic philosopher Oenomaus of Gadara.
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