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Gadara

Decapolis

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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