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Achilles Tatius
Achilles Tatius
c. 115 CE–c. 155 CE · Alexandria
Achilles Tatius was a Greek novelist, generally placed in the 2nd century CE and associated with Alexandria. He is the author of the prose romance 'Leucippe and Clitophon,' one of the small group of surviving ancient Greek love-novels, noted for its adventurous plot, rhetorical set-pieces, and digressions on natural curiosities. Little is securely known about his life.
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About Alexandria
Alexandria is the main Mediterranean port of northern Egypt and the country's second city. Founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE, it became the capital of the Ptolemies, whose Museum and Great Library made it the leading centre of Hellenistic learning. It also held one of the largest Jewish communities of antiquity, where the Greek Bible translation known as the Septuagint was produced and Philo wrote. Church tradition traces its patriarchate to Mark the Evangelist, and its catechetical school was led by Clement and Origen. Arab forces under Amr ibn al-As took the city in 641, and it remained a commercial and scholarly hub of the Islamic world; the Sufi master Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari was born there.
In Alexandria at the same time
Plutarch, Aretaeus of Cappadocia, Dionysius Periegetes, Appian of Alexandria, Claudius Ptolemaeus, Harpocration
Across the traditions, in Alexandria at the same time
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Achilles Tatius’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
Across the traditions
In the same tradition
Plutarch, Aretaeus of Cappadocia, Dionysius Periegetes, Appian of Alexandria, Claudius Ptolemaeus, Harpocration, Apollonius Dyscolus, Vettius Valens, Galen
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