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Alypius
Alypius
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Alypius was a Greek writer on music theory, author of the surviving Isagoge musica ("Introduction to Music"), a technical manual that tabulates the ancient Greek system of musical notation across its various keys (tonoi). His date is uncertain; he is conventionally placed in late antiquity, roughly the 4th century CE, though earlier datings have been proposed. Almost nothing is known of his life. His treatise is invaluable to modern scholars because its notation tables are the principal key to deciphering the few surviving examples of ancient Greek musical notation.
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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.