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Arius Didymus
Arius Didymus
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Arius Didymus was a Greek philosopher and doxographer, usually described as a Stoic (or Stoic-leaning), active in the late first century BCE. He is generally identified with the Arius who served as court philosopher and adviser to the emperor Augustus. He is best known for an influential handbook summarizing the doctrines of the major philosophical schools (Stoic, Peripatetic, and Platonic ethics in particular), substantial portions of which survive through quotation in the anthology of Stobaeus. His epitomes are a valuable source for reconstructing Hellenistic ethical theory, especially Stoic and Aristotelian moral philosophy.
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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.