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Callinicus
Callinicus
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Callinicus of Petra (fl. mid-3rd century CE) was a Greek sophist, rhetorician, and historian of the Roman imperial period. He came from a prominent family of Petra in the province of Arabia, and ancient sources (notably the Suda) describe him as both a Syrian and an Arabian. During the reigns of Valerian and Gallienus he taught rhetoric at Athens. He subsequently entered the patronage of Zenobia, ruler of the Palmyrene realm, residing at her court at Palmyra and later at Alexandria, which Palmyrene forces occupied around 270 CE. He is reported to have dedicated a ten-book history of Alexandria to a "Cleopatra," generally taken to be Zenobia. His writings, which included declamations and historical works, survive only in scattered fragments and testimonia.
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AlexandriaEgypt
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About Alexandria
Alexandria (al-Iskandariyya) is the great Mediterranean port-city of northern Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE and a leading centre of learning in antiquity. After the Muslim conquest of Egypt (642) it remained a major commercial and scholarly hub; the Shadhili Sufi Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari (d. 1309) took his nisba from the city, and the modernist reformer Muhammad Abduh (d. 1905) was active in Egypt's intellectual life there and in Cairo.
In Alexandria at the same time
Hecataeus of Abdera, Herophilus of Chalcedon, Lycophron, Callimachus, Erasistratus of Ceos, Apollonius Rhodius