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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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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.