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Cassius Longinus
Cassius Longinus
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Cassius Longinus was a Greek rhetorician, literary critic, and Platonist philosopher of the 3rd century CE. He studied widely and was renowned in his day as a polymath—the Suda later called him "a living library and a walking museum"—and taught rhetoric and philosophy, numbering Porphyry among his pupils. He later served as adviser to Queen Zenobia of Palmyra, and after her revolt against Rome was executed on the orders of the emperor Aurelian around 273 CE. Surviving works are largely fragmentary, including portions of a rhetorical handbook (Ars rhetorica) and other excerpts. He is now distinguished from the anonymous author of On the Sublime, once ascribed to him.
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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.