Favorinus of Arelate
c. 80 CE–c. 160 CE · Rome
Skeptic philosopher and sophist of the age of Hadrian; friend of Plutarch, teacher in the circle preserved by Aulus Gellius.
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RomeרומאItaly
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Rome in this era
Under the emperors (from Augustus, 27 BCE) Rome was the capital of an empire stretching from Britain to Syria, a city of perhaps a million people. Greek-speaking philosophers, physicians, rhetoricians and historians came to teach and write there; Domitian expelled philosophers from the city around 93-95 CE, and in the 3rd century Plotinus taught in Rome (244-270).
About Rome
Rome, on the Tiber in central Italy, grew from an Iron Age settlement into the capital of the Roman Republic and then of an empire that by the 1st century CE ruled the whole Mediterranean. Its Jewish community, attested from the 2nd century BCE, is among the oldest in Europe. Christian tradition holds that the apostles Peter and Paul died there, and the city became the seat of the popes. After the Western Empire ended in 476 it passed to Gothic kings, to Byzantium and then to papal rule as capital of the Papal States, until it became the capital of unified Italy in 1871. Vatican City, independent since 1929, lies within it.
In Rome at the same time
Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius, Musonius Rufus, Quintilian, Titus, Martial, Valerius Flaccus, Gaius
Across the traditions, in Rome at the same time
In the same place & time
Sages whose lives overlapped with Favorinus of Arelate’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
Across the traditions
- John the Apostle· Rome
- Aquila· Rome
- Priscilla· Rome
- Berenice· Rome
- Josephus· Rome
- Rabbi Yehoshua· Rome
- Rabban Gamliel of Yavneh· Rome
- Eleazar ben Azaryah· Rome
- Polycarp of Smyrna· Rome
- Marcion of Sinope· Rome
- Justin Martyr· Rome
- Valentinus· Rome
- Anicetus, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Pius I, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Hyginus, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Telesphorus, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Sixtus I, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Alexander I, Bishop of Rome· Rome
In the same tradition
Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius, Musonius Rufus, Quintilian, Titus, Martial, Valerius Flaccus, Gaius, Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius), Plutarch, Domitian, Epictetus, Juvenal, Tacitus, Cornelius, Pliny, the Younger, Suetonius, Florus, Lucius Annaeus, Appian of Alexandria, Aelius Herodianus, Aulus Gellius
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Favorinus of Arelate’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Works
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