Lexicon in decem oratores Atticos
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Harpocration
Harpocration
c. 115 CE–c. 180 CE · Alexandria
Valerius Harpocration was a Greek grammarian and lexicographer of Alexandria, probably active in the 2nd century CE. He compiled a 'Lexicon of the Ten Orators,' explaining the names, terms, and references found in the classical Athenian orators, a work that preserves much information about Athenian law, history, and institutions. Little is known of his life, and his exact date is uncertain.
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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.
In Alexandria at the same time
Plutarch, Aretaeus of Cappadocia, Dionysius Periegetes, Appian of Alexandria, Claudius Ptolemaeus, Achilles Tatius
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