Onomasticon
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Julius Pollux
Julius Pollux
c. 135 CE–c. 192 CE · Athens
Julius Pollux (2nd century CE) was a Greek scholar and rhetorician from Naucratis in Egypt who held a chair of rhetoric at Athens under the emperor Commodus. He compiled the 'Onomasticon,' a thematic dictionary of Greek words and phrases arranged by subject, which preserves much information on antiquities, daily life, and the theater. His work survives in an abridged form.
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About Athens
Athens, the capital of Greece since 1834, was the leading intellectual centre of the classical Greek world. Socrates taught there, and four major philosophical schools took root in the city: Plato's Academy, founded around 387 BCE, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa of Zeno, and Epicurus' Garden. Under Hellenistic and Roman rule Athens remained a place of study that drew students from across the empire; in the 4th century CE the Christian writers Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus studied there together, while Neoplatonist teachers kept lecturing. Emperor Justinian's ban on pagan teaching of philosophy in 529 is generally taken to mark the end of the city's ancient history.
In Athens at the same time
Alcinous, Lucian of Samosata, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Philostratus Sophista, Philostratus the Athenian
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Julius Pollux’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
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Alcinous, Lucian of Samosata, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Philostratus Sophista, Philostratus the Athenian
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Julius Pollux’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.