Longinus
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Longinus is the name traditionally attached to the influential Greek literary treatise On the Sublime (Peri Hypsous). It is most often identified with Cassius Longinus, a Greek rhetorician and Platonist philosopher of the 3rd century CE who taught in Athens and later served as adviser to Queen Zenobia of Palmyra, by whom association he was executed by the emperor Aurelian around 273 CE. However, modern scholars widely doubt this attribution, frequently dating On the Sublime to the 1st century CE and treating its true author as effectively unknown (hence "Pseudo-Longinus").
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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.
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