Alexander Polyhistor
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title:
Alexander Polyhistor
text:
Lucius Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor was a Greek scholar who was enslaved by the Romans during the Mithridatic War and taken to Rome as a tutor. After his release, he continued to live in Italy as a Roman citizen. He was so productive as a writer that he earned the surname Polyhistor. The majority of his writings are now lost, but the fragments that remain shed valuable light on antiquarian and eastern Mediterranean subjects.
Among his works were historical and geographical accounts of nearly a
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1st-century BC Greek scholar
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Polyhistor
date created:
2004-08-20T06:59:41Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T20:48:55Z
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