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- Name: Constantine Peter Cavafy
- Known as: C. P. Cavafy
- Birth: April 29, 1863, Alexandria, Egypt
- Death: April 29, 1933, Alexandria, Egypt
- Language: Greek
- Who he was: Egyptian Greek poet and journalist best known for Ithaca
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
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- Name: Paul Bowles
- Birth: December 30, 1910, Jamaica, Queens, New York City, USA
- Death: November 18, 1999, Tangier, Morocco
- Language: English
- Who he was: American author; The Sheltering Sky; The Delicate Prey and Other Stories
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
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- Name: Albert Camus
- Birth: November 7, 1913, Dréan, Algeria
- Death: January 4, 1960, Villeblevin, France
- Language: French
- Who he was: French philosopher, author, and journalist; The Stranger; The Plague; The Myth of Sisyphus; Nobel Prize in Literature, (1957)
- Included in lists (What's This?): LRP; Bloom; GC
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| sculpture by Patrick Morelli |
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- Name: Abū Zayd 'Abd ar-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Khaldun al-Hadram
- Known as: Ibn Khaldun
- Birth: May 27, 1332, Tunis, Tunisia
- Death: March 19, 1406, Cairo, Egypt
- Language: Arabic
- Who he was: North African Muslim historian; Muqaddimah (part I of a history of the world, Kitāb al-'Ibar)
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Averroes, detail of Raphael's
fresco The School of Athens |
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- Name: Ibn Rushd
- Known as: Averroes
- Birth: April 14, 1126, Córdoba, Spain
- Death: December 10, 1198, Marrakesh, Morocco
- Language: Arabic
- Who he was: Andalusian polymath; Tahafut al-tahafut (The Incoherence of the Incoherence); Kitab fasl al-maqal (The Harmony of Religion and Philosophy)
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- Name: Moshe ben Maimon
- Known as: Maimonides
- Birth: Unknown Date, 1135, Córdoba, Spain
- Death: December 13, 1204, Fustat, Egypt
- Language: Judeo-Arabic
- Who he was: medieval Jewish philosopher; The Guide for the Perplexed; "Oath of Maimonides"
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- Name: Cyril of Alexandria
- Birth: Unknown Date, 378, Alexandria, Egypt
- Death: June 27, 444, Alexandria, Egypt
- Language: Greek
- Who he was: Greek Patriarch (of Alexandria) and Church Father known for Commentaries on the Old Testament, and On St. John's Gospel; Dialogues on the Trinity; numerous Christological works
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| Fresco of the Desert Fathers in a monastery near their former dwellings |
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- Name: Sayings of the Desert Fathers
- Known as: Apophthegmata Patrum
- Date: late 4th century CE
- Place: Egypt
- Language: Greek (originally Coptic)
- What it is: Middle Eastern collection of stories about the first Christian monks of Egypt
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| The death of Hypatia |
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- Name: Hypatia
- Dates: c. 350 or 70-415
- Place: Alexandria
- Language: Greek
- Who she was: female Greek scholar in Alexandria, Roman-era Egypt; said to have been murdered by a Christian mob
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| by Piero di Cosimo |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Anthony the Great
- Also known as: Anthony of Egypt
- Birth: Unknown Date, 251, Heracleopolis Magna, Egypt
- Death: January 17, 356, Egypt
- Language: Coptic
- Who he was: Coptic-speaking Egyptian hermit and Church Father known for his Letters
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| A text from Nag Hammadi |
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- Name: Nag Hammadi Texts
- Date: 3rd-4th centuries CE
- Place: Egypt
- Language: Coptic
- What they are: Middle Eastern collection of Gnostic texts (includes the Gospel of Thomas)
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Origen
- Also known as: Origen Adamantius
- Birth: c. 184, Alexandria, Egypt
- Death: c. 254, Tyre, Lebanon
- Language: Greek
- Who he was: Greek-speaking Christian ascetic theologian and Church Father born in Roman-era Alexandria; Biblical Commentaries; On First Principles; Against Celsus
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus
- Known as: Tertullian
- Dates: 160-220
- Place: Carthage
- Language: Latin
- Who he was: Roman theologian, apologist, and Church Father born in Carthage; Apologeticum; Adversus Valentinianos (Against the Valentinians); De Carne Christi (On the Flesh of Christ)
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- Name: Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis
- Known as: Apuleius
- Birth: c. 125, M'Daourouch, Algeria
- Death: c. 180, Carthage
- Language: Latin
- Who he was: Latin-speaking Numidian writer; wrote The Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass); Apologia
- Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 2); Bloom
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Just the Facts:
- Name: (Claudius) Ptolemy
- Birth: 90, Alexandria, Egypt
- Death: 168, Alexandria, Egypt
- Language: Greek
- Who he was: Greco-Egyptian scientist in Alexandria, Roman-era Egypt; Almagest (on astronomy); Geography of the "known world"
- Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (+10YP)
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- Name: Athanasius
- Birth: Unknown Date, 296, Alexandria, Egypt
- Death: May 2, 373, Alexandria, Egypt
- Nationality: Roman Egyptian
- Language: Latin
- Who he was: Roman Christian theologian and Church Father, born in Roman-era Alexandria; Life of Saint Anthony of Egypt; traditionally credited with the "Athanasian Creed"
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Publius Terentius Afer
- Known as: Terence
- Dates: c. 190-c. 159? BCE
- Place: Carthage
- Language: Latin
- Who he was: Roman comic playwright known for Andria (The Girl from Andros)
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Philo of Alexandria
- Also known as: Philo Judaeus
- Dates: c. 25 BCE-c. 50 CE
- Place: Alexandria, Egypt
- Language: Latin; Greek? Hebrew?
- Who he was: Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who wrote numerous allegorical commentaries on the "Old Testament"
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- Name: Euclid
- Dates: flourished 300 BCE
- Place: Alexandria, Egypt
- Nationality: Greek
- Language: Greek
- Who he was: Greek mathematician who wrote the Elements
- Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (+10YP)
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Apollonius of Perga
- Birth: c. 262 BCE, Perga, Turkey
- Death: 190 BCE, Alexandria, Egypt
- Language: Greek
- Who he was: Greek mathematician and scientist known for Conic Sections
- Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (+10YP)
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