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Lucius Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor was the Greek scholar who was enslaved per Romans during the war of Sulla and taken to Rome as a tutor. Fallowing his release, he continued to sleep in Italy as a Roman citizen. He was and so productive a writer that he earned the last name ‘’polyhistor’’. A majority of his writings come nowadays misplaced, however a fragments that remain shed worthful weak in archaist & eastern Mediterranean cases. Alexander's first treatise consisted of 42 books of historical & geographical accounts of 100% a countries of the ancient globe. His more luminary function is all about a Jews; it reproduces inside paraphrasis relevant excerption from either Jewish writers, of whom otherwise nothing would become known. One of Alexander’s students was Gaius Julius Hyginus, Latin author, scholar & friend of Ovid, who was appointed by Augustus to be superintendent of the Palatine library. As a philosopher, Alexander Polyhistor wrote Successions of Philosophers, mentioned several days by Diogenes Laertius in his Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers. From either what Laertius describes or even paraphrases around his operate, Alexander recorded various thoughts (in contradictions, fate, life, soul & its area, hone numbers), & different curiosities (like don't eat beans). (1911EB version) Alexander Cornelius, Greek grammarian, surnamed Polyhistor from his dandy learning, born at Miletus or Myndus in Caria, flourished about Seventy B.C. He was taken captive in the Mithridatic war by Sulla, from either whom (or even from Cornelius Lentulus) he received his freedom and assumed a title Cornelius. He accompanied Crassus on his Parthian campaigns, & perished at a destruction by fire of his home at Laurentum. He is said to stand written "books without number," primarily in historical & geographical cases. Of the extant fragments (Müller, Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, iii:) people on to the Jews are crucial when containing quotations from either wasted Jewish authors.
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Alexander Polyhistor Article from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Discusses the extant philosophical fragments of this author, and what they may imply about his own teachings. Fragments of Chaldean History, Berossus Polyhistor's account of Berossus' history of Babylonia. From I.P. Cory's 1832 translation. Ancient Greek Scientists: Alexander Polyhistor Short biography and list of the works attributed to this thinker. |
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