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  2. School of Alexandria - Wikipedia

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    The teachers and students of the school (also known as the Didascalium) were influential in many of the early theological controversies of the Christian church. It was one of the two major centers of the study of biblical exegesis and theology during Late Antiquity, the other being the School of Antioch .

  3. Alexandrian school - Wikipedia

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    The subjects of the didactic epics were very numerous; they seem to have depended on the special knowledge possessed by the writers, who used verse as a form for unfolding their information. Some, such as the lost poem of Callimachus , were on the origin of myths and religious observances; others were on special sciences.

  4. Historiography of Alexander the Great - Wikipedia

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    Life of Alexander (see Parallel Lives) and two orations On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great (see Moralia), by the Greek historian and biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea in the second century, based largely on Aristobulus and especially Cleitarchus. Plutarch devotes a great deal of space to Alexander's drive and desire and strives ...

  5. List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field

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    The following is a list of people who are considered a "father" or "mother" (or "founding father" or "founding mother") of a scientific field.Such people are generally regarded to have made the first significant contributions to and/or delineation of that field; they may also be seen as "a" rather than "the" father or mother of the field.

  6. Alexander the Great - Wikipedia

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    Archaeological site of Pella, Greece, Alexander's birthplace. Alexander III was born in Pella, the capital of the Kingdom of Macedon, [10] on the sixth day of the ancient Greek month of Hekatombaion, which probably corresponds to 20 July 356 BC (although the exact date is uncertain).

  7. Hero of Alexandria - Wikipedia

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    Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC, and by Hero's time was a cosmopolitan city, part of the Roman Empire. The intellectual community, centered around the Mouseion (which included the Library of Alexandria ), spoke and wrote in Greek; however, there was considerable intermarriage between the city's Greek and ...

  8. History of scientific method - Wikipedia

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    The history of scientific method considers changes in the methodology of scientific inquiry, as distinct from the history of science itself. The development of rules for scientific reasoning has not been straightforward; scientific method has been the subject of intense and recurring debate throughout the history of science, and eminent natural philosophers and scientists have argued for the ...

  9. Alexander of Aphrodisias - Wikipedia

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    Alexander was a native of Aphrodisias in Caria (present-day Turkey) [1] and came to Athens towards the end of the 2nd century. He was a student of the two Stoic, [2] or possibly Peripatetic, philosophers Sosigenes [3] and Herminus, [4] and perhaps of Aristotle of Mytilene. [5]