School Of Alexandria

The Alexandrian school together various intellectual currents, including, principally, and in chronological order:

• Alexandrian Judaism (from the ^sixth century BCE), with the Septuagint (- III ^century ), Philo of Alexandria , said Philo the Jew (c. 40 ), the Book of Wisdom , part of the Bible (but not the Hebrew canon), was written in Greek, in Alexandria, ^first century BCE.
• Alexandrian Aristotelianism, as Strato of Lampsacus (before he became the second scolarque, rector of the Lyceum, in -288 , after Theophrastus)
• astronomical school of Alexandria, inseparable from the school of mathematics: Euclid (c. -300 ), Pappus (late ^third century ), Diophantus of Alexandria , Theon of Alexandria ( ^fourth century ) and his daughter, Hypatia murdered in 415. From Eratosthenes to Claude Ptolemy , there are not scientists who lived there or stayed there, bringing breakthroughs, particularly in the history of astronomy , including Hipparchus and Aristarchus of Samos who was the first to -280 said rotation of the Earth itself and its translation around the Sun;
• Medical School of Alexandria, with two rival authors, Herophilus ( -331 / -250 ) and Erasistratus ( -310 / -250 );
• School philological, literary grouped around the Museum or the Library of Alexandria , from -288 ;
• Middle Platonism: Antiochus of Ascalon ( -87 ) Eudorus Alexandria ... ;
• Stoicism Alexandrian: Arius Didymus (late ^first century BCE), Chaermon of Alexandria ( ^first century );
• Alexandrian skepticism: Aenesidemus the first nopyrrhonien, taught philosophy at Alexandria skeptical ^first century ;
• the theological school of Alexandria , Christian Pantene (c. 180 ), Clement of Alexandria , Origen ;
• the Neoplatonic School of Alexandria : Hypatia ( 370 / 415 ) Synesius of Cyrene , Alexandria Hierocles ...

Summary 1 Bibliography 2 See also 2.1 Articles Related 2.2 Links to external

/ / Bibliography

• Alexandrina. Hellenism, Judaism and Christianity in Alexandria, Cerf, 1987.
• J. Danilou eds. History of Christian doctrines before Nicaea, vol II, Tournai, Descle, 1961.
• Anthony A. Long and David N. Sedley, Hellenistic Philosophers (1986), trans., Garnier-Flammarion, 3 t., 1997.
• Jean Pepin, in Dictionary of philosophers, Encyclopaedia Universalis / Albin Michel, 1998 48-51.

See also

Related articles

• Neoplatonism
• Ammonius Saccas
• Iamblichus
• Plotinus
• Greek Science

External Links

• Resource directories ancient philosophical:

• Bibliotheca Classica Selecta
• Cnrs
• Remacle
• Toulouse Academic Site