Empedocles (c. 494-434 B.C.) achieved legendary status as a philosopher, scientist, healer, poet and orator. He made imp
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Iulius Africanus (3rd cent.) is a fascinating writer in a period of transition. Widely travelled, he belongs to the inte
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The cosmic cycle described in the surviving fragments of Empedocles' poem is the alternation, in endless succession
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Machon was a writer of Comedies who lived and worked in Alexandria in the middle of the third century B.C. All of his wo
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Only fragments survive of the writings of the Valentinian Gnostic teacher Heracleon (fl. 145-180 AD). The remnants can b
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Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It was founded in antiquity. In 714 i
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