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Hierocles is said to have been the instigator of the fierce persecution of the Christians under Galerius.
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Hierocles argued against astrological fatalism on the basis that it is supported by an irrational necessity rather than a divine, rational Providence of God.
The collection of some 260 witticisms attributed to Hierocles and Philagrius has no connection with Hierocles of Alexandria, but is probably a compilation of later date, founded on two older collections.
It is now agreed that the fragments of the Elements of Ethics preserved in Stobaeus are from a work by a Stoic named Hierocles, contemporary of Epictetus, who has been identified with the " Hierocles Stoicus vir sanctus et gravis " in Aulus Gellius ( ix.
A common way to understand Stoic cosmopolitanism is through Hierocles ' circle model of identity that states that we should regard ourselves as concentric circles, the first one around the self, next immediate family, extended family, local group, citizens, countrymen, humanity.
* Oreus: A town on the western shore of Euboea, it is the home of the oracle monger and party-pooper, Hierocles ( line 1047, 1125 ).
* Bakis: A popular prophet and source of oracles, he is mentioned repeatedly by the oracle monger Hierocles ( lines 1070-72 ) and Hierocles is later referred to as Bakis ( 1119 ).
* Sibyl: A legendary prophetess, she is considered by Hierocles to be a greater authority than Homer ( line 1095 ) and he is told to eat her ( 1116 ).
Elagabalus considered the blond Hierocles to be his husband and is credited with saying:
Birtha ( Aramæan Bîrthâ " castle ") is spoken of as a castle by ancient authors ( Hierocles, 715, 2 ).
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He was described as having been " delighted to be called the mistress, the wife, the queen of Hierocles " and was said to have offered vast sums of money to any physician who could equip him with female genitalia.
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Elagabalus tried to have his presumed lover, the charioteer Hierocles, declared Caesar, while another alleged lover, the athlete Aurelius Zoticus, was appointed to the non-administrative but influential position of Master of the Chamber, or Cubicularius.
According to Cassius Dio, his most stable relationship seems to have been with his chariot driver, a blond slave from Caria named Hierocles, whom he referred to as his husband.
There he associated in the imperial circle with the administrator and polemicist Sossianus Hierocles and the pagan philosopher Porphyry ; here he will first have met Constantine, and Galerius, whom he cast as villain in the persecutions.
Elagabalus unsuccessfully tried to have Hierocles declared Caesar, which would have made him the emperor's successor.
Elagabalus appears to have been either homosexual or bisexual, and the historian Cassius Dio claims that Elagabalus had a more stable relationship with his chariot driver, Hierocles, than with any of his wives.
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* Hierocles, proconsul of Bithynia who instigated the persecution of the Christians under Galerius
Hierocles, one of the main instigators of the persecution of Christians in 303, wrote a pamphlet where he argued that Apollonius exceeded Christ as a wonder-worker and yet wasn ’ t worshipped as a god, and that the cultured biographers of Apollonius were more trustworthy than the uneducated apostles.
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These fragments are apparently drawn from the lost " Words against the Christians " of Porphyry or from the " Truth-Loving Words " of Hierocles.
Within the highest ranks of the imperial administration, however, there were men who were ideologically opposed to the toleration of Christians, like the philosopher Porphyry of Tyre, and Sossianus Hierocles, governor of Bithynia.
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Hierocles in his Synecdemus mentions Amfissa as one of the towns of the eparchy of Hellas within the Byzantine Empire, which was under the rule of the vice-consul of Athens.
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It was written by Hierocles and Philagrius and was included in a compilation of 265 jokes titled Philogelos: The Laugh Addict.
According to the historian Cassius Dio, he has a stable relationship with his chariot driver, the slave Hierocles.
Eusebius wrote an extant reply to the pamphlet of Hierocles, where he claimed that Philostratus was a fabulist and that Apollonius was a sorcerer in league with demons.
Hierocles of Alexandria was a Greek Neoplatonist writer who was active around AD 430.
* Hermann S. Schibli, Hierocles of Alexandria.
* G. Pachymeres, Hierocles and Philagrios, Declamationes XIII, Philogelos.
Hiero II ( c. 308 BC – 215 BC ), Greek Sicilian king of Syracuse from 270 to 215 BC, was the illegitimate son of a Syracusan noble, Hierocles, who claimed descent from Gelon.
The 2nd century AD Stoic philosopher Hierocles equated the Hyperboreans to the Scythians, and the Rhipean Mountains to the Ural Mountains.
Paphlagonia reappeared as a separate province in the 5th century AD ( Hierocles, Synecdemus c. 33 ).
Other geographical documents, such as Peutinger's " Tabula " and the " Synecdemus " of Hierocles, also mention it.
Contemporary texts such as Hierocles ' Synecdemus affirm that in late Antiquity, Greece was highly urbanised and contained approximately 80 cities.
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