* Philo of Alexandria ( 30 BC – 45 AD )

The Therapeutae, pagan ascetic hermits and loosely organized cenobitic communities described by the Hellenized Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria in the first century, were long established in the harsh environments by Lake Mareotis close to Alexandria, and in other less-accessible regions.

The contemporary sources, Philo of Alexandria and Seneca the Younger, describe an insane emperor who was self-absorbed, angry, killed on a whim, and who indulged in too much spending and sex.

Philo of Alexandria, Josephus and Seneca state that Caligula was insane, but describe this madness as a personality trait that came through experience.

Philo of Alexandria reports that Caligula became ruthless after nearly dying of an illness in the eighth month of his reign in AD 37.

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The Stoic modification of Heraclitus ' idea of the Logos was also influential on Jewish philosophers such as Philo of Alexandria, who connected it to " Wisdom personified "

It is probably too much to assume a direct connection with Philo of Alexandria in this particular.

" In addition to the Judeo-Roman or Judeo-Hellenic historians Artapanus, Eupolemus, Josephus, and Philo, a few non-Jewish historians including Hecataeus of Abdera ( quoted by Diodorus Siculus ), Alexander Polyhistor, Manetho, Apion, Chaeremon of Alexandria, Tacitus and Porphyry also make reference to him.

Moreover, in the first century A. D., the Greco-Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria — who was himself probably a practitioner of pankration — makes a statement that could be an allusion to preliminary contests in which an athlete would participate and then collect his strength before coming forward fresh in the major competition.

and is repeated with embellishments by Philo of Alexandria, Josephus

Philo of Byzantium and Hero of Alexandria knew of the principle that certain substances, notably air, expand and contract and described a demonstration in which a closed tube partially filled with air had its end in a container of water.

* Philo leads a Jewish delegation to Rome to protest the anti-Jewish conditions in Alexandria.

* Philo of Alexandria, Jewish philosopher ( b. 20 BC ) ( approximate date )

The first to attempt to formulate Jewish principles of faith was Philo of Alexandria.

Philo of Alexandria also listed them as addition ( πρόσθεσις ), subtraction ( ἀφαίρεσις ), transposition ( μετάθεσις ), and transmutation ( ἀλλοίωσις ).

On the other hand, Philo of Alexandria calls the child of a Jew and a non-Jew a nothos ( bastard ), regardless of whether the non-Jewish parent is the father or the mother.

The sources for Pilate's life are the four canonical gospels, Philo of Alexandria, Josephus, a brief mention by Tacitus, and an inscription known as the Pilate Stone, which confirms his historicity and establishes his title as prefect.

Philo witnessed and described the Alexandrian pogroms against Jews in Alexandria in 38 CE.

Philo of Alexandria

Very little is known about him as none of his works have survived, though he has been mentioned and discussed in detail by Photius ( in his Myriobiblion ) and Sextus Empiricus, and also to a lesser extent by Diogenes Laertius and Philo of Alexandria.

According to Philo of Alexandria, in the 1st century CE the monastic community of Therapeutae was located by the shores of this lake.

He courageously tried to avoid allegorizing, which had had a long history ever since Philo of Alexandria had interpreted the Pentateuch in an allegorical fashion that de-literalized and over-metaphorized ( into symbolic systems ) many passages of the ancient manuscripts of the Bible ( now and developingly a critical text itself ).

that the real author was Herennius Philo of Byblus, who was born during the reign of Nero and lived till the reign of Hadrian, and that the treatise in its present form is a revision prepared by a later Byzantine editor, whose name may have been Ammonius.

Both Philo, who wrote during Tiberius's reign, and Josephus record Tiberius as dying a natural death.

According to Philo, the visit was met with jeers from the Greek population who saw Agrippa as the king of the Jews.

In this context, Philo wrote that Caligula " regarded the Jews with most especial suspicion, as if they were the only persons who cherished wishes opposed to his ".

As an allegorist who could read into the ancient documents the particular philosophical idiosyncrasies of his day, Anatoli deserves a place beside other allegoric and philosophical commentators, from Philo down ; indeed, he may be regarded as a pioneer in the application of the Maimonistic manner to purposes of popular instruction.

The earlier Megarian dialecticians – Diodorus Cronus and Philo – had done work in this field, and the pupils of Aristotle – Theophrastus and Eudemus – had investigated hypothetical syllogisms, but it was Chrysippus who developed these principles into a coherent system of propositional logic.

In an uncharacteristic offbeat comedy role, Eastwood played Philo Beddoe, a trucker and brawler who roams the American West searching for a lost love accompanied by his brother and an orangutan called Clyde.

In the 6th century BC, Hecataeus of Miletus affirms that Phoenicia was formerly called χνα, a name that Philo of Byblos subsequently adopted into his mythology as his eponym for the Phoenicians: " Khna who was afterwards called Phoinix ".

The two most important dialecticians of the Megarian school were Diodorus Cronus and Philo who were active in the late 4th century BC.

Modern engineers have put forward a plausible hypothesis for the statue construction, based on the technology of those days ( which was not based on the modern principles of earthquake engineering ), and the accounts of Philo and Pliny who both saw and described the remains.

The Church of the SubGenius was founded by Ivan Stang ( né Doug Smith ) and Philo Drummond, who initially established the SubGenius foundation.

Dr. Bernard Revel, in dissertation on " Karaite Halacha ", points to writings of a 10th century Karaite, Ya ' qub al-Qirqisani, who quotes Philo, illustrating how Karaites made use of Philo's works in development of Karaism.

* The Benson Murder Case ( 1926 ), the best-selling first entry in the series of detective novels by S. S. Van Dine featuring detective Philo Vance, is based on the unsolved murder of bridge expert Joseph Elwell, who was found shot to death in a room locked from the inside, minus his toupee, physical circumstances which are duplicated in the novel.

Like Philo ( see Siegfried, Philo, p. 168 ), who saw in the Hebrew construction of the infinitive with the finite form of the same verb and in certain particles ( adverbs, prepositions, etc.

On the road to success they also encountered a battle with the young inventor Philo T. Farnsworth, who had been granted patents in 1930 for his solution to broadcasting moving pictures.

Although the names of his parents are unknown, Philo came from a family who were noble, honourable and wealthy.

So Philo being thus affronted, went out, and said to those Jews who were about him, that they should be of good courage, since Gaius's words indeed showed anger at them, but in reality had already set God against himself.

Speaking of the large Jewish population in Egypt, Philo says that Alexandria " had two classes of inhabitants, our own nation and the people of the country, and that the whole of Egypt was inhabited in the same manner, and that Jews who inhabited Alexandria and the rest of the country from the Catabathmos on the side of Libya to the boundaries of Ethiopia were not less than a million of men.

" In response, Philo says that Flaccus then " issued a notice in which he called us all foreigners and aliens ... allowing any one who was inclined to proceed to exterminate the Jews as prisoners of war.