The poetic compositions of Lycophron chiefly consisted of tragedies, which secured him a place in the Pleiad of Alexandrian tragedians.

The name was a reference to another literary group, the original Alexandrian Pleiad of seven Alexandrian poets and tragedians ( 3rd century B. C.

* Alexandrian Pleiad

Extant are three or four varying lists of the seven great dramatists who composed the Alexandrian Pleiad.

There are several conflicting lists of the greatest poets of the Alexandrian age ( traditionally ascribed to Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace ), which include the " Alexandrian Pleiad ", some with tragic poets, other which include lyric or epic poets.

The following members are usually always included in the " Alexandrian Pleiad ":

In matters of exegesis he is, like Hilary, an Alexandrian.

This is because there are three different families of Biblical texts, Byzantine, Western, or Alexandrian.

Today, the Byzantine text-type is the subject of renewed interest as the original form of the text from which the Western and Alexandrian text-types were derived.

A third theory assumes common authorship of the Western and Alexandrian texts, but claims the Alexandrian text is the short first draft, and the Western text is a longer polished draft.

A fourth theory is that the longer Western text came first, but that later, some other redact or abbreviated some of the material, resulting in the shorter Alexandrian text.

According to this new theory, the shorter Alexandrian text is closer to the original, and the longer Western text is the result of later insertion of additional material into the text.

Today, Methodism follows this ancient Alexandrian practice as bishops are elected from and by the order of the presbyterate: the Discipline of the Methodist Church, in ¶ 303, affirms that " ordination to this ministry is a gift from God to the Church.

Saint Apollos ( Ἀπολλώς ; contracted from Apollonius ) is an apostle who is also a 1st century Alexandrian Jewish Christian mentioned several times in the New Testament.

After Christians in Ephesus first wrote to their counterparts recommending Apollos to them, he went to Achaia where Paul names him as an apostle ( 1 Cor 4: 6, 9-13 ) Given that Paul only saw himself as an apostle ' untimely born ' ( 1 Cor 15: 8 ) it is certain that Apollos became an apostle in the regular way ( as a witness to the risen Lord and commissioned by Jesus-1 Cor 15: 5-9 ; 1 Cor 9: 1 ).< ref > So the Alexandrian recension ; the text in < sup > 38 </ sup > and Codex Bezae indicate that Apollos went to Corinth.

This suggestion has been recently repeated by Jerome Murphy-O ' Connor: " It is difficult to imagine that an Alexandrian Jew ... could have escaped the influence of Philo, the great intellectual leader ... particularly since the latter seems to have been especially concerned with education and preaching.

According to Epiphanius Scholasticus, he was born in Athens, but there is also a tradition of an Alexandrian birth.

In the 4th century, an Alexandrian presbyter named Arius began a theological dispute about the nature of Christ that spread throughout the Christian world and is now known as Arianism.

It is known as the Coptic calendar or the Alexandrian Calendar.

The first extant grammar of Greek, " Art of Grammar " ( Tékhnē grammatiké, Greek: ) is attributed to him but many scholars today doubt that the work really belongs solely to him due to the difference between the technical approach of most of the work and the more literary approach ( similar to the 2nd century's Alexandrian tradition ) of the first few sections.

Euclidean geometry is a mathematical system attributed to the Alexandrian Greek mathematician Euclid, which he described in his textbook on geometry: the Elements.

The upper-case letter Η is used as a symbol in textual criticism for the Alexandrian text-type ( from Hesychius, its once-supposed editor ).

It is also known as the Alexandrian dialect, Post-Classical Greek or even New Testament Greek, as it was the original language of the New Testament.

In the UK and most Commonwealth countries someone self-defined as Wiccan is usually understood to be claiming initiatory descent from Gardner, either through Gardnerian Wicca, or through a derived branch such as Alexandrian Wicca or Algard Wicca.

The narrative structure allows for this diversity through simple stylistic devices such as the principle of ring composition, familiar since the time of Homer, in which the introduction and conclusion of a story or sub-plot is signalled by the repetition of some formulaic statement, facilitating the reader's comprehension of stories within stories in a kind of ' Chinese-box technique '— a structure that has no resemblance to the nine books artificially created by Alexandrian scholars.

Surviving from the 3rd century BC is a collection of six literary hymns () by the Alexandrian poet Callimachus.

A complete didactic poem ( 230 hexameters ) called Ποίημα νουθετικόν or γνῶμαι, bearing the name of Phocylides, is now considered to be the work of an Alexandrian Christian of Jewish origin who lived between 170 BC and AD 50.

He was the third Alexandrian Partriarch to take the name Shenouda ; his namesakes were Shenouda I ( 859 – 880 ) and Shenouda II ( 1047 – 1077 ).

The name is attested as early as the second century AD in the work of the Alexandrian geographer Claudius Ptolemy, as Δηοῦα (= Deva ), meaning ' Goddess ', indicating a divine status for the river in the beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of the area.

A minority of ( Alexandrian, Western ) Greek manuscripts in Matthew 13: 55 read " Joseph " ( Ἰωσήφ ) the standard spelling of the name.

This indicates during the 2nd century BC Hebrew-speakers or Alexandrian Greek-speakers pronounced the name with an initial long close back rounded vowel.

The name Gojjam was given to the inhabitants resistance to accept he doctrine of Alexandrian Church in the past keeping their own version of the ancient testament.

The name of Alexandrian school is also used to describe the religious and philosophical developments in Alexandria after the 1st century.

Chorizontes (" separators ") was the name given to the ancient Alexandrian critics who believed the Iliad and Odyssey were by different poets.

Under his name, two books of love stories, in the form of letters, are extant ; the subjects are borrowed from the erotic elegies of such Alexandrian writers as Callimachus, and the language is a patchwork of phrases from Plato, Lucian, Alciphron and others.

According to Bevan the child king's consent was given more from fear than anything else and Agathocles along with several of his supporters being killed by the Alexandrian mob.

In either case, Dionysius ' method had actually been used by the Church of Alexandria ( but not by the Church of Rome ) at least as early as 311, and probably began during the first decade of the 4th century, its dates naturally being given in the Alexandrian calendar.

The majority of textual critical scholars since the late 19th Century, have adopted an eclectic approach to the Greek New Testament ; with the most weight given to the earliest extant manuscripts which tend mainly to be Alexandrian in character ; the resulting eclectic Greek text departing from the Textus Receptus in around 6, 000 readings.

He has been given an exaggerated importance by some commentators, who have regarded him as the forerunner of the Alexandrian School of philosophy.

This confusion resulted in 6 February sometimes being given as the feast day of the Alexandrian saint as well.

The Alexandrian text-type ( also called Neutral or Egyptian ), associated with Alexandria, is one of several text-types used in New Testament textual criticism to describe and group the textual character of biblical manuscripts.

Blue Star remains a predominantly initiatory coven-based tradition in the model of the Gardnerian or Alexandrian traditions, but a number of " solitary " practitioners exist, typically with a form of long-distance relationship with an established group.