Search Results for: kalanos

Indian and Persian wisdom: Deinon of Kolophon, Cicero, and Plutarch on Alexander, the naked philosophers, and Kalanos (early second century CE)

Indian wisdom: Nearchos, Megasthenes, and Arrian on the sages Dandamis and Kalanos (fourth century BCE-second century CE)

Judean, Persian, and Indian wisdom: Philo on the freedom of Essenes and Kalanos (early first century CE)

Guide to Philo of Alexandria

Germans, Britons, and Indians: Strabo on travelers, soldiers and merchants as sources of information (early first century CE)

Indians: Megasthenes, Aristoboulos, Onesikritos, and Strabo on Indian customs and on Brahmans (fourth century BCE-early first century CE)

Guide to Cicero

Guide to Plutarch of Chaironeia

Babylonian wisdom: Philo on Abraham’s migration away from Chaldean astrology (early first century CE)

Persians: Philo on true Magian skill and its criminal counterfeit (early first century CE)

Persians: Deinon, Chrysippos, and Cicero on their character and customs (third century BCE / mid-first century BCE)

Indians: Palladios and George on naked philosophers or Brahmans (fourth / ninth centuries CE)

Indian wisdom: Josephos integrates Indians into Eleazar’s Masada speech (late first century CE)

Indian wisdom: Apuleius on the amazing naked philosophers and Pythagoras’ journeys (mid-second century CE)

Judean wisdom: Josephos on philosophical sects among Judeans (late-first century CE)

Judeans: Pliny the Elder and Julius Solinus on the Essenes beside the Dead Sea (first / third centuries CE)

Judean wisdom: Philo on the Therapeutists’ lifestyle (first century CE)

Indian and Judean wisdom: Klearchos citing Aristotle (fourth century BCE)

Judean wisdom: Josephos’ Against Apion in full (late first century CE)