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Alexandrian [ˌælɪgˈzændrɪən -ˈzɑːn-] adj 1. (Placename) of or relating to Alexander the Great (356-323 bc), king of Macedon, who conquered Greece (336), Egypt (331), and the Persian Empire (328) 2. (Historical Terms) of or relating to Alexandria in Egypt 3. (Historical Terms) relating to the Hellenistic philosophical, literary, and scientific ideas that flourished in Alexandria in the last three centuries bc 4. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) (of writers, literary works, etc.) erudite and imitative rather than original or creative n
(Placename) a native or inhabitant of Alexandria ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Though the poems of the Boeotian school (2) were unanimously assigned to Hesiod down to the age of Alexandrian criticism, they were clearly neither the work of one man nor even of one period: some, doubtless, were fraudulently fathered on him in order to gain currency; but it is probable that most came to be regarded as his partly because of their general character, and partly because the names of their real authors were lost. Compressed into it is a whole Alexandrian library of thought, feeling, and sentiment--all that can, all that need be urged, in the form of expostulation, entreaty, rebuke, against that crime of crimes,--making man the prop- erty of his fellow-man The stream of ancient philosophy in the Alexandrian and Roman times widens into a lake or sea, and then disappears underground to reappear after many ages in a distant land. |
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