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	Alexandrian Scholarship
		While Demetrius was a convert of Serapis[16] and thus probably an official of the new Greco-Egyptian cult invented by Ptolemy, the Serapeum was not yet built at his death and he is remembered neither as librarian of that institution nor at the Museum.
		Demetrius of Phaleron is said to have invited the scholar Euclid (biography) to Alexandria, and his Elements are well-known to be the foundation of geometry for many centuries.
		Alexandria and its cousins, the Lyceum, Academy, and the younger Pergamon library, were probably the prototypes both for the medieval monastery and universities.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /GreekScience/Students/Ellen/Museum.html (2813 words)

	Alexandria
		The Library of Alexandria, conceived by Demetrius of Phalerum and constituted during the reigns of Ptolemies I and II (323-246 B.C.), was the first truly universal library in history, attracting the most eminent philosophers, scholars, and visionaries of the entire civilized world.
		When Demetrius transplanted the spirit of Aristotle to the soil of Alexandria, it was based on his master’s conception of a community of learned men isolated from the outside world and equipped with a complete library and retreat where they could cultivate the Muses.
		The Sarapeum was built to Parmeniscus’ design at Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I. As a temple, the Sarapeum was dedicated to the god Sarapis, whose worship as a new deity was inaugurated to mark the beginning of Ptolemy’s dynasty.
	www.halexandria.org /dward019.htm (1433 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Demetrius
		A legendary history of him is given in the Coptic "Synaxaria", in an Abyssinian poem cited by the Bollandists, and in the "Chronicon Orientale" of Abraham Ecchellensis the Maronite.
		Eutychius relates that from Mark to Demetrius there was but one see in Egypt, that Demetrius was the first to establish three other bishoprics, and that his successor Heraclas made twenty more.
		Demetrius wrote to him complaining that this was unheard of presumption in a layman.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04706b.htm (574 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 47 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Demetrius against Origen from his Ecclesiasticuil History, on the ground that they were related in the Defence of Origen ('TTrep ^Zlpiyandvovs aTroAoyta, Apologia pro Origene) drawn up by Pamphilus and Eusebius ; and the loss of this defence has deprived us of the most trustworthy account of these transactions.
		But Demetrius was determined that he should not retain it; and, in conjunction with certain Egyptian prelates, creatures, it would appear, of his own, he pronounced his degradation.
		Such was the deference already paid to the see of Alexandria, and to the decision of the Egyptian bishops, that, except in Palestine and the adjacent countries, Arabia and Phoenicia, in Greece, and perhaps in Cappadocia, where Origen was personally known and respected, the condemnation appears to have obtained general assent.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2381.html (935 words)

	The Alexandrian Library
		The Great Library of Alexandria, so called to distinguish it from the smaller or "daughter" library in the Serapeum, was a foundation of the first Ptolemies for the purpose of aiding the maintenance of Greek civilization in the midst of the conservative Egyptians.
		If the removal of Demetrius Phalereus to Alexandria, in 296-295 B.C., was connected with the organization of the library, at least the plan for this institution must have been formed under Ptolemaios Soter (died c.
		Demetrius Phalereus is said to have reported that the number of papyrus rolls was 200,000, but that he hoped to increase it soon to 500,000.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/a/alexandrian_library.html (872 words)

	Origen
		Origen, one of the most distinguished of the Fathers of the early Christian Church, a Christian scholar and theologian, was born, probably at Alexandria, about 182; and died at Caesarea not later than 251.
		But Demetrius, taking this well-meant act as an infringement of his rights, was furious, for not only was Origen under his jurisdiction, but, if Eastern sources may be believed, Demetrius had been the first to introduce episcopal ordination in Egypt.
		At Alexandria Heraclas became head of Origen's school, and shortly afterward, on the death of Demetrius, was consecrated bishop.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/or/Origen.html (4435 words)

	The Great Library of Alexandria
		Alexandria was no longer the city it once was and ceased to be very important once Caliph Omar had built Cairo, his new capital of Egypt, on the Nile.
		Strabo was in Alexandria in 20BC and, in all his detailed description of the palace and Museum in the Geography, he does not mention the Library at all[31].
		Alexandria Rediscovered by Jean-Yves Empereur, Cosmos by Carl Sagan and From the Holy Mountain by William Dalyrymple are just three recent books to combine this myth with the earlier loss of the Royal Library while even scholars such as Luciano Canfora and Alfred Butler have tried to interpret the evidence to support Gibbon.
	www.bede.org.uk /Library2.htm (8020 words)

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		For this breach of the proper chain of authority, Demetrius was incensed.
		Visiting in Palestine in 216, Origen, a layperson, was invited by the bishop of Jerusalem and the bishop of Caesarea to lecture in the churches on the Scriptures.
		Demetrius objected, and two synods were held at Alexandria, the first forbidding Origen to teach there and the second depriving him of his priesthood.
	www.lycos.com /info/origen--alexandria-origen.html (656 words)

	Origen of Alexandria, Alexandria, Ancient Christian Church
		He returned to Alexandria only to be expelled a few months later when Caracalla (Elagabulus) allowed his troops to sack the city in 218 A.D. Origen took refuge in Caesarea where, at the request of Theoktistos, the local bishop, he taught catechumens and also gave Biblical lectures.
		Thus when Dionysius of Alexandria spoke of the three hypostases of the Father, Son and Spirit, the bishop of Rome thought he was referring to three substances, which was not the case.
		Clement of Alexandria spoke of the Logos as universal reason and identified this with Christ so that, as a result of His coming, "the whole world has by this time become an Athens and a Greece through the Logos." Clement held that the believer must be trained in philosophy.
	www.dacb.org /stories/egypt/origen_.html (5441 words)

	Demetrius of Alexandria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While Demetrius was a scholar in his own right, taking part in the controversy over the proper calculation of Easter that preoccupied the Church in the time of Pope Victor I, Origen's brilliance eventually outshone Demetrius, and it is in his relationship with the famous theologian that Demetrius is defined in history.
		Demetrius gave Origen encouragement at the beginning of his career, and is said to have shown him favor.
		Demetrius convened a synod in 232 that banished Origen, then sent a formal condemnation of Origen to all the churches.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Demetrius_of_Alexandria (476 words)

	Chapter 11 - Origen-Continued
		Demetrius continued his persecutions until he had degraded Origen from the office of presbyter, though all the ecclesiastical authorities in Palestine refused to recognize the validity of the sentence.
		At Alexandria itself his disciples maintained the pre-eminence, and at the death of Demetrius, Heraclas, who had been the most intimate friend and trusted disciple of Origen, was raised to the Episcopal dignity by the free choice of the elders.
		Demetrius, the bishop, gave the finishing stroke to the congregationalism of the church by censuring Origen and by appointing suffragan bishops whom he persuaded to pass a sentence upon Origen which the presbyters had refused to sanction." Redepenning, as quoted by Bigg.
	hellbusters.8m.com /upd11.html (3104 words)

	St. Demetrius
		Julius Africanus, who visited Alexandria in the time of Demetrius, places his accession as eleventh bishop after St. Mark in the tenth year of Commodus (tenth of Severus, Eus.
		Demetrius encouraged Origen when blamed for his too literal execution of an allegorical counsel of our Lord, and is said to have shown him great favour.
		But Origen was ordained priest at Caesarea without leave, and Demetrius with a synod of some bishops and a few priests condemned him to banishment, then from another synod sent a formal condemnation of him to all the churches.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/d/demetrius,saint.html (565 words)

	Origen of Alexandria
		According to tradition, the ancient "church" at Alexandria was founded by Mark, the author of the gospel, sometime in the second half of the first century.< 1> Outside of our canonical gospel, we possess no records or texts describing the theology of Mark.
		Alexandria was host to Philo, one of the greatest Jewish philosophers and a contemporary of Christ, who taught that the philosophy of Pythagoras and Plato could be found in the Hebrew Scriptures, which he interpreted allegorically.
		He convoked a council at Alexandria in 400 which condemned "Origenism" and continued his campaign against Origen, calling him the "hydra of heresies" and persecuting Origen's adherents.< 60> Once the tide turned against Origen, as against the Christian- Gnostics, it could not be abated.
	essenes.net /OrigenOfAlexandria.html (7861 words)

	The School of Alexandria - Origen - Ch 1 - Origen's Life
		Demetrius, Pope of Alexandria, recognized his ability, appointed Origen as the head of the school, when he was eighteen years old, due to his Christian zeal to preach and catechize.
		The story is told that the mob of Alexandria once seized him, clothed him in the dress of a priest of Serapis, gave him the tonsure and placed him on the steps of the great temple, ordering him to perform the office of a priest of Serapis by distributing palm branches to the worshipers.
		One might expect that the head of the Catechetical School in Alexandria, the man who outgunned the philosophers on their own ground, was somewhat dull in his preaching and academic in his approach to it; in fact, the very reverse was the case.
	www.copticchurch.net /topics/patrology/schoolofalex2/chapter01.html (11579 words)

	Eusebius: Chronicle (2) - translation
		The inhabitants of Alexandria were unable to completely delete Alexander's reign from the records, but as far as was in their power they erased all mention of it, because Alexander had assaulted them with the help of some Jews.
		Stratonicus of Alexandria, son of Corragus, was the fifth after Heracles to win both the wrestling and the pancration competitions; at the Nemean games, he won four crowns on the same day in the boys' and youths' competitions, [though he attended the competitions without a horse.
		Marion of Alexandria, son of Marion, was the sixth after Heracles to win both the wrestling and the pancration competitions.
	www.attalus.org /translate/eusebius1.html (5963 words)

	Christian History Handbook: Ancient: Lecture Two (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Josephus includes information that the Jews in Alexandria had been given full citizenship by Ptolemy I. Ptolemy II is reported to have purchased the freedom of 120,000 South Syrian Jews and Samaritans.
		A council of seventy drawn from the elders of those Alexandrian synagogue communities served as the ruling body of this polituema and the president of the council was the chief spokesman for the Alexandrian Jewish population.
		Demetrius was not only interested in collecting Greek literature, he became interested in translating the Hebrew books of the Old Testament into Greek.
	www.sbuniv.edu /~hgallatin/ht3463le03.html (3891 words)

	Library3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The founding of the Library and the Mouseion, is unquestionably connected with the name of Demetrius of Phaleron, a member of the Peripatic school and former Athenian politician.
		Demetrius sought refuge after his fall from power in Athens and became his trusted advisor.
		The choice was most appropriate, for Demetrius, besides being a brilliant politician, was also a most prolific writer "whose learning and versatility" was highly thought of by Diogenes Laertius (5.77-80).
	www.greece.org /alexandria/library/library3.htm (310 words)

	Diogenes Laertius: Life of Demetrius, from Lives of the Philosophers, translated by C.D. Yonge
		And Demetrius, the Magnesian, in his treatise on People of the same Name, says that he began to be the leader of the commonwealth, when Harpalus arrived in Athens, having fled from Alexander.
		It is said that he lost his eye-sight in Alexandria, and recovered it again by the favour of Serapis; on which account he composed the paeans which are sung and spoken of as his composition to this day.
		The foregoing account hardly does justice to Demetrius, who was a man of real ability, and of a very different class to the generality of those whom the ancients dignified with the title of philosophers.
	classicpersuasion.org /pw/diogenes/dldemetrius.htm (1272 words)

	Demetrius the Chronographer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		For that Demetrius made use of the Septuagint translation of the Pentateuch is acknowledged even by Hody, although such acknowledgment is unfavourable to his tendency of pointing out the limited diffusion obtained by the LXX.
		A glance at the contents of the fragment renders it needless to prove that its author was a Jew.
		Demetrius wrote a work on Jewish chronology from Abraham to the Exodus under the title 'Concerning the Kings of the Jews.' He wrote during the reign of Ptolemy IV (222-205 B.C.).
	www.earlyjewishwritings.com /demetrius.html (824 words)

	greek roman 3
		Much trouble was caused by religious conflicts between the Greeks and the Jews, particularly in Alexandria, which after the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 become the world centre of Jewish religion and culture.
		The historian Helmut Koester has suggested, with some evidence, that originally the Christians in Egypt were predominantly influenced by gnosticism until the efforts of Demetrius of Alexandria gradually brought the beliefs of the majority into harmony with the rest of Christianity.
		Alexandria became the centre of the first great split in the Christian world, between the Arians, named for the Alexandrian priest Arius, and orthodoxy, represented by Athanasius, who became Archbishop of Alexandria in 326 after the First Council of Nicaea rejected Arius's views.
	www.the-world-in-focus.com /Africa/Egypt/History/greekroman3.html (1105 words)

	Library of Alexandria - Crystalinks
		At the solicitation of Theophilus bishop of Alexandria the emperor issued an order at this time for the demolition of the heathen temples in that city; commanding also that it should be put in execution under the direction of Theophilus.
		These were therefore razed to the ground, and the images of their gods molten into pots and other convenient utensils for the use of the Alexandrian church; for the emperor had instructed Theophilus to distribute them for the relief of the poor.
		There is a growing consensus among historians that the Library of Alexandria likely suffered from several destructive events, but that the destruction of Alexandria's pagan temples in the late 4th century was probably the most severe and final one.
	www.crystalinks.com /libraryofalexandria.html (2585 words)

	Alex. No. 1 : Bibliotheca Alexandrina
		The ancient library was founded by Aristotle's pupil, Demetrius of Phalerum, in the fourth century BC.
		By the middle of the first century BC, the Alexandria Library contained perhaps 700,000 manuscripts on papyrus, all fully catalogued with a summary of their content and shelved alphabetically By author..
		The University of Alexandria formed a committee which decided to locate the reborn library on a plot of land along the seaside boulevard on the Mediterranean, a site near the probable location of the original library.
	www.angelfire.com /al/alexandriano1/bibliot.html (432 words)

	Origen
		At the age of 18, Origen was appointed to succeed Clement of Alexandria as head of the catechetical school of Alexandria, where he had been a student.
		Demetrius, bishop of Alexandria, regarded this activity as a breach of custom and discipline and ordered him to return to Alexandria.
		Demetrius then excommunicated Origen, deprived him of his priesthood, and sent him into exile.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txo/origen.htm (514 words)

	Cities of the New Testament: Alexandria
		Alexandria is perhaps best known, however, as the home of the largest museum and library in the ancient world.
		Alexandria also had the largest Jewish population outside of Judea, a collection of Hellenic Jews of the Diaspora who, according to the first-century Jewish historian Josephus, suffered periodic persecutions by the Greek and indigenous Egyptian populations of Alexandria.
		Alexandria began to lose its influence as a major seat of Christianity with the first major dispute over the nature of Christ and the resultant Council of Nicaea in 325.
	www.peculiarpress.com /ekklesia/archive/Ekklesia60.htm (4931 words)

	The Library of Alexandria
		This massive production was commissioned by the Athenian exile Demetrius of Phaleron under his patron, Ptolemy I, Ptolemy Soter.[4] Demetrius himself was a former ruler, no less than a ten-year tyrant of Athens, and a first-generation Peripatetic scholar.
		Apollonius of Rhodes, his younger rival and the writer of the notoriously meticulous epic, Argonautica, seems to have been Callimachus' replacement.[18] Eratosthenes of Cyrene, Stoic geographer and mathematician, succeeded him in 235, and compiled his "tetagmenos epi teis megaleis bibliothekeis", the "scheme of the great bookshelves".
		Eratosthenes the Librarian dabbled in numbers along with everything else, and is reported to have invented the "sieve", a method for finding new ones.[20] Euclid also was known to have studied this tricky subject.
	www.kingtutshop.com /freeinfo/the-library-of-Alexandria.htm (2163 words)

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