Alexander of Lycopolis
Born: the year and the place are not known. Died: the year and the place are not known.
Platonist philosopher of Lycopolis in Egypt who wrote the first known answer to the teaching of Mani; he was most likely a pagan, not a bishop.
Wrote in Greek.
Places lived
- 277 to 300Lycopolis (now Asyut, Egypt)philosopheryears not sure, place probable
Works
1 work, in the order they were written. 1 work can be read here.
- Against the Teachings of ManiA philosopher's calm reply to the teaching of Mani, the oldest that survives.10,556 words
How we know the dates and places
- Born not known
- Nothing is known beyond his own treatise
- Place of birth not known
- No ancient source
- Died not known
- No ancient source
- Place of death not known
- No ancient source
- Lycopolis, years not sure
- His treatise says Manichaean teachers reached him; the years are those given for the treatise, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_of_Lycopolis
- Lycopolis, place probable
- The title of his treatise and Photius, Against the Manichaeans 1.11 (who wrongly makes him bishop there); https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/756593