Nile Delta & Mediterranean Gate

Philosophers of Nile Delta & Mediterranean Gate

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Origen of Alexandria in Andre Thevet's portrait collection

Origen of Alexandria

185 CE – 254 CE

Alexandria, Egypt

Alexandrian Christian Platonist of allegorical exegesis, Logos theology, free will, apokatastasis controversy, Scripture scholarship, Hexapla, and Contra Celsum.

Sextus Empiricus in an 1801 Riedel engraving

Sextus Empiricus

160 CE – 210 CE

Alexandria (probable)

Greek Pyrrhonian skeptic from Alexandria (probable) whose works preserve ancient arguments about suspension, signs, proof, criteria, and life without dogmatic certainty.