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Longinus, Cassius, approximately 213-273

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Personal name headingLonginus, Cassius, approximately 213-273
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Variant(s)Longinos, approximately 213-273
Longinos, Kassios, approximately 213-273
Longinus, Cassius
Longinus, Cassius, ca. 213-273
Longinus, Dionysius Cassius, approximately 213-273
Longinus, Gaius Cassius, approximately 213-273
Λογγῖνος, Κάσσιος, approximately 213-273
Birth date0213~
Death date0273
Place of birthTadmur (Syria)
Athens (Greece)
Place of deathTadmur (Syria)
Profession or occupationRhetoricians Philosophers
Special noteNon-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found inPauly-Wissowa (Longinos, neoplatonist, philologist, and rhetor of 3rd cent. A.D.; name transmitted as Cassius Longinus, or Dionysius Cassius Longinus, the latter due to mistaken ascription of On the sublime to him, a notion destroyed for all time by Kaibel and by Keil; b. ca. 213; d. 273)
Oxford classical dict. (Longinus, Cassius, ca. 213-273; lists works)
Grant, M. Greek & Latin authors, 1980: under Longinus (Cassius Longinus, ca. A.D. 213-273, rhetorician and philosopher who was chief literary advisor to Queen Zenobia of Palmyra)
Papyros Larous (Longinos, Kassios (Gaius Cassius Longinus); Greek rhetor and philosopher; b. Palmyra, Emesa, or Athens ca. 213; d. Palmyra 273)
Brill's new Pauly online, 19 June 2015 (Cassius Longinus; Λογγῖνος; rhetor and Platonic philosopher, ca. AD 210-272/3)
Fragments ; Art rhétorique, 2001: page 144 (Λογγῖνος, ὁ Κάσσιος)
Not found inEncyclopaedia Britannica, micropaedia.
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