Synesius of cyrene biography of barack obama
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Synesius of cyrene biography of barack obama
Synesius
Ancient Greek bishop and alchemist
Synesius of Cyrene | |
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Portrait from a publication by André Thevet, 1584 | |
| Church | Great Church |
| Diocese | Ptolemais |
| Born | c.
373 |
| Died | c. 414 |
Synesius of Cyrene (; Greek: Συνέσιος; c. 373 – c.
Synesius of cyrene biography of barack obama president
414) was a Greek bishop of Ptolemais in ancient Libya, a part of the Western Pentapolis of Cyrenaica after 410. He was born of wealthy parents at Balagrae (now Bayda, Libya) near Cyrene between 370 and 375.[1]
Life
While still a youth (in 393), he went with his brother Euoptius to Alexandria, where he became an enthusiastic Neoplatonist and disciple of Hypatia.
Between 395 and 399, he spent some time in Athens.[2]
In 398 he was chosen as an envoy to the imperial court in Constantinople by Cyrene and the whole Pentapolis.[3] He went to the capital on the occasion of the delivery of the aurum coronarium[4] and his task was to obtain tax remissions for his country.[5] In C