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NICOLAUS DAMASCENUS

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NICOLAUS DAMASCENUS , See also:

Greek historian and philosopher of See also:Damascus, flourished in the See also:time of See also:Augustus and See also:Herod the See also:Great, with both of whom he was on terms of friendship. He instructed Herod in See also:rhetoric and See also:philosophy, and had attracted the See also:notice of Augustus when he accompanied his See also:patron on a visit to See also:Rome. Later, when Herod's conduct aroused the suspicions of Augustus, Nicolaus was sent on a See also:mission to bring about a reconciliation. He survived Herod, and it was through his See also:influence that the See also:succession was secured for See also:Archelaus; but the date of his See also:death, like that of his See also:birth, is unknown. Fragments of his universal See also:history (`Io-ropta eaOoXtin), from the time of the See also:Assyrian See also:empire to his own days, his autobiography, and his See also:life of Augustus (Dios Kaio•apos) have been preserved, chiefly in the extracts of See also:Constantine Porphyrogenitus. Nicolaus also wrote comedies and tragedies, paraphrased and wrote commentaries on parts of See also:Aristotle, and was himself the author of philosophical See also:treatises. Fragments in C. See also:Muller, Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum, iii.; see also F. Navet, Nikolaus von Damascus (1853), containing an See also:account of his life and writings, and See also:translation of the fragments.

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