Meditation - Philo of Alexandria
Time: 20 BC
Place: Alexandria, Egypt, Roman Empire
Details: In the west, by 20 BCE Philo of Alexandria had written on some form of "spiritual exercises" involving attention (prosocial) and concentration.
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270 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Ptolemaic Kingdom-Egyptian nationalism reached a peak in the reign of Ptolemy IV
221 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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Wednesday Jan 15, 217 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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116 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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49 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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050s BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Cleopatra-Ptolemy's XIII death
51 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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Mar, 51 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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050s BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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30 BC - Egypt
Ptolemaic Kingdom-After Ptolemy VIII death
116 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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Cleopatra-Octavian was renamed Augustus
Jan, 27 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Ptolemaic Kingdom-Ptolemy II Philadelphus was a peaceful and cultured pharaoh
283 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Ptolemaic Kingdom-Alexander III ruled Egypt for a few days
80 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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50 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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51 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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144 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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270s BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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48 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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51 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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Sunday Jul 1, 1798 - Alexandria, Egypt
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47 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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58 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Cleopatra-Pompey eventually convinced Aulus Gabinius to invade Egypt
55 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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Sunday Jun 23, 47 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Ptolemaic Kingdom-Ptolemy VII Neos Philopator was king of the Ptolemaic period
140s BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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81 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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030s BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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100 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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180 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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285 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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49 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Ptolemaic Kingdom-Ptolemy shared rule ith his son Ptolemy II
Sunday Sep 13, 285 at 07:23:00 AM BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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130s BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Ptolemaic Kingdom-Ankhmakis forces nearly drove the Ptolomys
185 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Ptolemaic Kingdom-Cleopatra II was a queen of Ptolemaic Egypt
175 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Cleopatra-Battle of the Nile
Oct, 47 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Ptolemaic Kingdom-Perdiccas appointed Ptolemy
323 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Ptolemaic Kingdom-Alexander founded Alexandria
Sep, 331 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Ptolemaic Kingdom-Alexandria became the capital
320s BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Ptolemaic Kingdom-Ptolemy IV continued hold celebrations of the Fourth Syrian War
217 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Ptolemaic Kingdom-Hugronaphor proclaimed himself Pharoah
205 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Cleopatra-Octavian's forces invaded Egypt
30 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Ptolemaic Kingdom-Ptolemy IX again returned to the throne
88 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Ptolemaic Kingdom-Ptolemy took the title of King
305 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Cleopatra-Cleopatra and Ptolemy XIII fallout between them led to open civil war
040s BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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145 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Ptolemaic Kingdom-Cleopatra and Caesarion left Alexandria
45 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Ptolemaic Kingdom-Antiochus IV Epiphanes invaded Egypt
170 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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49 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Cleopatra-The Roman Republic annexed Cyprus
58 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Cleopatra-Cleopatra was made a regent of Ptolemy XII
Friday May 31, 52 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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304 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Ptolemaic Kingdom-Ptolemy V Epiphanes Eucharistos was the King of Ptolemaic Egypt
204 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Ptolemaic Kingdom-Ptolemy I Soter
300s BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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48 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Ptolemaic Kingdom-Ptolemy III Euergetes was the third pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt
246 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Ptolemaic Kingdom-Ptolemy IX driven out by his mother
107 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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060s BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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48 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Cleopatra-Pompey's severed head sent to Caesar
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81 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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080s BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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642 - Alexandria, Egypt
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120s BC - Egypt
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220s BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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272 - Alexandria, Egypt
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48 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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250 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Library of Alexandria-Aristarchus of Samothrace
150s BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Library of Alexandria-The only known head librarian from the Roman Period
050s - Alexandria, Egypt
Library of Alexandria-Mouseion
350 - Alexandria, Egypt
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090s BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Library of Alexandria-Aristarchus became caught up in a dynastic struggle
145 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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200s BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Ptolemaic Kingdom-Literary golden period
1st Millenium BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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320s BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Ptolemaic Kingdom-Ptolemy III had introduced an important innovation
238 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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040s - Alexandria, Egypt
Library of Alexandria-Founding
280s BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Cleopatra-Ptolemy XIV killed
43 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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270s BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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50 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
Cleopatra-Cleopatra established a Caesareum temple dedicated to the worship Julius Caesar
010s BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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331 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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221 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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Thursday Aug 2, 1849 - Ras el-Tin Palace, Alexandria, Egypt
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142 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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295 BC - Alexandria, Egypt
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44 BC - Alexandria, Egypt