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Encyclopedia > Adrianus

Adrianus of Tyre (c. 113-193), also written as Hadrian and Hadrianos, was a sophist of ancient Athens. He was the pupil and successor of Herodes Atticus, became a rival of Aelius Aristides, later taught rhetoric at Rome and was a secretary for Commodus.


The Suda lists his works as Metamorphoses (7 books), On Types of Style (5 books), On Distinctive Features in the Issues (3 books), and epideictic speeches Phalaris and Consolation to Celer.


References

  • Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists
  • S. Rothe, Kommentar zu ausgewahlten Sophistenviten des Philostratos (Heidelberg 1988) 87-126.



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Recollections of Adrianus Vanderkloot (1286 words)
Adrianus and his brother Jacob van der Kloot were hired by De Cock, one of the owners of the new reclamation Eierland.
Adrianus van der Kloot was born April 16, 1852 in the Polder Eyerland, Texel, Noord Holland.
Adrianus and Martha came home from a date and her uncle, Aarie Dros, had locked the door to his house (where she was staying).
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Adrianus must have liked Chicago and the job as a flsmith, as within the year, it is said that he wrote Martha Tanis back in Texel that it was great in Chicago and that she should come and they would be married.
On December 26th 1882, Adrianus and Martha were married in Chicago by the Justice of the Peace; Martha was 25 and Adrianus 30.
For Adrianus, these addresses show that for almost 40 years between 1882 and 1920, Adrianus and Martha lived between 26th and 29th Streets, sometimes on 26th or 27th, sometimes on Emerald and would every few years move a few houses or a few blocks within the same neighborhood.
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