There is some question as to whetehr the work on military tactics cited by Aelianus Tacticus should be ascribed to Clearchus of Soli or Clearchus of Heracleia Plato ( Greek: Πλάτων, PlátÅn, wide, broad-shouldered) (c. ... Athenaeus (ca. ... Families Narcinidae Torpedinidae hi Electric rays (order Torpediniformes) are fish that have a rounded body and a pair of organs capable of producing an electric discharge, which is used to stun or kill prey. ... Aelian (Aelianus Tacticus) was a Greek military writer of the 2nd century A.D., resident at Rome. ...
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F-M Abel traces the usage of Ioudaia back as early as 320 BCE (by Clearchus of Soli, a pupil of Aristotle).
Assuming a factual background to Clearchus' story about Aristotle and the Jewish sage, then the name Ioudaia goes back in Greek usage to before Alexander's conquest of the Land of Israel (332 BCE), albeit otherwise unattested for that period.
F-M Abel traces this broad usage of Ioudaia back as early as 320 BCE (by Clearchus of Soli, a pupil of Aristotle).
Rhodes has the distinction of having produced two opponents of Judaism in the first half of the 1st century BC.
Clearchus of Soli, a disciple of Aristotle, introduces in one of his dialogues a Jew from Coele-Syria, Hellenic not in speech only but in mind, representing him as having come in his travels to Asia Minor and there conversed with Aristotle.
Such an experience may have been rare so early; the incident may not be fact, but fiction; yet such as it is it tells a tale of the spread of Judaism.
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