Chaeremon of Alexandria - Wikipedia Chaeremon of Alexandria From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Chaeremon of Alexandria" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Chaeremon of Alexandria (/kəˈriːmən, -mɒn/; Greek: Χαιρήμων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς, gen.: Ancient Greek: Χαιρήμονος; fl. 1st century AD) was a Stoic philosopher, historian, and grammarian.[1] He was superintendent of the portion of the Alexandrian library that was kept in the Temple of Serapis, and as custodian and expounder of the sacred books he belonged to the higher ranks of the priesthood. In 49 he was summoned to Rome, with Alexander of Aegae, to become tutor to the youthful Nero. Chaeremon was the author of a history of Egypt; of works on comets, Egyptian astrology, and hieroglyphics; and of a grammatical treatise on Expletive Conjunctions (Ancient Greek: συνδεσμοὶ παραπληρωματικοί).[1] Chaeremon was the chief of the party which explained the Egyptian religious system as a mere allegory of the worship of nature. His books were certainly not intended to represent the ideas of his Egyptian contemporaries; their chief object was to describe the sanctity and symbolical secrets of ancient Egypt. Chaeremon's works are now lost, but because later authors (such as Josephus[2]) quoted from his works, fragments have been preserved. He can hardly be identical with the Chaeremon who accompanied (c. 26 BC) Aelius Gallus, prefect of Egypt, on a journey into the interior of the country.[3] Notes[edit] ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Chaeremon (philosopher)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 788. ^ Josephus, Against Apion, Book I, Chapters 32-33. ^ Strabo, xvii. p. 806 Further reading[edit] Pieter Willem van der Horst, (1984), Chaeremon, Egyptian Priest and Stoic Philosopher, The fragments collected and translated. 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