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Aristotle: Greek philosopher from Stagira (384-322
B.C.). See The Riddles of Philosophy by Rudolf Steiner,
Anthroposophic Press, New York, 1973. Alexander the Great:
(356-323 B.C.). From 336 King of Macedonia. Died in Babylon.
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p. 56
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Hibernian Mysteries: See the 8th and 9th lectures in Mystery
Knowledge and Mystery Centres.
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p. 65
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The Song of Alexander: Composed about 1125 by the Franconian priest
Lamprecht; the first German secular epic poem.
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p. 85
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Herodotus: Herodotus
of Halicarnassos, the first Greek historian, lived in the fifth
century B.C. Wrote history of the Persian Wars.
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p. 88
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the tyranny of Rome: Justinian, Byzantine Emperor from 527-565, son
of a peasant, sent an edict to Athens in 529 forbidding the
teaching of philosophy and law. Thereupon the last seven
Athenian philosophers left the Roman Empire and emigrated
to Persia.
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p. 93
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Julian the Apostate: Flavius Claudius
Julianus, called the Apostate by the Christians, was Roman
Emperor from 361-363.
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p. 99
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in recent lectures: See note to page 56.
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p. 103
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Jacob Boehme: (1575–1624), mystic. See Eleven
European Mystics by Rudolf Steiner, Rudolf Steiner
Publications, New York, 1971.
Paracelsus: Theophrastus
Paracelsus (1493–1541), physician. See Eleven European Mystics.
Valentine Wiegel: (1533–1588), mystic. See Eleven European
Mystics.
Basil Valentine: Alchemist and Benedictine monk, lived
from 1413 onwards in the Monastery of St. Peter in Erfurt. His
writings were not discovered or printed till the beginning of
the seventeenth century. See Eleven European Mystics.
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and 105 gymnast, rhetorician, professor: Rudolf Steiner spoke
in detail about this for instance in A Modern Art of Education
by Rudolf Steiner, Rudolf Steiner Press, London, 1972 and Human
Values in Education by Rudolf Steiner, Rudolf Steiner Press,
London, 1971.
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