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W. M. Ramsay · The Cities of St Paul (Part II: Tarsus)
Tarsus & Athenodorus
The city that made our hero: a learning-mad, East-meets-West metropolis — and Athenodorus, the Stoic who is our template for Demetrios.
The template
Base Demetrios on Athenodorus of Tarsus: a Stoic pupil of Posidonius, tutor and adviser to Augustus, who served power without servility and returned home to reform his city.
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