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| Heliodorus of Emesa |
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(h ´´l dôr´ s, m´ s ) (KEY) , fl. 3d cent., Syrian Greek writer. He wrote the romance Aethiopica, one of the oldest and best of surviving Greek romances. Little is known of his life except that he was a Phoenician from Emesa, Syria. |
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