biography
| name: |
Africanus, Sextus Julius
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pronunciation:
[afrikahnus]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.160–c.240)
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| biography:
| Traveller and historian, born in Libya. He wrote Chronologia, a history of the world from the creation to AD 221. His chronology, which antedates Christ's birth by three years, was accepted by Byzantine Churches. |
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