Greek philosophers
Clemens of Alexandria
Clemens of Alexandria, by his own name Titus Flavius Clemens, was a Greek philosopher and early ecclesiastical writer who was born in 150 AD in Athens and died in 215 AD in Cappadocia.
Clemens of Alexandria was one of the most important Greek Christian teachers of antiquity.
In his youth he was influenced by Platonism, but after he embraced Christianity he went to Athens and was educated by various Christian teachers. He then settled in Alexandria, where he became a disciple of Pantainus of Alexandria. He then became a teacher at the local school and subsequently, after the death of Pantainus, its head. After he left this position, he was replaced by his philosophical successor, Origen.
When Christians were persecuted under Septimius Severus, Clemenes was forced to leave Egypt and took refuge in Cappadocia in Asia Minor, where he also died.
In 1584, Clémenes of Alexandria was struck from the Roman calendar of saints because his followers used the Protestant Reformation to defend their views.
His surviving works form what appears to be one large, interlocking trilogy: Protrepticus, The Teacher, and Stromata. He was to write other (lost) works, namely, Hypotyposeis, The Church Canon or Against Judaizers, On Providence, An Appeal to Perseverance or to the Newly Baptized, Discourses on Fasting, On the Book of Amos.