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DEMETRIUS PHALEREUS

Demetrius Phalereus was a Greek orator and statesman. He was born in 345 BC. In 317 he was made Macedonian governor of Athens, and embellished the city by magnificent edifices. He fled to Egypt when Athens was taken by Demetrius Poliorcetes, where he is said to have promoted the establishment of the Alexandrian Library and of the museum. Demetrius Phalereus wrote on several subjects of philosophical and political science, but the work on rhetoric, which has come to us under his name, belongs to a later age.
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