Basilides

Basilides in Wikipedia

Basilides (Βασιλείδης) was an early Gnostic religious teacher in Alexandria, Egypt[1] who taught from 117-138 AD[* 1], and was a pupil of either Menander[2], or an alleged interpreter of St. Peter named Glaucias[3], although modern scholarship rejects Glaucias.[4] The Acts of the Disputation with Manes state that for a time he taught among the Pers...

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Basilīdes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Βασιλείδης). The father of Herodotus (q.v.)....

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