Famous People of the 3rd Century AD

Guess the Names of these famous people, who lived in the 3rd century BC

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Persian King, who captured the Roman Emperor and caused the 3. Century Crisis	Shapur the Great
He became king of Palmyra and saved Rome in the 3. Century Crisis against Persia	Odaenathus
He overthrow the Parthians and became founder of the Sasanian Empire	Ardashir I
Son of Cao Cao and founder of the Wei kingdom	Cao Pi
Christian head of Catechetical School of Alexandria and Church Father	Clement of Alexandria
Roman emperor, who made every free man a citizen of the empire	Caracalla
Founder of Manichaeism, a gnostic religion popular in Persia	Mani
Founder of the Gupta Empire in northern India	Gupta

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Important biographer of greek philosophers	Diogenes Laërtius
Founder of Neoplatonism	Ammonius Saccas
Historian, who wrote about roman histoy from the foundation of Rome to his present	Cassius Dio
Important neoplatonic philosopher and author of the Enneads	Plotinus
Neoplatonic philosopher, who edited the Enneads and intigrated Aristotelian logic into Platonism	Porphyry
Roman emperor, who was captured by the Persians	Valerian
Influential early theologian, who mixed Platonic, Stoic and Christian Ideas	Origen

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