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Basilides: Legacy, Doctrine & Overview

Basilides (Greek: Βασιλείδης) was an early Christian Gnostic religious teacher in Alexandria, Egypt who, according to Clement of Alexandria, was active between 117–161 AD, and claimed to have inherited his teachings from the apostle Saint Matthias. He was a pupil of either the Simonian teacher Menander, or a disciple of Peter called Glaucias. He is…

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Basilides topic overview

The analysis highlights Legacy, Doctrine and Overview as prominent areas in the source structure around Basilides.

Related topics
42
Source areas
6
Connected nodes
64
Extracted relationships
169
Related term clusters
22
Bridge connections
64

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Doctrine · 21 topics
Overview · 15 topics
Acts of the Disputation with Manes · 2 topics
Isidorus · 2 topics
Legacy · 1 topics
Practices · 1 topics

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Overview

Doctrine

Practices

Acts of the Disputation with Manes

Isidorus

Legacy

Sources

Bibliography

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How Basilides connects Entity context

The extracted context around Basilides shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Basilides → Acts, Alexandria, Ambrose, Archelaus, Book, Book IV, Chapter, Clement, Clement's Stromata, Commentary, Disputation, Exegetica, Five, Fragments, Gospel, Hegemonius' Acta Archelai, Jerome, Job, Manes, Nearly Another extracted example is Basilides → According, Alexandria, Clement, Dynamis, Father, Intellect, Irenaeus, Jewish, Justice, Logos, Nag Hammadi, Nous, Ogdoad, Peace, Phronesis, Phronesis Sophia, Power, Prudence, Testimony, Truth. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Basilides

Top relations

related to Writings of Basilides · 26
Basilides → Acts, Alexandria, Ambrose, Archelaus, Book, Book IV, Chapter, Clement, Clement's Stromata, Commentary, Disputation, Exegetica, Five, Fragments, Gospel, Hegemonius' Acta Archelai, Jerome, Job, Manes, Nearly
related to Theogony · 22
Basilides → According, Alexandria, Clement, Dynamis, Father, Intellect, Irenaeus, Jewish, Justice, Logos, Nag Hammadi, Nous, Ogdoad, Peace, Phronesis, Phronesis Sophia, Power, Prudence, Testimony, Truth
related to Epiphany · 18
Basilides → Alexandria, Although, Baptism, Basilidian, Basilidians, Clement, Divine, Epiphany, Gospel, Hippolytus, His Baptism, Jesus, Jesus's Baptism, Nazareth, Rome, Scripture, St, The Venice MS
related to Cosmology and cosmogony · 14
Basilides → Antioch, Apocryphon, Archon, Dynamis, Emanations, Epistle, Eugnostos, God, Irenaeus, Jewish, Jews, John, Saturninus, Sophia
related to Jesus · 14
Basilides → Alexandria's Stromata, Basilidian, Clement, Cyrene, David Litwa, Golgotha, Gospels, Great Seth, Irenaeus, Jesus, One, Second Treatise, Simon, Tertullian
related to Acts of the Disputation with Manes · 11
Basilides → Acts, Agrippa Castor, Alexandrian, Clement, Exegetica, Gieseler, Gospel, Marcion, Persians, Thus, Valentinus
related to Legacy · 10
Basilides → Ancient, Antecedent Gnosticism, Christian, Gnosticism, Greek, Like, Rome, Syrian, Valentinian, Valentinus
related to Traditions of Matthias · 8
Basilides → According, Eusebius, Gospel, Isidore, Matthias, Origen, Saviour, Traditions
related to Meat offered to idols and apostasy · 7
Basilides → Agrippa, Agrippa Castor, Basilidians, Caesarea, Clement's Stromata, Eusebius, Evidence
related to Faith and Election · 6
Basilides → Because Basilides, Divine, Faith, Indeed, Jesus Christ, Like

Important terminology

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Important terminology

origen also faith clement irenaeus jesus gospel alexandria known isidore christian believed according fragments agrippa acts sources matthias basilidians st

Basilides relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 169 structured relationships around Basilides. Examples in this analysis include Basilides → is a → Testimony of Truth from the Nag Hammadi library and Basilides → related to Acts of the Disputation with Manes → Acts. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Basilidesis aTestimony of Truth from the Nag Hammadi library0.90text
Basilidesrelated to Acts of the Disputation with ManesActs0.60section
Basilidesrelated to Acts of the Disputation with ManesAlexandrian0.60section
Basilidesrelated to Acts of the Disputation with ManesGieseler0.60section
Basilidesrelated to Acts of the Disputation with ManesPersians0.60section
Basilidesrelated to Acts of the Disputation with ManesMarcion0.60section
Basilidesrelated to Acts of the Disputation with ManesValentinus0.60section
Basilidesrelated to Acts of the Disputation with ManesGospel0.60section
Basilidesrelated to Acts of the Disputation with ManesAgrippa Castor0.60section
Basilidesrelated to Acts of the Disputation with ManesExegetica0.60section
Basilidesrelated to Acts of the Disputation with ManesClement0.60section
Basilidesrelated to Acts of the Disputation with ManesThus0.60section

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Basilides bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Also, According and Believed. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Basilides
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    • According
    • Believed
    • Irenaeus
    • Clement
    • Origen
    • Faith
    • Gnostic
    • Basilidians
    • Agrippa
    • Alexandria
    • Isidore
  • basilides
    • Also
    • According
    • Believed
    • Irenaeus
    • Clement
    • Origen
    • Faith
    • Gnostic
    • Basilidians
    • Agrippa
    • Alexandria
    • Isidore
  • alexandria, egypt
    • Clement
    • Gnostic
    • Book
    • Hippolytus
    • Probably
    • Acts
    • Century
    • Lost
    • Basilides
    • Basilidians
    • Called
    • Matthias
  • clement of alexandria
    • Clement
    • Book
    • Acts
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    • Probably
    • Basilidians
    • Called
    • Gospel
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    • Jesus
  • alexandria
    • Clement
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    • Book
    • Hippolytus
    • Probably
    • Acts
    • Century
    • Lost
    • Basilides
    • Basilidians
    • Called
    • Matthias
  • gospel according to basilides
    • Matthias
    • Gospel
    • Origen
    • Probably
    • Also
    • According
    • Basilides
    • Believed
    • Irenaeus
    • Clement
    • Faith
    • Gnostic
  • dictionary of christian biography and literature to the end of the sixth century
    • Believed
    • Gnosticism
    • Called
    • Two
    • Acts
    • Century
    • Christian
    • Exegetica
    • Fragments
    • Gnostic
    • Lost
    • Valentinus
  • acts of the disputation with manes
    • Book
    • Clement
    • Soul
    • Alexandria
    • Faith
    • Century
    • Called
    • Even
    • Hippolytus
    • Matthias
    • Probably
    • Says

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Basilides, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Basilides with Doctrine. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Basilides — Doctrine · splits 43 ⟂ 22
Basilides — Overview · splits 49 ⟂ 16
Basilides — Sources · splits 55 ⟂ 10
Basilides — Bibliography · splits 59 ⟂ 6
Basilides — Acts of the Disputation with Manes · splits 62 ⟂ 3
Basilides — Isidorus · splits 62 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Basilides

Nodes65
Edges64
Triples169
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.030769
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Basilides to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Legacy, Doctrine & Overview, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Basilides · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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