The first known debate about human antiquity took place in 170 AD between Theophilus of Antioch and an Egyptian pagan "Apollonius the Egyptian" (probably Apollonius Dyscolus), who argued that the world was 153,075 years old.
Apollonius | Apollonius of Perga | Apollonius of Rhodes | Apollonius the Sophist | Apollonius Dyscolus |