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  1. Hellenistic Judaism

    within the culture and language of Hellenistic civilization Hellenism . There was a general ... Jewish Encyclopedia Hellenism Post exilic Judaism was largely recruited from those returned ...   more details



  1. Baba Ishak

    Alevism Baba Ishak , also spelled Baba Ishaq , Baba , or B b , a charismatic preacher, led an Kaykhusraw II The Baba Ishak Rebellion uprising of the Turkmen of Anatolia against the Seljuk Sultanate of R m Seljuq Sultanate of R m c. 1239 until he was hanged in 1241. ref Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages, 1250 1520 , p. 279 ref Notes reflist Sources Claude Cahen, B b , Encyclopaedia of Islam , edited by P. Bearman, et al. Brill, 2007 . Claude Cahen, Pre Ottoman Turkey a general survey of the material and spiritual culture and history , trans. J. Jones Williams New York Taplinger, 1968 , 136 7. Speros Vryonis, The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization from the Eleventh through the Fifteenth Century University of California Press, 1971 , 134. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Ishak, Baba ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1241 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Ishak, Baba Category Seljuq dynasty Category 1241 deaths Category Year of birth unknown Category People of the Sultanate of Rum Turkey bio stub fr Baba Turquie tr Baba shak zh ...   more details



  1. Yaacov Shavit

    image Yshavit.JPG thumb right 200px Yaacov Shavit is a professor at the Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University . His main fields of study are the history of modern Israel and modern Jew ish intellectual and cultural Jewish history history . ref http www.tau.ac.il tarbut IEZ Workshop2008 ShavitY bio.htm Yaacov Shavit bio ref Shavit has also written about the Afrocentrism movement in the African American community. Published works 1987, The New Hebrew Nation A Study in Israeli Heresy and Fantasy. 1988, Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Movement, 1925 1948 1925 1948, Routledge, ISBN 9780714633251. 1997, Athens in Jerusalem Classical Antiquity and Hellenism in the Making of the Modern Secular Jew, Oxford Paperback edition, 1999 . 2001, History in Black African Americans in Search of an Ancient Past, London. http books.google.com books?id IF3nT14IbOIC&printsec frontcover PPR5,M1 2006, with Jehuda Reinharz , Glorious, Accursed Europe An Essay on the Jews, Europe and Western Culture. 2007, The Hebrew Bible Reborn From Holy Scripture to the Book of Books, Berlin. References Reflist External links http www.haaretz.com hasen spages 818005.html Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Shavit, Yaacov ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Shavit, Yaacov Category Living people Category Israeli academics Category Historians of Jews and Judaism Category Historians of Israel Category Tel Aviv University faculty Israel bio stub Historian stub he ...   more details



  1. Abu'l Qasim (Seljuq governor of Nicaea)

    No footnotes date August 2011 Abu l Qasim was the Seljuq dynasty Seljuk governor of Nicaea city Nicaea , the Seljuk capital, from 1084 to his death in 1092. He was appointed to the post by Suleiman ibn Qutulmish , and after the latter s death in 1086, declared himself sultan . His authority however was limited to his own domain in Bithynia and Cappadocia , where his brother ruled most of the Anatolia n Seljuk realm fractured into independent or semi independent emirates like the one led by Tzachas of Smyrna . Using his control of the Anatolian shore of the Marmara Sea , Abu l Qasim decided to build a navy at Kios and challenge the Byzantine navy . The Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos sent two of his generals, Manuel Boutoumites and Tatikios , against him. Abu l Qasim s army was defeated, his fleet destroyed, and he himself was forced to retreat to Nicaea, from where he concluded a truce with the emperor. Sources Speros Vryonis , The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization from the Eleventh through the Fifteenth Century University of California Press, 1971 Sultans of Rum Persondata NAME Qasim, Abu l ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1092 PLACE OF DEATH Category 11th century births Category Seljuk Turkish rulers in Anatolia Category 1092 deaths Category Sultans Category Byzantine Seljuq Wars turkey bio stub ru tr Ebu l Kas m ...   more details



  1. Museum of the Macedonian Struggle (Kastoria)

    The Museum of the Macedonian Struggle in Kastoria , Greece is housed in a traditional old mansion that belonged to the teacher and fighter Anastasios Picheon 1836 1913 . It was inaugurated on 23 May 2010, a project of the http www.imma.edu.gr imma museum index.html Friends of the Museum of the Macedonian Struggle that was founded in 1993 in the Municipality of Kastoria. ref http www.snf.org index.php?ID grants EN&Rec ID 1458 ref The Museum outlines the Greek revolutionary movements that came into being in Macedonia when it was under Ottoman rule and lasted until its liberation and unification with Greece in 1913. With rich iconographic material and artefacts, it focuses mainly on the crucial for Macedonian Hellenism period around 1878. At that time there were uprisings and insurgencies in Western Macedonia by the local Greeks in an effort to abrogate the Treaty of San Stefano , to overthrow the Turkish rule and be united with free Greece . The Museum has a library, a local history reading room and a multiple use hall in which cultural events are held. References See http en.wikipedia.org wiki Wikipedia Footnotes on how to create references using ref ref tags which will then appear here automatically Reflist External links http mouseiomakedonikouagonakastorias.blogspot.com Museum blog Categories coord missing Greece Category History museums in Greece Category Military and war museums in Greece Macedonian Category Museums established in 2010 Category Kastoria Category Macedonian Struggle Category 2010 establishments in Greece el ...   more details



  1. Thomas Whittaker (metaphysician)

    Thomas Whittaker 1856 1935 was an English metaphysician and critic. Works The Philosophy of History 1893 The Neoplatonists A Study in the History of Hellenism 1901 , third impression 1928 Origins of Christianity 1904 , fourth edition 1933 Apollonius of Tyana and Other Essays 1906 The Liberal State 1907 Priests, Philosophers, and Prophets 1911 The Theory of Abstract Ethics 1916 The Metaphysics of Evolution, 1926 His Prolegomena to a New Metaphysic 1931 Reason 1934 Contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography He wrote several lives for the Dictionary of National Biography , signing as T. W r. Thomas Bedwell William Bewley John Bonnycastle Henry Briggs 1561 1630 Works about Whittaker Whittaker, Thomas, in Alumni Oxonienses the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715 1886 by Foster, Joseph, Oxford Parker and Co., 1888 1892. The Times , 1935, Obituary Thomas Whittaker. Metaphysician and critic Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Whittaker, Thomas ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION English metaphysician DATE OF BIRTH 1856 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1935 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Whittaker, Thomas Category 1856 births Category 1935 deaths Category Metaphysicians ...   more details



  1. The New Republic (novel)

    infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name The New Republic title orig translator image image caption author William Hurrell Mallock illustrator cover artist country United Kingdom language English language English series genre satire publisher Chatto and Windus release date 1877 english release date media type pages isbn preceded by followed by The New Republic or Culture, Faith and Philosophy in an English Country House by English author William Hurrell Mallock 1849 1923 is a novel first published by Chatto and Windus of London in 1877 . The work had its genesis as a serialization. In June December 1876 after Mallock had secured his Bachelor of Arts degree at Oxford in 1874, the same year as Oscar Wilde it appeared as a series of sketches in Belgravia magazine Belgravia magazine. Plot introduction The novel is a satire consisting almost entirely of dialogue and mocking most of the important figures then at Oxford University , with regards to aestheticism and Hellenism neoclassicism Hellenism . Characters The famous people Mallock depicts are as follows, together with the names of the characters that represent them. Matthew Arnold Mr. Luke Thomas Carlyle Donald Gordon William Kingdom Clifford Mr. Saunders Violet Fane Mrs. Sinclair W. M. Hardinge Robert Leslie Thomas Huxley Mr. Storks Benjamin Jowett Dr. Jenkinson William Hurrell Mallock W. H. Mallock Otho Laurence Walter Pater Mr. Rose John Ruskin Mr. Herbert John Tyndall Mr. Stockton Literary significance and criticism The book became a best seller in its time and retains much of its humour and satirical bite today. As author David Daiches wrote in 1951, If we can read through The New Republic without at one point or another being made to feel a little foolish, we are wise indeed. Walter Pater is of particular interest because Mallock s apparent homophobia against him expressed first in the more extensive treatment given the Mr. Rose character in the initial serialization hel ...   more details



  1. Noah Comet

    Noah Comet is a professor of English literature at the Ohio State University, Mansfield Campus . He specializes in Nineteenth Century Romantic and Victorian British Literature, women writers, and representations of classical Greece. He is best known for his articles in The Wordsworth Circle and the Keats Shelley Journal on poets Letitia Landon and Felicia Hemans . ref http mansfield.osu.edu faculty ncomet Noah Comet at http mansfield.osu.edu faculty ncomet . Retrieved on 23 May 2010. ref ref http english.osu.edu people person.cfm?ID 3428 Noah Comet, Assistant Professor at http english.osu.edu people person.cfm?ID 3428. Retrieved on 23 May 2010. ref Education Comet received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Creative Writing from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 2000. Three years later, he received a Master of Arts postgraduate Master of Arts degree in English from New York University , and he attained a Doctorate of Philosophy in English from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2008. Scholarship His most important works of criticism include the articles on Landon and Hemans, which will both form part of a forthcoming book on British women writers and Hellenism neoclassicism Hellenism . He is currently guest editing a special issue of the journal Women s Studies . He is also the editor of Romantic Circles http www.rc.umd.edu reference keatsconcordance Electronic Concordance to Keats Poetry and the author of several book reviews and other articles and short entries in the fields of Romanticism and Victorianism . He has given numerous conference papers at national and international academic conferences. Awards Professor Comet s research has been supported by several fellowships from institutions such as the Keats Shelley Association of America and the University of California, and he is an award winning teacher. ref http mansfield.osu.edu faculty ncomet cv.pdf Noah Comet, CV at http mansfield.osu.edu faculty ncomet cv.pdf. Retrieved on 23 May 2010. re ...   more details



  1. Hellenic studies

    States for the study of Hellenism, the Onassis Program includes a diverse faculty drawn from a variety ... of Missouri St. Louis http www.greekstudies.org Greek Studies Hellenism and Hellenic culture ... on Hellenism, with particular emphasis on the impact of ancient, medieval, and modern Hellenic civilization ...   more details



  1. Supreme Council of Ethnikoi Hellenes

    of Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism Hellenism outside of Greece. See also Polytheistic reconstructionism Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism Hellenism Greece Religion Religion in Greece ...   more details



  1. Pace (unit)

    A pace or double pace or passus is a measure of distance used in Ancient Rome . It is nominally the measure of a full stride from the position of the heel when it is raised from the ground to the point the same heel is set down again at the end of the step. Thus, a distance can be paced off by counting each time the same heel touches ground, or, in other words, every other step. In Rome, this unit was standardized as two gradus length grad s or five Roman foot Roman feet about 1.48 metre s or 58.1 English unit English inches . There are 1000 passus in one mille , and a mille was sometimes referred to as a mille passus . The Byzantine Empire Byzantine pace or vema IPA el vima was 2 pous feet pous . ref Erich Schilbach, Byzantinische Metrologie , cited by V.L. M nage, Review of Speros Vryonis, Jr. The decline of medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the process of islamization from the eleventh through the fifteenth century , Berkeley, 1971 in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies University of London 36 3 1973 , pp. 659 661. http links.jstor.org sici?sici 0041 977X 281973 2936 3A3 3C659 3ATDOMHI 3E2.0.CO 3B2 K at JSTOR subscription required ref A pace in modern terminology is usually taken as being a single pace rather than a double pace. It has no formal definition but is taken as being around 30  inches ref U.S. Army Map Reading and Navigation , p.5.8, Skyhorse Publishing Inc., 2009 ISBN 1602397023. ref 800 mm . References reflist See also Anthropic units Ancient Roman weights and measures Systems of measurement History of measurement DEFAULTSORT Pace Length Category Units of length Category Human based units of measure Category Ancient Roman units of measure measurement stub Ancient Rome stub ca Passus cv de Schritt Einheit fr Pas unit it Passo unit di lunghezza la Passus ja pl Passus miara pt Passus sv Dubbelsteg ...   more details



  1. Constantine Paparrigopoulos

    by Spyros Zampelios ancient Greece ancient Hellenism , Byzantine Empire medieval Hellenism , History of Modern Greece modern Hellenism and used it as a tool for the narration of the course of the Greeks ... way the pains and the dramas of the modern Hellenism. His writings All his main writings are in Greek ...   more details



  1. Fausto Zevi

    Fausto Zevi is a contemporary Italian classical archaeologist. ref cite web title Classical Archaeology L ANT 07 url http cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it archeo docenti Zevi.htm work Archeologia Corso di laurea triennale e specialistico magistrale accessdate 25 October 2010 ref Presently he is professor of Archaeology and Greco Roman art history at the Sapienza University of Rome University of Rome La Sapienza ref cite web title School OF HUMANITIES url http www.uniroma1.it amm personale concorsi commissioni attivita schedaL03BLett R.htm work University of Rome accessdate 25 October 2010 ref and has previously held posts at the University of Naples Federico II University of Naples Federico II and as archaeological superintendent at Ostia Antica archaeological site Ostia , Naples , and Rome . He is a prolific scholar with more than 200 publications on archaic Rome, Roman hellenism, the topography and urban plan of Pompeii , Ostia, and Rome. He is a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei , the German Archaeological Institute, and an honorary fellow of the British School at Rome . Zevi was a student of Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli . References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Zevi, Fausto ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Italian archaeologist DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Zevi, Fausto Category Italian archaeologists Category Year of birth missing living people Category Living people Category Italian Jews Italy scientist stub Archaeologist stub de Fausto Zevi it Fausto Zevi ...   more details



  1. Turuberan

    Infobox Former Subdivision native name common name Turuberan continent Europe region Caucasus image map Historical regions of Greater Armenia.png era Antiquity , Middle Ages subdivision Province nation Kingdom of Armenia antiquity Greater Armenia year start 189 BC year end XI AD capital Manzikert Malazgirt common language Armenian language Armenian religions Hellenism , Christianity from 301 AD event start Artaxias I declaring himself independent event end Seljuk conquests date end XI AD ref http hy.wikipedia.org wiki D5 8F D5 B8 D6 82 D6 80 D5 B8 D6 82 D5 A2 D5 A5 D6 80 D5 A1 D5 B6 ref Turuberan was Greater Armenia s 4th province. History Turuberan lang hy was an Armenians Armenian region, that was part of the Kingdom of Armenia antiquity Kingdom of Armenia from 189 BC to 387 AD. Then it was part of Sassanid Empire , Byzantine Empire , Arab Caliphate , Kingdom of Armenia Middle Ages , Zakarid Armenia , Ottoman Empire . A very large Armenians Armenian population remained until 1915 s Armenian Genocide . Nowadays it is situated in Turkey s south east. ref Yerevan, 1973 Taron Turuberan Vol. 12, Yerevan, 1984 ref ref http hy.wikipedia.org wiki D5 8F D5 B8 D6 82 D6 80 D5 B8 D6 82 D5 A2 D5 A5 D6 80 D5 A1 D5 B6 ref Division Turuberan s territory was convert 25008 km2 sqmi 3 abbr on . It had 16 cantons. Khoyt Aspakuenats dzor Taron historic Armenia Taron Ashmunik Mardaghi Dastavork Tuaratsatap Dalar, Armenia Dalar Harq Varajnuniq Bznuniq Erevarq Aghiovit Apahuniq Koroy cation Khorkhoruniq See also List of regions of old Armenia Kingdom of Armenia Antiqiuty References Reflist Historical regions of Armenia coord missing Armenia Category Regions of old Armenia Armenia hist stub ca Tauruberan eo Turuberano fr T roub ran hy it Turuberan ru ...   more details



  1. Lord of the Universe (disambiguation)

    Lord of the Universe may describe A name used by Moses in the Bible, when addressing God Adon olam . ref Shoulson, Jeffrey S., Milton and the Rabbis Hebraism, Hellenism & Christianity 2001 , Columbia University Press, ISBN 0 231 12329 9 ref In baptism prayer, the name given to God. ref Cheetam, Samuel and Smith William A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities 1893 ref Adon Olam , a Jewish hymn In the Qur an , the name given to God. ref Jomier Jacques, The Bibgle and the Qur an 2002 , Ignatius Press, ISBN 0 898 70928 8 ref An attribute given to Shiva Siva , in his role as creator in Bhakti literature. ref Prentiss, Karen P., The Embodiment of Bhakti 1999 , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0 195 12813 3 ref In the neophyte ceremonial magic of the hermetic order of The Golden Dawn, when members are assembled they stand and declare Let us adore the Lord of the Universe and Space . ref The Golden Dawn A Complete Course in Practical Ceremonial Magic 1999 , Llewellyn Worldwide, ISBN 08 754 2663 8 ref The inner god carried by all human beings, as described in the Vedanta sutra s. Here, inwardly in the heart, there is a space, therein lies the lord of the universe . ref B dar ya a s Brahma s tras, 4, 4, 6 23,, as cited in Deussen Paul, System of Vedanta 1912 , p.194, Open Court Publishing company ref A title given to the Gautama . ref Cyclopedia of missions. 1954 ref A title given to Prem Rawat Guru Maharaj Ji . ref Blau, Eleanor November 12, 1973 , Guru s Followers Cheer Millennium in Festivities in Astrodome , New York Times ref Lord of the Universe , a 1974 documentary film on Guru Maharaj Ji. ref cite book last Boyle first Deirdre authorlink coauthors title Subject to Change Guerrilla Television Revisited publisher Oxford University Press US year 1997 location pages Gaga Over Guru , Pages 76 85. url doi id isbn 0195110544 ref References reflist disambig ...   more details



  1. Leonidas Iasonidis

    Multiple issues orphan February 2009 refimprove August 2008 Infobox person name Leonidas Iasonidis image alt caption birth date 1884 Birth date YYYY MM DD birth place Poulantzaki, Pontus , Turkey death date 1959 Death date and age YYYY MM DD YYYY MM DD death date then birth date death place nationality Pontic Greek other names known for occupation Political activist Leonidas Iasonidis 1884 1959 was a Pontic Greek political activist born in Poulantzaki in Pontus , Turkey . Early life Iasonidis studied at the Giresun Kerasunta High School and at the Trabzon Trapezunta Tuition Center Frontistirion . He studied law in Constantinople and graduated with honours. He then went to Paris to further his law studies and graduated in 1915. In Greece, Iasonidis began a very successful career in politics. He played a vital role in having the icon of the Virgin Mary Panagia Soumela returned to its rightful owners in Greece. During World War I, he left Paris via Romania and arrived in Rostov , Russia , where he came in contact with the Greek communities of the Caucasus . In 1917, the Caucasus and Crimean regions were heavily populated with Pontic Greek refugees who had earlier fled Turkey to avoid the Turkish massacres. Iasonidis was able to gain the support of the 1,500,000 Greeks of Pontos, and as the representative of the National Council of Greek communities, he travelled to Paris to join Eleftherios Venizelos in calling for the independence of Greek Pontus. These efforts resulted in the Turkish government calling for his arrest, but they were unable to capture him. Turkey instead arrested and executed his 27 year old brother. Sources The Encyclopaedia of Pontic Hellenism External links http pontosworld.com index.php?option com content&task view&id 791&Itemid 90 Leonidas Iasonidis Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Iasonidis, Leonidas ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1884 PLACE OF BIRTH Poulantzaki, Pontus , Turkey DATE OF DEATH 1959 PLACE OF DE ...   more details



  1. Filon Ktenidis

    Orphan date February 2009 Filon Ktenidis 1889 1963 was a Pontic Greeks Pontic Greek playwright, an accountant, a journalist, a doctor and the founder of Panagia Soumela in Kastania,Vermiou in Greece. Biography Early life and education Born in 1889 in Trapezus , Pontus , he spent his childhood days in Kromni. In 1906 he graduated with excellent grades at the Frontistirion High School of Trapezus . Career From 1906 1909 he began work as an accountant. t the same time he was a contributor to the Trapezuntine newspaper Ethniki Drasi National Action . In 1910 he publishes his own fortnightly newspaper Epitheoro . and is expelled by the Neo Turks and flees to Athens, where he enrolls in the University s Medical School. In 1912 13 he volunteers in the Greek army and takes part in operations in Epirus and Macedonia Greece . In 1914 15 he returns to Trapezus to offer his voluntary services as a doctor, to the people of the outer Greek regions of Trapezounta . With the entry of the Russian troops to Trapezus in 1916, he travels to the Caucasus where between 1915 17 he works as a Medical Doctor in the biggest Russian Military Hospital. In 1918 he becomes the President of the National Council of Pontos in Krassnodor, Russia. n 1922 he returns to Thessaloniki where he practices as a doctor. He is the successful writer of 17 well known Pontian Theatrical Plays. Source The Encyclopedia of Pontian Hellenism External links http pontosworld.com index.php?option com content&task view&id 202&Itemid 90 Filon Ktenidis Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Ktenidis, Filon ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1889 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1963 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Ktenidis, Filon Category 1889 births Category 1963 deaths Category People from Trabzon Category Pontic Greeks pnt ...   more details



  1. Timarion

    unreferenced date December 2008 italictitle The Timarion is a Byzantine literature Byzantine pseudo Lucian ic satire satirical dialogue probably composed in the Byzantium under the Komnenoi twelfth century there are references to the Byzantium under the Macedonians eleventh century Michael Psellus , though possibly later. The eponymous hero, on his way to a Christian fair at Thessalonica , is unexpectedly taken to Hades , which is ruled by Greek paganism pagan figures and pagan justice, and where Galil an s that is, Christians make up only one sect of many. Edition & Translation Roberto Romano philologist R. Romano , Pseudo Luciano, Timarione , in Byzantina et neo hellenica neapolitana 2 . Naples University of Naples Universit di Napoli . Cattedra di filologia bizantina, 1974 pp. 49 92. Barry Baldwin B. Baldwin , Timarion, Translated with Introduction and Commentary . Detroit Wayne State University Press , 1984. Treatment Anthony Kaldellis Kaldellis, A. , Hellenism in Byzantium The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition . Cambridge Cambridge University Press CUP , 2008 pp. 276 283. Ejusdem , The Timarion Toward a Literary Interpretation , in Paolo Odorico P. Odorico ed. , La face cach e de la litt rature Byzantine Le texte en tant que message imm diat . Paris cole des hautes tudes en sciences sociales , Centre d tudes Byzantines, n o hell niques et sud est europ ennes Dossiers byzantins , vol. 7, forthcoming . Alexander Kazhdan Kazhdan, A. and Ann Wharton Epstein A. Wharton Epstein , Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries . Berkeley, California Berkeley and Los Angeles University of California Press , 1990 pp. 139 sq . See also The List of works by Lucian Menippus or Necyomantia by Lucian Mazaris Journey to Hades Byzantium under the Palaiologoi late Byzantine References references Byzantine stub Category Byzantine literature Category 12th century books ru sh Timarion uk ...   more details



  1. Étienne Clavier

    tienne Clavier Lyon , 26 December 1762 Paris , 18 November 1817 was a French Hellenism Academia Hellenist and magistrate. The son of a wealthy merchant of Lyon, he made early studies of the Classical languages, followed by studies of law in Paris. In 1788 he purchased a commission as conseiller au Ch telet of which he was soon deprived during the French Revolution . He entered the magistracy under the French Directory Directoire , serving as a judge in the criminal tribunal of the Seine department Seine , where he made himself prominent by the independence of his character in the trial of Jean Victor Marie Moreau General Moreau Pressured by Joachim Murat , who urged him to pronounce the capital sentence, with the assurance that Napoleon would grant clemency, he made the famous reply, Et nous, qui nous la fera? He was finally discharged from his post in the reorganization of the tribunals of 1811. In 1809 he was elected member of the Acad mie des inscriptions et belles lettres . He was appointed to the chair in history and ethics at the Coll ge de France in 1812 and was named censeur royal at the Bourbon Restoration . tienne Clavier contributed several memoirs to the Acad mie des inscriptions . In one on the Oracles of the Ancients, he asserted that the priesthood of Antiquity were under no necessity of fraud in producing their miracles, which were easily explained by the confidence and credulity of the people. As a Hellenist, his work has lost its value, his translations, such as the Bibliotheke attributed to Apollodorus Paris, 1805 , lacking the accuracy demanded by later generations, and his erudition, such as his corrections to Jacques Amyot s translation of Plutarch , ill directed. His principal merit, according to Pierre Larousse , is to have pursued classical studies during a period that lacked classicists of the first order. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Clavier, Etienne ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1762 PLACE OF BIRTH ...   more details



  1. Louis Havet

    Citations missing date July 2009 File Louis Havet.jpg thumb right Louis Havet Pierre Antoine Louis Havet 6 January 1849 &mdash 26 January 1925 was a France French latinist and Hellenism Academia Hellenist , an expert on classical Greek and Latin poetry. He was professor at Coll ge de France , where in 1885 1925 he was chairman of the department of Latin philology . Since 1893 he was member of the Acad mie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres . In 1917 he became the first vice president of the Association Guillaume Bud . He was member of the central committee of the Ligue des droits de l homme Human Rightl League , which defended Alfred Dreyfus in the Dreyfus affair . Major works Manuel de critique verbale appliqu e aux textes latins 1867 Cours l mentaire de m trique grecque et latine 1886 La Prose m trique de Symmaque et les origines m triques du Cursus 1892 http gallica.bnf.fr ark 12148 bpt6k33068x.pdf Text online Amphitruo Amphitryon , by Plautus ed. L. Havet 1895 http gallica.bnf.fr ark 12148 bpt6k33071t.pdf Text online Manuel de critique verbale appliqu e aux textes latins 1911 Notes critiques sur le texte de Festus 1914 http gallica.bnf.fr ark 12148 bpt6k33113x.pdf Text online Notes critiques sur l Orator et sur Is e 1927 http gallica.bnf.fr ark 12148 bpt6k33131v.pdf Text online References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Havet, Louis ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1849 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1925 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Havet, Louis Category 1849 births Category 1925 deaths Category French philologists Category Coll ge de France faculty Category Members of the Acad mie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres france academic bio stub fr Louis Havet it Louis Havet ...   more details



  1. Hermann van Flekwyk

    Orphan date September 2011 Hermann Van Flekwyk d. Bruges , June 10, 1569 was a Dutch Anabaptist , whose name has become memorable, in consequence of an examination for heresy conducted by the Franciscan Cornelius Adrians ref Robert Wallace Unitarian Robert Wallace , Antitrinitarian Biography 1850 ref later translated. ref Joshua Toulmin ? Dr. Toulmin published a translation of the dialogue ref Among the charges against Flekwyk You have sucked at the poisoned breast of Erasmus ref Simon Goldhill Who needs Greek? contests in the cultural history of Hellenism 2002 Look at the following dialogue of inquisition recorded between the Fransiscan friar Cornelius Adrian and an Anabaptist called Hermann van Flekwyk... ref and having blasphemed against the true body and blood of God, by speaking against the Mass, ref Leonard Williams Levy Blasphemy verbal offense against the sacred, from Moses to Salman Rushdie 1995 ref To the charges Herman replied Can you shed the blood of a good Christian? ref G rard Brandt Histoire abr g e de la r formation des Pa s Bas 1726 d un Anti Trinitaire, nomm Herman van Flekwyk, n est pas moins d plorable  ... Herman repliqua Pourriez vous r pandre le sang d un bon Chr tien  ...? ref References reflist colwidth 35em Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Flekwyk, Hermann ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1569 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Flekwyk, Hermann Category 1569 deaths Category Antitrinitarians Category 16th century Protestant martyrs ...   more details



  1. Alexander Helladius

    Alexander Helladius lang el lang grc , 1686 ? was an 18th century Greeks Greek scholar and humanist from Larissa in Greece, who studied at the Greek College of Oxford University and published several works on the Greek language and tradition. Life and work He was a student of the Corfiote hierodeacon Frangiskos Prosalentis . He arrived in England in 1703 as the escort of William Paget, 6th Baron Paget Lord William Paget , ambassador to the Ottoman Empire . He saw himself as a genuine heir of an unbroken classical tradition and tried to combat Western misconceptions of Hellenism, while his excellent knowledge of the Greek language secured him valuable contacts, especially at the University of Altdorf . In 1712 he published in Nuremberg an older Greek grammar by Bessarion Makris to which he appended a fictitious dialogue countering the arguments in favour of the Ancient Greek phonology Erasmian pronunciation of ancient Greek . Later, in Status Praesens , he counters the arguments of some Western scholars that the contemporary Greeks spoke a barbarian language barbarograeca and could not understand ancient Greek. Helladius sought to show the unbroken continuity of the culture of the Greek people and was adamant in his opposition to the translation of the New Testament into the vernacular. ref Cite book last1 Doll first1 Peter M. title Anglicanism and Orthodoxy 300 years after the Greek College in Oxford year 2006 publisher Lang location Oxford isbn 978 3 03910 580 9 pages 275 276 ref Known works Status Praesens Ecclesiae Graecae In Quo Etiam Causae Exponuntur Cur Graeci Moderni Novi Testamenti 1714 References reflist See also Greek scholars in the Renaissance Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Helladius, Alexander ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1686 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Helladius, Alexander Category 1686 births Category Greek Renaissance humanists Category People from Larissa Cat ...   more details



  1. Persarmenia

    Infobox Former Subdivision native name common name Persarmenia continent region Caucasus image map Historical regions of Greater Armenia.png era Antiquity , Middle Ages subdivision Province nation Kingdom of Armenia antiquity Greater Armenia year start 189 BC year end 11th century capital Her common language Armenian language Armenian , Persian religions Paganism , Hellenism , Christianity from 301 AD event start Artaxias I declaring himself independent event end Persarmenia , was part of Kingdom of Armenia antiquity Greater Armenia , situated on the western shore of Lake Urmia ref http www.iranicaonline.org articles armenia ii ref , bordered on Adiabene and Atropatene , now in northwestern Iran . Following the partition of Greater Armenia between the Roman Empire and Sassanid Empire in 387 , the territory under Sassanid influence became to be known as Persian Armenia Persarmenia . The region of Arzanene , traditionally part of Lesser Armenia , also became part of Persarmenia. Persarmenia had nine districts ref Fr d ric Macler, 1989, Revue des tudes arm niennes Volume 21, page 309, University of Michigan ref Zarawand Her Arna Zarehawan Tamber Trabi Gawar Kurijan Aili Mari Gawar Arsi Ovea See also List of regions of old Armenia Historical regions of Armenia Coord missing Armenia References Reflist Category Regions of old Armenia Armenia hist stub Iran stub de Persarmenien fr Persarm nie hy it Persarmenia lt Persarm nija pt Persarmenia ru fi Persarmenia ...   more details



  1. Plan? (mythology)

    no footnotes date February 2012 In Greek mythology , Plan or Plane Greek lang grc , pronounced pla nee was an abstract goddess personification of error her name deriving from the Greek term for wandering see planet . Though her mythology is obscure, it is known that she was present at the musical competition between the god Apollo and the satyr Marsyas . She appears in that scene looking on in horror, at the sight of Marsyas about to be flayed for losing the musical contest on a few 4th century mosaics in the House of Aion in Nea Paphos. Plan or Plane is also referred to, as an abstract concept, in Christianity Christian and Gnostic philosophy . References http books.google.com books?id 77MeAAAAIAAJ&pg PA96&dq 22personification 22 22Plane 22 22error 22&hl en&sa X&ei 8 IvT6nvA4WGgweSxtzgDw&ved 0CDAQ6AEwAA v onepage&q 22personification 22 20 22Plane 22 20 22error 22&f false Essays on the Coptic Gnostic library http books.google.com books?id EdOJAAAAMAAJ&q 22personification 22 22Plane 22 22error 22&dq 22personification 22 22Plane 22 22error 22&hl en&sa X&ei 8 IvT6nvA4WGgweSxtzgDw&ved 0CDsQ6AEwAg Studies in the New Testament and Gnosticism http books.google.com books?id PX1q70E9ABIC&pg PA232&dq 22personification 22 22Plane 22 22error 22&hl en&sa X&ei 8 IvT6nvA4WGgweSxtzgDw&ved 0CDUQ6AEwAQ v onepage&q 22personification 22 20 22Plane 22 20 22error 22&f false Personification in the Greek world from antiquity to Byzantium http books.google.com books?id JUsbAAAAYAAJ&q 22personification 22 22Plane 22 22Theogonia 22&dq 22personification 22 22Plane 22 22Theogonia 22&hl en&sa X&ei BugvT8uuI4r6gge4muTUDw&ved 0CEEQ6AEwAw Hellenism in Late Antiquity See Also Hamartia Greek deity stub Category Greek mythology Category Greek goddesses Category Personification in Greek mythology ...   more details



  1. European Congress of Ethnic Religions

    , Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism Hellenism http www.diipetes.gr Diipetes Greece , Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism Hellenism http groupedruidiquedesgaules.chez alice.fr Groupe Druidique ...   more details




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