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- and Latinist who promoted the revival of ancient Roman classics and the traditions ... Laetus tried to emulate the lives of the ancient Romans, and around ...9 KB (1,365 words) - 21:15, 4 October 2022
- Roman Empire (fifth century C.E.), ending in the dissolution of classical ... has been usurped as a result of confidence in human ingenuity inspired by ...12 KB (1,801 words) - 12:38, 5 May 2024
- Pope Saint Alexander I was the bishop of Rome for seven to ten years ... Esquiline Hill, one of the Seven hills of Rome. Nothing is known of his life ...6 KB (917 words) - 09:24, 24 November 2022
- (d. c. 67 - 80) was the second bishop of Rome, succeeding the first "pope ... Linus' dates and his position in the order of the early Roman ...11 KB (1,675 words) - 04:02, 26 November 2022
- higher human authority, yet usually remains in communion with other affiliated ... authority, although his church remains in full communion with the other ...9 KB (1,277 words) - 19:40, 22 August 2023
- Leo had been a Benedictine monk and served in the papal curia under Pope ... distinguished by his efforts to strengthen Rome's defenses and repair ...11 KB (1,773 words) - 09:41, 24 November 2022
- The menorah (Hebrew: מנורה) is a sacred candelabrum used in Jewish ... The menorah continues to play an important role in modern Judaism ...10 KB (1,529 words) - 16:09, 9 November 2022
- centuries B.C.E. The dramatic increase in the popularity of these rites ... descriptions of the Bacchanalia that abound in classical materials (such as ...10 KB (1,570 words) - 05:25, 26 August 2023
- four letters accepted as authentic (known in German scholarship as Hauptbriefe ... ) conveyed it to Rome. The precise time of its writing, however, is ...13 KB (2,049 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- Saint Clement I was a bishop of Rome from 88 to 99 C.E. Also called ... Clement of Rome is considered one of the Apostolic Fathers, and the ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 09:27, 24 November 2022
- Minerva was the ancient Roman goddess of wisdom and war. Her areas ... Like Athena, Minerva came to be represented in art bearing a weapon and amour ...11 KB (1,742 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- Aeneas, and therefore played a pivotal role in many Roman religious festivals ... Venus carries on a tradition of eroticized female divinities featured ...13 KB (1,985 words) - 19:28, 14 November 2022
- the spiritual leadership is not understood in the same way as the Eastern ... Church and Eastern Orthodox Church occurred in the fifth century. This separation ...11 KB (1,534 words) - 01:18, 18 November 2022
- family which ruled the Ptolemaic Empire in Egypt for nearly 300 years ... of the Hebrew Bible, important developments in mathematics and medicine and ...11 KB (1,793 words) - 23:33, 2 December 2022
- |name =University of Rome "La Sapienza" |native_name ... University of Rome La Sapienza (Italian Università degli Studi di ...13 KB (1,764 words) - 13:09, 3 May 2023
- character that means life or living. Ancient Egyptian gods are often ... The ankh appears frequently in Egyptian tomb paintings and other art ...10 KB (1,631 words) - 06:39, 28 July 2023
- In Roman mythology, Saturn (Latin: Saturnus) was a major Roman deity ... clear. While numerous authors both ancient and modern have suggested ...11 KB (1,785 words) - 17:00, 23 December 2022
- Pope Saint Fabian was bishop of Rome from January 236 to January 20 ... Fabian's episcopacy was one of substantial importance in the ...11 KB (1,652 words) - 09:39, 24 November 2022
- The concept of apathy was developed in response to a problem widely ... virtuous desires. This concept was developed in Rome and adapted by early Christians ...9 KB (1,363 words) - 05:58, 11 August 2023
- Bahram II was the fifth Sassanid King of Persia in 276–293. He was ... The survival of the Persian empire against Rome prevented one power from totally ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 01:04, 1 January 2022
- and he is the king named "Herod" in the Acts of the Apostles in ... Sent by Herod the Great to be educated in Rome, the young Agrippa ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 06:49, 16 June 2023
- Persius, in full Aulus Persius Flaccus (34 – 62 C.E.), was an ancient ... the biography coincide with events mentioned in the satires, and the biography ...9 KB (1,391 words) - 00:44, 24 November 2022
- increasingly ineffectual alliance between Rome and Constantinople. During ... leading to renewed hard feelings between Rome and the East. During his reign ...15 KB (2,341 words) - 11:39, 13 February 2022
- In the Roman Empire, the Vestal Virgins (sacerdos Vestalis), were ... bearing on the health and prosperity of Rome and the Roman Empire. The ...16 KB (2,678 words) - 18:03, 3 May 2023
- standard, or logic, among other things. In religious contexts, it can ... Similar concepts are found in non-western traditions, such as Dao ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- Marcus Antonius Gordianus (January 20 225 – February 11, 244), known ... however, he was one of the most powerful men in the world. As such, he merits ...15 KB (2,360 words) - 02:07, 22 December 2022
- He was given the name Porphyrius (clad in purple, an allusion to the ... Most of the known details of the personal life of Porphyry are found ...10 KB (1,415 words) - 05:40, 30 November 2022
- Cybele (Greek Κυβέλη) was a Phrygian goddess originating in ... ("Mountain-Mother"), possibly in connection to the myth that ...16 KB (2,551 words) - 06:50, 12 January 2024
- Axum, or Aksum, is a city in northern Ethiopia named after the Kingdom ... The ancient African civilization of Axum flourished for over a thousand ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 07:23, 23 August 2023
- church. Also known as Saint Agnes of Rome and Saint Ines (or Santa Ynez ... during the persecution of Emperor Diocletian in the late third century C.E ...11 KB (1,796 words) - 06:46, 16 June 2023
- Marcus Julius Philippus or Philippus I Arabs (c. 204 - 249), known ... ruler, a phihellene who deeply respected Rome's traditions and heritage ...20 KB (3,034 words) - 03:50, 24 November 2022
- who became known in his capacity as a Roman citizen as Flavius Josephus, ... and recorded the Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. His works give an important ...15 KB (2,242 words) - 17:37, 28 March 2024
- martyr together with 11,000 other virgins in Cologne, Germany around 383 ... history. Literary critics theorize that an ancient tradition about the martyrdom ...11 KB (1,674 words) - 00:54, 23 December 2022
- A native of Cilicia, he was active in the Academy at Athens, under ... of the Presocratics, could be found to be in agreement with NeoPlatonism ...9 KB (1,323 words) - 22:13, 29 January 2023
- Pope Saint Stephen I served as bishop of Rome from May 12, 254 to ... Stephen became involved in a major controversy with Saint Cyprian ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 00:24, 12 April 2023
- who strongly affirmed the primacy of Rome and promulgated the doctrine ... by descent. Gelasius' own statement in one of his letters that he ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 06:35, 18 April 2024
- known for having met Attila the Hun outside Rome in 452, in an attempt to persuade ... This shows that Leo was known outside of Rome. He was also asked by the ...15 KB (2,335 words) - 20:05, 25 October 2022
- medieval ideal of union of church and state in a united Christendom" ... reign of Stephen II but it is referred to in a letter from Adrian I to Charlemagne ...12 KB (1,943 words) - 06:17, 15 June 2023
- Saint Hippolytus of Rome (died 235 C.E.), sometimes called Ypolitus ... writers of the early Church. He was born in the second half of the second ...13 KB (2,034 words) - 15:50, 25 January 2023
- ), the text was bound with the New Testament in the Codex Sinaiticus. Additionally ... The book was originally written in Rome, in the Greek language, but ...12 KB (1,907 words) - 14:09, 27 January 2023
- ownership of property, led the Commune of Rome's temporary overthrow ... Born in Italy, Arnold became an Augustinian monk and then prior of ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 03:56, 15 August 2023
- issued by the Byzantine emperor Zeno in 482 in an attempt to reconcile ... namely the followers of the monk Eutyches. In promulgating this formula of ...16 KB (2,523 words) - 18:33, 7 February 2022
- matriarchy and his work on the role of women in ancient societies. His work ... Johann Jakob Bachofen was born on December 22, 1815 in Basel, Switzerland ...10 KB (1,351 words) - 14:47, 1 August 2022
- #039;s interests as Spain's official religion, he was opposed by the liberal ... Claret was born at Sallent, Catalonia, Spain, in 1807. He worked as ...9 KB (1,350 words) - 19:06, 22 December 2022
- a subject, or applies different theories in particular cases. In philosophy and theology, eclecticism is the practice of selecting ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 18:01, 12 February 2024
- and an invisible dimension. Full membership in the Church involves those who ... The ancient Pauline concept of the Mystical Body of Christ provided ...10 KB (1,484 words) - 22:43, 10 November 2022
- Cardinals are high ranking ecclesiastical officials in the Roman Catholic ... The word "cardinal" was first used in Rome at the beginning ...9 KB (1,483 words) - 19:13, 26 November 2023
- Plotinus (Greek: Πλωτίνος)(ca. 205–270), the ancient philosopher ... was sixty-six years old when he died in 270 c.e., the second year of ...12 KB (1,813 words) - 08:05, 24 November 2022
- important documents to scholars interested in reconstructing the development ... was written about 170 C.E., probably in Greek, although some regard ...13 KB (2,046 words) - 18:59, 10 November 2022
- Council was a meeting of Christian leaders in the Roman Empire which established ... on a formula that affirmed "two natures in Christ without confusion, change ...15 KB (2,236 words) - 08:25, 10 January 2024
- 26, 121 – March 17, 180) was emperor of Rome from 161 C.E. until his death ... by Antoninus Pius, so that he would be in the direct line of succession ...16 KB (2,530 words) - 03:10, 6 November 2022
- Dacia, in ancient history and geography was the land of the Dacians ... After several confrontations between Dacia and Rome, Emperor Trajan ...22 KB (3,335 words) - 07:37, 12 January 2024
- is that which is specialized or advanced in nature, available only to a ... Esoteric is an adjective originating in Greece; it comes from the Greek ...12 KB (1,732 words) - 21:30, 20 March 2024
- the distinction between two kinds of truth in scholasticism, natural and ... St. Augustine of Hippo seems to be the first to use natural theology ...12 KB (1,729 words) - 15:21, 11 November 2022
- alone or both from the Father and the Son. In the Orthodox tradition, the ... such as the struggle for supremacy between Rome and Constantinople and the ...16 KB (2,507 words) - 19:46, 26 March 2024
- with additional, unreasonable truths added in only later by church leaders ... Tindal was born in 1653 to the Rev. John Tindal, Rector of Beer Ferrers ...9 KB (1,411 words) - 16:56, 7 November 2022
- et Bonis Artibus (Latin: "For Religion and Culture") ... |city = Rome |country = Italy, but partially extraterritorial ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 16:14, 17 January 2014
- The Epistle to the Philippians is a book of the New Testament in the ... Besides its joyful character, the letter is also unique in its attitude ...10 KB (1,691 words) - 20:40, 17 May 2023
- on North Africa's Mediterranean coast in what is now Libya, was originally ... life. Originally founded by the Phoenicians in the tenth century B.C.E., it ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 21:59, 25 October 2022
- today. His work chronicled the history of Rome from 96 to 378, although only ... as a tool to help understand the past in order to shape the present ...21 KB (3,270 words) - 07:33, 25 July 2023
- of Galilee, best known for her portrayal in the New Testament as the wife ... to her uncle Herod II, with whom she lived in Rome and Judea. While on a ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 11:05, 22 January 2024
- Tiridates I of Armenia secured Arsacid rule in Armenia. An independent line ... When Tiridates III became a Christian in Tiridates III in 301, Armenia ...18 KB (2,729 words) - 03:59, 15 August 2023
- voyage, helped enhance trade between India and Rome. Gary Keith Young ... Roman trade diaspora stopped in Southern India, establishing trading ...21 KB (3,121 words) - 04:51, 16 December 2022
- Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus) was the god of the sea in Roman mythology ... example of cross-cultural assimilation in the ancient world where a great ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 16:21, 11 November 2022
- research. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902, for the ... Mommsen was born in Garding, Schleswig, and grew up in Bad Oldesloe ...16 KB (2,291 words) - 17:56, 30 April 2023
- 18 and 37 C.E., best known for his role in the trial of Jesus. His full ... A member of the party of the Sadducees, Caiaphas was the son-in-law ...15 KB (2,468 words) - 18:17, 25 November 2023
- again from 877 to 886. He is a major saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church. A respected teacher and bureaucrat in Constantinople, Photius was ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 00:51, 23 December 2022
- [[Image:A-Procession-in-the-Catacomb-of-Callistus.jpg|thumb|right ... galleries, the design of which originated in Ancient Rome. The word now ...16 KB (2,439 words) - 14:27, 29 November 2023
- of a walled enclave within the city of Rome. At approximately 108.7 acres ... It was created in 1929 by the Lateran Treaty as a vestige of the much ...21 KB (3,351 words) - 22:10, 21 December 2023
- The Eastern Catholic Churches are autonomous Churches in full communion ... The Eastern Catholic Churches were located historically in Eastern ...27 KB (4,042 words) - 02:32, 1 October 2020
- whose views were most instrumental in the development of medicine ... He is rightly regarded as the pioneer in surgery, making use of his ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 03:50, 18 April 2024
- and influential theologians and writers in the Christian Church, particularly ... the Church differ, with greater honor paid in the West to such men as Pope ...21 KB (3,112 words) - 21:58, 10 December 2023
- Pontiff") was the high priest of the Ancient Roman College of Pontiffs ... were for centuries used by the Bishop of Rome also known as the pope. After ...31 KB (4,749 words) - 00:22, 12 April 2023
- usage by linguist Max Müller (1823–1900) in order to characterize religious ... prominently as a point of discussion in academic debates about the ...15 KB (2,313 words) - 15:20, 25 January 2023
- the culture and way of life of a people of ancient Italy whom ancient Romans ... Culture that is identifiably and certainly Etruscan developed in Italy ...35 KB (5,526 words) - 04:38, 22 March 2024
- god Hermes, who carried a staff (or rod) in his various exploits. This ... The caduceus is sometimes used as a symbol for medicine, especially ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 10:15, 25 November 2023
- modern Tell Mardikh, Syria) was an ancient city about 55 km southwest ... King Ibrium and his son Ibbi-Sipish. Its religion appears to have included ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 17:22, 11 October 2020
- Alpha and Omega (Greek: Αλφα and Ω) is an appellation of God ... me there is no God." While the context in the Book of Revelation is clearly ...10 KB (1,641 words) - 08:22, 23 July 2023
- was excommunicated by the early church at Rome as a heretic; Nevertheless ... that Christianity was distinct from, and in opposition to, Judaism. Moreover ...17 KB (2,698 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- was a Gnostic Christian religious teacher in Alexandria, Egypt. He taught ... with Basilides and took his teachings to Rome where he further developed ...17 KB (2,600 words) - 11:07, 20 September 2023
- led a major revolt against the Roman Empire in 132 C.E., establishing an independent ... The eventual failure of Bar Kokhba’s revolt resulted in the deaths ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 07:58, 20 September 2023
- the Donation of Constantine, often cited in support of the temporal power ... Lorenzo Valla was born in Rome, Italy, around 1406. His father, Luca ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 02:43, 4 November 2022
- to churches that Paul had established in Europe and Asia Minor. They ... The authorship of some of the epistles is in dispute. Most scholars ...24 KB (3,164 words) - 00:13, 30 January 2024
- The term polygyny (neo-Greek: poly+gyne woman) is used in related ... |right|250px|Polygyny, the marriagemarital practice in which a man ...15 KB (2,204 words) - 08:44, 24 November 2022
- quot; or "father"), the bishop of Rome, who is the leader of the ... After Christianity became the favored religion of the Roman emperors ...30 KB (4,691 words) - 14:08, 7 May 2024
- The earliest Greek philosophers in Ionia, known as the Ionians, such ... and harmony to the elements of the world. In other words, Pythagoras found ...15 KB (2,230 words) - 03:55, 7 December 2022
- Christian Church at the Council of Ephesus in 431, after some initial resistance ... a work of art, rather than a single figure in one, refers to a portrait-style ...21 KB (3,389 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- held that history could not be studied in the same way as natural science ... to Tenney Frank's Economic Survey of Ancient Rome (1937). Collingwood’s ...17 KB (2,548 words) - 02:20, 16 December 2022
- Constantinople by Western Christians in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade. holds that the primacy of the Patriarch of Rome (the Pope) is one of honor ...19 KB (2,956 words) - 07:37, 4 January 2024
- Ancient Greek literature refers to literature written in the Greek ... In addition to history and philosophy, Ancient Greek literature is ...25 KB (4,056 words) - 17:49, 13 November 2021
- the Christian practice of appointing bishops in lineages of uninterrupted ... and presbyters (priests) ordained by bishops in the apostolic succession can ...31 KB (4,731 words) - 02:04, 9 January 2023
- of Demeter and Persephone based at Eleusis, in ancient Greece. Eleusis (modern ... Of all the mysteries celebrated in ancient Mediterranean world, these ...18 KB (2,798 words) - 16:07, 13 February 2024
- The term diaspora (in Ancient Greek, διασπορά – "a ... centers of Jewish diasporan culture emerged in such places as Alexandria, ...16 KB (2,452 words) - 11:56, 29 January 2024
- or Mysteries of Mithras, was a mystery religion practiced in the Roman Empire ... The term 'mysteries' does not imply that the religion was ...32 KB (4,834 words) - 11:13, 10 March 2023
- [[Image:MetCemBrunswigSphynx.jpg|thumb|300 px|Marble sphinx on tomb ... as guardians of knowledge and as speaking in riddles. Originating in Ancient ...16 KB (2,587 words) - 15:21, 27 April 2023
- Greek Stoic philosopher who lived and taught in the Greek city of Nicopolis ... Epictetus differed from the early Stoics in that he emphasized that ...11 KB (1,793 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- was a Christian bishop of Smyrna (now İzmir in Turkey) in the second century ... nascent Christian community, Polycarp was martyred in Smyrna. ...21 KB (3,429 words) - 00:51, 23 December 2022
- of Jesus. His life is prominently featured in the New Testament Gospels and ... would be built. Although later failing in his discipleship at several ...28 KB (4,305 words) - 00:51, 23 December 2022
- has been described as the first true empire in world history. It was a flourishing ... but the Empire was an important bridge in the development of the culture ...13 KB (2,078 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- the development of scientific humanism in Europe. He was a patron of ... from antiquities, classical studies, ancient languages, and philology ...16 KB (2,441 words) - 23:35, 14 November 2022
