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- commentator on Aristotle. A native of Cilicia, he was active in the Academy ... Simplicius was born in the second half of the fifth century in Cilicia ...9 KB (1,323 words) - 22:13, 29 January 2023
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- commentator on Aristotle. A native of Cilicia, he was active in the Academy ... Simplicius was born in the second half of the fifth century in Cilicia ...9 KB (1,323 words) - 22:13, 29 January 2023
- he may have come from the town of Laerte in Cilicia (ancient Turkey) or from the Roman family of the Laërtii. The period when he lived is not exactly ...7 KB (941 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- Roman writers. Crantor was a native of Soli in Cilicia, who came to Athens and became a pupil of Xenocrates at the same time as Polemo. According to ...6 KB (970 words) - 06:15, 11 January 2024
- Ammonius Hermiae (c. 435/445 - 517/526 C.E.) was a Greek philosopher, and the son of Hermias, a fellow-pupil of Proclus. Around 475, Ammonius ...15 KB (2,178 words) - 17:13, 26 July 2023
- *** The Armenian Apostolic Church of Cilicia *** The Armenian Apostolic Church of Constantinople *** The Armenian Apostolic Church of Jerusalem ...11 KB (1,534 words) - 01:18, 18 November 2022
- carrying out his political duties (embassies to Cilicia in 1295 and to Serbia in 1299), Metochites continued to study and to write. In 1312/1313, he started ...8 KB (1,270 words) - 17:58, 30 April 2023
- Chrysippus was born in 280 B.C.E. in Soli, Cilicia, Asia Minor (now Soloi, Turkey). According to Diogenes Laertes his father was named Apollonius ...9 KB (1,399 words) - 21:54, 10 December 2023
- survived through the preservation of Simplicius of Cilicia (sixth century c.e.). ==Philosophy== ===Material origin of the cosmos === ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 19:07, 26 July 2023
- "I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel according to the strict manner of ...9 KB (1,475 words) - 04:07, 18 April 2024
- Damascius (c. 460 C.E. – c. 538 C.E.) was the last head of the Neoplatonic Academy in Athens. Born in Damascus about 460 C.E., he studied rhetoric ...10 KB (1,407 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- Cleopatra to meet him in Tarsus in Cilicia to answer questions about ... was crowned ruler of Phoenicia, Syria, and Cilicia. Cleopatra also took the ...20 KB (3,144 words) - 22:04, 7 January 2024
- Proclus, Hierocles of Alexandria, Simplicius of Cilicia, and Damascius, who wrote On First Principles. Born in Damascus, he was the last teacher of Neoplatonism ...11 KB (1,605 words) - 16:18, 11 November 2022
- of Rum and the Armenian kingdom in Cilicia. This was due to the hostility of the khanates to the north and east—the Chagatai khanate in Mughulistan ...11 KB (1,536 words) - 16:11, 12 February 2024
- with the condemnation of Pelagianism at a synod in Cilicia. He died in 428, the year in which Nestorius succeeded to the episcopal see of Constantinople ...12 KB (1,815 words) - 17:59, 30 April 2023
- Patriarch-Catholicos was moved from Sis (Cilicia) to Echmiadzin, it became ... centuries, when the Armenian State of Cilicia was established and Armenia ...39 KB (5,646 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- by its Arabic past. He then visited Cilicia (an ancient district of southern Anatolia, in modern Turkey) on the northeast coast of the Mediterranean ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 05:50, 15 June 2023
- example by Theodore, Bishop of Mopsuestia in Cilicia. It is missing in the Muratorian fragment—the earliest known list of canonical scriptures—as ...13 KB (2,152 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- young in the temple of Asclepius at Aegae in Cilicia. He then traveled in the neighboring province of Pamphylia. Having reportedly kept a vow ...13 KB (2,013 words) - 15:49, 11 August 2023
- Great as king of Judaea. After invading Cilicia and Syria, Antony invaded ... young Ptolemy Philadelphus was awarded Syria and Cilicia. ...28 KB (4,345 words) - 16:00, 6 November 2022
- Agrippa II (b. 27/28 C.E.), was a Roman client king who sided with Rome against his Jewish countrymen during the First Jewish War of 66-73. The ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 06:49, 16 June 2023
- * Simplicius of Cilicia (490-560 C.E.) ==Chinese philosophy== Chinese philosophy Yin-Yang philosophy is probably the oldest among classic Chinese ...16 KB (2,127 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- Comedy, together with tragedy was one of two principal dramatic forms of ancient Greek theater. Athenian comedy is conventionally divided into ...16 KB (2,442 words) - 19:24, 26 July 2023
- of Coele-Syria and perhaps even Simplicius of Cilicia himself (Thiele). In 529 C.E., the Byzantine emperor Justinian I closed the school in because ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- After successful campaigns in Edom and Cilicia (modern Turkey) early in his reign, he left Babylon, residing at the rich desert oasis of Tayma ...17 KB (2,715 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- IV of Commagene and was made King of Cilicia. Nero was hailed vigorously in public for this initial victory and Corbulo was appointed governor ...29 KB (4,494 words) - 03:48, 1 May 2023
- of Coele-Syria and perhaps even Simplicius of Cilicia (Thiele). The Emperor Justinian closed the school in 529 C.E., a date that is often cited ...16 KB (2,354 words) - 07:13, 14 June 2023
- allied itself with Egypt's revolt. Syria and Cilicia also resubmitted themselves to Assyrian control, as did several other regions in the Levant ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 22:19, 8 November 2021
- as did the revival of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia under Leo II of Armenia in Anatolia. The Abbasid caliph An-Nasir also began to reassert the ...17 KB (2,487 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- to their strongholds on the coast of Cilicia; after defeating their fleet ... of the following in visiting the cities of Cilicia and Pamphylia, and providing ...48 KB (7,762 words) - 08:50, 24 November 2022
- summer of 117, and after reaching Selinus in Cilicia, which was afterwards called Trajanopolis, he suddenly died from edema on August 9. Some say that ...18 KB (2,716 words) - 00:38, 2 May 2023
- #039; son-in-law Mardonius assembled in Cilicia. The fleet went up the Aegean ... another Persian expeditionary force in Cilicia with the intention to go ...77 KB (11,840 words) - 17:01, 27 January 2023
- Paul was born as Saul in Tarsus in Cilicia. He received a Jewish education ... He then returned to his native district of Cilicia (of which Tarsus was the ...56 KB (9,113 words) - 00:50, 23 December 2022
- Taurus Mountains, and then into Tarsus of Cilicia. The Byzantine governor ... Church of America-Catholicosate of Cilicia, 1989. ISBN 0810906252 ...47 KB (6,850 words) - 03:48, 15 August 2023
- conquest of Asia Minor. Harpagus captured Lycia, Cilicia, and Phoenicia, using the technique of building earthworks to breach the walls of besieged cities ...22 KB (3,584 words) - 07:28, 12 January 2024
- Melkites, Maronites), Babylonia (Chaldaeans), Cilicia (Armenians), Kyiv-Halych (Ukrainians), Ernakulam-Angamaly (Syro-Malabars), Trivandrum (Syro-Malankaras ...27 KB (4,042 words) - 02:32, 1 October 2020
- The Cretan War (205 B.C.E.–200 B.C.E.) was fought by King Philip V of Macedon, the Aetolian League, several Cretan cities (of which Olous and ...30 KB (4,711 words) - 00:32, 27 December 2021
- of Roche-Guillaume, the last Templar stronghold in Cilicia, to the Mamluks. However, when the Mongol khan of Persia, Ghâzân, defeated the Mamluks in ...23 KB (3,671 words) - 22:38, 28 March 2023
- Latin for 14. The Eastern Churches of Syria, Cilicia, and Mesopotamia determined the date of Christian Passover in relation to the 14th day of Nisan ...32 KB (4,986 words) - 17:21, 28 March 2024
- 46 - 127 C.E.) was convinced that the pirates of Cilicia, the coastal province in the southeast of Anatolia, provided the origin of the Mithraic rituals ...32 KB (4,834 words) - 11:13, 10 March 2023
- Hector Williams, "An Athena Parthenos from Cilicia" Anatolian Studies 27 (1977, 105-110), 108f. It is considered one of the greatest achievements ...33 KB (4,981 words) - 18:45, 23 March 2023
- The Teutonic Order is a German Roman Catholic religious order. Its members have commonly been known as the Teutonic Knights, since it was a crusading ...34 KB (5,036 words) - 15:01, 30 April 2023
- I, Holy Roman Emperor. Frederick drowned in Cilicia in 1190, leaving an unstable alliance between the English and the French. Philip left in 1191 ...33 KB (5,138 words) - 15:34, 30 April 2023
- in the recovery of Crete, Cyprus, Cilicia, Armenia, eastern Anatolia and northern Syria, and the reconquest of the Holy city of Antioch. ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 17:54, 16 May 2020
- in Rome and left for military service in Asia and Cilicia. When the Romans laid siege to Mytilene, on the island of Lesbos, he was dispatched to Bithynia ...44 KB (7,133 words) - 19:23, 4 February 2024
- Callisthenes portrayed the sea in Cilicia as drawing back from him in proskynesis. Writing after Alexander's death, another participant ...47 KB (7,410 words) - 20:29, 18 July 2023
- affairs in Anatolia, he advanced south through Cilicia into Syria, where he defeated Darius III at Issus (333 B.C.E.). He then advanced through Phoenicia ...48 KB (7,639 words) - 12:24, 14 October 2023
- the expeditionary force first gathered on Cilicia in the spring of 490 B.C.E. The army boarded the Persian transports, escorted by the fleet ...53 KB (8,041 words) - 10:05, 22 September 2023
- Maximinus met his death at Tarsus in Cilicia in August 313 C.E. The two remaining Augusti divided the Empire again in the pattern established ...70 KB (11,213 words) - 04:50, 16 December 2022
