In this article, I argue that the compiler of the Latin version made some fundamental changes in the descriptions for religious reasons. If we examine not only the Latin texts, but also some Arabic so...
04.21.2024 Mdpi.comSHAKESPEARE’S ANCESTRY As a brief introductory detail it should be mentioned that, during the sixteenth century, there were many families with the name Shakespeare in and around Stratford. “Shakespear...
04.20.2024 Kozanbilgi.netSimilar to the early Jesus believers, Philo of Alexandria valued the concept of faith in his writings (πίστις / pistis) . In relation to God, he seems to have understood this term generally as trust ,...
04.22.2024 Patheos.comThere was a cartoon in the New Yorker magazine years ago: a glum, long-haired and bearded guy in a robe asks the grim, spectacled lady at the travel desk: 'Who am I? Where am I going? ’ That man is th...
04.22.2024 Onmanorama.comThroughout history, the most effective one’s have powered to victory on commitment to core values and collective resolve Scott Atran in Aeon : Leonidas, King of Sparta, arrived at Thermopylae with a small advance guard to hold off a massive Persian assault in 480 BCE. The invading Persian army was thousands-strong, and the Greek states had yet to mobilize a response. Plutarch records that Xerxes, Persia’s ‘King of Kings’, made a written offer he thought Leonidas could hardly refuse: ‘It is possi...
04.25.2024 Despardes.comLeofranc Holford-Strevens, Aulus Gellius: An Antonine Scholar and his Achievement , rev. ed. (Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 252-263 (material in square brackets added): In 1. 1 Plutarch [fragmen...
04.23.2024 Laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.comIraq Economic News and Points to Ponder Tuesday 4-23-2024 New financial bonds. . . bank interest thwarts the government's plans to close the deficit Monday, 04-22-2024, Karar Al-Assadi 356 The Iraqi g...
04.23.2024 Dinardetectives.comThe ancient Greek sanctuary and theater of Dodona located in Epirus, northwestern Greece , are part of a uniquely historic site in the country, home to the oldest oracle, which even predated that of t...
04.23.2024 Greekreporter.com and 1 sitesTraditional founding of Rome: April 21, 753 BCE This passage from Ennius is preserved in Cicero’s De Divinatione 1. 48 “They were struggling over whether the city would be called Roma or Remora. And w...
04.21.2024 Sententiaeantiquae.com[Plutarch, ] On Desire and Grief 2 (tr. F. H. Sandbach): Theophrastus, on the contrary, said that the soul's lodging in the body was an expensive one; that for a short tenancy it paid a heavy price in its pains and fears, desires and jealousies; and ...
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