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...Cyril of Alexandria was the leading voice of Nicene orthodoxy in the Christological controversies between Constantinople (381) and Chalcedon (451). Assuming the mantle of the Cappadotian fathers, he answered the auguments of Nestorius...

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...Contra Gentes is the first of a two volume work published by Athanasius of Alexandria prior to the outbreak of the Arian controversy (ca. 319). It focuses especially on pagan beliefs and worship concluding with a defense of the Christian view of God and creation -- especially creation by the eternal...

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...The Jewish Community At Alexandria. 13 – The Life And Times Of Philo. 44 – Philo’s Works And Method. 74 – Philo And The Torah. 104 – Philo’s Theology. 132 – Philo As A Philosopher. 167 – Philo And Jewish Tradition. 199 – The Influence Of Philo. 242 ...

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...ather cited by them is St. Epiphanius, who wrote a hundred years after St. Dionysius of Alexandria. This holy doctor, in his book against heresies, c...

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...a novelist, his chief power lay in his descriptive faculties, which are evident in this novel as he pictures the Egyptian desert and the ancient city Alexandria. Hypatia, 1st published in 1853, is set in 5th Century A.D. Egypt. It centers upon a young orphan monk from a desert monastery who feels called to continue his religious life in the city. He discovers a sister, who...

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... calculate the difference in latitude between the cities of Syene (now Asw ān) and Alexandria, Egypt. Democritus (460-370 BC) invented the concep... .../www.biblequestions.org/Archives/BQAR373.htm L Library of Congress The library of Alexandria was many centuries old when it was devastated by fire...

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...perately needed growing up. Alex’s father named her Alexandra after the Egyptian city of Alexandria, as well as Alexander the Great. He had been a ... ...e after Alexander the Great, who eventually had an ancient city in Egypt named after him, Alexandria.” “Was there something of significance in Alex... ...go. It was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World…and it was called the ‘Pharos of Alexandria’.” Alex instantly realized the possible connect... ...kes around 1300 AD. And, the lighthouse or Pharos was often referred to as the ‘Beacon of Alexandria’.” “Beacon…” Alex repeated then looked at Mitch...

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...intre care: Premiul special la proz ă, Concursul Na ţional “Marin Preda”, Alexandria (1982); International Eminent Poet, Madras, India (1991); Dipl...

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...j pioniroj estis: A. Piotet en Ismailia, Robert Laussae kaj Rene Japiot en Alexandria en 1901. La lasta en 1903 presis artikolojn en 180 “La Correspo... ...ewell, kiu organizis kurson laŭ Cseh-metodo. ” (1933). UEA-del. en 1933 en Alexandria, (ankaŭ EG), Fayoum, Ismailia kaj Kafr Ghannam. Eik Edgar, svedo... ...de SEU. Robin Gabrielo, d-ro, rumano, bakteriologo. Nask. 24 marto 1869 en Alexandria, mortis 26 dec. 1911. E-isto de 1905. Fond de RES (1907), verkis...

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...deck of the North German Lloyd. The two turned round together to hang over Alexandria, which for Pandora, as she declared, was a picture of Old Vir- g... ...f rich decay, a reference to older things, to a dramatic past. The past of Alexandria appeared in the vista of three or four short streets sloping up ...

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... the Peninsular and Oriental Company’s Service. CHAPTER XIV: FROM JAFFA TO ALEXANDRIA [From the Providor’s Log-book.] BILL OF FARE, OCTOBER 12TH. Mull... ... were just at the port’s mouth—and could see the tow- ers and buildings of Alexandria rising purple against the sun- set, when the report of a gun cam... ...gaze on it with pyramidal wonder and hieroglyphic awe. The landing quay at Alexandria is like the dockyard quay at Portsmouth:with a few score of brow... ...entative, who protects his fellow-countrymen from a second floor. But that Alexandrian two-pair-front of a Consulate was more welcome and cheering tha... ...unch had had his interview and Galignani was dismissed. The curiosities of Alexandria are few, and easily seen. We went into the bazaars, which have a... ...ers announced that he was about to resign his empire; but the quidnuncs of Alexandria hinted that a love-affair, in which the old potentate had engage... ...in whose history I know you take such an interest. The best sight I saw in Alexandria was a negro holiday; which was celebrated outside of the town by... ...iscipline. Here we alighted upon donkeys, to the full as brisk as those of Alexandria, invaluable to timid riders, and equal to any weight. We had a ... ...es since I saw him in the courtyard) I make no doubt he is by this time at Alexandria, or at Malta, say, perhaps, at both. Il en est capable. If any m...

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...Introduction: Much has been written about the chronology of Alexandrian literature and the famous Library, founded by Ptolemy Soter, but the dates of the chief writers are still matters of conjecture. The birth of Apollonius Rhodius is placed by scholars at various times between 296 a...

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...riginally written in Ancient Greek sometime in the 3rd Century B.C. by the Alexandrian poet Apollonius Rhodius (“Apollonius the Rhodian”). Translation... ...iginally written in Ancient Greek sometime in the 3rd Century B.C. by the Alexandrian poet Apollonius Rhodius (“Apollonius the Rhodian”). Translation... .... Seaton, 1912. INTRODUCTION Much has been written about the chronology of Alexandrian literature and the famous Library, founded by Ptolemy Soter, bu... ...ived from an earlier one which is lost. From these we learn that he was of Alexandria by birth,* that he lived in the time of the Ptolemies, and was ... ... himself a Rhodian. The second “life” adds: “Some say that he returned to Alexandria and again recited his poem with the utmost success, so that he w... ...lemy Euergetes, and that he succeeded Eratosthenes in the headship of the Alexandrian Library. Suidas also informs us elsewhere that Aristophanes at ... ...ter Callimachus, which was most probably the cause of his condemnation at Alexandria and departure to Rhodes. This quarrel ap The Argonautica 4 pea... ...d with him, both in principle and prac tice. The chief characteristics of Alexandrianism are well summarized by Professor Robinson Ellis as fol lows... ...ot deep but it is curious; his general sentiments are not according to the Alexandrian standard, for they are simple and obvious. In the mass of mater...

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...CUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, D. C., Janu- ary 2, 1864. GOVERNOR PIERPOINT, Alexandria, V a.: Please call and see me to-day if not too inconvenient. A.... ...W AR DEPARTMENT, W ASHINGTON, D. C., Septem- ber 16, 1864. GENERAL SLOUGH, Alexandria, V a.: On the 14th I commuted the sentence of Conley, but fearin... ...ondition- ally set aside or relaxed in respect to the ports of Norfolk and Alexandria, in the State of Virginia; Beaufort, in the State of North Carol...

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...geance and affright Howled round the father of the fight, Who snatched, on Alexandria’s sand, The conqueror’s wreath with dying hand. “Or, if to to...

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...m by a fellow-traveller, touched her, and made her read - “On the 11th, at Alexandria, in his 23rd year, Lieutenant Giles de la Poer Umfraville, of th... ...had been too much weakened to bear the jour- ney, and had sunk suddenly at Alexandria, and that his fa- ther was, she feared, very unwell. She could n...

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...s silenced—of his kindred. Such a man again in an earlier city was Hero of Alexandria, who knew of the power of steam nineteen hundred years before it... ... march of science had scarcely begun…. Nineveh, Babylon, Athens, Syracuse, Alexandria, these were the first rough ex- periments in association that ma...

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...sa, 32; Munich, 33; Strasburg, 33, Pesth, 35; Cassel, 35; Lisbon, 36; Liverpool, 36; Prague, 37; Madras, 37; Bucharest, 39; St. Petersburg, 40; Triest...

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...D:—I have received from Mr. Thayer, Consul-General of the United States at Alexandria, a full account of the liberal, enlightened, and energetic proce...

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...s vessels; but he himself narrowly escaping, made a magnificent entry into Alexandria. The whole fleet, a compliment due only to royalty, met him in f...

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...intre care: Premiul special la proz ă, Concursul Na ţional “Marin Preda”, Alexandria (1982); International Eminent Poet, Madras, India (1991); Dipl...