Agathias or Agathias Scholasticus (c. AD 536-582 594?), of Myrina, an Aeolian city in western Asia Minor, was a Greek poet and the historian who is a principal source for that part of the reign of Justinian I covered in his history. He studied law at Alexandria, returned to Constantinople in 554 to finish his training and practised as an advocate (scholasticus) in the courts. ...

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An academy is an institution for the study of (usually) higher learning. The name Academy rose from Plato's Athenian school of philosophy, founded in approximately 385 BC. The term is also used for various other institutions in modern times (see below). Academy - The original Academy. Before the Akademeia was a school, however, even before Cimon enclosed its precincts with a wall (Plutarch Life of Cimon xiii:7), it contained a sacred grove of olive trees outside the city w ...

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• Academy - The original Academy
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• Academy - Modern use of the term academy
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• Academy - Research Academy
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Events January 22 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus. November 14 - Justin II succeeds Justinian I as Byzantine Emperor Agathias begins to write a history beginning where Procopius finished his work. Northern Qi Hou Zhu succeeds Northern Qi Wu Cheng Di as ruler of the Chinese Northern Qi Dynasty Alboin succeeds his father Audoin as king of the Lombards Saint Columba allegedly saves the life of a Pict who was being attacked by a monster in ...

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536 - Environmental change. As in 535, weather is reported to be unusually cold and dark; see Climate changes of 535-536. 536 - Births. Agathias, Greek poet and historian Evagrius Scholasticus, church historian (or 537) 536 - Deaths. April 22 - Pope Agapetus I Theodahad, king of the Ostrogoths (assassinated) Mundus, Byzantine general (killed in battle in Dalmatia)

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One of the principal claims of the Anthology to attention is derived from its continuity, its existence as a living and growing body of poetry throughout all the vicissitudes of Greek civilization. More ambitious descriptions of composition speedily ran their course, and having attained their complete development became extinct or at best lingered only in feeble or conventional imitations. The humbler strains of the epigrammatic muse, on the other hand, remained ever fresh and animated, ever in intimate union with the spirit of the generatio ...

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Greek Anthology, Greek Anthology - Literary history of the Greek Anthology, Greek Anthology - Arrangement, Greek Anthology - Style and value, Greek Anthology - Translations imitations &c.

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If Byzantine literature is the expression of the intellectual life of the Hellenized populace of the Eastern Roman Empire during the Christian Middle Ages, then it is a multiform organism, combining Greek and Christian civilization on the common foundation of the Roman political system, set in the intellectual and ethnographic atmosphere of the Near East. Byzantine literature partakes of four different cultural elements: the Greek, the Christian, the Roman, and the Oriental, the character of which commingling with the rest. To Hellenistic in ...

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Because of the tradition of intellectual brilliance associated with this institution, many groups have chosen to use the word "Academy" in their name. During the Florentine Renaissance, Cosimo de' Medici took a personal interest in the new Platonic Academy that he determined to re-establish in 1439, centered on the marvellous promise shown by Marsilio Ficino, scarcely more than a lad. Cosimo had been inspired by the arrival at the otherwise ineffective Council of Florence of Gemistos Plethon, who seemed like a Plato reborn to the Flor ...

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Before the Akademeia was a school, however, even before Cimon enclosed its precincts with a wall (Plutarch Life of Cimon xiii:7), it contained a sacred grove of olive trees outside the city walls of ancient Athens (Thucydides ii:34). The archaic name for the site was Hekademeia, which by classical times evolved into Akademeia and was explained, at least as early as the beginning of the 6th century BC, by linking it to an ...

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The Roman supremacy in governmental life did not disappear, amplified as it was by its union with the Eastern despotic traditions of rulership. The subjection of the Church to the power of the State led to a governmental ecclesiasticism, causing friction with Roman Catholic Church, which had remained relatively independent. Greek eventually overtook Latin as the official language of the government, the "Novellae" of Justinian I being the last Latin monument. As early as the seventh century Greek language had made great progress, and b ...

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After a lapse during the early Roman occupation, the Academy was refounded (Cameron 1965) as a new institution of some outstanding Platonists of late antiquity who called themselves "successors" (diadochoi, but of Plato) and presented themselves as an uninterrupted tradition reaching back to Plato. There cannot really have been any geographical, institutional, economic or personal continuity with the original Academy in the new organizational entity (Bechtle). The last "Greek" philosophers of the revived Academy in the 6th cent ...

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The art of occasional poetry had been cultivated in Greece from an early period,--less, however, as the vehicle of personal feeling, than as the recognized commemoration of remarkable individuals or events, on sepulchral monuments and votive offerings: Such compositions were termed epigrams, i.e. inscriptions. The modern use of the word is a departure from the original sense, which simply indicated that the composition was intended to be engraved or inscribed. Such a composition must necessarily be brief, and the restraints attendant ...

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Greek Anthology, Greek Anthology - Literary history of the Greek Anthology, Greek Anthology - Arrangement, Greek Anthology - Style and value, Greek Anthology - Translations imitations &c.

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