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Encyclopedia - Agathias: Encyclopedia - Agathias
Agathias or Agathias Scholasticus (c. AD 536-582 594?), of Myrina, an Aeolian city in western Asia Minor, was a Greek poet and the histor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Academy: Encyclopedia - Academy
An academy is an institution for the study of (usually) higher learning. The name Academy rose from Plato's Athenian school of philosophy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 565: Encyclopedia - 565
Events January 22 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus. November 14 - Justin II succeeds Justinian...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 536: Encyclopedia - 536
536 - Environmental change. As in 535, weather is reported to be unusually cold and dark; see Climate changes of 535-536. 536 - Birt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Anthology: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Anthology - Style And Value
One of the principal claims of the Anthology to attention is derived from its continuity, its existence as a living and growing body of p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Byzantine Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Byzantine Literature - Influences
If Byzantine literature is the expression of the intellectual life of the Hellenized populace of the Eastern Roman Empire during the Chri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Academy: Encyclopedia Ii - Academy - Modern Use Of The Term Academy
Because of the tradition of intellectual brilliance associated with this institution, many groups have chosen to use the word "Academy" i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Academy: Encyclopedia Ii - 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 cont...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Byzantine Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Byzantine Literature - The Byzantine Mosaic
The Roman supremacy in governmental life did not disappear, amplified as it was by its union with the Eastern despotic traditions of rule...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Academy: Encyclopedia Ii - Academy - The Revived Neoplatonic Academy Of Late Antiquity
After a lapse during the early Roman occupation, the Academy was refounded (Cameron 1965) as a new institution of some outstanding Platon...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Anthology: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Anthology - Literary History Of The Greek Anthology
The art of occasional poetry had been cultivated in Greece from an early period,--less, however, as the vehicle of personal feeling, than...   » Read the article