Chosroes I

Events First year in which Anno Domini calendar is actually used for numbering (in Dionysius Exiguus's treatise) January 11 - Nika riots in Constantinople; the cathedral is destroyed. January 18 - Nika riots in Constantinople are put down by Belisarius and Mundus; maybe as many as 30 000 people are killed in the Hippodrome. Byzantine emperor Justinian I orders the building of a new cathedral - begin of the construction of the Hagia Sophia. Justinian I signs a peace treaty with the Sassa ...

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Sages and sagacity descend from remote prehistoric times. They appear in the first Greek literature, the Iliad, with the same meaning as later or with overlapping meanings. The claims of the Greek writers that the seven sages or any sages represent a first in sagacity are brashness. Seven Sages of Greece - The context of sagacity. The Iliad (3.146) has its sages, such as Oukalegon and Antenor, two Trojan demogerontes ("senators") who were "both sage", pepnumeno ampho, in the dual number. Pepnumeno is relat ...

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Seven Sages of Greece, Seven Sages of Greece - The wisdom of the sages, Seven Sages of Greece - The context of sagacity, Seven Sages of Greece - The sagacity of action, Seven Sages of Greece - The instutution of sagacity, Seven Sages of Greece - Bibliography

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The sources seem to tell us everything about the sages except who singled them out as sage and for what purpose. The Hellenes, we are told, but entire populations rarely act except through representatives. The trophy-swapping stories in Diogenes Laertius (under Thales) give something of a clue. First there is the tripod brought up with a catch of fish and claimed by the purchasers of the fish, who appealed to the oracle and were told to give the tripod to the wisest. They chose Thales, but he passed it on to another, etc., until it ...

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Seven Sages of Greece, Seven Sages of Greece - The wisdom of the sages, Seven Sages of Greece - The context of sagacity, Seven Sages of Greece - The sagacity of action, Seven Sages of Greece - The instutution of sagacity, Seven Sages of Greece - Bibliography

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