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| | |  Maximus Planudes: Encyclopedia II - 1260 - Events
1260 - Europe.
September 4 - The Senese Ghibellines, supported by the forces of King Manfred of Sicily, defeats the Florentine Guelphs at Montaperti.
King Otakar II of Bohemia captures Styria from King Bela IV of Hungary in the Battle of Kressenbrunn.
The Baltic Samogitians and Curonians defeat the Teutonic knights in the Battle of Durbe.
The Duchy of Saxony is divided into Saxony-Lauenberg and Saxony-Wittenberg, marking the end of the first Saxon state.
War breaks out in the Valais (today in Switzerland) as the Bishopry of Sion defends against an invasion ...
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| | | | Maximus Planudes: Encyclopedia II - Aesop's Fables - Origins According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the fables were invented by a slave named Aesop who lived in Ancient Greece during the 6th century BC. While some suggested that Aesop did not actually exist, and that the fables attributed to him are folktales of unknown origins, Aesop was indeed mentioned in several other Ancient Greek works – Aristophanes, in his comedy The Wasps, represented the protagonist Philocleon as having learnt the "absurdities" of Aesop from conversation at banquets; Plato wrote in Phaedo that Socrates w ...
See also:Aesop's Fables, Aesop's Fables - Aesop, Aesop's Fables - Origins, Aesop's Fables - Aesop's Fables in other languages, Aesop's Fables - Adaptations, Aesop's Fables - List of some fables by Aesop, Aesop's Fables - Sources Read more here: » Aesop's Fables: Encyclopedia II - Aesop's Fables - Origins |
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| | | | Maximus Planudes: 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 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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| | | | Maximus Planudes: Encyclopedia II - Aesop - Life The place of Aesop's birth is uncertain – Thrace, Phrygia, Aethiopia, Samos, Athens and Sardis all claim the honour. Some scholars believe that he could have been African. His given name, Aesop, is the Ancient Greek word for "Ethiop", the archaic word for a dark-skinned person of African origin.
According to the sparse information gathered about him from references to him in several Greek works (he was mentioned by Aristophanes, Plato, Xenophon and Aristotle), Aesop was a slave of a Greek named Iadmon, who resided on the island of S ...
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| | | | Maximus Planudes: 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 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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| | | | Maximus Planudes: 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 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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| | | | Maximus Planudes: Encyclopedia II - Aesop's Fables - Aesop
Main article: Aesop
Aesop (from the Greek Aisopos), famous for his fables, was arguably a slave of African descent who had lived from about 620 to 560 B.C. in Ancient Greece. Little was known about him from credible records, except that he was at one point freed from slavery and that he eventually died in the hands of Delphians. In fact, the obscurity shrouding his life has led some sc ...
See also:Aesop's Fables, Aesop's Fables - Aesop, Aesop's Fables - Origins, Aesop's Fables - Aesop's Fables in other languages, Aesop's Fables - Adaptations, Aesop's Fables - List of some fables by Aesop, Aesop's Fables - Sources Read more here: » Aesop's Fables: Encyclopedia II - Aesop's Fables - Aesop |
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