Sentences with phrase «fifth century greek»

The fourth and fifth century Greek Fathers had forged an entirely new conception of the cosmos as a contingent, dynamic order possessing its own inherent intelligibility and freedom.

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Bible translator Jerome, in the fifth century, said that «almost all the Greek codices [are] without this passage.»

The fifth - century Greeks did not clearly separate, as we do, human and divine, mind and body, inner and outer, or even metaphorical and literal meaning.

Much turns on the proper fifth - century translation of Greek words like «physis» and «hypostasis.»

There is no such thing as a Greek commentary on the Revelation until the fifth or sixth century.

Even the Greeks achieved it only at the height of their development in the fifth century, and then as quickly fell away again...»

Writing in the late fifth century, when many Greeks resented Athens» aggressive imperialism and credited Sparta with the lion's share of the victory, Herodotus protested that without the Athenian navy, the Persians would have outflanked and defeated Sparta's forces, despite their heroic resistance.

John Stuart Mill's insight is often taken to mean that if the Persian invasions of the Greek mainland from 490 to 479 BC had succeeded, the «Greek Miracle» of the fifth and fourth centuries BC might have been stillborn and Western Civilization would never have developed.

The fifth - century B.C. Greek philosopher Heraclitus, even though he was not a Christian, referred to Ephesus as «the darkness of vileness.

Surviving accounts of Egyptian funerals come from the Greek historians Diodorus Siculus, who traveled in Egypt between 65 and 57 b.c., and Herodotus, who visited Egypt in the fifth century b.c.. From those reports we know that not all mummies were created equal.

But earlier this year, UT Austin religious studies scholars Geoffrey Smith and Brent Landau added to the list with their discovery of several fifth - or sixth - century Greek fragments of the First Apocalypse of James, which was thought to have been preserved only in its Coptic translations until now.

The quantum Zeno effect gets its name from the Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea, who lived in the fifth century bc and suggested that if the position of a flying arrow is well - defined for a moment of time, then it makes no progress in that moment, and so can never reach its destination.

Among the monastery's most important Syriac and Arabic manuscripts are a fifth century copy of the Gospels in Syriac, a literary language based on an eastern Aramaic dialect; a Syriac copy of the «Lives of Women Saints,» dated 779 A.D.; the Syriac version of the «Apology of Aristides,» of which the Greek original has been lost; and numerous Arabic manuscripts from the ninth and 10th centuries, when Middle Eastern Christians first began to use Arabic as a literary language.

The Greeks of the fourth and fifth centuries B.C. were fascinated by the Maltese's geometric beauty and left behind a rich legacy of breed - specific treasures: The «Melitaie Dog» is depicted on Golden Age ceramics, and Aristotle refers to it as «perfectly proportioned,» notwithstanding a diminutive stature.

For a dose of history, travel to Agrigento, home to the fifth - century B.C. Valley of the Temples — a collection of seven Doric - style Greek temples... Read More

Historically, Antibes was an important trading centre, first for the Greeks who established a settlement here in the fifth century BC and subsequently for the Romans, under whom the city grew to become the largest in the region.

While this fifth - century B.C.E. Greek was not without significant flaws as a scholar, he was a pathfinder as well as a superb narrator.