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51gnomologio — gnomològio (s.m.) Florilegio di sentenze, espresse soprattutto da filosofi greci nonché da illustri uomini politici dell antichità classica. Appartengono alla letteratura greca: le Sentenze dei Sette Savi, le Massime capitali di Epicureo …
52Apollodoro — 1) (arte) bronzista ateniese (fine V sec. inizi IV sec. a.C.). Secondo le fonti (Plinio) fu autore di statue di filosofi e fu detto l insensato poichè, spinto da desiderio di perfezione, distruggeva le opere appena ultimate. 2) Apollodoro… …
53ИННОКЕНТИЙ I — [лат. Innocentius] († 12.03.417, Рим), св. (пам. зап. 28 июля), еп. (папа) Римский (с 22 дек. 401). Согласно Liber Pontificalis, сын Иннокентия из г. Альба близ Рима. Блж. Иероним Стридонский называл И. сыном Римского еп. Анастасия I (Hieron. Ep …
54Chabrias — (Greek: Χαβρίας) was a celebrated Athenian general of the 4th century BC. In 388 BC he defeated the Spartans and Aeginetans under Gorgopas at Aegina and commanded the fleet sent to assist Evagoras, king of Cyprus, against the Persians. In 378,… …
55Psychro — Pyschro, associated with the Diktaean / Diktaian Cave credited as the site of Zeus birth, is an ancient Minoan sacred cave in the Lasithi district of eastern Crete. According to Hesiod, Theogony 477, Rhea gave birth to Zeus in a cave of Mount… …
56Syro-Hittite states — The states that are called Neo Hittite, or more recently Syro Hittite, were Luwian, Aramaic and Phoenician speaking political entities of the Iron Age northern Syria and southern Anatolia that arose following the collapse of the Hittite Empire… …
57Classical demography — refers to the study of human demography in the Classical period. It often focuses on the absolute number of people who were alive in civilizations around the Mediterranean Sea between the Bronze Age and the Fall of the Roman Empire, but in recent …
58Golden line — The golden line is a type of Latin dactylic hexameter frequently mentioned in Latin classrooms in English speaking countries and in contemporary scholarship written in English. DefinitionThe golden line is variously defined, but most uses of the… …
59Ancient Near East — The Ancient Near East refers to early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia (modern Iraq and Syria), Persis, Elam and Media (all three in Western Iran), Anatolia (modern Turkey), the Levant… …
60Étienne Dupérac — or du Pérac (1520 1607) was a French painter, draughtsman and engraver, and a topographer and antiquary, who arrived in Rome in 1559. He published a plan of Ancient Rome (his Urbis Romae Sciographia , 1574) and one of modern Rome (his Descriptio …
