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Diodorus (other)
Diodorus Siculus was a 1st-century BC Greek historian who wrote the ''Bibliotheca historica''. Diodorus may also refer to: * Diodorus of Aspendus, (4th century BC), Pythagorean philosopher * Diodorus Cronus (died ), Greek philosopher * Diodorus, son of Xenophon () * Diodorus of Tyre (2nd century BC), Peripatetic philosopher * Diodorus of Adramyttium (1st century BC), rhetorician and Academic philosopher * Diodorus Pasparus (fl. 69 BC), Pergamene statesman * Diodorus of Alexandria or Diodorus Alexandrinus (1st century BC), astronomer * Diodorus of Tarsus (died ), Christian bishop, monastic reformer, and theologian * Patriarch Diodoros of Jerusalem Diodoros or Diodorus el, Διόδωρος; born Damianos G. Karivalis el, Δαμιανός Γ. Καρίβαλης (14 August 1923 – 20 December 2000) was the Patriarch of Jerusalem in the Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem from 1980 ... (1923–2000), Patriarch of Jerusalem in the Eastern Orthodox Church * ''Diodorus'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diodorus Siculus
Diodorus Siculus, or Diodorus of Sicily ( grc-gre, Διόδωρος ; 1st century BC), was an ancient Greek historian. He is known for writing the monumental universal history ''Bibliotheca historica'', in forty books, fifteen of which survive intact, between 60 and 30 BC. The history is arranged in three parts. The first covers mythic history up to the destruction of Troy, arranged geographically, describing regions around the world from Egypt, India and Arabia to Europe. The second covers the time from the Trojan War to the death of Alexander the Great. The third covers the period to about 60 BC. ''Bibliotheca'', meaning 'library', acknowledges that he was drawing on the work of many other authors. Life According to his own work, he was born in Agyrium in Sicily (now called Agira). With one exception, antiquity affords no further information about his life and doings beyond his written works. Only Jerome, in his ''Chronicon'' under the "year of Abraham 1968" (49 BC), w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diodorus Of Aspendus
Diodorus of Aspendus ( grc-gre, Διόδωρος ὁ Ἀσπένδιος) was a Pythagorean philosopher, who lived in the 4th century BC, and was an acquaintance of Stratonicus the musician. He was the student or companion of the Pythagorean philosopher Aresas. Diodorus is said to have adopted a Cynic way of life, "letting his beard grow, and carrying a stick and a wallet." References *Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 13 *Athenaeus, iv. 163c-f *Iamblichus Iamblichus (; grc-gre, Ἰάμβλιχος ; Aramaic: 𐡉𐡌𐡋𐡊𐡅 ''Yamlīḵū''; ) was a Syrian neoplatonic philosopher of Arabic origin. He determined a direction later taken by neoplatonism. Iamblichus was also the biographer of ..., ''Vit. Pythag.'', 36 {{Authority control 4th-century BC philosophers Pythagoreans Cynic philosophers Pamphylians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diodorus Cronus
Diodorus Cronus ( el, Διόδωρος Κρόνος; died c. 284 BC) was a Greek philosopher and dialectician connected to the Megarian school. He was most notable for logic innovations, including his master argument formulated in response to Aristotle's discussion of future contingents. Life Diodorus was the son of Ameinias of Iasus in Caria. He lived in the court of Alexandria in the reign of Ptolemy I Soter, who is said to have given him the surname of Cronus ("old fogey") on account of his inability to solve at once some dialectic problem proposed by Stilpo, when the two philosophers were dining with the king. Diodorus is said to have taken that disgrace so much to heart that after his return from the meal, and writing a treatise on the problem, he died in despair. However, according to Strabo, Diodorus himself adopted the surname of Cronus from his teacher, Apollonius Cronus. Diodorus is thought to have died around 284 BC; his date of birth is unknown. It was once thought tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xenophon
Xenophon of Athens (; grc, wikt:Ξενοφῶν, Ξενοφῶν ; – probably 355 or 354 BC) was a Greek military leader, philosopher, and historian, born in Athens. At the age of 30, Xenophon was elected commander of one of the biggest Ancient Greek mercenaries, Greek mercenary armies of the Achaemenid Empire, the Ten Thousand, that marched on and came close to capturing Babylon in 401 BC. As the military historian Theodore Ayrault Dodge wrote, "the centuries since have devised nothing to surpass the genius of this warrior". Xenophon established precedents for many logistical operations, and was among the first to describe strategic flanking maneuvers and feints in combat. Xenophon's ''Anabasis (Xenophon), Anabasis'' recounts his adventures with the Ten Thousand while in the service of Cyrus the Younger, Cyrus's failed campaign to claim the Persian throne from Artaxerxes II of Persia, and the return of Greek mercenaries after Cyrus's death in the Battle of Cunaxa. ''Anabasis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diodorus Of Tyre
Diodorus of Tyre ( grc-gre, Διόδωρος), was a Peripatetic philosopher, and a disciple and follower of Critolaus, whom he succeeded as the head of the Peripatetic school at Athens c. 118 BC. He was still alive and active there in 110 BC, when Licinius Crassus, during his quaestorship of Macedonia, visited Athens. Cicero denies that he was a genuine Peripatetic, because it was one of his ethical maxims, that the greatest good consisted in a combination of virtue with the absence of pain, whereby a reconciliation between the Stoics and Epicureans was attempted.Cicero, ''de Oratore'', i. 11, ''Tusculanae Disputationes'', v. 30, ''De Finibus'', ii. 6, 11, iv. 18, v. 5, 8, 25, ''Academica'', ii. 42; Clement of Alexandria Titus Flavius Clemens, also known as Clement of Alexandria ( grc , Κλήμης ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; – ), was a Christian theologian and philosopher who taught at the Catechetical School of Alexandria. Among his pupils were Origen an ..., '' Str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diodorus Of Adramyttium
Diodorus ( el, Διόδωρος) of Adramyttium, was a rhetorician and Academic philosopher. He is known only from the account given by Strabo Strabo''Strabo'' (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed. The father of Pompey was called "Pompeius Strabo". A native of Sicily so clear-sighted that he could see ....Strabo, xiii. 66 He lived at the time of Mithridates (1st century BC), under whom he commanded an army. In order to please the king, he caused all the senators of his native place to be massacred. He afterwards accompanied Mithridates to Pontus, and, after the fall of the king, Diodorus received the punishment for his cruelty. Charges were brought against him at Adramyttium, and as he felt that he could not clear himself, he starved himself to death in despair. Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:Diodorus Of Adramyttium Academic philosophers Ancient Greek rhetoricians Hellenistic generals 1st- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diodorus Pasparus
Diodorus Pasparus ( grc, Διόδωρος Ἡρώιδου Πάσπαρος, Diodōros Hērōidou Pasparos, fl. 85-69 BC), son of Heroides, was the leading statesman and benefactor at Pergamon, in the period of the Mithridatic Wars, when the city's place within the Roman province of Asia was contested. He is known solely from a series of inscribed honorific decrees. The earliest of these is ''IGR'' IV 292 which belongs in the late 80s or 70s BC. ''IGR'' IV 293 dates to 69 BC. The others are ''IGR'' IV 294, ''IPergamon'' II 256, and ''MDAI(A)'' 35, p. 409, no. 3, which cannot be precisely dated, but all belong around 69 BC. These decrees honour him for a range of activities, including embassies to Rome, service as gymnasiarch, revival of festivals, and building works. Diodorus is part of a class of civic leaders in the province in this period, like Aulus Aemilius Zosimus of Priene, Theophanes of Mytilene, and Theopompus of Cnidus, whose close connections with Rome and regula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diodorus Of Alexandria
Diodorus of Alexandria or Diodorus Alexandrinus was a gnomonicist, astronomer and a pupil of Posidonius. Writings He wrote the first discourse on the principles of the sundial, known as ''Analemma''. a commentary on this having later been written by Pappus of Alexandria, that is no longer extant. A small number of sentences having survived the centuries and attributed to him are known; these comment on: the differences between astronomy and natural science, the word meanings for cosmos and star, the nature of stars and the Milky Way. He was known to Eudoros. A few surviving passages might come from a commentary on Aratus. In his dealings with astronomy he was known to Marinus in his commentary on Euclid's ''Data'' containing quotes of Diodorus's opinions on the meaning of a term. See also *Alexandria *Analemma *Euclid *History of sundials A sundial is a device that indicates time by using a light spot or shadow cast by the position of the Sun on a reference scale. As the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diodorus Of Tarsus
Diodore of Tarsus (Greek language, Greek Διόδωρος ὁ Ταρσεύς; died c. 390) was a Christianity, Christian bishop, a monastic reformer, and a Christian theologian, theologian. A strong supporter of the orthodoxy of First Council of Nicaea, Nicaea, Diodore played a pivotal role in the First Council of Constantinople, Council of Constantinople and opposed the anti-Christian policies of Julian the Apostate. Diodore founded one of the most influential centers of Christian thought in the early church, and many of his students became notable theologians in their own right. Early life Diodore was born into a noble family in the area of Antioch. He received a classic philosophical education at the school of Athens, and very quickly after his education entered into the monastic life. During this period, Diodore's work focused on philosophical treatises and opposing Emperor Julian's attempts to restore paganism in the empire. When an Arian named Leontius was made bishop o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patriarch Diodoros Of Jerusalem
Diodoros or Diodorus el, Διόδωρος; born Damianos G. Karivalis el, Δαμιανός Γ. Καρίβαλης (14 August 1923 – 20 December 2000) was the Patriarch of Jerusalem in the Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem from 1980 to 2000. He was born on the Greek island of Chios on 14 August 1923. He became a monk in 1943 and was renamed Diodoros. Three years later he became a priest, then an archbishop of Hierapolis in 1965. He served in Hierapolis prior to his election and was Patriarchal Exarch in Amman, Jordan Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ..., until 1980 when he was raised to the Patriarchate. References * 20th-century Greek Orthodox Patriarchs of Jerusalem Grand Crosses of the Order of the Star of Romania Greek expatriates in Is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diodorus (genus)
''Diodorus'' is a genus of silesaurid dinosauriforms (relatives of dinosaurs) from the Late Triassic (Carnian - Norian) Timezgadiouine Formation of the Argana Basin of Morocco. Discovery The first fossils of this taxon were discovered by a team from Harvard University in the northeastern Argana Basin, east of Imziln, Morocco, with support from the National Geographic Society and permission from the Moroccan Ministry of Energy and Mines. The remains were found in a quarry at of the Irohalene Mudstone Member of the Timezgadiouine Formation, as part of a layer of disarticulated specimens that included fossils of phytosaurs, prolacertiforms, fish, and temnospondyls. In 2012, the paleontologists Christian F. Kammerer, Sterling J. Nesbitt, and Neil H. Shubin scientifically described the remains, and identified them as representing the first body fossil record of the group Silesauridae from northern Africa. Based on these fossils, they named the new genus and species ''Diodorus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deodoro (other)
Deodoro most commonly refers to: * Deodoro da Fonseca (1827–1892), President of Brazil It may also refer to: * Deodoro (Rio de Janeiro), a neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and facilities within the neighbourhood: ** Deodoro Stadium ** Deodoro Aquatics Centre ** Deodoro Olympic Whitewater Stadium ** Deodoro station * ''Deodoro''-class coastal defense ship ** Brazilian coastal defense ship ''Deodoro'' Other people * Deodoro (footballer), ''Deodoro José de Almeida Leite'' (born 1949), Brazilian former footballer See also * Diódoro (other) *Diodorus (other) Diodorus Siculus was a 1st-century BC Greek historian who wrote the ''Bibliotheca historica''. Diodorus may also refer to: * Diodorus of Aspendus, (4th century BC), Pythagorean philosopher * Diodorus Cronus (died ), Greek philosopher * Diodorus, ... * Marechal Deodoro (other) {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
