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Pontianus (other)
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Pontianus may refer to: * Pontianus of Spoleto, martyr of the 2nd century and patron saint of that city * Sicinius Pontianus, friend of Apuleius * Pontianus Africae, 6th-century bishop * Pontianus of Nicomedia, a character in ''Deipnosophistae'', a 3rd-century work by Athaenaeus See also * Ponciano (other) * Pons (other) * Pontian (other) * Pontic (other) * Pontine (other) Pontine may refer to: * Having to do with the pons, a structure located in the brain stem (from ''pons'', "bridge") * Pontine Marshes, a region of Italy near Rome * Pontine Islands The Pontine Islands (, also ; it, Isole Ponziane ) are an ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pontianus Of Spoleto
Pontianus ( la, Pontianus, it, Ponziano) (alternatively anglicized as Pontian) was a second century Christian martyr. He was martyred during the reign of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. He is honored as a saint and martyr by the Catholic Church, the Old Catholic Church, and the Eastern Orthodox Church. In Spoleto, Italy, he is invoked for protection against earthquakes. Life According to a ''Passio'' preserved in the Cathedral of Spoleto, Pontianus was a young man from a local noble family of Spoleto, 18 years of age, who had been denounced as a Christian to the Roman authorities. Brought before a judge named Flavian, he chose torture and death rather than renounce his faith. He was condemned to death and beheaded on 14 January 175. Veneration Basilica of San Ponziano Pontianus' body was buried in the local cemetery, called ''di Sincleta'', outside the city walls. The Basilica of San Ponziano was eventually built over his grave as a shrine to his memory. He has become the patr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sicinius Pontianus
The gens Sicinia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens occur throughout the history of the Republic, but only one of them obtained the consulship, Titus Sicinius Sabinus in 487 BC. Throughout the long Conflict of the Orders, the Sicinii were celebrated for their efforts on behalf of the plebeians.''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', vol. II, pp. 815, 816 (" Sicinia Gens"). Origin The only hint as to the origin of the Sicinii comes from the surname ''Sabinus'', applied to one of the first members of this family appearing in history. ''Sabinus'' belongs to a common class of surnames derived from the names of peoples or localities, and suggests that the Sicinii may have been of Sabine origin.Chase, pp. 113, 114. Although the earliest Sicinii occurring in history were plebeians, as were all of the later members of this gens, some scholars have concluded that Titus Sicinius Sabinus must have been a patrician, and the gens originally a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apuleius
Apuleius (; also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis; c. 124 – after 170) was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician. He lived in the Roman province of Numidia, in the Berber city of Madauros, modern-day M'Daourouch, Algeria. He studied Platonism in Athens, travelled to Italy, Asia Minor, and Egypt, and was an initiate in several cults or mysteries. The most famous incident in his life was when he was accused of using magic to gain the attentions (and fortune) of a wealthy widow. He declaimed and then distributed his own defense before the proconsul and a court of magistrates convened in Sabratha, near ancient Tripoli, Libya. This is known as the ''Apologia''. His most famous work is his bawdy picaresque novel the ''Metamorphoses'', otherwise known as ''The Golden Ass''. It is the only Latin novel that has survived in its entirety. It relates the adventures of its protagonist, Lucius, who experiments with magic and is accidentally turned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pontianus Africae
Pontianus was a sixth-century Christian bishop from an African diocese (not known), and Bishop of Constantinople, who was a figure in the Three-Chapter Controversy. He wrote a critical letter to Emperor Justinian in 544–5, in reply to a request for his signature to an edict of condemnation. In it he asked Justinian to withdraw the anathematization of Theodore of Mopsuestia and other Monothelites involved in the matter of the Three Chapters. This letter is extant. He argues that the condemned writings were not known to him, and that dead men shouldn't be damned by the living, which is God's prerogative stating "and what cause have we to enter into a war with the dead, where there is no victory?" In this he ignored precedents for posthumous condemnation Posthumous may refer to: * Posthumous award - an award, prize or medal granted after the recipient's death * Posthumous publication – material published after the author's death * ''Posthumous'' (album), by Warne Marsh, 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pontianus Of Nicomedia
This is a list of the 24 characters ( deipnosophists or ''sophists at dinner'') who take part in the banquet described by Athenaeus of Naucratis in the ''Deipnosophistae''. Some of them can be probably identified with great names of the past, but it is still debated if most of the Deipnosophists were fictions. A digital version of the index of the characters of the ''Deipnosophists'' published by Georg Kaibel is available through thDigital Athenaeusproject (''Dialogi Personae''). Characters Athenaeus of Naucratis Athenaeus ( grc, Ἀθήναιος) is the narrator of the Deipnosophistae and also a guest at the dinner party described in the work. He is presented as the father of the book and as offering his account to Timocrates, imitating Plato in his dramatization of the dialogue. In the text we are informed that Athenaeus wrote also a work ''On the Kings of Syria''5.211a = 5.47= ''FGrHist'' 166 F 1 = ''BNJ'' 166 F 1) and a private treatise on small sea-fishes (''thraittai'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ponciano (other)
Ponciano may refer to: *Girau do Ponciano, a municipality in the western of the Brazilian state of Alagoas * Ponciano Arriaga International Airport, an international airport at San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico * San Ponciano church, a chapel in La Plata, Argentina People with the name * Élmer Ponciano (born 1978), Guatemalan football defender * Selvyn Ponciano (born 1973), retired Guatemalan football defender *Ponciano Arriaga (1811–1865), lawyer and politician from San Luis Potosí *Ponciano B.P. Pineda, Filipino writer, teacher, linguist and lawyer * Ponciano Bernardo (1905–1949), Filipino engineer and politician who served as mayor of Quezon City * Ponciano Leiva (1821–1896), President of Honduras 1874–1876 and 1891–1893 See also * Ponce (other) * Pons * Pontian (other) *Pontianus (other) Pontianus may refer to: * Pontianus of Spoleto, martyr of the 2nd century and patron saint of that city * Sicinius Pontianus, friend of Apulei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pons (other)
The pons (or pons Varolii; "bridge of Varolius") is a part of the brain stem. Pons or pons may also refer to: People *Pons (personal name), notable people with Pons as their surname, given name, or singular name Toponyms * Pons, Charente-Maritime, a commune in France * Pons River, a tributary of the Caniapiscau River (watershed of Ungava bay), in Nunavik, Nord-du-Québec, Quebec, Canada * Pons (crater), a lunar impact crater west of the prominent Rupes Altai scarp Other uses * ''Pons'', a junior synonym of the butterfly genus ''Penaincisalia'' * Passive optical network, a telecommunications term * Polish Lowland Sheepdog, from the Polish ''Polski Owczarek Nizinny'', a type of sheepdog See also * PON (other) * Ponce (other) * Ponciano (other) Ponciano may refer to: *Girau do Ponciano, a municipality in the western of the Brazilian state of Alagoas * Ponciano Arriaga International Airport, an international airport at San Luis Potosí, San Luis Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pontian (other)
Pontian may refer to: * Pope Pontian (died 235), 3rd-century Catholic Pope * Pontian Greeks, a group of ethnic Greeks traditionally from the Pontus and Pontic Mountains regions in northern Turkey * Pontian Islands, a group of islands on the coast of Italy * Pontian District, a district and city in Johor, Malaysia ** Pontian (federal constituency) ** Pontian Kechil or Pontian Town * Pontian, the uppermost Miocene Paratethys stage, coeval with the Messinian See also * Ponciano (other) * Pons (other) * Pontian Selatan (federal constituency) (1959–1974), Johor, Malaysia * Pontian Utara (federal constituency) (1959–1974), Johor, Malaysia * Pontianus (other) * Pontic (other) * Pontine (other) Pontine may refer to: * Having to do with the pons, a structure located in the brain stem (from ''pons'', "bridge") * Pontine Marshes, a region of Italy near Rome * Pontine Islands The Pontine Islands (, also ; it, Isole Ponziane ) are an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pontic (other)
Pontic, from the Greek ''pontos'' (, ), or "sea", may refer to: The Black Sea Places * The Pontic colonies, on its northern shores * Pontus (region), a region on its southern shores * The Pontic–Caspian steppe, steppelands stretching from north of the Black Sea as far east as the Caspian Sea * The Pontic Mountains, a range of mountains in northern Turkey, close to the southern coast of the Black Sea Languages and peoples * Pontic Greeks, all Greek peoples from the shores of the Black Sea and Pontus * Pontic Greek, a form of the Greek language originally spoken by the Pontic Greeks (see above) * ''Pontic'', as opposed to ''Caspian'' (which refers to the possibly related Nakho-Dagestanian or Northeast Caucasian languages), is sometimes used as a synonym for the Northwest Caucasian language family. * Pontic languages, the hypothetical language family linking the Northwest Caucasian and Indo-European languages, and Proto-Pontic, the Pontic proto-language, is the reconstructed comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
