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    Martianus Minneus Felix Capella (fl. c. 410–420) was a jurist, polymath and Latin prose writer of late antiquity, one of the earliest developers of the...
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    very close to those we know about for Juno Seispes of Lanuvium". Martianus Capella states she must be invoked by those who are involved in war. The hunt...
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    explain the subtle movements of the constellations throughout the year. Martianus Capella (fl. c. 410–420) describes a modified geocentric model, in which the...
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    ff. citing E. L. Shields, Juno (Northampton, Mass., 1926), p. 53. Martianus Capella De Nuptiis II 149. Paulus s.v. Sororium tigillum p. 399 L. A. Grenier...
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    dieux de Martianus Capella" in Revue de l'histoire des religions 213 1996 3 p. 285 citing Carl Olof Thulin Die Götter des Martianus Capella und der Bronzeleber...
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    "Martianus Capella and the Cosmic System of the Etruscans" in Journal of Roman Studies 36, 1946, p. 104 ff.; G. Capdeville "Les dieux de Martianus Capella"...
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    because they think themselves educated enough. In Late Antiquity Martianus Capella organized all the information a fifth-century upper-class male needed...
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    Martianus Capella. It intrudes slightly into the eastern rim of the crater Isidorus, a feature only slightly smaller in diameter. The wall of Capella...
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  • needed] and Georg Wissowa.[citation needed] Martianus Capella; Eyssenhardt, Francis (1866). Martianus Capella. PIMS - University of Toronto. Lipsiae : In...
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  • institution based in Minneapolis, Minnesota Gallinago or Capella, a genus of snipes Martianus Capella, writer and astronomer of late antiquity A cappella (disambiguation)...
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    Philologiae et Mercurii ("On the Marriage of Philology and Mercury") by Martianus Capella, but the term was not used until the Carolingian Renaissance, when...
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    heliocentrism in Europe before Copernicus. In Roman Carthage, the pagan Martianus Capella (5th century AD) expressed the opinion that the planets Venus and...
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    presented by Ptolemy in the Almagest and accepted in Aristotelianism. Martianus Capella (5th century CE) expressed the opinion that the planets Venus and...
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    the techniques used later by Copernicus in his heliocentric models. Martianus Capella (5th century CE) expressed the opinion that the planets Venus and...
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  • Camenae was a source of water for the Vestals. The 5th-century scholar Martianus Capella placed the Dii Novensiles within his Etruscan-influenced celestial...
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    obscuritate furvescens, Martianus Capella, De nuptiis 1.79–80; Danuta Shanzer, A Philosophical and Literary Commentary on Martianus Capella's De Nuptiis Philologiae...
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    story of Cupid and Psyche was readily allegorized. In late antiquity, Martianus Capella (5th century) refashions it as an allegory about the fall of the human...
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    authors writing in Latin and Greek, including Strabo, Solinus, and Martianus Capella, referred to popular legends that the city of Lisbon was founded by...
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    is implicit in early Pythagorean writings and in the De nuptiis of Martianus Capella, although the term quadrivium was not used until Boethius, early in...
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    abrupt disappearance of the ancient schools. Indeed, from them emerged Martianus Capella, Cassiodorus, and Boethius, essential icons of the Roman cultural...
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    usually identified with the Roman god Saturn, who in a description by Martianus Capella holds a position similar to that of Satre on the liver. The name Satre...
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  • greatest of the Manes", or sub-, "under" + manus, "hand". According to Martianus Capella, Summanus is another name for Pluto as the "highest" (summus) of the...
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    claimed to be Fontus' descendants. In the cosmological schema of Martianus Capella, Fons is located in the second of 16 celestial regions, with Jupiter...
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    309. Martianus Capella, The Marriage of Philology and Mercury 1.4.13; Danuta Shanzer, A Philosophical and Literary Commentary on Martanus Capella's De Nuptiis...
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    that represents the kosmos, which is the serpent devouring its tail. Martianus Capella (5th century CE) identified Aion with Cronus (Latin Saturnus), whose...
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    among others. Late antique and early medieval writers, like Solinus, Martianus Capella, Orosius, and Isidore of Seville, ensured the Ripheans' continued...
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    citing Sebastiano Erizzo, On Ancient Medallions (1559), p. 120. Martianus Capella 5.425, with Mars specified as Gradivus and Neptune named as Portunus...
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  • S2CID 161832349: Martianus is likely to have derived his system from Varro, and through an intermediate source, from Nigidius Figulus. Martianus Capella, II 156...
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    importance to the history of allegory emerged: Claudian, Macrobius, and Martianus Capella. Little is known of these authors, even if they were "truly" Christian...
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    of other deities who are found also in the cosmological schema of Martianus Capella, based on the Etruscan tradition. In the Etruscan discipline of divination...
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