Publius Aelius Aristides Theodorus (Ancient Greek: Πόπλιος Αἴλιος Ἀριστείδης Θεόδωρος; 117–181 AD) was a Greek orator and author considered to be a prime...
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Pius, who succeeded Hadrian the same year. Aelius was born Lucius Ceionius Commodus, and became Lucius Aelius Caesar upon his adoption as Hadrian's heir...
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Hadrian (redirect from Publius Aelius Hadrianus)
Hadrian (/ˈheɪdriən/ HAY-dree-ən; Latin: Publius Aelius Hadrianus [(h)adriˈjaːnus]; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. Hadrian...
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Marcus Aurelius (redirect from M. Aelius Antoninus)
physician Galen on the habits of the Antonine elite, the orations of Aelius Aristides on the temper of the times, and the constitutions preserved in the...
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Aelia gens (redirect from Aelius)
by Hadrian also bear the name Aelius. The Pons Aelius is a bridge in Rome, now known as the Ponte Sant'Angelo. Pons Aelius also refers to a Roman settlement...
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known as members of the Second Sophistic include Nicetes of Smyrna, Aelius Aristides, Dio Chrysostom, Herodes Atticus, Favorinus, Philostratus, Lucian,...
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froze at the cold north celestial pole before it could right itself. Aelius Aristides names him Aster or Asterius ('star' or 'starry') and says that Athens'...
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physician Galen on the habits of the Antonine elite, the orations of Aelius Aristides on the temper of the times, and the constitutions preserved in the...
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a native of Smyrna. Another famous resident of the same period was Aelius Aristides. After a destructive earthquake in 178 AD, Smyrna was rebuilt in the...
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was one of the three kinds of Cyclopes distinguished by scholia to Aelius Aristides. Similarly, possibly deriving from Nicophon's comedy, the first-century...
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the rhetorician Aelius Aristides, who had studied under Alexander. Capitolinus, M. Ant. 2 Marcus Aurelius, i. ~ 10 Aelius Aristides, Vol. i. Orat. xii...
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a lost oration by Aelius Aristides, the pantomime was known for its erotic content and the effeminacy of its dancing; Aristides's work was responded...
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Tyana, Aelius Aristides and Galen. The Greek word θεραπευτής has the primary meaning of 'one who serves the gods, or 'worshipper'. Aelius Aristides in the...
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Antoninus Pius (redirect from Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius)
Lucius Aelius, on the condition that Antoninus would in turn adopt Marcus Annius Verus, the son of his wife's brother, and Lucius, son of Lucius Aelius, who...
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Loeb Classical Library (section Aelius Aristides)
Gestae Divi Augusti L139) Scriptores Historiae Augustae: Volume I. Hadrian. Aelius. Antoninus Pius. Marcus Aurelius. L. Verus. Avidius Cassius. Commodus. Pertinax...
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Apollonius Rhodius (Argonautica 2.12.61), Virgil (Georgics 4.367) and Aelius Aristides (Ad Romam 82) considered it the easternmost limit of the navigable...
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Aristides the Athenian (also Saint Aristides or Marcianus Aristides; Greek: Ἀριστείδης Μαρκιανός) was a 2nd-century Christian Greek author who is primarily...
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the Greek philosophers Eunapius, historian Philostorgius, historian Aelius Aristides, orator and author Themistius, statesman, rhetorician and philosopher...
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Bordeaux, Strasbourg, and at the Sorbonne. The subject of his thesis was Aelius Aristides and sophistry in the province of Asia in the second century AD. He...
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Province, Turkey), the daughter of a man called Axiochus. A scholiast on Aelius Aristides wrongly claims that Aspasia was a Carian prisoner of war and a slave;...
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salacious tales Aelius Aristides (117–181), orator and rhetorician Aristides of Athens (2nd century), Christian writer and saint Aristides Quintilianus (3rd...
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emperor (d. 234) Zhuge Liang, Chinese chancellor and regent (d. 234) Aelius Aristides, Greek orator and writer (b. 117) Cao Jie, Chinese court eunuch and...
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Galen (redirect from Aelius Galenus)
of notable people such as the historian Claudius Charax, the orator Aelius Aristides, the sophist Polemo, and the consul Cuspius Rufinus. Galen's father...
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and Crates as their patrons and enlist in the Army of the Dog," and Aelius Aristides observed that "they frequent the doorways, talking more to the doorkeepers...
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Economics, were widely distributed in manuscript and in print. His use of Aelius Aristides' Panathenicus (Panegyric to Athens) to buttress his republican theses...
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Philostratus, the author of Lives of the Sophists, for his biographies of Aelius Aristides and Adrianus, as well as being a philanthropolist in his home town...
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in the reign of Trajan. John I becomes the 7th Bishop of Jerusalem. Aelius Aristides, Greek orator (d. 181) August 8 – Trajan, Roman emperor (b. AD 53)...
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maint: location missing publisher (link) F. W. Lenz, "The Quotations from Aelius Aristeides in Olympiodorus' Commentary on Plato's Gorgias", The American...
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and destroy the temple of the Eleusinian Mysteries. May – June – Aelius Aristides, Greek orator, delivers a public speech in Smyrna, lamenting the damage...
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the plague was in Smyrna (in Roman Anatolia) in 165 where the orator Aelius Aristides almost died from the disease. From the east the plague spread westward...
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