Apollonius of Tyana (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος; Arabic: بلينس; Sanskrit: अपालुन्यः c. AD 15 – c. 100) was a first-century Greek philosopher and religious...
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see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Tyana, earlier known as Tuwana during the Iron Age, and Tūwanuwa during the Bronze...
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The siege of Tyana was carried out by the Umayyad Caliphate in 707–708 or 708–709 in retaliation for a heavy defeat of an Umayyad army under Maimun the...
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Life of Apollonius of Tyana (‹See Tfd›Greek: Τὰ ἐς τὸν Τυανέα Ἀπολλώνιον), also known by its Latin title Vita Apollonii, is a text in eight books written...
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Anthimus of Tyana was a Christian bishop of the Cappadocian city of Tyana. Tyana increased in prominence when Roman Emperor Valens divided Cappadocia into...
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Dany Verissimo (redirect from Ally Mac Tyana)
from 2001 to 2002 as a pornographic actress under the stage name Ally Mac Tyana before starting a mainstream career. She also uses the name Dany Verissimo-Petit...
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Prout, 1928 Tyana chloroleuca Walker, 1866 Tyana elongata Warren, 1916 Tyana falcata (Walker, 1866) Tyana flavitegulae Rothschild, 1920 Tyana fuscitorna...
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The Siege of Tyana occurred in 272 CE. The forces of the Roman Emperor Aurelian were seeking to conquer the Palmyrene Empire. In 269, while Claudius Gothicus...
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Tyana falcata is a species of moth of the family Nolidae first described by Francis Walker in 1866. It is found in Taiwan. Wikimedia Commons has media...
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(The Frogs and Ecclesiazusae) and Philostratus's Life of Apollonius of Tyana. The Empusa was defined in the Sudas and by Crates of Mallus as a "demonic...
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Eutherius of Tyana, metropolitan bishop of Tyana (site near Niğde, Turkey) in Cappadocia, features in the context of the Council of Ephesus (431), where...
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pseudo-Apollonius of Tyana), although it differs slightly from the (probably even earlier) version preserved in pseudo-Apollonius of Tyana's Sirr al-khalīqa...
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in Arabic. This text presents itself as a translation of Apollonius of Tyana, under his Arabic name Balînûs. Although no Greek manuscript has been found...
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NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air from 1990 to 1996. She starred as Tyana Jones on the TV One original series Love That Girl!, and played a recurring...
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Damis (Greek: Δάμις) was a student and lifelong companion of Apollonius of Tyana, the famous Neopythagorean philosopher and teacher who lived in the early...
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Lamia (section Apollonius of Tyana)
appetite and fed on their flesh afterward. An account of Apollonius of Tyana's defeat of a lamia-seductress inspired the poem "Lamia" by John Keats. Lamia...
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wreath with one of its branches. Philostratus in his Life of Apollonius of Tyana says the Assyrians, who worshipped Apollo Daphnaeus ("Apollo of the Laurel")...
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depilans) and that his death had been foretold to him by Apollonius of Tyana. Suetonius and Cassius Dio maintain that he died of natural causes, but...
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the BET series, Second Generation Wayans. Seasons 1 to 3 revolve around Tyana Jones (Tatyana Ali), a recent young divorcee returning to southern California...
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accounts of the life of Apollonius of Tyana. Puri says that the dates given by Philostratus in his Life of Apollonius of Tyana for Apollonius' visit to Taxila...
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Wilde Oscar Will Clark Aino Kishi Akari Asahina Akiho Yoshizawa Ally Mac Tyana (known as Dany Verissimo post-retirement) Aleska Diamond Alexis Texas Alia...
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agree that Philostratus authored at least five works: Life of Apollonius of Tyana (Τὰ ἐς τὸν Τυανέα Ἀπολλώνιον; Latin: Vita Apollonii), Lives of the Sophists...
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in Upper Egypt who were called Ethiopian Gymnosophists by Apollonius of Tyana. In Greek literature, they are mentioned in association with the Persian...
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Apuleius Alcinous Galen more... Neopythagorean Nigidius Figulus Apollonius of Tyana Moderatus of Gades Nicomachus Numenius of Apamea more... Neoplatonist Ammonius...
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listed at As above, so below (disambiguation). In pseudo-Apollonius of Tyana's Sirr al-khalīqa or The Secret of Creation; see Kraus 1942–1943, vol. II...
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Doloessa viridis (redirect from Tyana ornata)
Binomial name Doloessa viridis Zeller, 1848 Synonyms Thagora figurana Walker, 1863 Tyana ornata Wileman, 1910 Prasinoxena phthorogramma Meyrick, 1938...
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reached Tyana. The fall of Tyana lent itself to a legend; Aurelian to that point had destroyed every city that resisted him, but he spared Tyana after having...
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same title. The Greek philosopher Apollonius of Tyana is related by Philostratus in Life of Apollonius Tyana to have visited India, and specifically the city...
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and Vulcanus of the Lipari islands. The first-century sage Apollonius of Tyana is said to have observed, "there are many other mountains all over the earth...
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from a well, Asbamaeon, near Tyana, in Cappadocia, and indeed the cult of Asbamaeus was central to the identity of Tyana. There was said to be a great...
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