• Archippus (/ɑːrˈkɪpəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἅρχιππος; fl. late 5th century BC) was an Athenian poet of the Old Comedy. His most famous play was the Fishes,...
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    Lysistrata. He was one of a large number[clarification needed] of comic poets working in Athens in the late 5th century, his most important contemporary...
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  • Pherecrates 420 BC Diocles of Phlius Sannyrion Philyllius, 394 BC Hipparchus Archippus Polyzelus Philonides Eunicus 5th century BC Telecleides 5th century BC...
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    Aristophanes (category Old Comic poets)
     446 – c. 386 BC) was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. He wrote in total forty plays, of which eleven survive...
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  • of a treatise on the thratta, a kind of fish mentioned by Archippus and other comic poets, and of a history of the Syrian kings. Both works are lost...
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    piscivorous fish resembling pikes, this may be an allusion to the Greek poet Archippus, who wrote: “An hepsetus fell in with an anchovy / And quick devoured...
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    the Apostle". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 2009. The Apostle and the Poet: Paul and Aratus Dr. Riemer Faber The Apostle Paul's Shipwreck: An Historical...
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    clothes and then chose him to oblige him to help Jesus carry the cross. Poet Ridgely Torrence wrote a play about him titled Simon the Cyrenian. A 1920...
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    his version of a Salome ballet in 2017. In "Salome" (1896) by the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, Salome instigates the death of John the Baptist as part...
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    piscivorous fish resembling pikes, this may be an allusion to the Greek poet Archippus, who wrote: “An hepsetus fell in with an anchovy / And quick devoured...
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    rather than as astronomer-priests. In a hymn of the late 4th-century Hispanic poet Prudentius, the three gifts have already gained their medieval interpretation...
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  • insect) Apis mellifera 2010 Viceroy butterfly (state butterfly) Limenitis archippus 1990 Louisiana European honey bee (state insect) Apis mellifera 1977 Gulf...
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    title: "Three Versions of Judas") is a short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges; it was included in Borges's anthology Ficciones, published...
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    philosophers, and the system also encompasses Sophists and pre-Homeric poets such as Orpheus. Stephanus pagination is the comparable system for referring...
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    Baháʼís have noted parallels between Mary Magdalene and the Babí heroine-poet Táhirih. The two are similar in many respects, with Mary Magdalene often...
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    LCCN 96-54505. "POETRY / Cornish pastimes: Andrew Brown on the Cornish poet Charles". The Independent. 1992-08-29. Retrieved 2020-06-21. McGerr, Patricia...
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    against the "tyranny" of God, in spite of God's own omnipotence. The English poet and painter William Blake famously quipped that "The reason Milton wrote...
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    Appleton Company. Retrieved 28 December 2018. Besides St. Epaphras... Archippus and Philemon, especially the latter, are very doubtful. Trainor, Michael...
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    composed in 1715, stays close to the gospel based on a libretto by the court poet in Weimar, Salomo Franck. In popular music, Nicodemus' name was used figuratively...
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    the ascension of our Lord, they sold all these things. The 15th-century poet Georges Chastellain draws on the tradition of the unsmiling Lazarus: "He...
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    (1510-1571, Dutch faith healer who debated against John Calvin) Eleanor Davies (poet) (1590–1652) Ann Bathurst (17th century, member of the Philadelphians) Martha...
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  • Vita Beata, speaks of the charm of his disposition, also alluded to by the poet Statius (Silvae, ii.7, 32). It is probable that he was banished to Corsica...
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    the devil as a satyr-like creature is attested since the 11th century. Poets such as Geoffrey Chaucer associated the color green with the Devil, although...
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  • (unlike Adam, who sinned by hearkening to the voice of Eve). In the German poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock's Christian epic The Messiah (published in installments...
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    William Gager (category Neo-Latin poets)
    Nicostratus, Amipsias Atheniensis, Anaxedrides, Rhodius, Aristonymus, Archippus Atheniensis and Callias Atheniensis; and among the Latines, Plautus, Terence...
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    St John the Baptist, c. 1869, Puvis de Chavannes The Italian Renaissance poet Lucrezia Tornabuoni chose John the Baptist as one of the biblical figures...
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  • during his first trip to Sicily in 387 BC. Archytas had sent a letter with Archippus and Philonides, two Pythagoreans who had gone on to mention to Plato that...
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