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    Eunapius (Greek: Εὐνάπιος; fl. 4th–5th century AD) was a Greek sophist, rhetorician, and historian from Sardis in the region of Lydia in Asia Minor. His...
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  • Eunapius is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Spongillidae. The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution. Species: Eunapius aetheriae (Annandale...
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    Anonymus Iamblichi. According to the Suda and Iamblichus' biographer, Eunapius, Iamblichus was born in Chalcis (later called Qinnašrīn) in Coele, now...
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    clans which managed the Eleusinian cult - the other being the Cerycids. Eunapius and Vettius Agorius Praetextatus are notable examples. In the Rider–Waite...
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  • associated with him in the priestly office, was a kinswoman of Eunapius the biographer. Eunapius, who was related to Chrysanthius by marriage, tended to him...
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  • quoted in part by Eunapius, who considered him far inferior to Prohaeresius. He died not long after. He left behind two sons whom Eunapius describes as devoted...
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    pagan emperors, and given over to luxury and greed. Following Julian, Eunapius began – and Zosimus continued – a historiographic tradition that blamed...
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    of the incident is found in Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists by Eunapius, the pagan historian of later Neoplatonism. Here, an unprovoked Christian...
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  • the first half of the 4th century CE. The story of her life is told in Eunapius' Lives of the Sophists. Sosipatra was born in or near Ephesus, likely in...
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    the emperor Theodosius I is reported by Eunapius, a historian and biographer of the Greek philosophers. Eunapius had been initiated by the last legitimate...
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    Philosophers. Mentioned by Eunapius according to John Toland in "Clidophorus, or of the Exoteric and Esoteric Philosophy." Eunapius says that Porphyry "commended...
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    and the Books of the Maccabees. Later during the Roman Period c.350 CE, Eunapius wrote that the capital of Coele-Syria was the Seleucid city of Antioch...
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  • The nomen Flavius is given in The Lives of the Sophists and Tzetzes. Eunapius and Synesius call him a Lemnian; Photius a Tyrian; his letters refer to...
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    18.82–83, 87; Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae (in Latin), 18.2.3–4; Eunapius, Fragmenta Hist. Graecorum [Fragments of Greek History] (in Latin), 12;...
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  • For instance, although Zosimus followed Eunapius for the period 270–404, he entirely differed from Eunapius in his account of Stilicho and Serena. Of...
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  • aristocracy. He was also a pagan, and for this reason he was praised by Eunapius, a Greek historian of the 4th–5th centuries. In 382, the Visigoths had...
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    Epistle 331 Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae XVII.14.1–3 & XVIII.6.17-8 Eunapius, Lives of the Sophists VI. 5.1–10 Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae XX.6...
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    months, after which the Empire was permanently split into East and West. Eunapius states that Jovian was incited by his wife to burn the library of Antioch...
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  • None of his writings have survived, but there is an extant biography by Eunapius, a Greek sophist and historian of the 4th century who wrote a collection...
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    and sought out Maximus as his new mentor. According to the historian Eunapius, when Julian left Eusebius, he told his former teacher "farewell, and devote...
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  • Copidaster cavernicola - Cozumel's cave sea star Ophionereis commutabilis Eunapius subterraneus Racekiela cavernicola Marifugia cavatica Erpobdella borisi...
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  • a ninth-century Byzantine encyclopaedia, but as coming from Syria by Eunapius. This is not necessarily a contradiction, since urban Arabs frequently...
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  • v t e Byzantine historians 5th century Annianus of Alexandria Eunapius John Rufus Malchus Olympiodorus of Thebes Panodorus of Alexandria Philostorgius...
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  • – Saint Jerome, priest and translator of the Bible (approximate date) Eunapius, Greek sophist and historian John Chrysostom, archbishop of Constantinople...
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  • Nazianzus and Basil the Great. The historian Eunapius was Prohaeresius' favorite student and biographer. Eunapius reported that when the emperor Julian the...
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  • Leptin. p. 11; comp. Schol. ad Hermog. p. 402 Eunapius, Lives of the Sophists p. 113, ed. Antwerp. 1568 Eunapius, Lives of the Sophists p. 115, &c., ed. Antwerp...
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  • Eunapius, Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists, 413. Klaus Rosen: Julian. Kaiser, Gott und Christenhasser, Stuttgart 2006, S. 97f. For Eunapius' description...
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  • before 337 AD. Zosimus ascribes his death to the machinations of Ablabius. Eunapius adds that Ablabius deceived Constantine into believing that Sopater used...
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  • Historia nova, IV. 53 which relies heavily on the history by the pagan Eunapius Carr, John (2015). Fighting Emperors of Byzantium. Pen & Sword. pp. 40–43...
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    Gray, 1867 Duosclera Reiswig & Ricciardi, 1993 Ephydatia Lamouroux, 1816 Eunapius Gray, 1867 Heteromeyenia Potts, 1881 Heterorotula Penney & Racek, 1968...
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