Gadara (Hebrew: גדר, romanized: Geder or Hebrew: גדרה, romanized: Gedera; Greek: Γάδαρα, romanized: Gádara), in some texts Gedaris, was an ancient Hellenistic...
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Jordan principally known for its proximity to the ruins of the ancient Gadara. It is the largest city in the Bani Kinanah Department and Irbid Governorate...
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Gadara Tyros Kos Meleager of Gadara (‹See Tfd›Greek: Μελέαγρος Meleagros; fl. 1st century BC) was a poet and collector of epigrams. He wrote some satirical...
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Gadara is the name of several ancient cities from the Southern Levant, now in ruins, the best known being today in northern Jordan. Cities with the name...
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Theodorus of Gadara (Greek: Θεόδωρος ὁ Γαδαρεύς) was a Greek rhetorician of the 1st century BC from Gadara (present-day Um Qais, Jordan) who founded a...
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The Gadara Aqueduct, also called Qanatir Fir'awn or Qanat Fir'aun (Pharaoh's Watercourse), was a Roman aqueduct supplying water for some of the cities...
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of Galilee located at some distance to the ancient Decapolis cities of Gadara and Gerasa. Today, it is identified with El-Koursi or Kursi. It is mentioned...
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Apsines (redirect from Apsines of Gadara)
Apsines of Gadara (‹See Tfd›Greek: Ἀψίνης ὁ Γαδαρεύς; fl. 3rd century AD) was a Greek rhetorician. He was a native of the Hellenised city of Gadara, whose...
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Jesus gets out of the boat, but neither Gadara nor Gerasa is nearby; both cities are southeast of the lake, Gadara 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) away or a two-hour...
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Perea (section Gadara/Gadora in Peraea)
Onomasticon, but in the Latin translation by Jerome, Transjordan is used. Gadara or Gadora of Perea (identified as Tell Jadur near Al-Salt) was the chief...
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Menippus (redirect from Menippus of Gadara)
Menippus of Gadara (/məˈnɪpəs/; Greek: Μένιππος ὁ Γαδαρεύς Menippos ho Gadareus; fl. 3rd century BC) was a Cynic satirist. The Menippean satire genre is...
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In Hellenistic times, the territory of Hippos was across from those of Gadara and Abila (Abel) on the south, while Dion sat on the eastern tributaries...
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Decumanus (section Gadara, Jordan)
maximus connecting the west Iron Gate to the east Silver Gate. In Roman Gadara, present-day Umm Qais, in Jordan, the decumanus runs east–west for approximately...
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Philodemus (redirect from Philodemus of Gàdara)
Philodemus of Gadara (‹See Tfd›Greek: Φιλόδημος ὁ Γαδαρεύς, Philodēmos, "love of the people"; c. 110 – prob. c. 40 or 35 BC) was an Epicurean philosopher...
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Gadara Shire was a local government area in the eastern part of the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. Gadara Shire was proclaimed on 7 March...
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Battle of Gadara was fought between the Judaean Hasmoneans and the Arab Nabataeans around 93 BC in Gadara in modern-day Jordan. The battle came after...
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Tall Zira'a (redirect from Gadara Region Project)
some 4.5 kilometres (2.8 mi) south-west of the ancient Decapolis city of Gadara in northern Jordan. It is situated at the confluence of the Wadi el-'Arab...
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Oenomaus of Gadara (‹See Tfd›Greek: Οἰνόμαος ὁ Γαδαρεύς, Oinómaos ho Gadareús; fl. 2nd century AD), was a Pagan Cynic philosopher. He is known principally...
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Gadara, which together with the loss of Gaza caused the Nabataeans to lose their main trade routes leading to Rome and Damascus. After losing Gadara,...
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was the most common tone of the works made by Menippus and Meleager of Gadara. Satires 1 by Horace Amir 2013, p. 11. Ferriss-Hill 2015, p. 15. Freudenburg...
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region is located in modern-day Jordan (Philadelphia, Gerasa, Pella and Gadara), Israel (Scythopolis and Hippos) and Syria (Raphana, Dion, Canatha and...
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Little River and Lacmalac; and another site between Tumut and Adelong, near Gadara, under which Tumut itself would have become a part of the new Federal Territory...
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German Protestant Institute of Archaeology (section Tall Zira'a and the Gadara Region Project (Jordan))
Volkmar Fritz – Tell el-Oreme ('Oreimeh), Susanne Kerner – Gadara Tunnel System Thomas Weber – Gadara Hans-Dieter Bienert; Dieter Vieweger – Esh-Shallaf near...
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legislator Cercidas of Megalopolis, the diatribist Teles and Menippus of Gadara. However, with the rise of Stoicism in the 3rd century BC, Cynicism as a...
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regions mentioned by Pliny t. E. Jordan Philadelphia (Amman) Gerasa (Jerash) Gadara (Umm Qais) Region Ampeloessa/Capitolias (Beit Ras) Region Ampeloessa /Abila...
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each of its anthologized poets to a flower. That Garland by Meléagros of Gadara formed the kernel for what has become known as the Greek Anthology. Florilegium...
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free dictionary. Gadarene (GAD-ə-reen) may refer to: Of or relating to Gadara, ancient city, nowadays ruins at "Umm Qais" in Jordan. Exorcism of the Gerasene...
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Wikipedia. [Circus Varianus] The Circus | Varianus at circusmaximus.us. [Gadara] Gadara (Umm Quais) Topographische Bestandkarte 2007 (archaeological site map)...
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definition. According to a story which seems to have originated with Menippus of Gadara, Diogenes was captured by pirates while on voyage to Aegina and sold as...
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