• Julius Firmicus Maternus was a Roman Latin writer and astrologer, who received a pagan classical education that made him conversant with Greek; he lived...
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  • Firmicus may refer to: The lunar crater Firmicus. The Christian astrologer Julius Firmicus Maternus (fourth century), after whom the crater is named....
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    century Roman astrologer Julius Firmicus Maternus. The name was formally adopted by the IAU in 1935. The most notable aspect of Firmicus is the dark, flat floor...
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  • Cologne and Catholic saint Maternus (bishop of Milan) (fl. 316–328), Archbishop of Milan and Catholic saint Julius Firmicus Maternus (fl. 334–346), Latin writer...
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    stepmother in AD 326. Julius Firmicus Maternus, a fourth-century astrologer and writer on the subject of profane religions. Julius Valerius Alexander Polemius...
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    hdl:1911/89943. Retrieved 2022-09-10. Firmicus Maternus, Julius; Forbes, Clarence A. (1970). Firmicus Maternus : the error of the pagan religions. New...
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  • Ancient and Classical Worlds. Continuum. ISBN 978-1-84725-214-2. Maternus, Julius Firmicus, 4th century. Matheseos libri VIII . Translated by Jean Rhys Bram...
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    Testament of Solomon, and the writings of Aristobulus of Paneas. Julius Firmicus Maternus, Cosmas of Maiuma, Joseph Justus Scaliger, and Athanasius Kircher...
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    god, and the battle in which Horus defeated Set. According to Julius Firmicus Maternus of the fourth century, this play was re-enacted each year by worshippers...
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  • Macedonius I, Patriarch of Constantinople, is deposed again by Paul I. Julius Firmicus Maternus writes De erroribus profanarum religionum. The Visigoths are converted...
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    Nonius Marcellus (3rd and 4th centuries), grammarian, lexicographer Julius Firmicus Maternus (4th century), converted advocate, pagan and Christian writer Aelius...
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    that "have huge bodies and are white in colour". The Roman writer Julius Firmicus Maternus would contrast the Germaniae candidi (white Germans) with 'Ethiopians'...
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    (1883) – History of classical philology in Germany. edition of Julius Firmicus Maternus' "De Errore Profanarum Religionum" (1856) edition of Seneca the...
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  • T. Mann Mantreswara Gregory Paul Martin Mashallah ibn Athari Julius Firmicus Maternus Richard Mead Philipp Melanchthon Walter Mercado Merlin Franz Mesmer...
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  • Sextus Pompeius Festus - scholar Gaius Flavius Fimbria - consul Julius Firmicus Maternus - astrologer Aulus Avilius Flaccus - official Quintus Fulvius Flaccus...
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    parents status, his brothers, and so on". The 4th-century astrologer Julius Firmicus Maternus describes in his Mathesis (7.I.I) how oaths of silence were required...
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    language, with Calpurnius Siculus, Flavius Vopiscus [it], and Julius Firmicus Maternus producing literary works in Latin, although there are also examples...
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  • 343? Catholic Council of Serdica, canons confirmed by Pope Julius 350? Julius Firmicus Maternus 350? Codex Sinaiticus (א), Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209(B):...
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  • (c. 310–250 BC), poet Diodorus Siculus (c. 90–30 BC), historian Julius Firmicus Maternus (4th century AD), writer, astrologer Ibn Hamdis (1056–1133), poet...
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    include Hecataeus of Miletus, Galen, Clement of Alexandria, and Julius Firmicus Maternus. Nevertheless, academic studies[citation needed] have concluded...
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    Taurus, the Platonic Philosopher, on the Eternity of the World; Julius Firmicus Maternus of the Thema Mundi, in which the positions of the stars at the...
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    the abridgement of Livy called Periochae and the Mathematica of Julius Firmicus Maternus. Until the 14th century the abbey had possessions in the whole...
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  • author of De Vita Contemplativa concerning Christian sanctity Julius Firmicus Maternus 4th century   Justin Martyr 165   Juvencus 4th century   Lactantius...
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  • Among the sins that Malmesbury imputed to him was the study of Julius Firmicus Maternus, a late Roman astrologer, every morning, which to Malmesbury meant...
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  • Constantius II between 355 and 356. He encouraged the senatorial writer Julius Firmicus Maternus to write an astrological essay, the Matheseos libri VIII, that...
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    Alexandria, first cite of modern 27 book New Testament canon 350? Julius Firmicus Maternus 350? Codex Sinaiticus(א), Codex Vaticanus(B): earliest Christian...
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  • Macedonius I, Patriarch of Constantinople, is deposed again by Paul I. Julius Firmicus Maternus writes De erroribus profanarum religionum. The Visigoths are converted...
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  • Thebes (380 AD), Anonymous of 379 AD (Treatise on Fixed Stars) and Julius Firmicus Maternus (c. 336 AD). Porphyry relies heavily on Antiochus for definitions...
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    the others were all alluding to or borrowing from. The work of Julius Firmicus Maternus (who wrote in the time of Constantine about astrology and other...
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  • early Latin poets, rightly called the founder of Roman literature Julius Firmicus Maternus (?–?), Christian Latin writer and astrologer Gaius Valerius Flaccus...
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