• Sextus Julius Africanus (c. 160 – c. 240; Ancient Greek: Σέξτος Ἰούλιος ὁ Ἀφρικανός or ὁ Λίβυς) was a Christian traveler and historian of the late 2nd...
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  • literature, has been lost, although some of his writings were quoted by Sextus Julius Africanus in his History of the World. It is not known when he lived and...
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  • Sextus Julius may refer to: Any Sextus Julius Caesar (disambiguation) Sextus Julius Frontinus, better known as Frontinus, author of treatises on aqueducts...
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  • those named Sextus are: Sextus Julius Africanus Sextus Appuleius Sextus Afranius Burrus Sextus Julius Caesar Sextus Aelius Paetus Catus Sextus of Chaeronea...
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    sun rather than in front of it. Christian traveler and historian Sextus Julius Africanus and Christian theologian Origen refer to Greek historian Phlegon...
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  • Africanus, a consul under Trajan (r. 98–117) Sextus Caecilius Africanus (2nd century), a Roman legal scholar Scipio Africanus (disambiguation) Sextus...
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    Julia gens (redirect from Julius (gens))
    BC. Sextus Julius Sex. f. L. n. Caesar, consul in 157 BC. Gaius Julius (Sex. f. L. n.) Caesar, great-grandfather of the dictator. Sextus Julius (Sex...
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    Jewish sources (e.g., Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, Augustine of Hippo, Sextus Julius Africanus, and the Letters attributed to St. Clement). It is also the view...
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    also called Callistus I, was the bishop of Rome (according to Sextus Julius Africanus) from c. 218 to his death c. 222 or 223. He lived during the reigns...
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    the earliest non-scriptural reference to the town, a citation by Sextus Julius Africanus dated about AD 221 (see "Middle Roman to Byzantine Periods" below)...
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    Aurelius Verus). Sextus Julius Africanus. Extant Writings III. The Extant Fragments of the Five Books of the Chronography of Julius Africanus. Chapters III—VII...
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  • Wilhelm Dindorf (1829). Heinrich Gelzer, Sextus Julius Africanus, ii. I (1885). H Gelzer. Sextus Julius Africanus und die byzantinische Chronographie. New...
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    reaching maturity, achieve supreme power." 500 Hippolytus of Rome, Sextus Julius Africanus, Irenaeus All three predicted Jesus would return in this year,...
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  • on Sextus Julius Africanus. He worked out the chronology of Gyges of Lydia, from cuneiform evidence, in an 1875 article. Sextus Julius Africanus und...
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    honour of John, the beloved disciple. The early Christian historian Sextus Julius Africanus (died c. 240), in his "Genealogy of the Holy Gospels", referred...
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    (died 22 October 232), 12th Bishop and Patriarch of Alexandria. Sextus Julius Africanus, who visited Alexandria in the Bishoprice of Demetrius, places...
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    as a Christian festival before Aurelian's decree". In AD 221, Sextus Julius Africanus suggested 25 March, the traditional spring equinox, as the day...
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    registered as the son of the deceased brother (Deuteronomy 25:5 sqq.). Sextus Julius Africanus, in his 3rd-century Epistle to Aristides, reports a tradition that...
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  • years of the reign of Heraclius. The chief authorities used were: Sextus Julius Africanus; the Fasti consulares; the Chronicle and Church History of Eusebius;...
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    chronicler George Syncellus quotes the History of the World of Sextus Julius Africanus as stating that a world eclipse and an earthquake in Judea had...
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    genealogies for the dynasty, depending on the source. According to Sextus Julius Africanus, Antipater's father was named Herod, and Epiphanius of Salamis...
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    of Cain. This is also the view held by Clementine literature, Sextus Julius Africanus, Ephrem the Syrian, Augustine of Hippo, and John Chrysostom among...
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  • Chronograph and Chronography, may refer to: Chronographiae of Sextus Julius Africanus, covering events from Creation to 221 Chronographia, part of the...
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    of the Ptolemies, pp. 217, 353, London, 1895; Heinrich Gelzer, Sextus Julius Africanus, ii. 170-176, Leipsic, 1885; Isaac Hirsch Weiss, Dor, i. 130 (on...
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  • historians Sextus Julius Africanus, Eusebius of Caesarea, and George Syncellus use two general forms (with variations depending on the manuscript). Africanus spells...
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  • per Sextus Julius Africanus. Maximus I's accession is placed either in 177 by Eusebius' Chronicle, in 182, or in c. 188 as per Sextus Julius Africanus. The...
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    biblical events with Greek and Roman history. In the 3rd century, Sextus Julius Africanus compiled a list of Olympic victors up to 217 BC, and this list...
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    of Christianity, "the first Christian work in Latin" (Teuffel) Sextus Julius Africanus (2nd century AD), Christian historian Marcus Aurelius Antoninus...
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  • the better known chronicle of John Malalas. His sources include Sextus Julius Africanus, Eusebius, and Ammianus Marcellinus. Only fragments remain. The...
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  • Ephorus the Younger Herodian Hypsicrates (historian) Josephus Sextus Julius Africanus Memnon of Heraclea Nicias of Nicaea Nicolaus of Damascus Pamphile...
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