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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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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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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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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Dorotheus of Sidon Epigenes of Byzantium Hephaistio of Thebes Julius Firmicus Maternus Marcus Manilius Paulus Alexandrinus Ptolemy Petosiris to Nechepo...
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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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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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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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(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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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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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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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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Sextus Pompeius Festus - scholar Gaius Flavius Fimbria - consul Julius Firmicus Maternus - astrologer Aulus Avilius Flaccus - official Quintus Fulvius Flaccus...
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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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(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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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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include Hecataeus of Miletus, Galen, Clement of Alexandria, and Julius Firmicus Maternus. Nevertheless, academic studies[citation needed] have concluded...
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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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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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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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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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Suetonius 56; Nonius Marcellus fr. 15; Isidorus, Etymologiae 4.12.7; Firmicus Maternus, Matheseos 2. pr. 2. Plutarch, Life of Caesar 2, Bill Thayer's edition...
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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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referred to as Mathesis, a book on astrology by fourth-century author Julius Firmicus Maternus Mathesis biceps, vetus et nova, a treatise published by Juan Caramuel...
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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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