• According to Polybius, Ephorus was the first historian to ever author a universal history. For each of the 29 separate books, Ephorus wrote a prooimion. The...
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  • Ephorus or Ephoros may refer to: Ephorus of Cyme (c. 400–330 BC), ancient Greek historian Ephorus the Younger (fl. 3rd century AD), of Cyme, ancient Greek...
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  • called "the Younger" to distinguish him from Ephorus, his earlier colleague from the same town. Ephorus the Younger is mentioned only by Suda, according...
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  • Trachyphrynium species. Bicyclus ephorus ephorus (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria) Bicyclus ephorus bergeri Condamin, 1965 (Cameroon...
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    Orocrambus ephorus is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1885. It is endemic to New Zealand. It has been recorded from...
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    Protestant churches in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Its present leader is Ephorus (bishop) Robinson Butarbutar. The first Protestant missionaries who tried...
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    of Churches in Indonesia before being elected as Ephorus of HKBP in 1987. Soritua's tenure as ephorus was marred with conflicts between him and the government-backed...
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  • sungrazer family. The Great Comet was observed by Aristotle, Ephorus, and Callisthenes. Ephorus reported that it split into two pieces, a larger fragment...
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    writing about this period is drawn from the much earlier Greek historian Ephorus, who also wrote a universal history. Diodorus is also a secondary source...
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  • Syracuse Callisthenes Cratippus of Athens Ctesias Dinon Duris of Samos Ephorus Eudemus of Rhodes Hellanicus of Lesbos Heracleides of Cyme Herodotus Philistus...
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  • the most prominent Protestant denomination in Indonesia, uses the term Ephorus instead of bishop. In the Vietnamese syncretist religion of Caodaism, bishops...
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    translated the New Testament into the native Batak language and the first Ephorus (bishop) of Batak Christian Protestant Church. Stephen Neill, a historian...
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    permanent presence of Celtic speakers.[citation needed] The Greek historian Ephorus of Cyme in Asia Minor, writing in the 4th century BC, believed the Celts...
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  • mentioned both by Diodorus and Plutarch, both based heavily on the report by Ephorus. Xenophon conspicuously omits any mention of the Theban victory in his...
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    Chyton, according to Ephorus, was a new city founded in Epirus during the 4th century BC. The city was established by Ionians from Klazomenai. Its site...
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    contingents for a total of 4,200; other ancient sources add additional forces: Ephorus apud Diodorus 11.4 adds 1,000 Lacedaemonians – that is Perioeci, likewise...
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    not until Hippias that a consistent list was established and not until Ephorus in the Hellenistic period that the first recorded Olympic contest was used...
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    on whose works he drew include Hecataeus of Abdera, Ctesias of Cnidus, Ephorus, Theopompus, Hieronymus of Cardia, Duris of Samos, Diyllus, Philistus,...
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    of 480 BC. The number of 1,207 (for the outset only) is also given by Ephorus, while his teacher Isocrates claims there were 1,300 at Doriskos and 1...
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  • who had been elected as Ephorus in 1987, and Rev. Dr. P. W. T. Simanjuntak, who was elected as the pro-government Ephorus through the Special General...
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    Strabo 1.2.18 and 5.4.5 (likely following this earlier Greek historian Ephorus) Pl. Phd. 113b-c, 114a "Theoi Project: Lethe". Retrieved September 30,...
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    Pelasgians (section Ephorus)
    Crestonians and Eonians; the towns all being small ones. The historian Ephorus, building on a fragment from Hesiod that attests to a tradition of an aboriginal...
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    Greco-Persian wars, partially derived from the earlier Greek historian Ephorus. Diodorus is fairly consistent with Herodotus' writings. These wars are...
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    though Aristarchus of Samothrace was the first actually to argue the case. Ephorus made Homer a younger cousin of Hesiod, the 5th century BC historian Herodotus...
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    who had led them there. The Tyrrhenians are referred to as pirates by Ephorus of Cyme as reported by Strabo. The pirating actions of the Tyrrhenians...
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    progressed through the ranks and was appointed as the Ephorus of the church in 2016. As Ephorus, Lumbantobing was responsible for overseeing the spiritual...
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    popular figure in Greek literature. The 4th century BC Greek historian, Ephorus of Cyme, described the Scythians as one of the "four great barbarian peoples"...
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    became king of the Lycians. According to the fourth-century BC historian Ephorus, this Sarpedon was said to be the founder of the Carian city of Miletus...
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    comes from water". According to the early 4th-century BC Greek historian Ephorus, the oracle at Dodona usually added to his pronouncements the command to...
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    Theological School. Parlindungan's predecessor as Ephorus, S. A. E. Nababan, was elected as ephorus at its 48th Sinode Godang on 31 January 1987. S. A...
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