Martianus Minneus Felix Capella (fl. c. 410–420) was a jurist, polymath and Latin prose writer of late antiquity, one of the earliest developers of the...
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very close to those we know about for Juno Seispes of Lanuvium". Martianus Capella states she must be invoked by those who are involved in war. The hunt...
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Fixed stars (section Martianus Capella)
explain the subtle movements of the constellations throughout the year. Martianus Capella (fl. c. 410–420) describes a modified geocentric model, in which the...
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ff. citing E. L. Shields, Juno (Northampton, Mass., 1926), p. 53. Martianus Capella De Nuptiis II 149. Paulus s.v. Sororium tigillum p. 399 L. A. Grenier...
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dieux de Martianus Capella" in Revue de l'histoire des religions 213 1996 3 p. 285 citing Carl Olof Thulin Die Götter des Martianus Capella und der Bronzeleber...
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needed] and Georg Wissowa.[citation needed] Martianus Capella; Eyssenhardt, Francis (1866). Martianus Capella. PIMS - University of Toronto. Lipsiae : In...
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heliocentrism in Europe before Copernicus. In Roman Carthage, the pagan Martianus Capella (5th century AD) expressed the opinion that the planets Venus and...
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Martianus Capella. It intrudes slightly into the eastern rim of the crater Isidorus, a feature only slightly smaller in diameter. The wall of Capella...
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"Martianus Capella and the Cosmic System of the Etruscans" in Journal of Roman Studies 36, 1946, p. 104 ff.; G. Capdeville "Les dieux de Martianus Capella"...
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because they think themselves educated enough. In Late Antiquity Martianus Capella organized all the information a fifth-century upper-class male needed...
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Philologiae et Mercurii ("On the Marriage of Philology and Mercury") by Martianus Capella, but the term was not used until the Carolingian Renaissance, when...
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Camenae was a source of water for the Vestals. The 5th-century scholar Martianus Capella placed the Dii Novensiles within his Etruscan-influenced celestial...
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Gallinago or Capella, a genus of snipes Capella Resort, Singapore, a hotel in Singapore Capella Space, an American space company Martianus Capella, writer...
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the techniques used later by Copernicus in his heliocentric models. Martianus Capella (5th century CE) expressed the opinion that the planets Venus and...
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writers such as Augustine of Hippo, Macrobius, Sidonius Apollinaris, Martianus Capella, and Fulgentius, but toward the end of the 6th century lapsed into...
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obscuritate furvescens, Martianus Capella, De nuptiis 1.79–80; Danuta Shanzer, A Philosophical and Literary Commentary on Martianus Capella's De Nuptiis Philologiae...
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presented by Ptolemy in the Almagest and accepted in Aristotelianism. Martianus Capella (5th century CE) expressed the opinion that the planets Venus and...
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309. Martianus Capella, The Marriage of Philology and Mercury 1.4.13; Danuta Shanzer, A Philosophical and Literary Commentary on Martanus Capella's De Nuptiis...
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erudition, philologia appears in fifth-century postclassical literature (Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii), an idea revived in Late Medieval...
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authors writing in Latin and Greek, including Strabo, Solinus, and Martianus Capella, referred to popular legends that the city of Lisbon was founded by...
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is implicit in early Pythagorean writings and in the De nuptiis of Martianus Capella, although the term quadrivium was not used until Boethius, early in...
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abrupt disappearance of the ancient schools. Indeed, from them emerged Martianus Capella, Cassiodorus and Boethius, essential icons of the Roman cultural heritage...
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citing Sebastiano Erizzo, On Ancient Medallions (1559), p. 120. Martianus Capella 5.425, with Mars specified as Gradivus and Neptune named as Portunus...
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usually identified with the Roman god Saturn, who in a description by Martianus Capella holds a position similar to that of Satre on the liver. The name Satre...
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Berber origin. Saint Monica Augustine of Hippo, Doctor of the Church Martianus Capella, author Apuleius, author Alypius of Thagaste, bishop celebrated on...
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greatest of the Manes", or sub-, "under" + manus, "hand". According to Martianus Capella, Summanus is another name for Pluto as the "highest" (summus) of the...
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importance to the history of allegory emerged: Claudian, Macrobius, and Martianus Capella. Little is known of these authors, even if they were "truly" Christian...
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that represents the kosmos, which is the serpent devouring its tail. Martianus Capella (5th century CE) identified Aion with Cronus (Latin Saturnus), whose...
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claimed to be Fontus' descendants. In the cosmological schema of Martianus Capella, Fons is located in the second of 16 celestial regions, with Jupiter...
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divinity upon his death in 48 BCE. In later antiquity, the Roman writer Martianus Capella (fl. 410-420) proposed a hierarchy of gods as follows: the gods proper...
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