* Diodorus of Tarsus, bishop and monastic reformer

But Cyril refused to compromise and when he opened his attack ( 437 ) upon Diodorus of Tarsus and Theodore, John sided with them and Theodoret assumed the defense of the Antiochian party ( c. 439 ).

It was well known to Early Christians, as evidenced by the writings of Epiphanius, Justin Martyr, Origen, Diodorus of Tarsus, Isidore of Alexandria, Isidore of Seville, Eutychius of Alexandria, John Malalas, George Syncellus, and George Kedrenos.

Until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls ( DSS ), the only surviving manuscripts of Jubilees were four complete Ge ' ez texts dating to the 15th and 16th centuries, and several quotations by the Church fathers such as Epiphanius, Justin Martyr, Origen, Diodorus of Tarsus, Isidore of Alexandria, Isidore of Seville, Eutychius of Alexandria, John Malalas, George Syncellus, and George Kedrenos.

The founders of Assyrian theology are Diodorus of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopsuestia, both of whom taught at Antioch.

Preparing for a journey to Tarsus, he called on the Bishop of Tarsus, Diodore, who was attending the First Council of Constantinople ( one of the ecumenical councils ), to ask if he could take letters for him ; his appearance and manners struck Diodorus so forcibly that he at once determined that he should be advanced as a candidate for Bishop ; making an excuse of attending to some other business, he took Nectarius to see the bishop of Antioch, who asked Nectarius to put off his journey a short time.

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He founded the basilica and theological School of Nisibis after the model of the school of Diodorus of Tarsus in Antioch.

The school was founded around 350 by Mar Jacob after the model of the school of Diodorus of Tarsus in Antioch.

The main theological authorities of Babai were Theodore of Mopsuestia and Diodorus of Tarsus.

The founders of Assyrian theology were Diodorus of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopsuestia, who taught at Antioch.

Scholars following Adolf von Harnack see him as the first head of the School of Antioch, with links to later theologians Diodorus of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopsuestia, but that contention is unrecorded in the extant sources.

: PG 33: Cyril of Jerusalem, Apollinaris of Laodicea, Diodorus of Tarsus, Peter II Bishop of Alexandria, Timotheus Bishop of Alexandria, Isaac the ex-Jew

Diodorus uses ēlektron, the Greek word for amber, the object that gave its name to electricity through its ability to acquire a charge.

Diodorus Siculus tells us that upon the assassination of the tyrant Jason of Pherae, in 370 BC, his brother Polydorus ruled for a year, but he was then poisoned by Alexander, another brother.

Alexander governed tyrannically, and according to Diodorus, differently from the former rulers, but Polyphron, at least, seems to have set him the example.

On arrival of Pelopidas at Larissa, whence according to Diodorus, he dislodged the Macedonian garrison, Alexander presented himself and offered submission.

The murder of Alexander is assigned by Diodorus to 357 / 356 BC.

The tomb of Myrine is mentioned in the Iliad ; later interpretation made of her an Amazon: according to Diodorus, Queen Myrine led her Amazons to victory against Libya and much of Gorgon.

Diodorus Siculus enlists nine Amazons who challenged Heracles to single combat during his quest for Hippolyta's girdle and died against him one by one: Aella, Philippis, Prothoe, Eriboea, Celaeno, Eurybia, Phoebe, Deianeira, Asteria, Marpe, Tecmessa, Alcippe.

" He also worked as a logographer, having written the speech prosecuting Phryne according to Diodorus Periegetes ( quoted by Athenaeus XIII. 591e ).

* Diodorus Siculus xix., xxi., xxii.

Diodorus Siculus made an attempt to define each of these three ( although it is clear he also became muddled ), and his opinion is followed here.

* Ancient Atlantis Texts: Plato, Diodorus Siculus, et al.

; statements as to the origin of gods, cults and so forth, transmitted to us by Hellenic antiquarians such as Strabo, Pausanias, Diodorus Siculus, etc.

There also is the origin myth that represents the ægis as a fire-breathing chthonic monster similar to the Chimera, which was slain and flayed by Athena, who afterward wore its skin as a cuirass ( Diodorus Siculus iii.

The Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus, writing in the 1st century BC in his Bibliotheca Historica, also provides an account of the Greco-Persian wars, partially derived from the earlier Greek historian Ephorus.

The historian Diodorus Siculus ( fl.

Diodorus is assumed to have drawn his description from the highly rated history of Philistus, a contemporary of the events then.

The historian Diodorus Siculus ( fl.

Diodorus is assumed to have drawn his description from the highly rated history of Philistus, a contemporary of the events then.

Pytheas's account was noted later by other writers including Pliny the Elder and Diodorus Siculus.

He taught logic to Demosthenes, and he is also said to have taught Apollonius Cronus, the teacher of Diodorus Cronus, and the historian Euphantus.

Here alone is preserved a summary of the writings of the Phoenician priest Sanchuniathon of which the accuracy has been shown by the mythological accounts found on the Ugaritic tables, here alone is the account from Diodorus Siculus's sixth book of Euhemerus ' wondrous voyage to the island of Panchaea where Euhemerus purports to have found his true history of the gods, and here almost alone is preserved writings of the neo-Platonist philosopher Atticus along with so much else.

This number is in the neighborhood of what a triangular perimeter ought to be but it cannot be verified against anything Pytheas may have said, nor is Diodorus Siculus very precise about the locations of the legs.

His mortuary temple at Hawara ( near the Fayum ), is accompanied by a pyramid and may have been known to Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus as the " Labyrinth ".

Edwards ( 1974 ) states that " the legend, which is obviously filled with anachronisms, is patently devoid of historical value ", but Maspero ( 1910 ), while acknowledging the possibility that traditions relating to other kings may have become mixed up with this story, dismisses the suggestions of some commentators that the story should be transferred to the Dynasty XII pharaoh Amenemhat III and sees no reason to doubt that Diodorus did not correctly record a tradition of Menes.

The Mount may be the Mictis of Timaeus, mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia ( IV: XVI. 104 ), and the Ictis of Diodorus Siculus.

While Pliny may have been the primary source, scholars have identified others ; among them are Caesar's Gallic Wars, Strabo, Diodorus Siculus, Posidonius, Aufidius Bassus, and numerous non-literary sources: presumably based on interviews with traders and soldiers who had ventured beyond the Rhine and Danube borders, and Germanic mercenaries in Rome.

They may have been similarly equipped with the Iphicratean hoplites or peltasts, as described by Diodorus.

The statue may also provide evidence to corroborate ancient accounts of the Gallic fighting style – Diodorus Siculus reported that " Some use iron breast-plates in battle, while others fight naked, trusting only in the protection which nature gives.

There is also an important passage respecting ideas, preserved by Alexander of Aphrodisias, from a work of Phaenias, Against Diodorus, which may possibly be the same as the work Against the Sophists, from which Athenaeus cites a criticism on certain musicians.

( There is no historicity to the assertion of Diodorus Siculus that this was the model for the labyrinth of Crete that Greeks imagined housed the Minotaur ,) The demolition of the " labyrinth " may date in part to the reign of Ptolemy II, under whom the Pharaonic city of Shedyt ( Greek Crocodilopolis, the modern Medinet el-Fayum ) was renamed to honour his sister-wife Arsinoë ; a massive Ptolemaic building program at Arsinoe has been suggested as the ultimate destination of Middle Kingdom limestone columns and blocks removed from Hawara, and now lost.