He is said to have been " one of the nine gems that adorned the throne of Vikramaditya ," and according to the evidence of Hsuan Tsang, this is the Chandragupta Vikramaditya ( Chandragupta II ) that flourished about AD 375.

Amati is the name of a family of Italian violin makers, who flourished at Cremona from about 1549 to 1740.

Andronicus of Cyrrhus ( Greek: Ανδρόνικος Κυρρήστου ) or Andronicus Cyrrhestes, son of Hermias, was a Greek astronomer who flourished about 100 BC.

In the late 1990s, notorious fanzines and e-zines flourished about electronic and post-rock music.

From about 1790 textiles became the most important industry in the west of Scotland, especially the spinning and weaving of cotton, which flourished until in 1861 the American Civil War cut off the supplies of raw cotton.

Stoicism was a philosophical school which flourished between the 3rd century BCE and about the 3rd century CE.

Literature in local vernaculars and spectacular architecture flourished until about the beginning of the 14th century, when southern expeditions of the sultan of Delhi took their toll on these kingdoms.

The Harp ( Persian: چنگ Chang ) flourished in Persia in many forms from its introduction, about 3000 BCE, until the 17th century.

During prehistoric times there was a succession of cultures that flourished in the land of present-day Moldova from the end of the Ice age up through the Neolithic Age, the Copper Age, the Bronze Age, and the beginning of the Iron Age, when historical records begin to be made about the people who lived in these lands.

In the early 4th century BC, Euclid of Megara founded the Megarian school of philosophy which flourished for about a century, and became famous for the use of logic and dialectic.

Also the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus who flourished between 60 BCE and 30 BCE writes about the isolated region of Arabia in his work Bibliotheca historica describing a holy shrine that Muslims see as referring to the Kaaba at Mecca " And a temple has been set-up there, which is very holy and exceedingly revered by all Arabians ".

Coastal cultures such as the Moche and Nazca flourished from about 100 BC to about AD 700: the Moche produced impressive metalwork, as well as some of the finest pottery seen in the ancient world, while the Nazca are known for their textiles and the enigmatic Nazca lines.

The Enlightenment flourished until about 1790 – 1800, after which the emphasis on reason gave way to Romanticism's emphasis on emotion and a Counter-Enlightenment gained force.

Kannada is attested epigraphically from about one and a half millennia, and literary Old Kannada flourished in the 6th century Ganga dynasty and during 9th century Rashtrakuta Dynasty.

Bion ( Greek: Βίων, gen .: Βίωνος ), Greek bucolic poet, was a native of the city of Smyrna and flourished about 100 BC.

Around 1 AD, there were more than three hundred pastry chefs in Rome, and Cato wrote about how they created all sorts of diverse foods, and flourished because of those foods.

The architecture of Ancient Greece is the architecture produced by the Greek-speaking people ( Hellenic people ) whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland and Peloponnesus, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Asia Minor and Italy for a period from about 900 BC until the 1st century AD, with the earliest remaining architectural works dating from around 600 BC.

The Olmec flourished during Mesoamerica's Formative period, dating roughly from as early as 1500 BCE to about 400 BCE.

Pre-Olmec cultures had flourished in the area since about 2500 BCE, but by 1600-1500 BCE Early Olmec culture had emerged centered around the San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán site near the coast in southeast Veracruz.

Suda's chronology has been dismissed as " muddled " since it makes Ibycus about a generation older than Anacreon, another poet known to have flourished at the court of Polycrates, and it is inconsistent with what we know of the Samian tyrant from Herodotus.

The most probable solution of the difficulty is that of Friedrich Thiersch, who thinks that there were two artists of this name ; one an Argive, the instructor of Phidias, born about 540 BC, the other a native of Sicyon, who flourished at the date assigned by Pliny and was confounded by the scholiast on Aristophanes with his more illustrious namesake of Argos.

late 5th century BC ) was a famous sculptor in ancient Greece, born on the island of Paros, who flourished from about Olympiad 85 to 88, that is, from about 436 to 424 BC.

The Hundred Schools of Thought were philosophers and schools that flourished from 770 to 221 BC, an era of great cultural and intellectual expansion in China.

Alcamenes () was an ancient Greek sculptor of Lemnos and Athens, who flourished in the 2nd half of the 5th century BC.

Alcidamas, of Elaea, in Aeolis, Greek sophist and rhetorician, flourished in the 4th century BC.

The system of Chinese astrology was elaborated during the Zhou dynasty ( 1046 – 256 BC ) and flourished during the Han Dynasty ( 2nd century BC to 2nd century AD ), during which all the familiar elements of traditional Chinese culture – the Yin-Yang philosophy, theory of the 5 elements, Heaven and Earth, Confucian morality – were brought together to formalise the philosophical principles of Chinese medicine and divination, astrology and alchemy.

* Aristophanes of Byzantium, a scholar who flourished in Alexandria, 3rd – 2nd century BC

Excavation of a Peiligang culture site in Xinzheng county, Henan, found a community that flourished in 5, 500-4, 900 BC, with evidence of agriculture, constructed buildings, pottery, and burial of the dead.

Zopyrus has been plausibly equated with a Pythagorean of that name who seems to have flourished in the late 5th century BC.

Zopyrus has been plausibly equated with a Pythagorean of that name who seems to have flourished in the late 5th century BC.

This example demonstrates the oral tradition of the Homeric epics that flourished long before they were written down sometime in the 7th century BC.

* Phaenomena, a treatise on spherical astronomy, survives in Greek ; it is quite similar to On the Moving Sphere by Autolycus of Pitane, who flourished around 310 BC.

The Guatemalan region of Mesoamerica was dominated by the Maya civilization ( 2, 000 BC – AD 250 ), before the Spanish arrived in the 16th century ; although most of the great, Classic-era ( AD 250 – 900 ) Maya cities of the Petén Basin region, in the northern lowlands of Guatemala, had been abandoned by the year AD 1, 000 ; however, the states in the Guatemalan central highlands, flourished until the arrival of Pedro de Alvarado, the Spanish Conquistador who began subjugating the Indian states of Guatemala in 1525.

Some of the best-known civilizations of prehistoric Europe were Minoan and Mycenaean, which flourished during the Bronze Age until they collapsed in a short period of time around 1200 BC.

Their culture flourished until the region began to dry out after 2000 BC.

It flourished under the patronage of the Ptolemaic dynasty and functioned as a major center of scholarship from its construction in the 3rd century BC until the Roman conquest of Egypt in 30 BC.

It flourished under the patronage of the Ptolemaic dynasty and functioned as a major center of scholarship from its construction in the 3rd century BC until the Roman conquest of Egypt in 30 BC.

Lebanon was the home of the Phoenicians, a maritime culture that flourished for over 2, 500 years ( 8000 – 539 BC ).

Eight thousand years ago, south of the great mountain ranges in what is now the Sahara Desert, a vast savanna supported Neolithic hunters and herders whose culture flourished until the region began to desiccate as a result of climatic changes after 4000 BC.

The Greek writer Theophrastus, who flourished during the 4th century BC, uses papuros when referring to the plant used as a foodstuff and bublos for the same plant when used for nonfood products, such as cordage, basketry, or writing surfaces.

The worship of Egyptian deities in particular flourished under the Flavian dynasty, to an extent not seen again until the reign of Commodus.

Government policy was dominated by favorites, but it was also the reign in which the geniuses of Cervantes and El Greco flourished.

In Justinian's era, and partly under his patronage, Byzantine culture produced noteworthy historians, including Procopius and Agathias, and poets such as Paul the Silentiary and Romanus the Melodist flourished during his reign.

Simony is said to have flourished during the reign of Sergius II.

During the reign of Pepin the Short, in the 8th Century, Othmar founded the Carolingian style Abbey of St. Gall, where arts, letters and sciences flourished.

The kingdom flourished during the reign of King Attayawong who built the Dhatu of Hariphunchai in 1108.

* Roman jurist Aemilius Papinianus, one of the famous jurists who flourished during the reign of the late emperor Septimius Severus, refuse to write a legal defence of the murder of Caracalla's brother, Publius Septimius Geta.

During the reign of Justinian it flourished, being surrounded with great fortress walls whose remnants can still be seen today.

Art and music Hamd o Na ' at also flourished significantly during his reign.

" It is probable that he flourished in the first half of the third century, during the reign of Alexander Severus ( 222 – 235 ) and his successors.

80 – 160 AD ) was a Roman sophist and philosopher who flourished during the reign of Hadrian.

During the time of the New Kingdom, and especially under the reign of the rulers of the 19th dynasty, Memphis flourished in power and size, rivalling Thebes both politically and architecturally.

During Khosrau I's ambitious reign, art and science flourished in Persia and the Sassanid Empire reached its peak of glory and prosperity.

Hesychius of Miletus, Greek chronicler and biographer, surnamed Illustrius, son of an advocate, flourished at Constantinople in the 6th century AD during the reign of Justinian.

Diogenianus was a Greek grammarian from Heraclea in Pontus ( or in Caria ) who flourished during the reign of Hadrian.

The Mangalorean Catholic community flourished during the rest of Hyder Ali's reign.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus (, Dionysios son of Aléxandros, of Halikarnassós, c. 60 BC – after 7 BC ) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus.

Caecilius, of Calacte in Sicily, Greek rhetorician, flourished at Rome during the reign of Augustus.

Though his work flourished most under the twenty-seven year reign of Jalal ud-Din Shah Shuja ( Shah Shuja ), it is claimed Hāfez briefly fell out of favor with Shah Shuja for mocking inferior poets ( Shah Shuja wrote poetry himself and may have taken the comments personally ), forcing Hāfez to flee from Shiraz to Isfahan and Yazd, although no historical evidence of this is available.

Marcus Valerius Probus, of Berytus, was a Roman grammarian and critic, who flourished during Nero's reign.

Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, (), a Stoic philosopher, flourished in the reign of Nero ( c. 60 AD ), when his house in Rome was a school of philosophy.

A Protestant, he flourished under Edward VI and survived into the reign of the Roman Catholic Mary I.

The Emperor was also particularly interested in collecting ancient bronzes, bronze mirrors and seals ," in addition to pottery, ceramics and applied arts such as enameling, metal work and lacquer work, which flourished during his reign ; a substantial part of his collection is in the Percival David Foundation in London.

It was his reign that is considered the Golden Age of Polonnaruwa, when trade and agriculture flourished under the patronage of the king, who was so adamant that no drop of water falling from the heavens was to be wasted, and each was to be used toward the development of the land ; hence, irrigation systems that are far superior to those of the Anuradhapura Age were constructed during Parakramabahu's reign, systems which to this day supply the water necessary for paddy cultivation during the scorching dry season in the east of the country.