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He lived in Athens as a vegetarian bachelor, prosperous and generous to his friends, until the end of his life, except for a voluntary one year exile, which was designed to lessen the pressure put on him by his political-philosophical activity, little appreciated by the Christian rulers ; he spent the exile traveling and being initiated into various mystery cults as befitted his universalist approach to religion, trying to become " a priest of the entire universe ", worshiping all forms of the One God.
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He was a native of Aphrodisias in Caria, and lived and taught in Athens at the beginning of the 3rd century, where he held a position as head of the Peripatetic school.
Traditional accounts of the author's life are found in many commentaries and include details such as these: He was born on Salamis Island around 484 BC, the son of Mnesarchus, a retailer who lived in a village near Athens.
Outraged, Minos went to Athens to avenge his son, and on the way he camped at Megara where Nisos lived.
Plutarch indicates that, on account of his mother's background, Themistocles was considered something of an outsider ; furthermore the family appear to have lived in an immigrant district of Athens, Cynosarges, outside the city walls.
Herodotus reports another version, in which Medea and her son Medus fled from Athens to the Iranian plateau and lived among the Aryans, who then changed their name to the Medes.
Greek Dorians lived in Sparta amongst other places, a more rural area, and were supposed by the ancient Greeks to have spoken laconically and in a language that was thought harsher in tone and more phonetically conservative than the Attic spoken in Athens.
Plutarch mentions a legend that Deucalion and Pyrrha had settled in Dodona, Epirus ; while Strabo asserts that they lived at Cynus, and that her grave is still to be found there, while his may be seen at Athens ; he also mentions a pair of Aegean islands named after the couple.
He regards the Athenians as having lived in scattered independent settlements in Attica but at some time after Theseus they changed residence to Athens, which was already populated.
Metics whose family had lived in Athens for generations may have been tempted to " pass " as citizens.
Driven out of Sicily by Agathocles, he migrated to Athens, where he studied rhetoric under a pupil of Isocrates and lived for fifty years.
In his later years he seems to have lived at Athens, teaching rhetoric.
Sextus Empiricus ( c. 160-210 AD ), was a physician and philosopher, and has been variously reported to have lived in Alexandria, Rome, or Athens.
The Cynicism ( philosophy ) | Cynic philosopher Diogenes of Sinope | Diogenes, pictured by Jean-Léon Gérôme | Gérôme with the large jar in which he lived ; when strangers at the inn were expressing their wish to catch sight of the great orator Demosthenes, Diogenes is said to have stuck out his middle finger and exclaimed " this, for you, is the Demagogue # History and definition of the word | demagogue of the Classical Athens | Athenians "
The playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides all lived and worked in fifth century Athens, as did the historians Herodotus and Thucydides, the physician Hippocrates, and the philosopher Socrates.
He lived for some time in Athens.
Nothing is known of the events in his life, except that he lived some time in Athens.
133 – 190 ) was a Father of the Church, a Proto-orthodox Christian apologist who lived during the second half of the 2nd century of whom little is known for certain, besides that he was Athenian ( though possibly not originally from Athens ), a philosopher, and a convert to Christianity.
He lived in Athens and Alexandria toward the end of the 5th century AD.
His writings contain many allusions to the history of Greece, while there is little reference to Rome ; hence it is inferred that he lived longer in Greece, perhaps as a professor at Athens.
Some of the most important figures of Western cultural and intellectual history lived in Athens during this period: the dramatists Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides and Sophocles, the physician Hippocrates, the philosophers Aristotle, Plato and Socrates, the historians Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon, the poet Simonides and the sculptor Phidias, The leading statesman of this period was Pericles, who used the tribute paid by the members of the Delian League to build the Parthenon and other great monuments of classical Athens.
Because of his reputation and the fact that he lived in Paris, he was chosen to represent Greece in a congress called by Pierre de Coubertin in June 1894, which decided to re-establish the Olympic Games and to organise them in Athens in 1896, designating Vikelas to preside over the organisation committee.
Burton also lived in Athens, Georgia for a while, where his trip-hop work was released under the name " Pelican City ".
Antiphon the Sophist lived in Athens probably in the last two decades of the 5th century BC.
lived and vegetarian
" What we can safely assume is that he was indeed a Pythagorean and as such, in conformity with the Pythagorean tradition, opposed animal sacrifice, and lived on a frugal, strictly vegetarian diet.
Blixa was a vegetarian for 30 years, breaking with this lifestyle due to the difficulties of eating vegetarian in China, where he lived with his wife.
In 1830 Snow became a member of the Temperance Movement, and lived for a decade or so as a vegetarian and teetotaler.
While other Chinese sources was found to discredit the Liu An invention theory, stating Liu An lived with a lot of vegetarian monks and the method was taught by them, or it is the Chinese daoists that was recruited by him used alchemy methods and made both soy milk and bean curd in a more alchemical method as medicines of eternal life, and Liu An is only the powerful noble at that time where he can order the mass-production of such items and spread it around thus making him famous for soy milk and bean curd.
lived and bachelor
While the house was under construction, the young Mudds lived with Frankie's bachelor brother, Jeremiah Dyer, finally moving into their new home in 1859.
In effect, he lived like a bachelor, as was the case when he met burlesque performer Gypsy Rose Lee and began an open relationship with her.
For years Hart was a bachelor and lived with his widowed mother.
( Friday was a bachelor who lived with his mother ; Romero, a Mexican-American from Texas, was an ever fretful husband and father.
A group of ( mainly bachelor ) professors have lived together for some years in a New York City residence, compiling an encyclopedia of all human knowledge.
It appears that he failed to win his " Idea ," and lived and died a bachelor.
He was a bachelor who lived alone.
In 1961, Jackson, called by Time the Senate's " most eligible bachelor ," married Helen Hardin, a 28-year old Senate receptionist, but Jackson didn't move out of his childhood home where he lived with his unmarried sisters for several years.
He always lived a bachelor, was generally esteemed, and indeed very popular.
As Diệm was a lifelong bachelor, and because she and her family lived in the president's palace, she was considered to be the first lady.
He lived in Leicestershire for many years as a bachelor, before eventually marrying Elizabeth Fortescue ( died aft.
A lifelong bachelor, in 1920, eleven years after Trask's tragic death in a railroad accident, Peabody married his widow Katrina, and they lived at Yaddo until her death in 1922.
He was considered a women-hater and lived as a bachelor until he gave in to a woman and married her in East Clandon.
He lived with his bachelor brother Henry in the family house in Walcot Place, made a valuable collection of historical glass.
He was a shy bachelor who lived with his mother and two younger sisters.
The bachelor perfume salesman lived in a neighborhood with many airline stewardesses, fashion models, secretaries, and other single people on the East Side of Manhattan near the Queensboro Bridge, and hoped that opening a bar would help him meet women.
Robeson lived a modest bachelor lifestyle in stark contrast to his luxurious home while he was Secretary of the Navy in the Grant Administration.
In 1986, he gained practical work experience in a number of financial businesses in Paris where he lived as a bachelor and during the early years of his marriage.
His Indian period had made him independent, and he lived a bachelor life at Kensington till his death.
He later settled in a small farming community outside Ciego de Avila, where he lived out his days as a perpetual bachelor.
He was, however, suddenly afflicted with total blindness in 1747, which put an end to his efforts ; in that same year, having been a lifelong bachelor, he decided to marry a noblewoman from Spoleto, who bore him three children, Giuseppe, Maria, and another who lived only a few days.
Cramer, a bachelor, was born in Amsterdam, and lived on Oudezijds Voorburgwal 131 close to the Oude Kerk.
In 1811, social convention and duty to his king, led Sir Thomas Maitland to leave the country for Malta, where he lived and died as a bachelor.
A bachelor, a teetotaller, an excellent cook of spiced food, a visitor to the Calcutta Horse Racing Turf, a traditionalist at heart yet posing as a bohemian in a tongue-in-cheek style, and by any standards an eccentric, he lived a simple, modest and spartan life at his rented flat in South Calcutta, retiring in 1971 from the Life Insurance Corporation of India where he held a clerical position throughout his tenure ; this, despite his being a post-graduate in economics from the Calcutta University.
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