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To reconcile the contradictory aspects of his character, as well as to explain how Minos governed Crete over a period spanning so many generations, two kings of the name of Minos were assumed by later poets and rationalizing mythologists, such as Diodorus Siculus and Plutarch — " putting aside the mythological element ", as he claims — in his life of Theseus.
Plutarch mentions that ( for much later period ) two days after the beginning of the festival " the priests bring forth a sacred chest containing a small golden coffer, into which they pour some potable water ... and a great shout arises from the company for joy that Osiris is found ( or resurrected ).
The significant historians in the period after Alexander were Timaeus, Polybius, Diodorus Siculus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Appian of Alexandria, Arrian, and Plutarch.
According to Herodotus the country was bound by Solon to maintain his reforms for 10 years, whereas according to Plutarch and the author of Athenaion Politeia ( reputedly Aristotle ) the contracted period was instead 100 years.
At a much later period, but probably relying on older sources, Plutarch confirms that the Spartan women were engaged in such same sex relationships.
Plutarch was writing several centuries after the period of Spartan hegemony had ceased.
Noteworthy in the Roman period were Strabo, a writer on geography ; Plutarch, the father of biography, whose Parallel Lives of famous Greeks and Romans is a chief source of information about great figures of antiquity ; Pausanias, a travel writer ; and Lucian, a satirist.
Other historians who lived through the period ( including Dio Chrysostom, Plutarch and Epictetus ) make no mention of it.
More detail for the whole period is provided by Plutarch, in his biographies of Themistocles, Aristides and especially Cimon.
But this is refuted by Lucullus ' conduct during his administration of Africa province ( c. 77-75 B. C., see above ), the period of his career most conspicuously missing from the Greek biography by Plutarch.
Again, this section is taken mainly from Plutarch, a writer in Greek in the Roman period, and should not be taken as offering verifiable facts about Lycurgus ' life, so much as thoughts of a later age about Spartan institutions and government.
The significant historians in the period after Alexander were Timaeus, Polybius, Diodorus Siculus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Appian of Alexandria, Arrian, and Plutarch.
These actions earned him the enmity of Stesimbrotus of Thasos ( a source used by Plutarch in his writings about this period in Greek history ).
The pre-eminent philosopher in this period was Plutarch ( c. 45-120 ), who defended the freedom of the will, and the immortality of the soul.
Pre-eminence in this period belongs to Plutarch.
In a later period, Plutarch produced On the First Philosophers and their Successors and On the Cyrenaics, and Galen wrote On Plato's Sect and On the Hedonistic Sect ( Epicureans ).

period and mentions
`` In the same five year period that the United States says they ( the detectives ) were engaged in this conspiracy '', Sokol continued, `` these three young men received a total of 26 creditable mentions and many special compensations, and were nominated for the Lambert Tree award and the mayor's medal ''.
Strabo mentions that a Roman colony was created at the location in the reign of Augustus, named Colonia Alexandria Augusta Troas ( called simply Troas during this period ).
Ian Bottomley in his book " Arms and Armor of the Samurai: The History of Weaponry in Ancient Japan " shows a picture of a kusari armour and mentions kusari katabira ( chain jackets ) with detachable arms being worn by samurai police officials during the Edo period.
Before the advent of copyright, anonymous and pseudonymous publication was a common practice in the sixteenth century publishing world, and a passage in the Arte of English Poesie ( 1589 ), the leading work of literary criticism of the Elizabethan period and an anonymously published work itself, mentions in passing that literary figures in the court who wrote " commendably well " circulated their poetry only among their friends, " as if it were a discredit for a gentleman to seem learned " ( Book 1, Chapter 8 ).
The poem is from a later time period: it mentions airplanes, cars and blue jeans.
Emden argued that the Zohar misquotes passages of Scripture ; misunderstands the Talmud ; contains some ritual observances which were ordained by later rabbinical authorities ; mentions The Crusades against Muslims ( who did not exist in the 2nd century ); uses the expression " esnoga ," a Portuguese term for " synagogue "; and gives a mystical explanation of the Hebrew vowel-points, which were not introduced until long after the Talmudic period.
" Based on Heidegger's earliest lecture courses, in which Heidegger already engages Dilthey's thought prior to the period Gadamer mentions as " too late ", scholars as diverse as Theodore Kisiel and David Farrell Krell have argued for the importance of Diltheyan concepts and strategies in the formation of Heidegger's thought.
In the Renaissance, the Silvae thanks to Poliziano helped inspire an entire genre of collections of miscellaneous, occasional poetry called Sylvae which remained popular throughout the period, inspiring works by Hugo Grotius and John Dryden, Dante mentions Statius in De vulgari eloquentia along with Ovid, Virgil and Lucan as one of the four regulati poetae ( ii, vi, 7 ).
Until recently, scholarship on Theodore had focused on only the latter period since it is attested in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English, and also in Stephen of Ripon's Vita Sancti Wilfrithi, whereas no source directly mentions Theodore's earlier activities.
The Brahma Vaivarta Purana mentions a ten thousand year period, starting from the traditional dating of the Kali Yuga epoch of January 14, 3102 BC / BCE, during which bhakti yogis will be present.
And he mentions that there were written accounts, preserved at Babylon with the greatest care, comprehending a period of above fifteen myriads of years: and that these writings contained histories of the heaven and of the sea ; of the birth of mankind ; and of the kings, and of the memorable actions which they had achieved.
Antonio Gouvea, Portuguese envoy to Malabar, mentions in his 16th-century work Jornada that almost all the churches of Saint Thomas Christians followed the models of Hindu temples of that period, but were distinguished by the huge granite cross in the front yard of the church.
Thucydides only mentions this period in a digression on the growth of Athenian power in the run up to the Peloponnesian War, and the account is brief, probably selective and lacks any dates.
The first title, The City of Shifting Waters ( La cité des eaux mouvantes ), provides some information on the period of time itself, while the following title, Empire of a Thousand Planets ( L ' empire des mille planètes ), mentions the precise date of September 23, 2720.
The Life of Cathróe of Metz mentions Loidam Civitatem as the boundary between the Norsemen of Jórvík and the Brythonic Cumbrians of Strathclyde: if this refers to Leeds, it suggests that some or all of Elmet may have been returned to Brythonic rule for a brief period in the first half of the 10th century prior to Anglo-Saxon reconquest, but not as an independent state.
Also, in the Edicts of Ashoka, Ashoka mentions the Hellenistic kings of the period as a recipient of his Buddhist proselytism, although no Western historical record of this event remain:
Music also finds mention in a number of texts from the Gupta period ; Kalidasa mentions several kinds of veena ( Parivadini, Vipanchi ), as well as percussion instruments ( mridang ), the flute ( vamshi ) and conch ( shankha ).
The early medieval history of Ireland, often called Early Christian Ireland, spans the 5th to 8th centuries, from the gradual emergence out of the protohistoric period ( Ogham inscriptions in Primitive Irish, mentions in Greco-Roman ethnography ) to the beginning of the Viking Age.
The medieval Welsh chronicle Brut y Tywysogion mentions many battles in southwest Wales and sackings of Menevia ( St David's ) in the pre-Norman period.
However, the Book of Judges always mentions the years of oppression in contrast to the period of a judge's dispensation ; since the early parts of Eli's rule do not appear to occur during a time of oppression, this appears to rule out any overlap with the Philistine oppression that Samson, a previous judge, had lived under.
He mentions, “ My aim is to write a systematic account of the events within a period of seventy years, covering the reigns of several emperors, of which I have personal experience .” ( 2. 15. 7 ) This reaffirms the notion that Herodian was about 70 years of age when this was written and that the actions did indeed occur during his lifetime.
Hints about the derivation of the name Radyr can be found in Lifris's writings " Life of St Cadog " written between 1081 and 1104 but relating to the earlier period around 530 AD, which mentions a croft or " tref " on the site called Aradur Hen.
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Notices for this period mentions about several schools in Galle with a parent school in existence conducted in the model of a British School.
Further, it mentions Bosnia ( Bosnam ) and Rascia ( Rassa ) as the two Serbian lands, while describing the southern Dalmatian Hum / Zahumlje, Travunia and Dioclea ( most of today's Herzegovina, Montenegro, as well as parts of Croatia and Albania ) as Croatian lands (" Red Croatia "), which is a description considered inconsistent with other historical works from the same period.

period and work
Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??
Research in the period of Grey and Bright led naturally to a more ambitious work.
Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.
Rodent control work for the 10-year period will be aimed at control of the most serious infestations of harmful rodents, such as porcupines and mice, on high-value areas of forage and commercial timberlands.
Approximately 40 percent of the value of the work on roads for access to timber which are planned for this period will be constructed by purchasers of National Forest timber, but paid for by the Government through adjustment of stumpage prices.
Considering the high cost of the F-108 system -- over $4 billion for the force that had been planned -- and the time period in which it would become operational, it was decided to stop further work on the project.
The colonial period has generally left people believing that government can, if it wishes, provide all manner of services for them -- and that with independence free men do not have to work to realize the benefits of modern life.
Few artists have left a life work so eloquent of the period in which they lived.
The honored professionals were awarded for all the work done in a certain category for the qualifying period ; for example, Jannings received the award for two movies in which he starred during that period.
As a young man, Nobel studied with chemist Nikolai Zinin ; then, in 1850, went to Paris to further the work ; and, at 18, he went to the United States for four years to study chemistry, collaborating for a short period under inventor John Ericsson, who designed the American Civil War ironclad USS Monitor.
Copyright law has been amended time and time again since the inception of the law to extend the length of this fixed period where the work is exclusively controlled by the copyright holder.
Farmers were recruited into regiments for this work from August to October — a period of food shortage — under the control of city temple authorities, thus acting as a form of unemployment relief.
His work chronicled in Latin the history of Rome from 96 to 378, although only the sections covering the period 353 – 378 are extant.
Alexander Grothendieck's work during the ` Golden Age ' period at IHÉS established several unifying themes in algebraic geometry, number theory, topology, category theory and complex analysis.
During that period he also released his work on Bertini type theorems contained in EGA 5, published by the Grothendieck Circle in 2004.
Mosel noted that these radical changes, especially the invasion and defeat of Austria, and the occupation of Vienna intertwined with the personal losses that struck Salieri in the same period led to his withdrawal from operatic work.
From 1915 to 1918, Berg served in the Austro-Hungarian Army and during a period of leave in 1917 he accelerated work on his first opera, Wozzeck.
During this period, Athanasius completed his work Four Orations against the Arians and defended his own recent conduct in the Apology to Constantius and Apology for His Flight.
This period brought him work on several European productions, with directors such as Luchino Visconti and Bernardo Bertolucci.
Chen Zhuo's work has been lost, but information on his system of constellations survives in Tang period records, notably by Qutan Xida.
Typically, a work must meet minimal standards of originality in order to qualify for copyright, and the copyright expires after a set period of time ( some jurisdictions may allow this to be extended ).
: “ Who can say that this inward period of humanity did not prepare the way for the productiveness of the Renaissance like a person quiets one's consciousness in contemplation and prayer before creating a great work of art or literature or science?
The wardens looked around the hills, stated Kulesh's evidence, that last time Kulesh had seen his workmate near the fireplace, Kulesh went out to work and Centurashvili left to warm himself more ; but when Kulesh returned to the fireplace, Centurashvili had vanished ; who knows, maybe he got frozen somewhere in snow, he was a weak guy (...) The wardens searched for two more days, and then assumed that it was an escape case, though they wondered why, since his imprisonment period was almost over (...) The crime was there.
Monteverdi's work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the Renaissance style of music to that of the Baroque period .< ref > Halsey, William D., ed.

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