In the 2nd and 3rd century CE, those at Didyma and Clarus pronounced the so-called " theological oracles ", in which Apollo confirms that all deities are aspects or servants of an all-encompassing, highest deity.

The type is represented by neo-Attic Imperial Roman copies of the late 1st or early 2nd century, modelled upon a supposed Greek bronze original made in the second quarter of the 5th century BCE, in a style similar to works of Polykleitos but more archaic.

In the late 2nd century CE floor mosaic from El Djem, Roman Thysdrus, he is identifiable as Apollo Helios by his effulgent halo, though now even a god's divine nakedness is concealed by his cloak, a mark of increasing conventions of modesty in the later Empire.

The earliest known written documentation of the Chinese abacus dates to the 2nd century BC.

It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century AD astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations.

* Metrodorus of Stratonicea ( late 2nd century BC )

* Gotama ( c. 2nd – 3rd century CE ), wrote Jaimini, author of Purva Mimamsa Sutras.

* Alcinous ( philosopher ) ( 2nd century AD )

* Take two: Aspirin, New uses and new dangers are still being discovered as aspirin enters its 2nd century.

Akkadian gradually replaced Sumerian as a spoken language somewhere around the turn of the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BC ( the exact dating being a matter of debate ), but Sumerian continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial, literary and scientific language in Mesopotamia until the 1st century AD.

A 2nd century AD papyrus of Alcaeus, one of the many such fragments that have contributed to our greatly improved knowledge of Alcaeus ' poetry during the 20th century ( P. Berol.

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

), one 2nd century BC ( Basil Mandilaras, ' A new papyrus fragment of the Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi Platon 42 ( 1990 ) 45 – 51 ) and one 2nd or 3rd century AD ( University of Michigan pap.

Alexander was a native of Aphrodisias in Caria and came to Athens towards the end of the 2nd century.

The document is dated to the 2nd century BC and, in the form of a vision, briefly discusses dualism and the Watchers:

* Andronicus ben Meshullam, a Jewish scholar of the 2nd century BC

The numerals used in the Bakhshali manuscript, dated between the 2nd century BCE and the 2nd century CE.

* Kundakunda ( 2nd Century CE ), exponent of Jain mysticism and Jain nayas dealing with the nature of the soul and its contamination by matter, author of Pañcāstikāyasāra ( Essence of the Five Existents ), the Pravacanasāra ( Essence of the Scripture ) and the Samayasāra ( Essence of the Doctrine )

* Umāsvāti or Umasvami ( 2nd Century CE ), author of first Jain work in Sanskrit, Tattvārthasūtra, expounding the Jain philosophy in a most systematized form acceptable to all sects of Jainism.

The temple seems to have been burnt again during the Third Sacred War ( 355 – 346 BCE ), and was in a very dilapidated state when seen by Pausanias in the 2nd century CE, though some restoration, as well as the building of a new temple, was undertaken by Emperor Hadrian.

The Ajanta Caves ( Ajiṇṭhā leni ; Marathi: अज िं ठ ा ल े ण ी) in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, India are 30 rock-cut cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to the 600 CE.

There are three main versions of the Book of Daniel: the twelve-chapter version preserved in the Masoretic text and two longer Greek versions ( the original Septuagint version, c. 100 BCE, and the later Theodotion version, c. 2nd century CE ).

* Hill, John E. Through the Jade Gate to Rome: A Study of the Silk Routes during the Later Han Dynasty, 1st to 2nd Centuries CE.

A 2nd century CE Greek known as Heraclitus the paradoxographer --- not to be confused with the 5th century BCE Greek philosopher Heraclitus --- claimed Euhemeristically that Cerberus had two pups which were never away from their father, as such Cerberus was in fact a normal ( however very large ) dog but artists incorporating the two pups into their work made it appear as if his two children were in fact extra heads.

These scholars date the epistle from the 80s CE up to the end of the 2nd century.

The Essenes ( in Modern but not in Ancient Hebrew:, Isiyim ; Greek: Εσσήνοι, Εσσαίοι, or Οσσαίοι ; Essēnoi, Essaioi, Ossaioi ) were a sect of Second Temple Judaism that flourished from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE which some scholars claim seceded from the Zadokite priests.

Part of the Zliten mosaic from Libya ( Leptis Magna ), about 2nd century CE.

Mosaics dating from the 2nd through 4th centuries CE have been invaluable in the reconstruction of combat and its rules, gladiator types and the development of the munus.

The Jewish calendar's epoch ( reference date ), 1 Tishrei 1 AM, is equivalent to Monday, 7 October 3761 BCE in the proleptic Julian calendar, the equivalent tabular date ( same daylight period ) and is about one year before the traditional Jewish date of Creation on 25 Elul AM 1, based upon the Seder Olam Rabbah of Rabbi Yossi ben Halafta, a 2nd century CE sage.

Pattinapalai, a Tamil poem of the 2nd century CE, describes goods from Kedaram heaped in the broad streets of the Chola capital.

Heracles as a boy strangling a snake ( marble, Roman artwork, 2nd century CE )

His 11th feat was to capture the apple of Hesperides ( Gilded bronze, Roman artwork, 2nd century CE )

( Marble, Roman copy of the 1st – 2nd century CE )

Akkadian gradually replaced Sumerian as the spoken language of Mesopotamia somewhere around the turn of the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BCE ( the exact dating being a matter of debate ), but Sumerian continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial, literary and scientific language in Mesopotamia until the 1st century CE.

Through the Jade Gate to Rome: A Study of the Silk Routes during the Later Han Dynasty, 1st to 2nd Centuries CE.

The Mishnah reflects debates between 1st century BCE and 2nd century CE by the group of rabbinic sages known as the Tannaim.

The Essenes ( in Modern but not in Ancient Hebrew:, Isiyim ; Greek: Εσσηνοι, Εσσαιοι, or Οσσαιοι ; Essēnoi, Essaioi, Ossaioi ) were a Jewish sect that flourished from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE which some scholars claim seceded from the Zadokite priests.

The 2nd century geographer Ptolemy states that the Carpiani or Carpi ( believed to have occupied Moldavia ) separated the Peucini from the other Bastarnae " above Dacia ".

Sudovia and neighboring Galindia were two Baltic tribes or nations mentioned by the Greek geographer Ptolemy in the 2nd Century A. D. as Galindai and Soudinoi, ( Γαλίνδαι, Σουδινοί ).

The 2nd century geographer Claudius Ptolemy mentions that the Kasouarioi lived to the east of the Abnoba mountains, in the vicinity of Hesse.

The Greek geographer Ptolemy had already written of two Baltic tribe / nations by name, the Galindai and Soudinoi ( Γαλίνδαι, Σουδινοί ) in the 2nd Century A. D.

* Hipparchus ( 2nd century BC ) Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician

In 1868 he was invited by the German geographer August Petermann to participate in the 1869-1870 2nd German North Polar Expedition ( Germania under Carl Koldewey ).

Agatharchides ( Ἀγαθαρχίδης or Agatharchus Ἀγάθαρχος ) of Cnidus was a Greek historian and geographer ( flourished 2nd century BC ).

According to the ancient geographer Ptolemy, writing in the 2nd century AD, Dunium was the main settlement of the Durotriges.

By the 2nd century, the geographer Ptolemy gave coordinates for a surprisingly detailed map of Ireland, naming tribes, towns, rivers and headlands.

The Greek geographer Ptolemy drew a map of Ireland in the 2nd century which included the Boyne, which he called Βουουινδα ( Bououinda ), and somewhat later Giraldus Cambrensis called it Boandus.

After viewing the walls of the ruined citadel in the 2nd century AD, the geographer Pausanias wrote that two mules pulling together could not move even the smaller stones.

The 2nd century geographer, Ptolemy, locates Rhapta at latitude 8º south, which is the exact latitude of the Rufiji Delta and Mafia Island.

The 2nd century geographer Ptolemy produced a map of Britain in his Geography, in which he describes the landmarks and peoples of the island.

* Dionysius Periegetes, Greek geographer, 2nd or 3rd century

The 2nd century geographer Claudius Ptolemy lists the Agathyrsi among the tribes in ' European Sarmatia ', between the Vistula and the Black Sea

Pausanias (; Ancient Greek: Pausanías ) was a Greek traveler and geographer of the 2nd century AD, who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius.

The ancient Greeks also had knowledge of the Antrim Coast and Ptolemy, the astronomer and geographer of the 2nd century AD, referred to Islandmagee on one of his maps.

In 1607 the Elizabethan antiquarian William Camden noted in his work " Brittania " ( a topographical and historical survey of all of Great Britain and Ireland ) that Canvey Island ( which he called Island Convennon ) was documented in the 2nd century by the Alexandrian geographer Ptolemy.

In the 2nd century AD, the geographer Claudius Ptolemy listed some Borusci living in European Sarmatia ( in his Eighth Map of Europe ), which was separated from Germania by the Vistula Flumen.

: There is another Artemidorus Ephesius, a geographer who lived between the 2nd and 1st centuries BC.

The river was known to the Romans as the Itouna, as recorded by the Greek geographer Claudius Ptolemaeus ( Ptolemy ) in the 2nd century AD.

Pausanias, who lived in the 2nd century AD, was also a geographer.

* In the 2nd century AD, Ptolemy, the geographer and astronomer from Alexandria, drafted a map that shows the city of Albanopolis ( located Northeast of Durrës ).

One of the earliest surviving accounts of Telavi is from the 2nd century AD, by Greek geographer Claudius Ptolemaeus, who mentions the name Teleda ( a reference to Telavi ).