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.

Lucian of Samosata ( 2nd century AD ) gives the same story but names the runner Philippides ( not Pheidippides ).

* True Story, written by Lucian of Samosata in the 2nd century AD, is a parody of the Odyssey describing a journey beyond the Pillars of Hercules and to the moon.

Writing in the 2nd century AD, the satirist Lucian points out that while temples to the major Olympians were everywhere, none to Prometheus is to be seen.

In the territory of Phoenician Sidon, Lucian of Samosata ( 2nd century AD ) was informed that the temple of Astarte, whom Lucian equated with the moon goddess, was sacred to Europa:

Lucian of Samosata ( 2nd century AD ) also gives the story but names the runner Philippides ( not Pheidippides ).

In the 2nd century the satirist Lucian of Samosata was a sharp critic of Neo-Pythagoreanism.

Lucian in the 2nd century AD in his book True History examines the idea of a crew of men whose ship travels to the Moon during a storm.

According to Lucian of Samosata in the later 2nd century, " they have laid hands on your person at Olympia, my lord High-Thunderer, and you had not the energy to wake the dogs or call in the neighbours ; surely they might have come to the rescue and caught the fellows before they had finished packing up the statue.

Lucian of Samosata in Syria ( 2nd century AD ) in De Dea Syria ( Concerning the Syrian Goddess ) wrote of the Syrian temples he had visited:

The 2nd century writer Lucian gave an account of the Greek Deucalion in De Dea Syria that seems to refer more to the Near Eastern flood legends: in his version, Deucalion ( whom he also calls Sisythus ) took his children, their wives, and pairs of animals with him on the ark, and later built a great temple in Manbij ( northern Syria ), on the site of the chasm that received all the waters ; he further describes how pilgrims brought vessels of sea water to this place twice a year, from as far as Arabia and Mesopotamia, to commemorate this event.

* Lucian, De Dea Syria 12, 13, 28, 33 ( 2nd c. AD )

* The 2nd Volume of Works by Lucian of Samosata ( translated in English ) on the Project Gutenberg Website contains the full text of Of Pantomime

Lucian ( 2nd century AD ) includes Heracles and Asclepius as members of the Twelve, without explaining which two had to give way for them.

Latin India is used by Lucian ( 2nd century ).

* True History, by Lucian ( 2nd century AD ), not necessarily set anywhere near Greece

* True History ( Lucian, 2nd century AD )

It is twice used by the 2nd century Greek writer Lucian: in " Remarks addressed to an illiterate book-fancier " and in his play " Timon the Misanthrope ".

Traill sustained this reputation with The New Lucian, which appeared in 1884 ( 2nd ed., with several new dialogues, 1900 ); but for the rest his labors were upon more serious lines.

Gibbs published the first edition of A Book of Architecture, containing designs of buildings and ornaments in 1728, dedicated to one of his patrons John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, was a folio of his building designs both executed and not, as well as numerous designs for ornaments, there are 150 engraved plates covering 380 different designs, he was the first British architect to publish a book devoted to his own designs.

Temple D is the largest of the four ; it dates back to 2nd century BC with Late Republican restorations, and was devoted to Lares Permarini, but only a small part of it has been excavated ( a street covers the most of it ).

* The Tertullian Project A scholarly site devoted to the study of the 2nd century Latin patristic writer Tertullian.

Temple D is the largest of the four, dates back to 2nd century BC with Late Republican restorations, and was devoted to Lares Permarini, but only a small part of it has been excavated ( a street covers the most of it ).

His views on inspiration were indicated in his work Die Propheten und ihre Weissagungen ( 1860 ), in his essay on the " Alte Inspirationslehre ," in Deutsche Zeitschrift für christliche Wissenschaft ( 1850 ), and in his Gespräche über die vornehmsten Glaubensfragen der Zeit ( 1846 ; 2nd ed., 1867 ).

There is no known US publication of the 2nd Edition, however the text of the 1935 edition was reset, with a ' Preface ', ' Commentary ', and an additional essay, ' How Does a Poem Know When it is Finished ' ( 1963 ), as Poetries and Sciences ( W. W. Norton: New York and London, 1970 ).

Over the 70 years since Roberts's essay, the estimated ages of his comparator undated literary hands have been revised ( in common with most other undated antique papyri ) towards dates a couple of decades older ; while other dated comparator hands have subsequently been suggested with dates ranging into the second half of the 2nd century.

His chief works, distinguished by erudition, richness of thought, and animated exposition, are: " Geschichte der Armenpflege " ( prize essay, Freiburg, 1868, 2nd revised ed., 1884 ); " Die Volkswirtschaft in ihren sittlichen Grundlagen.

In addition to articles she has written for publications such as Artforum Magazine and Art Lies, her canonical essay, " Olympia's Maid: Reclaiming Black Female Subjectivity ," has now been anthologized numerous times, most recently in Amelia Jones, ed, The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, 2nd Edition, Routledge, 2010.

Representing Germany, the RBAI team were awarded 2nd place out of the 28 teams from across Ireland who competed, with RBAI also winning the TE Utley Memorial Award with an essay on the future of Britain in geopolitics.