His work, through Augustine of Hippo, the Cappadocian Fathers, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and several subsequent Christian and Muslim thinkers, has greatly influenced Western and Near-Eastern thought.

It is notable though that in the Acts of the Apostles Barnabas was called Zeus, and Paul was thought to be Hermes by Lycaonians, and this makes some other researchers to believe that Lycaonian language was actually a Greek dialect, the remnant of which can still be found in the Cappadocian Greek language which is classified as a distinct Greek dialect.

Separate language status is most often posited for Tsakonian, which is thought to be uniquely a descendant of Doric rather than Attic Greek, followed by Pontic and Cappadocian Greek of Anatolia.

Pontic is most closely related to Cappadocian Greek, and the Greek spoken in Mariupolis ( and formerly in Crimea, Ukraine ) ( see Mariupolitan Greek ).

He shows familiarity with Proclus, which indicates he wrote no earlier than the 5th century, as well as influence from Saint Clement of Alexandria, the Cappadocian Fathers, Origen of Alexandria, and others.

The event is related with the mission of a Cappadocian woman, Saint Nino, who since 303 had preached Christianity in the Georgian kingdom of Iberia ( Eastern Georgia ).

Among her nine siblings were two of the three Cappadocian Fathers, her younger brothers Basil the Great and Saint Gregory of Nyssa, as well as Peter of Sebaste.

Along with the brothers Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa, he is known as one of the Cappadocian Fathers.

Gregory, his brother Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus are collectively known as the Cappadocian Fathers

Basil, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa are collectively referred to as the Cappadocian Fathers.

* The Cappadocian Fathers: Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Basil the Great.

The Cappadocian Fathers ( or Cappadocian philosophers ) are Basil the Great ( 330-379 ), who was bishop of Caesarea ; Basil's younger brother Gregory of Nyssa ( c. 332-395 ), who was bishop of Nyssa ; and a close friend, Gregory of Nazianzus ( 329-389 ), who became Patriarch of Constantinople.

His parents were Basil and Emmelia of Caesarea-in-Cappadocia and he was brother to St. Macrina the Younger and the two Cappadocian doctors, St.

And in the East, at the death of Athanasius in 373, the Cappadocian Fathers ( Basil of Caesarea, d. 379 ; his brother Gregory of Nyssa, d. 394 ; and Gregory Nazianzus, d. 390 ), took the lead in support of Nicene orthodoxy.

It includes both the Eastern Fathers and those Western authors who wrote before Latin became predominant in the Western Church in the 3rd century, e. g. the early writings collectively known as the Apostolic Fathers, such as the First and Second Epistle of Clement, the Shepherd of Hermas, Eusebius, Origen, and the Cappadocian Fathers Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa.

* Nikephoros II Phocas ( Νικηφόρος Β ') ( 912 – 969, ruled 963 – 969 ) – successful general, married Romanos II's widow, regent for Basil ; assassinated ( Origin: Cappadocian )

In these works, St Gregory Palamas uses a distinction, already found in the 4th century in the works of the Cappadocian Fathers, between the energies or operations ( Gr. energeies ) of God and the essence of God.

Gregory of Nyssa — unlike the other Cappadocian Fathers — was married, according to his own testimony in his work On Virginity that he could not benefit from the subject of his own work.

4 ( October 2002 ): 527-539, is a polemic against Zizioulas ' use of the Cappadocian Fathers, especially St Gregory of Nyssa.

Gregory of Nyssa tells that Gregory Thaumaturgus, when still a pagan, having completed his secular studies, " fell in with Firmilian, a Cappadocian of noble family, similar to himself in character and talent, as he showed in his subsequent life when he adorned the Church of Caesarea.

Ariarathes I (, Ariaráthēs ; ruled 331 BC or 330 BC – killed 322 BC ), the son of the Cappadocian satrap Ariamnes I, was distinguished (, Philádelphos ) for his love of his brother Holophernes, whom he sent to assist his overlord king Artaxerxes III in the recovery of Egypt, 350 BC.

* 963 – The imperial army proclaims Nicephorus Phocas Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea.

: A different John the Cappadocian was Patriarch from 518 – 520.

John the Cappadocian (), also known as Iohannis Orientalis, was a praetorian prefect of the East ( 532 – 541 ) in the Byzantine Empire under Emperor Justinian I ( r. 527 – 565 ).

* Ariarathes I of Cappadocia, ruled 331 BC or 330 BC – killed 322 BC, son of the Cappadocian satrap Ariamnes I

The first reliable grammar of Cappadocian is Modern Greek in Asia Minor: A study of dialect of Silly, Cappadocia and Pharasa ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1916 ), by Richard MacGillivray Dawkins ( 1871 – 1955 ), the first Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, based on fieldwork conducted by the author in Cappadocia in 1909-1911.

Although Cappadocian word order is essentially governed by discourse considerations such as topic and focus, there is a tendency towards the Turkish subject – object – verb word order with its typological correlates ( suffixation and pre-nominal grammatical modifiers ).

Gordius ( in Greek Γoρδιoς ), a Cappadocian by birth, was the instrument of Mithridates Eupator ( 120 – 63 BC ), king of Pontus, in his attempts to annex Cappadocia to Pontus.

Nikephoros Phokas was born in about 912 and belonged to a Cappadocian family which had produced several distinguished generals, including Nikephoros ' father ( Bardas Phokas ), brother ( Leo Phokas ), and grandfather ( Nikephoros Phokas the Elder ), who had all served as commanders of the field army ( domestikos tōn scholōn ).

Other related species in this section include Acer campestre ( Field Maple ), Acer cappadocicum ( Cappadocian Maple ), Acer lobelii ( Lobel's Maple ), and Acer truncatum ( Shandong Maple ).

There are a variety of dialects of the Greek language ; the most notable include Cappadocian, Cretan Greek ( which is closely related to most Aegean Islands ' dialects ), Cypriot Greek, Pontic Greek, the Griko language spoken in Southern Italy, and Tsakonian, still spoken in the modern prefecture of Arcadia and widely noted as a surviving regional dialect of Doric Greek.

He rejects entirely the Ephesine supposition, and considers that the Orientalisms which he recognizes in the Hispano-Gallican Rite are of much later origin than the period of St. Irenæus, and that it was from Milan as a centre that a rite, imported or modified from the East, perhaps by the Cappadocian Arian Bishop Auxentius ( 355-374 ), the predecessor of St. Ambrose, gradually spread to Gaul, Spain, and Britain.

Costakis, 1964 ), resulting in a series of grammars ( although regrettably not all Cappadocian villages were covered ).

The Greek element in Cappadocian is to a large extent Byzantine, e. g. θír or tír " door " from ( Ancient and ) Byzantine Greek θύρα ( Modern Greek θύρα ), píka or épka " I did " from Byzantine Greek έποικα ( Modern Greek έκανα ).

* Southeastern Cappadocian ( Oulagatz ( Uluağaç ), Semendere )

* Farasiot: dialect of Pharasa ( Faraşa ) town ( now Çamlıca village Yahyalı, Kayseri ) and other nearby villages ( Afshar-Köy, Çukuri ), more closely related to Pontic, though both are the closest relatives of Cappadocian

Other bowed instruments have names sharing the same Persian etymology include the Kamancheh ( or Kabak kemane in Turkish ), a spike lute (< tt > 321. 31 </ tt >), and the Cappadocian kemane, a instrument closely related to the Kemenche of the Black Sea with added sympathetic strings.

This links the Syrian Ephrem with the Cappadocian Fathers, and is an important theological bridge between the spiritual view of the two, who held much in common.

The Cappadocian Fathers asserted that God's nature is unknowable to man ; helped to develop the framework of hypostases, or three persons united in a single Godhead ; illustrated how Jesus is the eikon of the Father ; and explained the concept of theosis, the belief that all Christians can be assimilated with God in " imitation of the incarnate Son as the divine model.

* John the Cappadocian, praetorian prefect of the East, is dismissed by empress Theodora for treason.

Like the other Cappadocian Fathers, he was a homoousian, and Against Eunomius affirms the truth of the consubstantiality of the trinity over Eunomius ' Platonic belief that the Father's substance is unengendered, whereas the Son's is engendered.

However, unlike the other Cappadocian fathers, he is not a Doctor of the Church, and he is venerated chiefly in the East.

This unique clan weakness ( distinguishing itself from the old Cappadocian clan ) is believed to be the result of when Giovanni diablerized Lamia and the Lamia bloodline of clan Cappadocian.

This edition is a major scholarly achievement and the philological foundation of the current studies on the Cappadocian Fathers.

In Cappadocian Zinčirli inscriptions he is called ì-li a-bi-a, ' the god of my father '.

Meshech is named with Tubal ( and Rosh, in certain translations ) as principalities of " Gog, prince of Magog " in Ezekiel 38: 2 and 39: 1, and is considered a Japhetite tribe, identified by Flavius Josephus with the Cappadocian " Mosocheni " ( Mushki, also associated with Phrygians or Bryges ) and their capital Mazaca.

Serena: Serena is the Childe of Garinol of Clan Cappadocian.

Her current location is unknown although it is probable that she died due to the extinction of the Cappadocian.

Cappadocian (), also known as Cappadocian Greek or Asia Minor Greek, is a mixed language formerly spoken in Cappadocia ( Central Turkey ).

A survey of Cappadocian speakers and language use is currently in preparation.