Greek fire, extensively used by the Byzantine Empire, is said to have been invented by Kallinikos ( Callinicus ) of Heliopolis, probably about 673.

Kallinikos Lapatis ( Patriarch of Constantinople ), the poet of the Greek rebellion Rigas Fereos and the Byzantine Emperor Ioannes Alisafes were students of the school amongst others.

Sazer-Gans ' main weapon is the Kallinikos ( Greek ; Great Victor ), a double blade halberd.

Callinicus ( or Kallinikos ) ( Καλλίνικος in Greek ) was the exarch of Ravenna ( 597 – 602 or 603 ).

Indeed, the 11th-century chronicler George Kedrenos records that Kallinikos came from Heliopolis in Egypt, but most scholars reject this as an error.

The accuracy and exact chronology of this account is open to question: Theophanes reports the use of fire-carrying and siphon-equipped ships by the Byzantines a couple of years before the supposed arrival of Kallinikos at Constantinople.

Thracians would impale Roman heads on their spears and rhomphaias such as in the Kallinikos skirmish at 171 BC.

In 762 the Caliph al-Mansur built a garrison city at the junction of the Euphrates, Ar-Rafiqa, which merged with the Hellenistic city Kallinikos into the urban agglomeration Ar-Raqqah.

In 1890 three more Cypriot monks, again from Mount Athos, joined him at Stavrovouni: Fathers Varnavas-who would become the next Abbot-and his two brothers Kallinikos and Gregorios.

672, and is ascribed by the chronicler Theophanes to Kallinikos, an architect from Heliopolis in the former province of Phoenice, by then overrun by the Muslim conquests.

There, before a jeering populace, Justinian placed his feet on the necks of Tiberios and Leontios in a symbolic gesture of subjugation before ordering their execution by beheading, followed by many of their partisans, as well as deposing, blinding and exiling Patriarch Kallinikos I of Constantinople to Rome.

Stavrovouni has a long tradition in icon painting and frescoes, and the most famous icon painter monk is Father Kallinikos.

Another similar proposition suggested that Kallinikos had in fact discovered calcium phosphide.

If this is not due to chronological confusion of the events of the siege, it may suggest that Kallinikos merely introduced an improved version of an established weapon.

Kedrenos also records the story, considered rather implausible, that Kallinikos ' descendants, a family called " Lampros " (" Brilliant "), kept the secret of the fire's manufacture, and continued doing so to his day.

Antiochus XIII Dionysus Philopator Kallinikos, known as Asiaticus was one of the last rulers of the Macedonian Seleucid kingdom.

With the help of the Blue charioteers faction, the Patriarch Kallinikos, and his own military prowess, Leontios soon deposed Justinian and seized the throne himself.

* Jannis Kallinikos, scholar and intellectual.

At the announcement of these nominations Isma ' il Pasha sent a message to the hegumen via the Bishop of Rethymno, Kallinikos Nikoletakis.

Kallinikos, a monk from Stavrovouni.

Love affairs ascribed to Apollo are a late development in Greek mythology.

The last stage in the development of the Kouros type is the late archaic period ( 520 – 485 BC ), in which the Greek sculpture attained a full knowledge of human anatomy and used to create a relative harmonious whole.

The ultimate root of " amaranth " is the Greek ( amarantos ), " unfading ," with the Greek word for " flower ," ἄνθος ( anthos ), factoring into the word's development as " amaranth.

This period of Greek art saw a veneration of the human physical form and the development of corresponding skills to show musculature, poise, beauty and anatomically correct proportions.

Even if the text of the Septuagint is proved to be the older, it does not necessarily follow that all these variations first arose after the Greek translation had been made, because two different editions of the same text might have been in process of development side by side ..."

Geoffrey Hosking suggests that fear of being enslaved was a central motivating force for the development of the Greek sense of citizenship.

In non-doctrinal matters the church had occasionally shared from local Greek, Slavic and Middle Eastern traditions, among others, in turn shaping the cultural development of these nations.

Beginning roughly in the 14th century in Florence, and later spreading through Europe with the development of printing press, a Renaissance of knowledge challenged traditional doctrines in science and theology, with the rediscovery of classical Greek and Roman knowledge.

Greek historians greatly contributed to the development of historical methodology.

Its history is important to understanding the origin and development of the Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Canaanite, Israeli, Phoenician, Carthaginian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, Christian and Islamic cultures.

Clientelism and frequent electoral upheavals however remained the norm in Greek politics, and frustrated the country's development.

Many Greek and Arabic texts on mathematics were then translated into Latin, which led to further development of mathematics in medieval Europe.

Greek musical literacy created a flowering of music development.

The term is a transliteration of the Ancient Greek (), meaning " imitator, pretender ", and was used in 1904, by the German evolutionary biologist Richard Semon, best known for his development of the engram theory of memory, in his work Die mnemischen Empfindungen in ihren Beziehungen zu den Originalempfindungen, translated into English in 1921 as The Mneme.

Gnosticism was an important development of ( and departure from ) early Christianity, blending Jewish scriptures and Christian teachings with traditional pagan religion and esoteric Greek philosophical concepts.

Precisely where and when nationalism emerged is difficult to determine, but its development is closely related to that of the modern state and the push for popular sovereignty that surfaced with the French Revolution and the American Revolution in the late 18th century and culminated with the ethnic / national revolutions of Europe, for instance the Greek War of Independence.

These practical developments were followed by the development of theories of light and vision by ancient Greek and Indian philosophers, and the development of geometrical optics in the Greco-Roman world.

Greek tragedy in verse dates to the 6th century B. C., and may have been an influence on the development of Sanskrit drama, just as Indian drama in turn appears to have influenced the development of the bianwen verse dramas in China, forerunners of Chinese Opera.

" Indeed, the nearly fifty years of Greek history that preceded the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War had been marked by the development of Athens as a major power in the Mediterranean world.

The mainstream academic view has been that pankration was the product of the development of archaic Greek society of the seventh century BC, whereby, as the need for expression in violent sport increased, pankration filled a niche of " total contest " that neither boxing or wrestling could.

A phenotype ( from Greek phainein, ' to show ' + typos, ' type ') is the composite of an organism's observable characteristics or traits, such as its morphology, development, biochemical or physiological properties, phenology, behavior, and products of behavior ( such as a bird's nest ).