However we are told by Longinus that Ammonius wrote nothing, and if Ammonius was the principal influence on Plotinus, then it is unlikely that Ammonius would have been a Christian.

* Greek Chapel of St. Longinus-The Orthodox Greek chapel is dedicated to St. Longinus, a Roman soldier who according the New Testament pierced Jesus with a spear.

The Septuagint, the Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, influenced Longinus, who may have been the author of the great book of literary criticism, On the Sublime, although the true author is still unknown for certain.

* 44 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.

His treachery is considered so notorious that his name has long been synonymous with traitor, a fate he shares with Benedict Arnold, Marcus Junius Brutus ( who too is depicted in Dante's Inferno, suffering the same fate as Judas along with Cassius Longinus ), and Vidkun Quisling.

* March 15 ( the Ides of March ) – Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, is assassinated by a group of Roman senators, amongst them Gaius Cassius Longinus, Marcus Junius Brutus, and Caesar's Massilian naval commander, Decimus Brutus.

His reign is disturbed by religious distractions and a civil war started by Longinus, brother of late emperor Zeno.

* Cassius Longinus, counselor of queen Zenobia, is executed by the Romans for conspiring against Aurelian.

Barry Sadler has written a series of books featuring a character called Casca Rufio Longinus who is a combination of two characters from Christian folklore, Saint Longinus and the Wandering Jew.

Longinus is the name given in medieval and some modern Christian traditions to the Roman soldier who pierced Jesus in his side with a lance, the " Holy Lance " ( lancea, in the Latin Vulgate ) while he was on the Cross.

" Longinus ' legend grew over the years to the point that he was said to have converted to Christianity after the Crucifixion, and he is traditionally venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, and several other Christian communions.

The Holy Lance ( also known as the Spear of Destiny, Holy Spear, Lance of Longinus, Spear of Longinus or Spear of Christ ) is the name given to the lance that pierced Jesus's side as he hung on the cross in John's account of the Crucifixion.

The name of the soldier who pierced Christ's side with a longche is not given in the Gospel of John, but in the oldest known references to the legend, the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus appended to late manuscripts of the 4th century Acts of Pilate, the soldier is identified as a centurion and called Longinus ( making the spear's " correct " Latin name Lancea Longini ).

On the left, is Mary with Mary Magdalene and other female figures ; on the right, John the Evangelist, Saint Longinus the soldier, and other male figures.

It is obvious to the senators and the military that Caligula must be assassinated, and Longinus conspires with Chaerea to carry out the deed.

On the one hand, Pope's work is a parody in prose of Longinus ' Peri Hupsous ( On the Sublime ), in that he imitates Longinus's system for the purpose of ridiculing contemporary poets, but, on the other, it is a blow Pope struck in an ongoing struggle against the " dunces.

The episode focused on Lex Luthor, The Key, and Doctor Polaris raiding the decommissioned Blackhawk Island in order to steal the advanced technology the Blackhawks had acquired on various missions and stored there ( the only item they do steal is the Spear of Longinus ).

Longinus, sometimes referred to as Pseudo-Longinus because his real name is unknown, was a Greek teacher of rhetoric or a literary critic who may have lived in the 1st or 3rd century AD.

Longinus is known only for On the Sublime.

A form of the name Longinus occurs on a miniature in the Rabula Gospels ( conserved in the Laurentian Library, Florence ), which was illuminated by one Rabulas in the year 586.

The chief family of the Cassii in the time of the Republic bears the name of Longinus.

* Johannes Longinus ( 1415 – 1480 ), Latin name of Jan Długosz, a medieval Polish historian

* Saint Longinus, name ascribed to the Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus Christ on the cross

* Lance of Longinus, the name given to the lance that pierced Jesus ' side as he hung on the cross

* Longinus, also called Cassius in some traditions, a name in Christian tradition for the Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus Christ on the cross ; see Saint Longinus

The origin of his gentile name Cassius is unknown ; it can only be conjectured that he was the client to some Cassius Longinus, or that his ancestors had received the Roman franchise through the influence of some Cassius Longinus.

The suggestion that his original name was Dionysius arose only because the 1st century rhetorical treatise On the Sublime was ascribed to a " Dionysius or Longinus " in the medieval period.

His teacher in Athens, Cassius Longinus, gave him the name Porphyrius (" clad in purple "), a punning allusion to the color of the imperial robes.

... Longinus, Longus or Lentullus is the partial name of a governor of Roman Britain between 158 and 161.

* Saint Longinus, there is a tradition that before his conversion to Christianity his name was Cassius

There remains the possibility that the work belongs to neither Cassius Longinus nor Dionysius of Halicarnassus, but, rather, some unknown author writing under the Roman Empire, likely in the 1st century.

* Longinus ( literature ), a Greek literary critic who may have lived in the 1st century, author of On the Sublime

Moreover, about one-third of the treatise is missing ; Longinus ' segment on similes, for instance, has only a few words remaining.

Matters are further complicated in realizing that ancient writers, Longinus ' contemporaries, do not quote or mention the treatise in any way.

Finally, Longinus ' treatise is difficult to explain in an academic setting, given the difficulty of the text and lack of " practical rules of a teachable kind.

Another influence on the treatise can be found in Longinus ' rhetorical figures, which draw from theories by a 1st-century BC writer, Caecilius of Calacte.

* 10th century-The original treatise, before translation, is copied into a medieval manuscript and attributed to " Dionysius or Longinus.

The original work is attributed to " Dionysius Longinus " and most European countries receive translations of the treatise.

Longinus ' treatise is also notable for referencing not just Greek writers such as Homer but also biblical sources such as Genesis.

Plotinus, after reading his treatise On First Principles, remarked that Longinus might be a scholar, but that he was no philosopher.

On 15 March 44 BC, Octavius's adoptive father Julius Caesar was assassinated by a conspiracy led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus.

* Longinus: On the Sublime

In 1674 appeared also his translation of Longinus ' On the Sublime, to which were added in 1693 certain critical reflections, chiefly directed against the theory of the superiority of the moderns over the ancients as advanced by Charles Perrault.

On March 15, 44 BC Caesar was murdered in Rome by a group of conspirators whose most notable members were Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus.

In reading On the Sublime, critics have determined that the ancient philosopher and writer Plato is a " great hero " to Longinus.

Thanks to Italian scholar Amati, Cassius Longinus is no longer assumed to be the writer of On the Sublime.

* Dr George P. Landow, " Longinus " " On Great Writing " and the 18th-century Sublime "

Longinus, On the Sublime.

The first known study of the sublime is ascribed to Longinus: Peri Hupsous / Hypsous or On the Sublime.

In the preface to his work On Ends, which is preserved in Porphyry's Life of Plotinus, Longinus himself relates that from his early age he made many journeys with his parents, that he visited many countries and became acquainted with all those who at the time enjoyed a great reputation as philosophers, among whom the most illustrious were Ammonius Saccas, Origen the Pagan, Plotinus, and Amelius.

** the literary critic Longinus and his essay " On the Sublime ".

Recovering the lost literary criticism of Longinus, On the Sublime.