A 2nd-century colored mosaic of Mithra-Sol is conserved in the Glyptothek, Munich ; Mithraic bas-relief of animals representing the stages of the initiate's progress were reused in the Church of Santa Croce, and Mithraic inscriptions are recorded.

The late 2nd-century writer Tertullian noted that Marcion, " expunged the Gospel of Luke all the things that oppose his view ... but retained those things that accord with his opinion ".

A 2nd-century Greek, Celsus, wrote a True Discourse attacking the Christian sects as a threat to the Roman state.

It took its name from a poem by St. Irenaeus, a 2nd-century Bishop of Lyon who wrote: The glory of God is a man truly alive.

Along with the Edicts of Ashoka, his legend is related in the later 2nd-century

Soranus of Ephesus, a 2nd-century Greek gynecologist, was Hippocrates ' first biographer and is the source of most personal information about him.

Another criticism of image veneration is found in the non-canonical 2nd-century Acts of John ( generally considered a gnostic work ), in which the Apostle John discovers that one of his followers has had a portrait made of him, and is venerating it:

" It notes that, " when the first direct evidence of infant Baptism appears in the second century, it is never presented as an innovation ," that 2nd-century Irenaeus treated baptism of infants as a matter of course, and that, " at a Synod of African Bishops, St. Cyprian stated that ' God's mercy and grace should not be refused to anyone born ', and the Synod, recalling that'all human beings ' are ' equal ', whatever be ' their size or age ', declared it lawful to baptize children ' by the second or third day after their birth '.

The oldest surviving example of such an artifact is the globe of the Farnese Atlas sculpture, a 2nd-century copy of an older ( Hellenistic period, ca.

The 2nd-century Shepherd of Hermas mentions a Clement whose office it is to communicate with other churches ; most likely, this is a reference to Clement I.

The story's first appearance in any source other than Matthew is in the 2nd-century apocryphal Protoevangelium of James of c. 150 AD, which excludes the Flight into Egypt and switches the attention of the story to the infant John the Baptist:

The death of Dirce is depicted in a marble statue, a 1st-century AD Roman Copy of a 2nd-century BC Hellenistic Greek original known as the Farnese Bull, which is now in the collections of the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.

The 2nd-century AD grammarian Festus defined penus, however, as " the most secret site in the shrine of Vesta, which is surrounded by curtains.

The 2nd-century temple of Hercules Victor is being excavated.

The Almagest is a 2nd-century mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths.

Here is the cathedral church of St Luzius ( who is the patron saint of Coire, and is supposed to be a 2nd-century British king Lucius, though in reality the name probably arose from a confusion between Lucius of Cyrene, miswritten curiensis, with the Roman general Lucius Munatius Plancus, who conquered Raetia ).

Galen, a physician in 2nd-century Rome, dissected pigs and goats, and is known as the " father of vivisection.

Nonius quotes Aulus Gellius and other 2nd-century compilers, and is himself quoted and praised three times by Priscian in the 5th century, and so must have lived between these dates.

Most of the biographical material comes from four sources: two are texts entitled Life of Apollonius found in the scholia on his work ( Vitae A and B ); a third is an entry in the 10th-century encyclopaedia the Suda ; and fourthly a 2nd-century BCE papyrus, P. Oxy.

From 301 to 198 BCE the area was under the control of the Ptolemies, and Beit She ' an is mentioned in 3rd – 2nd-century BC written sources describing the Syrian Wars between the Ptolemid and Seleucid dynasties.

An opposite depiction is the salutatio of a diogmites, a military police officer, who raises his right arm to greet his commander during his adventus on a relief from 2nd-century Ephesus.

The Jerusalem Talmud, talmud meaning " instruction ", " learning ", (, Talmud Yerushalmi, often Yerushalmi for short ), is a collection of Rabbinic notes on the 2nd-century Mishnah ( Jewish oral tradition ) which was compiled in the Land of Israel during the 4th-5th centuries, then divided between the Byzantine provinces of Palaestina Prima and Palaestina Secunda.

Roman conservatism finds succinct expression in an edict of the censors from 92 BCE, as preserved by the 2nd-century historian Suetonius: “ All new that is done contrary to the usage and the customs of our ancestors, seems not to be right .” But because the mos maiorum was a matter of custom, not written law, the complex norms it embodied evolved over time.

Saint Lucius is a legendary 2nd-century King of the Britons traditionally credited with introducing Christianity into Britain.

Although the 2nd-century AD dialogue, Erōtes, found the cities of Lycia " interesting more for their history than for their monuments, since they have retained none of their former splendor ," many relics of the Lycians remain visible today.

The 2nd-century grammarian Festus explains their name as the participle of the Latin verb nitor, niti, nixus, " to support oneself ," also " strive, labor ," in this sense " be in labor, give birth.

Except for Irenaeus ' 2nd-century reference to many in the church speaking all kinds of languages ' through the Spirit ', and Tertullian's reference in 207 AD to the spiritual gift of interpretation of tongues being encountered in his day, there are no other known first-hand accounts of glossolalia, and very few second-hand accounts among their writings.

Included in their passages are a 2nd-century fresco of the Last Supper and other valuable artifacts.

Numbers were restored to their early 2nd-century level of c. 400, 000 ( but probably not to their 211 peak ) under Diocletian ( r. 284 – 305 ).

As a youth he worked at a vineyard until, according to the 2nd-century AD geographer Pausanias, the god Dionysus visited him in his sleep and commanded him to turn his attention to the nascent art of tragedy.

According to the 2nd-century AD author Aelian, Aeschylus's younger brother Ameinias helped acquit his brother by showing the jury the stump of the hand that he lost at Salamis, where he was voted bravest warrior.

The 2nd-century work Shepherd of Hermas also taught that Jesus was a virtuous man filled with the Holy Spirit and adopted as the Son.

Christian Gnosticism did not fully develop until the mid-2nd century and 2nd-century Christians concentrated much effort in examining and refuting it.

Judah the Prince, (, Yehudah HaNasi ) or Judah I, also known as Rabbi or Rabbenu HaQadosh (, " our Master, the holy one "), was a 2nd-century CE rabbi and chief redactor and editor of the Mishnah.

The 2nd-century Greek geographer Pausanias provides the greatest amount of information in the eighth book of his Description of Greece, where he discusses Lykaion ’ s mythological, historical, and physical characteristics in detail.

In his Stratagems, the 2nd-century Macedonian rhetorician Polyaenus describes a battle between the Spartans and Demetrius of Macedon in 294 BC.

A 2nd-century terracotta relief from the Ostian tomb of Scribonia Attice, wife of physician-surgeon M. Ulpius Amerimnus, details a childbirth scene.

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

The doctrine of original sin was first developed in the 2nd-century Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons's struggle against Gnosticism.

" If Pseudo-Ignatius dates as early as 140, its admonition must be considered important evidence on 2nd-century Sabbath and Lord's Day observance.

The 1st-or 2nd-century Epistle of Barnabas or Pseudo-Barnabas on regards " Sabbaths of the present age " as unacceptable in favor of one spiritual seventh-day Sabbath that ushers in " the eighth day " and commencement of a new world.

Reasons for this include its linguistic differences from 1 Peter, its apparent use of Jude, possible allusions to 2nd-century gnosticism, encouragement in the wake of a delayed parousia, and weak external support.

A 2nd-century Lacquerware | lacquer-painted scene on a basket box showing famous figures from Chinese history who were paragons of filial piety ; Zhang Heng became well-versed at an early age in the Five Classics | Chinese classics and the philosophy of China's earlier sages.

Prophecy itself was not controversial within 2nd-century Christian communities.

Mary Wallace suggested a 2nd-century date and a Pergamene origin on the basis of the sandal type.