At Lee Simonson's house, I had dined with Edith Hamilton, the nonogenarian rationalist and the charming scholar who had a great popular success with The Greek Way.

The ' far-away light ' () is a reference to St Elmo's Fire, an electrical discharge supposed by ancient Greek mariners to be an epiphany of the Dioscuri, but the meaning of the line was obscured by gaps in the papyrus until reconstructed by a modern scholar — such reconstructions are typical of the extant poetry ( see Scholars, fragments and sources below ).

According to Jesuit scholar Joseph Fitzmyer, the book, " overwhelms the reader by the density and sublimity of the topic with which it deals, the gospel of the justification and salvation of Jew and Greek alike by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ, revealing the uprightness and love of God the father.

Greek scholar Aristotle realized that fossil seashells from rocks were similar to those found on the beach, indicating the fossils were once living animals.

As a comparative grammarian he was much more than as a Sanskrit scholar ,” and yet “ it is surely much that he made the grammar, formerly a maze of Indian subtilty, as simple and attractive as that of Greek or Latin, introduced the study of the easier works of Sanskrit literature and trained ( personally or by his books ) pupils who could advance far higher, invade even the most intricate parts of the literature and make the Vedas intelligible.

A scholar of Greek mythology Walter Burkert writes in Greek Religion, " Nevertheless, there are memories of an earlier aniconic representation, as a pillar in Argos and as a plank in Samos.

Jerome was a scholar at a time when that statement implied a fluency in Greek.

However, scholar Helmut Koester has pointed out the Greek title " Memorabilia " was not applied to Xenophon's work until the Middle Ages, and it is more likely apomnemoneumata was used to describe the oral transmission of the sayings of Jesus in early Christianity.

Origen (; Greek: Ōrigénēs ), or Origen Adamantius ( 184 / 185 – 253 / 254 ), was a scholar and theologian of early Christian interest in Alexandria, and one of the writers regarding the early Church.

A 2nd century AD manuscript by the Greek physician and gynecologist Soranus of Ephesus dealt with neonatal pediatrics ; the Persian scholar and doctor al-Razi ( 865 – 925 ) published a short treatise on diseases among children.

In order to put an end to the marked divergences in the western texts of that period, Damasus encouraged the highly respected scholar to revise the available Old Latin versions of the Bible into a more accurate Latin on the basis of the Greek New Testament and the Septuagint, resulting in the Vulgate.

Pius was not an eminent scholar: his Latin is frequently incorrect, and he knew little Greek, but his writings have high literary qualities.

In 1824, the Classical scholar Antoine-Jean Letronne promised to prepare a new literal translation of the Greek text for Champollion's use ; Champollion promised in return an analysis of all the points at which the three texts seemed to differ.

:" As soon as a noun enters the domain of metaphor, as one modern scholar has pointed out, it clamours for extension ; and satura ( which had had no verbal, adverbial, or adjectival forms ) was immediately broadened by appropriation from the Greek word for “ satyr ” ( satyros ) and its derivatives.

The first clear mention of a sunspot in Western literature, around 300 BC, was by the ancient Greek scholar Theophrastus, student of Plato and Aristotle and successor to the latter.

After World War II, Classical scholar Jacqueline de Romilly pointed out that the problem of Athenian imperialism was one of Thucydides ' central preoccupations and situated his history in the context of Greek thinking about international politics.

* Michael Tarchaniota Marullus, Greek scholar, poet and soldier ( b. c. 1453 )

* Didymus Chalcenterus, Greek scholar and grammarian ( b. c. 63 BC )

* Anthimos Gazis, Greek scholar and philosopher ( d. 1828 )

* Theophilus of Edessa, Greek astrologer and scholar

** Adamantios Korais, Greek scholar ( d. 1833 )

Plutarch, a Greek scholar who lived from 46 CE to 120 CE, wrote Isis and Osiris, which is considered a main source about the very late myths about Isis.

Before entering politics, he had been a classical scholar, becoming a full Professor of Ancient Greek at the age of 25.

The windwheel of the Greek engineer Heron of Alexandria in the 1st century AD is the earliest known instance of using a wind-driven wheel to power a machine.

Hero ( or Heron ) of Alexandria () ( c. 10 – 70 AD ) was an ancient Greek mathematician and engineer who was active in his native city of Alexandria, Roman Egypt.

* Heron S. A., a Greek power company

* Heron or Hero of Alexandria ( c. 10-70 ), ancient Greek mathematician and engineer, creator of Heron's formula

The automata in the Hellenistic world were intended as toys, religious idols, or tools for demonstrating basic scientific principles, including those built by Greek mathematician Hero of Alexandria ( sometimes known as Heron ).

The windwheel of the Greek engineer Heron of Alexandria in the 1st century AD is the earliest known instance of using a wind-driven wheel to power a machine.

The Museum of the Ancient Greek Technology revives 350 amazing inventions of the ancient Greeks ( from the robot-servant of Philon to the " cinema " of Heron and from the hydraulic clock of Archimedes to the analog computer of Antikythera ) covering the period from 2000 B. C.

The first Greek Christians to comment extensively on Aristotle were John Philoponus, Elias, and David in the sixth century, and Stephen of Alexandria in the early seventh century.

A possible etymology is a derivation from the Greek word – aiges = " waves " ( Hesychius of Alexandria ; metaphorical use of ( aix ) " goat "), hence " wavy sea ", cf.

Yet we may with better reason suppose that it came originally from a foreign mythology, and that the accident of its numerical value in Greek merely caused it to be singled out at Alexandria for religious use.

Ammonius Saccas ( 3rd century AD ) () was a Greek philosopher from Alexandria who was often referred to as one of the founders of Neoplatonism.

The Patriarchate of Alexandria ( Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria and Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria ) claims to have been founded by Saint Mark.

Alexandria Troas (" Alexandria of the Troad ", modern ) is an ancient Greek city situated on the Aegean Sea near the northern tip of Turkey's western coast, a little south of Tenedos ( modern Bozcaada ).

His superior command of Greek, and the fact that the vast majority of his writings were in Greek, led some in the West to claim that he was a Greek born in Alexandria.

However, in Coptic literature, St Athanasius is the first patriarch of Alexandria to use Coptic as well as Greek in his writings.

In Coptic literature, St. Athanasius is the first patriarch of Alexandria to use Coptic as well as Greek in his writings.

* Official web site of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa

Category: Greek Orthodox Patriarchs of Alexandria

Written in Greek around 360 by Athanasius of Alexandria, it depicts Anthony as an illiterate and holy man who through his existence in a primordial landscape has an absolute connection to the divine truth, which always is in harmony with that of Athanasius as the biographer.

* Greek Patriarch Cyril II of Alexandria reigned in 12th century

The Greek Polybolos was an ancient repeating ballista reputedly invented by Dionysius of Alexandria in the 3rd century BC.

Category: Greek Orthodox Patriarchs of Alexandria

The Church belongs to the Oriental Orthodox family of churches, which has been a distinct church body since the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451, when it took a different position over Christological theology from that of the Eastern Orthodox Church ( not to be confused with the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria ).

From that point onward, Alexandria would have two patriarchs: the non-Chalcedonian native Egyptian one, now known as the Coptic Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy Apostolic See of St. Mark and the " Melkite " or Imperial Patriarch, now known as the Greek Orthodox Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa.

In the summer of 2001, the Coptic Orthodox and Greek Orthodox Patriarchates of Alexandria agreed to mutually recognize baptisms performed in each other's churches, making re-baptisms unnecessary, and to recognize the sacrament of marriage as celebrated by the other.