Most of the ancients, including the first two just mentioned, refer to his work by his name: " Pytheas says ..." Two late writers give titles: the astronomical author Geminus of Rhodes mentions ( ta peri tou Okeanou ), literally " things about the Ocean ", sometimes translated as " Description of the Ocean ", " On the Ocean " or " Ocean ;" Marcianus, the scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, mentions a ( periodos gēs ), a " trip around the earth " or ( periplous ), " sail around.

He modelled his work on the " choral " lyrics of Stesichorus at least in so far as he wrote narratives on mythical themes ( often with original variations from the traditional stories ) and structured his verses in triads ( units of three stanzas each, called " strophe ", " antistrophe " and " epode "), so closely in fact that even the ancients sometimes had difficulty distinguishing between the two poets Whereas however ancient scholars collected the work of Stesichorus into twenty-six books, each probably a self-contained narrative that gave its title to the whole book, they compiled only seven books for Ibycus, which were numbered rather than titled and whose selection criteria are unknown.

Sometimes he misunderstood the astronomical science of the ancients, sometimes that of Copernicus and Tycho Brahe.

The ancients sometimes called signs that are thus positioned " like-ascending ," and considered that there was a working relationship between them -- perhaps not as strong a relationship, however, as signs more directly related, such as by trine, square or sextile aspect.

They were considered by some ancients to be frequently polluted with disgraceful amours, which, according to Quintilian, were only a representation of the conduct of Afranius.

Those who survived the devastation promptly repaired to a site then called " Thermae "-the name deriving from the hot springs-which is today known as Termini ; and the ancients considered Thermae as a successor to Himera.

Many researchers have considered alternative positions for the statue which would have made it more feasible for actual construction by the ancients.

In Greek mythology, Acherusia (), was a name given by the ancients to several lakes or swamps, which, like the various rivers called Acheron, were at some time believed to be connected with the lower world, until at last the Acherusia came to be considered to be in the lower world itself.

He was considered as one of the most eminent of the Greek rhetoricians and sophists by the ancients who wrote about him, such as Philostratus, Synesius, and Photius.

The ancients thought he also wrote the De Bello Africo and De Bello Hispaniensi, but it is now considered more likely that he acted as an editor.

מעין גנים ) is a continuation of Sefer Elim, consisting of the following short treatises: on trigonometry, on the first two books of the Almagest, on astronomy, on astronomical instruments, on Kabbalah ( mainly the Ari ) and the supernatural, on astrology, on algebra, on chemistry, on the aphorisms of Hippocrates, on the opinion of the ancients concerning the substance of the heavens, on the astronomy of the ancients, who considered the motion of the higher spheres due to spirits ( Delmedigo shows that their motion is similar to that of the earth ), on the principles of religion, and mathematical paradoxes.

The ancients also considered 6 a perfect number because the human foot constituted one-sixth the height of a man, hence the number 6 determined the height of the human body.

His works, which are now lost, must have been considered very valuable by the ancients, since they refer to them very frequently ; fragments of his work are preserved in various later authors.

Eusebius ' Onomasticon ( more properly On the Place-Names in the Holy Scripture, the name Eusebius gives to it ) is a work that moderns would recognize as a gazetteer, a directory of place names, but which ancients had no category for.

His work is one of great learning ; he had studied his subject in the best writers, and generally represents the most advanced views of the ancients on astronomy ( or rather astrology ).

The former quality was not consonant with Renaissance art, which boasted its rivalry with the work of the ancients.

Aneau pointed out the obvious inconsistency of inculcating imitation of the ancients and depreciating native poets in a work professing to be a defence of the French language.

Records show that prior to the rebuilding in 1687, the Inn had been " so incommodious " that the " ancients " were forced to work two to a chamber.

What gained Flaxman his general fame was not his work in sculpture proper, but those outline designs to the poets, in which he showed not only to what purpose he had made his own the principles of ancient design in vase paintings and bas reliefs, but also by what a natural affinity, better than all mere learning, he was bound to the ancients and belonged to them.

In the sixth of his famous academical Discourses ( 1774 ), he wrote that the painter may use the work of the ancients as a " magazine of common property, always open to the public, whence every man has a right to take what materials he pleases " ( Reynolds 1775, In 19th-century England, John Ruskin also pleaded for eclecticism.

Newton's scientific work may have been of lesser personal importance to him, as he placed emphasis on rediscovering the occult wisdom of the ancients.

Another work of Accolti's, a " Dialogue " ( 1461 – 63 ), was published at Parma in 1689 ; in this work the author compares the achievements of the moderns to the ancients, in order to prove that the former are in no respect inferior to the latter.

It is prefaced by an address to her husband Romanos Diogenes, in which she describes the work as " a collection of genealogies of gods, heroes, and heroines, of their metamorphoses, and of the fables and stories respecting them found in the ancients ; containing also notices of various philosophers.

He points out that hunter-gatherer societies are typified by play, a view he backs up with the work of Marshall Sahlins ; he recounts the rise of hierarchal societies, through which work is cumulatively imposed, so that the compulsive work of today would seem incomprehensibly oppressive even to ancients and medieval peasants.

" Further on in the same work he says, " This vapor which I have called Gas is not far removed from the Chaos the ancients spoke of.

His most important philosophical work was Zoroaster ( 1593 ), a work of universal philosophy which attempted to recover the lost wisdom of the ancients.

He points out that hunter-gatherer societies are typified by play, a view he backs up with the work of Marshall Sahlins ; he recounts the rise of hierarchal societies, through which work is cumulatively imposed, so that the compulsive work of today would seem incomprehensibly oppressive even to ancients and medieval peasants.

When assured by Mersenne that it was, indeed, the product of the son not the father, Descartes dismissed it with a sniff: " I do not find it strange that he has offered demonstrations about conics more appropriate than those of the ancients ," adding, " but other matters related to this subject can be proposed that would scarcely occur to a sixteen-year-old child.

The form was felt by the ancients to contrast the rising action of the first verse with a falling quality in the second.

We see a universal, comprehensible connection, and with that individuality likewise attains another character and nature, for it is no longer the plastic individuality of the ancients.

They derive from biblical chronology, mostly from the ancient genealogies in the books, Genesis to Second Kings, spanning the creation of the universe as the ancients understood it to the fall of Jerusalem with the destruction of its Temple in year 586 BC.

In shape it is like the sickle ( drepanē, δρεπάνι ), to which it was compared by the ancients: the concave side, with the city and harbour of Corfu in the centre, lies toward the Albanian coast.

The ancients connected Io with the Moon, and in Aeschylus ' Prometheus Bound, where Io encounters Prometheus, she refers to herself as " the horned virgin ", both bovine and lunar.

Some hold them to be marks of erasure ; others believe them to indicate that in some collated manuscripts the stigmatized words were missing, hence that the reading is doubtful ; still others contend that they are merely a mnemonic device to indicate homiletical explanations which the ancients had connected with those words ; finally, some maintain that the dots were designed to guard against the omission by copyists of text-elements which, at first glance or after comparison with parallel passages, seemed to be superfluous.

In August he made an extended journey south to Naples and Pompeii, where he was unimpressed with the former but delighted with the latter: " Here you live with the ancients ; you see their temples, their theatres, their houses in which you find their furniture, their kitchen utensils ..." Bizet began sketching a symphony based on his Italian experiences, but made little immediate headway ; the project, which became his Roma symphony, was not finished until 1868.

This monument was ranked the seventh wonder of the world by the ancients, not because of its size or strength but because of the beauty of its design and how it was decorated with sculpture or ornaments.

Latronianus, executed with Priscillian at Trier, was noted as a poet worthy of the ancients by Jerome.

The malleus gets its name from Latin malleus, meaning " hammer ", the Incus gets its name from Latin Incus meaning " anvil " from incudere meaning " to forge with a hammer ", and the Stapes gets its name from Modern Latin " stirrup ," probably an alteration of Late Latin Stapia related to stare " to stand " and pedem, an accusative of pes " foot ", so called because the bone is shaped like a stirrup-this was an invented Modern Latin word for " stirrup ," for which there was no classical Latin word, as the ancients did not use stirrups.

Nephthys's association with the kite or the Egyptian hawk ( and its piercing, mournful cries ) evidently reminded the ancients of the lamentations usually offered for the dead by wailing women.

The politician and historian K. C. Wu analyzes the origin of the characters for the Yi, Man, Rong, Di, and Xia peoples and concludes that the " ancients formed these characters with only one purpose in mind — to describe the different ways of living each of these people pursued.

His contemporary, Thomas Dempster, called him the " phoenix of his age, a philosopher profoundly skilled in the Greek and Latin languages, and a mathematician worthy of being compared with the ancients.

Instead of confining reason to a string of verifiable axioms, Vico suggests ( along with the ancients ) that appeals to phronêsis or practical wisdom must also be made, as do appeals to the various components of persuasion that comprise rhetoric.

It is my privilege then, to name certain passages from the bible, and examine the teachings of the ancients upon this nature, as the fact is incontrovertible, that the first mention we have of slavery is found in the holy bible, pronounced by a man who was perfect in his generation and walked with God.