A small indicator about the earliest possible date may be in which mentions the Province of Cilicia.

There is no mention of Euclid in the earliest remaining copies of the Elements, and most of the copies say they are " from the edition of Theon " or the " lectures of Theon ", while the text considered to be primary, held by the Vatican, mentions no author.

It is around this time that the earliest mentions of Britain begin to appear in the annals of history.

Some of the earliest mentions of the carol occur in the works of the French poet Chretien de Troyes in his series of Arthurian romances.

Jainism is historically connected with the sramana tradition with which the earliest mentions of reincarnation are associated.

The earliest occurrence of the term " red-shift " in print ( in this hyphenated form ), appears to be by American astronomer Walter S. Adams in 1908, where he mentions " Two methods of investigating that nature of the nebular red-shift ".

The Oxford English Dictionary notes the earliest written mention of sushi in English in an 1893 book, A Japanese Interior, where it mentions sushi as " a roll of cold rice with fish, sea-weed, or some other flavoring ".

" Based on Heidegger's earliest lecture courses, in which Heidegger already engages Dilthey's thought prior to the period Gadamer mentions as " too late ", scholars as diverse as Theodore Kisiel and David Farrell Krell have argued for the importance of Diltheyan concepts and strategies in the formation of Heidegger's thought.

The earliest mentions of the Nights refer to it as an Arabic translation from a Persian book, Hazār Afsān ( or Afsaneh or Afsana ), meaning " The Thousand Stories ".

The Nights is almost certainly the earliest surviving literature that mentions ghouls, and many of the stories in that collection involve or reference ghouls.

One of the earliest mentions of the acronym " NGO " was in 1945, when the UN was created.

One of the earliest mentions of the coconut also dates back to the One Thousand and One Nights story of Sinbad the Sailor, he is known to have bought and sold coconuts during his fifth voyage.

" Clark Humphrey, editor of Desperate Times, cites this as the earliest use of the term to refer to a Seattle band, and mentions that Bruce Pavitt of Sub Pop popularized the term as a musical label in 1987 – 88, using it on several occasions to describe Green River.

Thomas Ady's A candle in the dark ... ( 1656 ) contains one of the earliest mentions of hocus pocus, the origin of the word hoax.

The earliest narrative source which mentions Harald, Íslendingabók claims that Iceland was settled during his lifetime.

The earliest commemorations were connected with the Feast of the Epiphany, 6 January: Prudentius mentions the Innocents in his hymn on the Epiphany.

In the thirteenth century, Gonzalo de Berceo, clergyman of the Suso Monastery in San Millán de la Cogolla ( La Rioja ) and Spain's earliest known poet, mentions the wine in some of his works.

The earliest mentions of minors being involved in wars come from antiquity.

Indeed, the earliest mentions of eyeglasses in China occur in the 15th century and those Chinese sources state that eyeglasses were imported.

The Domesday Book of 1086 contains one of the earliest recorded mentions of the village, at the time known as Belaga.

One of the earliest mentions of Kalki is in the Vishnu Purana, which is dated generally to be after the Gupta Empire.

A survey of adjoining property in 1767 mentions " Pierson's house " forming accidentally the earliest documentation of a house on the property, which may be much older.

This appears to be the earliest account which mentions the plague of rats.

The earliest development is somewhat shrouded in mystery ; for instance Flanagan & Nutting's 1835 catalog mentions a ' Penstemon Hybridum ' but does not describe it.

The earliest recorded form of Horus is the patron deity of Nekhen in Upper Egypt, who is the first known national god, specifically related to the king who in time came to be regarded as a manifestation of Horus in life and Osiris in death.

The Apis bull is unique as he is the only Egyptian deity represented solely as an animal, and never as a human with an animal's head — perhaps, because from the earliest of Egyptian religious practices, they were animals sacrificed to the cow goddess and represented the resurrected, renewal of life ( Hapy and later Osiris ).

The earliest written flood myth is found in the Mesopotamian Epic of Atrahasis and Epic of Gilgamesh texts.

Traditional stories handed down by the ancient Romans themselves explain the earliest history of their city in terms of legend and myth.

There is a myth that the earliest reference to thirteen being unlucky or evil is from the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi ( circa 1780 BCE ), where the thirteenth law is omitted.

A third is archeologist Lawrence H. Keeley, who has criticised a " widespread myth " that " civilized humans have fallen from grace from a simple primeval happiness, a peaceful golden age " by uncovering archeological evidence that he claims demonstrates that violence prevailed in the earliest human societies.

The founding of Rome can be investigated through archaeology, but traditional stories handed down by the ancient Romans themselves explain the earliest history of their city in terms of legend and myth.

Both perspectives appear as early as the Pyramid Texts, the earliest source of the myth.

One of the earliest recordings of a play inspired by the myth of Myrrha is in the Antiquities of the Jews, written in 93 A. D. by the Roman-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus.

It is a myth that one of the earliest pieces to use the piccolo was Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, premiered in December 1808.

The earliest version of the flood myth is preserved fragmentarily in the Eridu Genesis, written in Sumerian cuneiform and dating to the 17th century BC, during the 1st Dynasty of Babylon when the language of writing and administration was still Sumerian.

Within a generation or two after 1212, the idea of children going on crusade became ingrained in history, retold countless times over the centuries with many different versions, and only in the 20th century has the myth been re-examined by looking at the earliest sources ( see Historical studies below ).

Wells believed that the Jesus of these earliest Christians is not based on a historical character, but a pure myth, derived from the mystical speculations based on the Jewish Wisdom tradition.

The Tiamat myth is one of the earliest recorded versions of the Chaoskampf, the battle between a culture hero and a chthonic or aquatic monster, serpent or dragon.

For Rome's earliest period, history and myth are difficult to distinguish.

Perhaps the earliest study asked people to judge sexual orientation from video clips, with results concluding that it was a myth.

The earliest written record of this language is Sureq Galigo, the epic creation myth of the Bugis people.

In the earliest version of this myth, the bird is a goose ( it is not explained where the goose originates ).

The 1985 publication is not readily available from any U. S. library, which explains why Tkacz's finding was easy to miss as the earliest known " in print " rebuttal of the Baltimore origin myth.

If so, it would be the earliest known depiction of myth in the history of Greek sculpture.

The earliest mention of these myths are in both Walter Map's De Nugis Curianium ( 1190 ) and the Welsh myth cycle of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi ( ca.