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fifth-century and king
The story told in the book of Esther takes place during the rule of Ahasuerus, who has been identified as the fifth-century Persian king Xerxes ( 486-465 ).

fifth-century and Ambrosius
* Ambrosius Aurelianus, fifth-century British leader

fifth-century and 3
The Roman martyrology lists only seven who died on days other than February 14: a priest from Viterbo ( November 3 ); a bishop from Raetia who died in about 450 ( January 7 ); a fifth-century priest and hermit ( July 4 ); a Spanish hermit who died in about 715 ( October 25 ); Valentine Berrio Ochoa, martyred in 1861 ( November 24 ); and Valentine Jaunzarás Gómez, martyred in 1936 ( September 18 ).

fifth-century and battle
However for a generation in the second quarter of the fifth-century BC there was a movement, called the " new painting " and led by Polygnotus, for very large painted friezes, apparently painted on wood, decorating the interiors of public buildings with very large and complicated subjects containing numerous figures at at least half life-size, and including battle scenes.

fifth-century and against
In time, the fifth-century BC Indian rhinoplasty technique — featuring a free-flap graft — was ( re ) discovered by Western medicine in the eighteenth century, during the Third Anglo – Mysore War ( 1789 – 1792 ) of colonial annexation, by the British against Tipu Sultan, when the East India Company surgeons Thomas Cruso and James Findlay witnessed Indian rhinoplasty procedures at the British Residency in Poona.

fifth-century and buried
There are subtle hints here to the pluralistic attitude to suicide in fifth-century suicide, where in some cases a body would be buried and in others it would be left exposed.

fifth-century and at
Embedded in Greek myth, there remain fragments of quite variant tales, hinting at the rich variety of myth that once existed, city by city ; but Hesiod's retelling of the old stories became, according to the fifth-century historian Herodotus, the accepted version that linked all Hellenes.
In fifth-century Athens, Pandora made a prominent appearance in what, at first, appears an unexpected context, in a marble relief or bronze appliqués as a frieze along the base of the Athena Parthenos, the culminating experience on the Acropolis.
Chandragupt gave up his throne in 298 BCE, when he was 42 years old, and became an ascetic under the Jain saint Acharya Bhadrabahu, migrating south with them and ending his days in " sallekhana " at Śravaṇa Beḷgoḷa in present day Karnataka, though fifth-century inscriptions in the area support the concept of a larger southern migration around that time.
Walter Horn suggests that the earliest coenobitic communities, which were established in Egypt by Saint Pachomius, did not result in cloister construction, as there were no lay serfs attached to the community of monks, thus no separation within the walled community was required ; Horn finds the earliest prototypical cloisters in some exceptional late fifth-century monastic churches in southern Syria, such as the Convent of Saints Sergios and Bacchos, at Umm-is-Surab ( AD 489 ), and the colonnaded forecourt of the convent of Id-Dêr, but nothing similar appeared in the semieremitic Irish monasteries ' clustered roundhouses nor in the earliest Benedictine collective communities of the West.
The treatise may be considered " the first attempt at general epistemology bequeathed to us by antiquity ," although this may only be because we have lost fifth-century rhetorical works that took a similar approach.
In some ancient synagogues, such as the fifth-century synagogue in Susia, the Torah scroll was not placed inside the synagogue at all, but in a room adjacent to it, showing that the sacredness of the synagogue does not come from the ark but from its being a house of prayer.
Mount Nebo ( Jordan ) fifth-century monastery Prosphora inscription in Greek language | Greek: " Offering of Caesarios, at the time of Alexios and Theophilos, priests "
The Panhellenion was part of this philhellenism, and was set up, with Athens at the centre, to try to recreate the apparent " unified Greece " of the fifth-century, when the Greeks took on the Persian enemy.

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It is a matter of trying to sort out an earlier fourth-century Saxon element from the later, fifth-century mainstream of Anglo-Saxon invasions.
The fifth-century pagan Zosimus, by contrast, praised Diocletian for keeping troops on the borders, rather than keeping them in the cities, as Constantine was held to have done.
Proclus introduces Euclid only briefly in his fifth-century Commentary on the Elements, as the author of Elements, that he was mentioned by Archimedes, and that when King Ptolemy asked if there was a shorter path to learning geometry than Euclid's Elements, " Euclid replied there is no royal road to geometry.
This account now is thought by some historians to be mostly legendary, although essentially the underlying story of a rebelling mercenary force may be accurate, and the date for the founding of the kingdom of Kent is thought to be approximately the middle of the fifth-century, in agreement with the legend.
That manuscript is now thought to be a 1520 creation from the Latin Vulgate, which likely got the verses from a fifth-century marginal gloss in a Latin copy of I John.
Chinese astronomers, many of them brilliant men by any standards, continued to think in flat-earth terms until the seventeenth century ; this surprising fact might be the starting-point for a re-examination of the apparent facility with which the idea of a spherical earth found acceptance in fifth-century B. C.
The shrine of Dodona was the oldest Hellenic oracle, according to the fifth-century historian Herodotus and in fact, dates to pre-Hellenic times, perhaps as early as the second millennium BC when the tradition probably spread from Egypt.
Manuscripts of Pseudo-Apuleius's fifth-century work from the tenth and eleventh centuries refer to the use of wild poppy Papaver agreste or Papaver rhoeas ( identified as Papaver silvaticum ) instead of Papaver somniferum for inducing sleep and relieving pain.
" Both were motherless, and reinforced via opposite means the civic ideologies of patriarchy and the " highly gendered social and political realities of fifth-century Athens "-Athena by rising above her sex to defend it, and Pandora by embodying the need for it.
A fermented fish sauce called garum was a staple of Greco-Roman cuisine and of the Mediterranean economy of the Roman Empire, as the first-century encyclopaedist Pliny the Elder writes in Historia Naturalis and the fourth / fifth-century connoisseur Apicius relates in his collection of recipes.
Environmental determinism's origins go back to antiquity, where it is first encountered in a fifth-century medical treatise ascribed to Hippocrates: Airs, Waters, Places.
Lipara, Asterope and Chrysothemis are named in a Hesperide scene of the apotheosis of Heracles ( romanised to Hercules ) on a late fifth-century hydria by the Meidias Painter in London They are sometimes called the Western Maidens, the Daughters of Evening or Erythrai, and the " Sunset Goddesses ", designations all apparently tied to their imagined location in the distant west.
The city was originally located on the mainland, but probably during the early fifth-century Ionian Revolt from the Persians, it was moved to an island just off the coast, which Alexander the Great eventually connected to the mainland with a causeway.
Sidonius is " the single most important surviving author from fifth-century Gaul " according to Eric Goldberg.
Hydatius ' main concern throughout is to show the dissolution of civil society in the western Roman empire and in Hispania in particular, and he paints a very dark picture of fifth-century life.
Regardless of his sometimes very sophisticated literary devices, Hydatius ' chronicle is an essential source of information for reconstructing the course of fifth-century events.
That the depredations of the ruling classes were mostly responsible for the uprising of the bagaudae was not lost on the fifth-century writer of historicised polemic, Salvian ; setting himself in the treatise De gubernatione Dei the task of proving God's constant guidance, he declares in book iii that the misery of the Roman world is all due to the neglect of God's commandments and the terrible sins of every class of society.
It was through this position that Pericles shaped fifth-century Athens.
The reliquary is a fifth-century roman head, possibly the head on an emperor, mounted on a wooden core covered with gold plating.
Riddles occur extensively in Old English poetry, drawing partly on an Anglo-Latin literary tradition whose principal exponent was Aldhelm ( c. 639-709 ), himself inspired by the fourth-or fifth-century Latin poet Symphosius.

king and Aurelius
Hengist continues that Vortigern's subjects threaten Vortigern and say that they will bring over Aurelius Ambrosius from Armorica to depose Vortigern and make Aurelius king.
Idealizing Marcus Aurelius, Romanos aspired to be a new " philosopher king ", and similarly desired to imitate the military prowess of Trajan.
At this point, the leading king among the Iazyges, Zanticus, made peace with Marcus Aurelius, yielding up, it is said, 100, 000 Roman captives.
Aurelius burns Vortigern in his castle and becomes king.
They deposed the country's leader, Mannus, and replaced him with their own nominee, who would remain in office until 165 .< ref > Birley, Marcus Aurelius, 130, 279 n. 38 ; " Hadrian to the Antonines ", 163, citing Prosopographia Imperii Romani < sup > 2 </ sup > M 169 .</ ref > ( The Edessene coinage record actually begins at this point, with issues showing Vologases IV on the obverse and " Wael the king " ( Syriac: W ' L MLK ') on the reverse ).
Geoffrey also includes Aurelius Ambrosius, another figure mentioned in the Historia, as a king in his own right, and also includes other characters such as Vortimer and Bishop Germanus of Auxerre.
In 166 CE the first Roman envoy ( s ) sent by " the king of Da Qin Roman Empire, Andun ( Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, r. 161-180 CE )", reached Luoyang after arriving by sea in Rinan Commandery in what is now central Vietnam.
Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator ( c. 485 – c. 585 ), commonly known as Cassiodorus, was a Roman statesman and writer, serving in the administration of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths.
Aurelius Conanus or Aurelius Caninus was a Brythonic king in 6th-century sub-Roman Britain.
Geoffrey makes Aurelius Conanus the nephew to the previous king Constantine, whom he kills after a reign of only three years.
As a mythical king in Geoffrey of Monmouth's treatment of the Matter of Britain, he was the successor of Aurelius Conanus and was succeeded by Malgo.
He says that Wortiporius succeeded Aurelius Conan, and after he was declared king, the Saxons rose against him and brought over their countrymen from Germany in a great fleet, but that these were defeated.
Geoffrey makes Aurelianus ( whom he calls Aurelius Ambrosius ) a king of Britain, an older brother of Uther Pendragon, the father of King Arthur, thus relating Aurelianus and Arthur.
Jiaozhi and Rinan commanderies in what is now northern Vietnam became the main point of entry to China from countries to the west as far away as the Roman Empire, as recorded in the Hou Hanshu: < p >" In the ninth Yanxi year Common Era | CE, during the reign of Emperor Huan, the king of Da Qin Roman Empire, Andun ( Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, r. 161-180 ), sent envoys from beyond the frontiers through Rinan.
Lucius Iulius ( Julius ) Aurelius Septimius Vabalathus Athenodorus ( 266-273 ) was a king of the Palmyrene Empire.
The new king, Aurelius ' brother Uther Pendragon, leads his armies against the Saxons and routs them in a surprise night attack.

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