| Anaximander Anaximander (Ancient Greek: ) (c. 610 BC–c. Anaximander
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| Alcaeus of Mytilene Alcaeus (Alkaios, Attic Greek Ἀλκαῖος) of Mytilene (c. 620 BC-6th century BC), Ancient Greek lyric poet who supposedly invented the Alcaic verse. Alcaeus_of_Mytilene
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| Anaxagoras Anaxagoras (Greek: , c. 500 BC – 428 BC) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher famous for introducing the cosmological concept of Nous (mind), the ordering force. Anaxagoras
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| Athanasius of Alexandria |feast_day=May 15 = 7 Pashons, 89 A.M. Athanasius_of_Alexandria
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| Constantinople Constantinople (, Konstantinoúpolis, or hē Polis, Latin: , in formal Ottoman Turkish: Konstantiniyye) was the capital of the Roman Empire (330–395), the Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empire (395–1204 and 1261–1453), the Latin Empire (1204–1261), and the Ottoman Empire (1453–1922). Strategically located between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara at the point where Europe meets Asia, Roman Constantinople had been the capital of a Christian empire, see Christendom, successor to ancient Greece and Rome. Constantinople
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| Cyril of Alexandria Cyril of Alexandria (ca. 378 - 444) was the Pope of Alexandria when the city was at its height of influence and power within the Roman Empire. Cyril_of_Alexandria
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| Empedocles Empedocles (Greek: , ca. 490–430 BC) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a citizen of Agrigentum, a Greek colony in Sicily. Empedocles
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| Euripides Euripides (Ancient Greek: ) (ca. 480 BC–406 BC) was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens (the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles). Euripides
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| Greece |national_motto = Ελευθερία ή θάνατοςEleftheria i thanatos(transliteration)"Freedom or Death" Greece
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| Holy See The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome, commonly known as the Pope, and is the preeminent episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Church. It is also the sovereign entity, headed by the Pope, which governs the Vatican and represents the Catholic Church in temporal affairs. Holy_See
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| Homer Homer (ancient Greek: , Homēros) is a legendary ancient Greek epic poet, traditionally said to be the author of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. The ancient Greeks generally believed that Homer was a historical individual, but modern scholars are skeptical: no reliable biographical information has been handed down from classical antiquity, and the poems themselves manifestly represent the culmination of many centuries of oral story-telling and a well-developed "formulaic" system of poetic composition. Homer
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| Heraclitus Heraclitus of Ephesus (Ancient Greek: — , English Heraclitus the Ephesian) (ca. 535–475 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor. Heraclitus
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| Hesychasm Hesychasm (Greek hesychasmos, from hesychia, "stillness, rest, quiet, silence")Parry (1999), p. 230 is an eremitic tradition of prayer in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and some other Eastern Churches of the Byzantine Rite, practised (Gk: hesychazo: "to keep stillness") by the Hesychast (Gr. Hesychasm
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| New Testament The New Testament (Greek: Καινὴ Διαθήκη, Kainē Diathēkē) is the name given to the second major division of the Christian Bible, the first such division being the much longer Hebrew Bible (also called by Jews Tanakh), known to Christians as the Old Testament. The New Testament is sometimes called the Greek Testament or Greek Scriptures, or the New Covenant – which is the literal translation of the original Greek. New_Testament
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| Plato Plato (Greek: , Plátōn, "broad")Diogenes Laertius 3.4; p. Plato
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| Parmenides |birth = ca. 520 BC Parmenides
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| Parthenon | image = Parthenon-2008.jpg Parthenon
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| Sappho Sappho ( in English; Attic Greek , Aeolic Greek ) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. Later Greeks included her in the canonical list of nine lyric poets. Sappho
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| Septuagint The Septuagint (), or simply "LXX", is the Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, translated in stages between the 3rd and 1st centuries BC in Alexandria. Karen Jobes and Moises Silva, Invitation to the Septuagint ISBN 1-84227-061-3, (Paternoster Press, 2001). Septuagint
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| Gregory of Nyssa Gregory of Nyssa (Greek: Άγιος Γρηγόριος Νύσσης; Latin: Gregorius Nyssenus; Arabic: غريغوريوس النيصي) (c 335 – after 394) was a Christian bishop and saint. He was a younger brother of Basil the Great and a good friend of Gregory Nazianzus. Gregory_of_Nyssa
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