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Andronicus
Andronicus in the New Testament, apostle at Rome.
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Livius Andronicus
Livius Andronicus , fl. 3d cent. BC, Roman poet, a Greek, b. Tarentum (Taranto). He was captured and made a slave at the fall of Tarentum and was freed by his master, a Livian noble, hence his name. Later he became a teacher and an actor. He introduced Greek literature into Rome, translating the Od...
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Comnenus
Comnenus , family name of several Byzantine emperors— Isaac I , Alexius I , John II , Manuel I , Alexius II , and Andronicus I —who reigned in the 11th and 12th cent., and of the historian, Princess Anna Comnena . Though unable to turn back the forces that contributed to the eventu...
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Peripatetics
Peripatetics [Gr.,=walking about; from Aristotle's manner in teaching], the followers of Aristotle. Theophrastus , friend of Aristotle and cofounder with him of the Peripatetic school of philosophy, succeeded him as its head (323 BC) and did much to bring it into favor. Strato of Lampsacus was the...
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John VI
John VI (John Cantacuzene) , c.1292-1383, Byzantine emperor (1347-54). He was chief minister under Andronicus III, after whose death he proclaimed himself emperor and made war on the rightful heir, John V. He was aided by the Ottoman Turks. The war allowed Stephen Dušan to build his Serbi...
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Second Council of Lyons
Second Council of Lyons 1274, 14th ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church. It was summoned by Pope Gregory X to discuss problems in the Holy Land, to remove the schism of East and West, and to reform the church. The reunion of Constantinople and Rome had been proposed by the Byzantine em...
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George Peele
George Peele 1558?-1597?, English playwright, educated at Oxford. He experimented in a variety of forms, including the pageant, history, pastoral, comedy, and melodrama, but his best-known work is The Old Wives Tale (1595), a frolicsome piece that infuses a depiction of ordinary English life with...
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Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe 1564-93, English dramatist and poet, b. Canterbury. Probably the greatest English dramatist before Shakespeare, Marlowe, a shoemaker's son, was educated at Cambridge and he went to London in 1587, where he became an actor and dramatist for the Lord Admiral's Company. His most im...
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Michael VIII
Michael VIII (Michael Palaeologus), c.1225-1282, Byzantine emperor (1261-82), first of the Palaeologus dynasty. Following the murder of the regent for Emperor John IV of Nicaea, he was appointed (1258) regent and, soon afterward (1259), coemperor. He successfully defended (1259) Nicaea against ...
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Peter Brook
Peter Brook 1925-, English theatrical director, b. London. An innovative, unconventional, and controversial figure, Brook mounts energetic productions in which the entire stage is utilized and realistic sets are banished in favor of bold, abstract, and austere settings. His approach is extremely ph...
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