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Aristides
Aristides , d. c.468 BC, Athenian statesman and general. He was one of the 10 generals who commanded the Athenians at the battle of Marathon (490 BC) and in the next year became chief archon. In 483 he was ostracized because he opposed the naval policy of Themistocles. However, in 480 Aristides foug... Read more
demiurge
demiurge [Gr.,=workman, craftsman], name given by Plato in a mythological passage in the Timaeus to the creator God. In Gnosticism the Demiurge, creator of the material world, was not God but the Archon, or chief of the lowest order of spirits or aeons. According to the Gnostics, the Demiurge w... Read more
Areopagus
Areopagus [Gr.,=hill of Ares], rocky hill, 370 ft (113 m) high, NW of the Acropolis of Athens, famous as the sacred meeting place of the prime council of Athens. This council, also called the Areopagus, represented the ancient council of elders, which usually combined judicial and legislative funct... Read more
Solon
Solon , c.639-c.559 BC, Athenian statesman, lawgiver, and reformer. He was also a poet, and some of his patriotic verse in the Ionic dialect is extant. At some time (perhaps c.600 BC) he led the Athenians in the recapture of Salamis from the Megarians. He was elected chief archon in 594 at a time ... Read more
Themistocles
Themistocles , c.525-462 BC, Athenian statesman and naval commander. He was elected one of the three archons in 493 BC In succeeding years many of his rivals were eliminated by ostracism and he became the chief figure of Athenian politics. He persuaded the Athenians to build up their navy, fores... Read more
Gnosticism
Gnosticism , dualistic religious and philosophical movement of the late Hellenistic and early Christian eras. The term designates a wide assortment of sects, numerous by the 2d cent. AD; they all promised salvation through an occult knowledge that they claimed was revealed to them alone. Scholars tr... Read more
Athens
Athens , Gr. Athínai, city (1991 pop. 2,907,179; 1991 urban agglomeration pop. 3,072,922), capital of Greece, E central Greece, on the plain of Attica, between the Kifisós and Ilissus rivers, near the Saronic Gulf. Mt. Aigáleos (1,534 ft/468 m), Mt. Parnis (4,633 ft/1,412 m), ... Read more
calendar
calendar [Lat., from Kalends], system of reckoning time for the practical purpose of recording past events and calculating dates for future plans. The calendar is based on noting ordinary and easily observable natural events, the cycle of the sun through the seasons with equinox and solstice , a... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Archon"

archons
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition archons [Gr.,=leaders], in...Athens there were three archons: the archon eponymos (so called because...with sacred rites; and the archon polemarchos (the polemarch...military leadership. Six more archons, the thesmothetae (thesmothetes...
Gnosticism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...pseudepigrapha. Some Gnostics taught that the world is ruled by evil archons, among them the deity of the Old Testament, who hold captive...which they believed would free them at death from the evil archons and restore them to their heavenly abode. See Valentinus for...
Commonwealth of Oceana, The
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...Neustrians, Henry VII becomes Panurgus, etc. He then draws up a plan for an ideal republic, under the leadership of the Archon, Olphaus Megaletor, an idealized Cromwell figure. He expresses his admiration for the republics of Greece and Rome and for...
Thomas Robert Bugeaud de la Piconnerie
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Movement in France, 1815-71 (1952). Additional Sources Sullivan, Antony Thrall, Thomas-Robert Bugeaud, France and Algeria, 1784-1849: politics, power, and the good society, Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1983. □
George Crabbe
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...series. Additional Sources Bareham, Tony, A bibliography of George Crabbe, Folkestone, Eng.: Dawson; Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1978. Crabbe, George, Selected journals and letters of George Crabbe, Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford...
Artemus Ward
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Additional Sources Pullen, John J., Comic relief: the life and laughter of Artemus Ward, 1834-1867, Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1983. Seitz, Don Carlos, Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne); a biography and bibliography, New York, Beekman...
Circus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...See also: cultural revolution bibliography Hammarstrom, David Lewis. (1983). Circus Rings around Russia. Hamden, CT: Archon. Stites, Richard. (1992) Russian Popular Culture: Entertainment and Society since 1900. New York: Cambridge University...
Tannenberg, Battle of
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...1934). The Russian Campaign of 1914, tr. A. G. S. Muntz. Ft. Leavenworth, KS: The Command and General Staff School Press. Showalter, Dennis. (1991). Tannenberg: Clash of Empires. Hamden, CT: Archon. Dennis Showalter
Voyevoda
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...administrator or governor of some territory. Researchers therefore frequently encounter the term as a translation of the Greek archon and satrapis as well as strategos. By the 1530s, the practice of annually stationing regimental commanders ( godovye voyevody...
Hanna, Marcus Alonzo
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...New York: A. A. Knopf, 1929. Croly, Herbert David. Marcus Alonzo Hanna: His Life and Work . Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1965. Garraty, John A., and Jerome L. Sterstein, eds. Encyclopedia of American Biography , 2nd edition. New...

Dictionary entries related to "Archon"

archon
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable archon the chief magistrate, or, after the time of Solon , each of the nine chief magistrates, of ancient Athens. Recorded from the late 16th century, the word comes from Greek arkhōn ‘ruler’.
Mohegan
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Smithsonian Institution, 1978. DeForest, John W. History of the Indians of Connecticut from the Earliest Known Period to 1850. Hamden, Conn.: Archon, 1964. Originally published in 1851. Jack Campisi See also Tribes: Northeastern .
New Haven Colony
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...BIBLIOGRAPHY Calder, Isabel. The New Haven Colony. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1934. Reprint, Hamden, Conn.: Archon, 1970. Taylor, Robert J. Colonial Connecticut. Millwood, N.Y.: KTO Press, 1979. Works Progress Administration...
Primogeniture
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...1997. Haskins, George Lee. Law and Authority in Early Massachusetts: A Study in Tradition and Design. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1968. The original edition was published in 1960. Morris, Richard B. Studies in the History of American Law, with...
United Confederate Veterans
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...making. New York: Knopf, 1970. Osterweis, Rollin G. The Myth of the Lost Cause, 1865 – 1900. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1973. Hugh Buckner Johnston / a. g. See also Appomattox ; Grand Army of the Republic ; New Orleans Riots ; Sons of...
draconic
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology draconic, Draconic A. pert. to a dragon XVII; B. pert. to Draco (archon at Athens 621 B.C.) or his severe code of laws XVIII. f. L. dracō , -ōn- DRAGON or the proper name...
Iceland, U.S. Forces in
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...BIBLIOGRAPHY Bittner, Donald F. The Lion and the White Falcon: Britain and Iceland in the World War II Era. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1983. Neuchterlein, Donald E. Iceland, Reluctant Ally. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1961. John...
Ironclad Warships
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...in the Red River, 3 June 1865. BIBLIOGRAPHY Baxter, James P. The Introduction of the Ironclad Warship. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1968 (orig. pub. 1933). Still, William N., Jr. Iron Afloat: The Story of the Confederate Armorclads. Nashville...
Gnosticism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...select group of divine origin predestined to salvation despite all the attempts at subjugation by the wicked Demiurge and its archons. It is impossible to apprehend from these mythological stories, taking place in the rarefied and impenetrable atmosphere...
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Blue Water Navy: The Formative Years of America's Military-Industrial Complex, 1881 – 1917. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1979. Kilmarx, Robert A., ed. America's Maritime Legacy: A History of the U.S. Merchant Marine and Shipbuilding...

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Archon Corporation Updates Development Status for Las Vegas Strip Property.
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FRATERNAL ORDER OF ARCHON AND ALUMNI PRESENT UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE WITH GENEROUS DONATION
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 5/11/2007; 700+ words ; ...fraternity at Rio Grande. The Archon fraternity has a strong presence...active. On April 27, the Archon fraternity and its alumni association...was a beloved member of the Archons, and his fraternity brothers...named in honor of Brown. The Archon fraternity has also established...
Archon Group Moves Into Industrial Market; Las Vegas Property First Significant Asset.
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Archon Hospitality closes 22-hotel deal.(Crown American Hotels)
Magazine article from: Hotel & Motel Management; 3/7/2005; ; 700+ words ; Dallas and Johnstown, Pa. -- Archon Hospitality acquired a 22-hotel portfolio...Giannoble, president of Dallas-based Archon Hospitality. "Now we provide services...Easter Hotel Realty LP, an affiliate of Archon Hospitality, which oversees management...