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Athenodorus
Athenodorus see Laocoön .
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Life and Death in Nabataea: The North Ridge Tombs and Nabataean Burial Practices
Magazine article from: Near Eastern Archaeology; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...documentary information on Nabataean burial practices comes from the first century CE observations of the traveler and philosopher, Athenodorus, which are included within the ancient geographer Strabo's multi-volume work, Geography. Strabo reports: [The Nabataeans...
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Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...background as a Cilician also appears in his objection to women being unveiled (1 Cor 11:5-6). Through the abiding influence of Athenodorus, a prominent Stoic philosopher in the city of Tarsus, Paul became convinced that all humanity could be linked to a single...
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Laocoön
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...since the horse was filled with Greeks, who waited until night and then sacked Troy. A magnificent Greek statue by Agesander, Athenodorus, and Polydorus, unearthed in Rome in 1508 and now in the Vatican, shows Laocoön and his sons in their death struggle. This...
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Laocoon
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...warning the Trojans against the Trojan Horse . A marble sculpture in the Vatican Museum, attributed by Pliny to Agesander, Athenodorus, and Polydurus of Rhodes, depicts the death of Laocoon and his sons, and in allusive use his name often reflects the idea...
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Laocoön
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...it stood in the palace of the Emperor Titus in Rome, records that it was made by the sculptors Hagesander, Polydorus, and Athenodorus of Rhodes, and describes it as ‘a work to be preferred to all that the arts of painting and sculpture have produced...
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Laocoön
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...it stood in the palace of the emperor Titus in Rome, records that it was made by the sculptors Hagesander, Polydorus, and Athenodorus of Rhodes, and describes it as ‘a work to be preferred to all that the arts of painting and sculpture have produced...
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