Ferchertne
A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
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Ferchertne, Ferceirtne, Ferche(i)rtne, Fercherdne, Fercertniu, Feircheirdne, Fer Cherdne [Ir., man of precise crafts]. A personification of a descriptive idiom; the name may thus denote any number of admired personages in early Ireland, especially poets, the most cited (but not earliest) of whom is the bard of
Cú Roí. See also
FECCOL FERCHERTNE.
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Sada, Trejo Fuentes, Bonilla: las aristas del fenómeno.
Magazine article from: Proceso; 6/11/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...intelectuales hacen deportes, juegan ajedrez o domin, y hasta recuerda que los filsofos griegos practicaban deporte. Cita a Suidas, filsofo del siglo III, quien destac que sin la prctica deportiva no puede haber razonamiento. Para Sada, en el Mundial...
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A history of Cambridge University Press. Volume 2: scholarship and commerce, 1698-1872.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Australian Library Journal; 5/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...publishing activities were intermittent and frequently marked by failure'. The production of the three-volume edition of the Suidas in 1705 is cited as a `financial and seemingly unsavourable embarrassment', with copies remaining in stock until 1752. The...
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John Hazel, Who's Who in the Greek World.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Anthropologie et Societés; 5/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Platon, d'Euripide, par exemple), dans des livres spcialiss, dans des encyclopdies et dans des biographies antiques (Suidas, Diogne, Larce). Il a aussi l'avantage de bnficier des nouvelles thses et progrs effectus par la recherche antique depuis...
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Suidas
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Suidas , title of a Greek lexicon-encyclopedia. The name is also applied to its...the commentaries. Though mostly derived from late and corrupt sources, the Suidas preserves much information about Greek literature that would otherwise be...
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Aratus of Soli
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...lives ” and a biography by Suidas, we are poorly informed about Aratus...The texts of the four lives and of Suidas ’ biography are in A. Westermann...pp. 52 – 61; see also Suidas, s.n. Aratus (A. Adler, ed...
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Callimachus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...known comes primarily from the 10th-century encyclopedist Suidas, not all of which is reliable, and from other, limited references...latest cookbooks — a feat of no mean accomplishment. Suidas reports that Callimachus wrote some 800 works and mentions a...
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Plutarch
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...lived. Paradoxically, Plutarch the man who was the biographer of many others, had no biographer except for a scant notice in Suidas. What we know of his life is reconstructed from casual references in his own works. Plutarch was apparently born of a wealthy...
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Hypatia
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...revised and improved version of Euclid ’ s Elements that is the basis of all modern editions of the work. According to Suidas she composed commentaries not only on the Almagest but also on Diophantus ’ Arithmetica and Apollonius ’...
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