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Apicius
APICIUS APICIUS. The proverbial gastronomer Apicius (M. Gavius Apicius, c. 25 b.c.e–c. 37 c.e.), who lived at the time of the emperor Tiberius, gives his name to the most complete cookbook that has come down from antiquity, one that reflects an ancient Roman cuisine that survives,... Read more |
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Rufus of Ephesus
RUFUS OF EPHESUS(first century CE), medicine. For the original article on Rufus of Ephesus see DSB, vol. 11.Research over the last thirty years of the twentieth century has substantially altered historians’ understanding of Rufus of Ephesus in two ways. The revival of critical interest in Galen has... Read more |
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Aya Sofya
AYA SOFYA Religious structure in Istanbul, now a museum. The Aya Sofya (also known by its Greek name, Hagia Sophia) was built by the Roman emperor Constantine from 325 to 330 c.e. during his rebuilding of the city of Byzantium as his capital. It was built as a Christian church, the... Read more |
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Adamantius
Adamantius (ca. fourth century C.E.) A Jewish doctor, who became a Catholic at Constantinople in the time of Constantine, to whom he dedicated his two volumes on Physiognomy; or, The Art of Judging People by Their Faces. This work, full of contradictions and fantasies, was printed in the Scriptores... Read more |
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Hair Coloring
Hair Coloring By the time of the Roman Empire (27 b.c.e.–476 c.e.), both men and women had largely given up the customs of simplicit... Read more |
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Hermeticism
HERMETICISM HERMETICISM. Hermeticism was a philosophical movement that arose in Alexandria around the first century c.e. Influenced by Platonism, Gnosticism, Egyptian thought, and probably both Jewish and early Christian thought, Hermeticism represented a syncretistic response to foreign... Read more |
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Sugar industry
Sugar Industry HISTORICAL TRADE PATTERNS MODERN SUGAR MARKET SUGAR PRODUCTION BIBLIOGRAPHY Sugar has been an important commodity historically due to a variety of factors, including the human appetite for sweet foods and drinks, the complementarity that sugar brings to the other flavors in... Read more |
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Ahmad ibn Sirin
Ahmad ibn Sirin (ca. ninth century C.E.) (Also known as Achmet). Arabian seer who wrote a book on dream interpretation, now known only in the Greek and Latin translations, which was published in Paris in 1603 titled Oneirocritica. ... Read more |
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CeCe and BeBe Winans
BeBe and CeCe Winans Gospel singers Began Career as “Winans Part 2 Read more |
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Turbulent Times? Josephus and Scholarship on Judaea in the First Century CE
Turbulent Times? Josephus and Scholarship on Judaea in the First Century CE, by James S. McLaren. JSPSup...the increasing interest in Josephus and the events he ... |