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Ἀπομνημονεύματα - Apomnemoneumata - aka Memorabilia 1 - is, of course, the title of Xenephon's collection of Socratic dialogues, essentially an apologia (ie., defence) of Socrates by Xenephon offering edifying examples of Socrates' conversations and activities (along with occasional commentary from ...

John 13:1 b ἀγαπήσας τοὺς ἰδίους τοὺς ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ; εἰς τέλος ἠγάπησεν αὐτούς [hr] having loved [of] τοὺς ἰδίους τοὺς in the world; to the end he loved them ἰδίους is the masculine accusative plural of ιδίος, an adjective meaning pertaining to self, that is, one's own private (as opposed to public) ...

Atticism .... Atticism drew from Greece’s rich past and originated in its illustrious city of Athens .... . Attica was and, of course, still is the region around the famous Greek capital city, Athens, incorporating the Attic peninsula: a city-state in ancient times with a mid-late 5th century BCE G...

re John 19:29 (NLT) A jar of sour wine was sitting there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put it on a hyssop branch, and held it up to [Jesus'] lips. Hyssop represents common faith. Hyssop was a weed that grew practically anywhere. The blood is applied by common faith in God's word. E XODU S 12:22 An...

Possibly related 'OT' passages (from https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Reeds) Isaiah 58:5 “Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it for bowing one’s head like a reed And for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed? Will you call this a fast, even an acc...

The use of reed (κάλαμος) in GMark Mark tells us that reed are used twice during the mockery and crucifixion of Jesus. Mark 15:19 Mark 15:36 16 And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the governor’s headquarters), and they called together the whole battalion. 17 And they clothed h...

Modern discussions of Second Sophistic identity tend to glide between at least three partially overlapping focuses of enquiry. The first is Philostratus's own notion of the Second Sophistic, a group of individuals named in his Lives and fleshed out in his biographies. The second is broader socio-hi...

aka " Bellum Gallicum " or "[ De ] Bello Gallico " Commentarii de Bello Gallico is said to be Julius Caesar's firsthand account 1 of the Gallic Wars of 58 to 50 BCE, 2 written as a third-person narrative. It describes the battles and intrigues that took place in the nine years Ca...

The imperial cult was extended by all emperors from Augustus onward, most often in the form of permissions, grants and titles: Ephesus received a second "Neokoros" title (and temple) from Hadrian after an intervention by the priest of the imperial cult (and probable sophist) Ti. Claudius ...

From the Hellenistic period onward, there was an increase in the importance of festivals, rituals, public performances and office-holding in the context of more or less public cults and of private cult associations. This seems to be a clear trend, though it was interrupted from time to time by the ...