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	Heliodorus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Several persons named Heliodorus are known to us from ancient times, the best known of which is Heliodorus of Emesa, author of the novel Aethiopica.
		Heliodorus was a minister of Seleucus IV Philopator ca.
		Another Heliodorus was a metrist in the 1st century AD who did work on the comedies of Aristophanes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heliodorus (362 words)

	HELIODORUS - LoveToKnow Article on HELIODORUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		Homer and Euripides were thi favorite authors of Heliodorus, who in his turn was imitatec by French, Italian and Spanishwriters.
		On the murder of Caracalla (217), Julia Maesa, Variuss grandmother and Caracallas aunt, left Rome and retired to Emesa, accompanied by her grandsons (Varius and Alexander Severus).
		His beauty, and the splendid cerernonials at which he presided, made him a great favorite with the troops stationed in that part of Syria, and Maesa increased his popularity by spreading reports that he was in reality the illegitimate son of Caracalla.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HE/HELIODORUS.htm (888 words)

	Heliodorus -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		Several persons named Heliodorus are known to us from ancient times, the best known of which is (Click link for more info and facts about Heliodorus of Emesa) Heliodorus of Emesa, author of the novel Aethiopica.
		Heliodorus was a minister of (Click link for more info and facts about Seleucus IV Philopator) Seleucus IV Philopator ca.
		Another Heliodorus was a metrist in the (Click link for more info and facts about 1st century) 1st century AD who did work on the comedies of (An ancient Greek dramatist remembered for his comedies (448-380 BC)) Aristophanes.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/He/Heliodorus.htm (238 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1999.06.04
		In "Heliodorus Parthenopaeus: the Aithiopika in Baroque Naples" (pp.
		Heliodorus' work, or course, provided Basile with an abundance of sentimental and erotic material; but the baroque author goes much further, developing Theagenes into an even more melodramatic hero, highlighting the sorrowful side of love, and expanding the roles of the rivals Arsake and Thyamis with rhetorically crafted, highly emotional monologues.
		He extends some of Heliodorus' battle scenes in an apparent attempt to conform to contemporary epic canons, but at the same time he infuses these military scenes with atypical erotic pathos, as in the deaths of the lover-warriors Arimante and Ilia in canto 18.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1999/1999-06-04.html (2820 words)

	Heliodorus of Emesa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		Heliodorus of Emesa, from Emesa, Syria, was Greek writer generally dated in the 3rd century AD, is noted for his novel Aethiopica (theEthiopian Tale).
		Homer and Euripides were the favourite authors of Heliodorus, who in his turn was imitated by French, Italian and Spanishwriters.
		It is supposed that the work was written in his early years before he became a Christian, and that, when confronted with the alternative of disowning it or resigning his bishopric, hepreferred resignation.
	www.therfcc.org /heliodorus-of-emesa-129416.html (385 words)

	Heliodorus: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Heliodorus
		Several persons named Heliodorus are known to us from ancient times.
		Heliodorus, of Emesa in Syria, Greek writer generally dated in the 3rd century AD, is noted for his Aethiopica, the oldest and best of the Greek novels that have come down to us.
		But it is now generally agreed that the real author was a sophist of the 3rd century AD.
	www.encyclopedian.com /he/Heliodorus.html (628 words)

	Heliodorus of Emesa -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		V. 22), the author of the Aethiopica was a certain Heliodorus, bishop of Tricca in (A fertile plain on the Aegean Sea in east central Greece; Thessaly was a former region of ancient Greece) Thessaly.
		It is supposed that the work was written in his early years before he became a (A religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination) Christian and that, when confronted with the alternative of disowning it or resigning his bishopric, he preferred resignation.
		But it is now generally agreed that the real author was a sophist of the (Click link for more info and facts about 3rd century) 3rd century of the Common Era.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/he/heliodorus_of_emesa.htm (590 words)

	Heliodorus of Emesa - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Heliodorus of Emesa - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Heliodorus of Emesa, from Emesa, Syria, was a Greek writer generally dated in the 3rd century of the Common Era, and is known for his novel Aethiopica (the Ethiopian Story).
		Homer and Euripides were the favorite authors of Heliodorus, who in his turn was imitated by Byzantine Greek, French, Italian, and Spanish writers.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Ethiopian_Tale (583 words)

	Heliodorus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		Conocen a varias personas nombradas Heliodorus a nosotros a partir de las épocas antiguas, sabido lo más mejor posible de cuál es Heliodorus de Emesa, autor de la novela Aethiopica.
		Heliodorus era ministro de Seleucus IV Philopator ca.
		Este Heliodorus escribió varios libros en técnica médica que han sobrevivido en fragmentos y en los trabajos de Orobasius.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/he/Heliodorus.htm (204 words)

	AllRefer.com - Heliodorus of Emesa (Classical Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He wrote the romance Aethiopica, one of the oldest and best of surviving Greek romances.
		Little is known of his life except that he was a Phoenician from Emesa, Syria.
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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		But it is much more a matter of concern that Grant does not adequately describe the cultural complexity of the Roman Empire in the third century.[[4]] Instead, even Heliodorus (who most probably lived in the fourth century rather than the third)[[5]] is described as a 'Greek romancer' (p.
		64) instead of a Syrian from Emesa, whose novel, though written in Greek, shuns cases of Greek depravity and idealises the Ethiopian gymnosophist, Sisimithres, and the Ethiopian ruler, Hydaspes.[[6]] Cultural identity is a complex issue in the novel and Grant's obscure statement that 'His [i.e.
		Heliodorus'] work has a somewhat oriental look; but his attitudes to "race" need reconsidering' (p.
	www.classics.und.ac.za /reviews/99-30gra.html (1997 words)

	Encyclopedia: Heliodorus
		The best known inscriptions in Brahmi are the rock-cut edicts of Ashoka, c.
		Juba of Mauretania was a metrist who lived in Mauretania in the 2nd century.
		Very little is known about his life, the ancient biographies being generally fictitious.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Heliodorus (750 words)

	Heliodorus Of Emesa -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Greek writer from Emesa in Syria, author of the Aethiopica, the longest and most readable of the extant ancient Greek novels.
		The Aethiopica tells the story of an Ethiopian princess and a Thessalian prince who undergo a series of perils (battles, voyages, piracy, abductions, robbery, and torture) before their eventual happy marriage in the heroine's homeland.
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	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9039886 (637 words)

	Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 273 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		For private causes it was originally only a court of appeal; but in later times these suits also came to be brought before it in the first instance.
		A Greek writer of romance, born at Emesa in Phoenicia.
		At one time he was erroneously identified with another Heliodorus, bishop of Tricca in Thessaly, who flourished about 390 a.d.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /seyffert/0276.html (837 words)

	Heliodorus of Emesa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Heliodorus of Emesa, from Emesa, Syria, was a Greek writer generally dated in the 3rd century of the Common Era, and is known for the ancient Greek romance or novel called the Aethiopica (the Ethiopian Story) or sometimes "Theagenes and Chariclea".
		This feature makes the Aethiopica stand out from all the other ancient Greek romances.
		Heliodorus' novel was immensely influencial and was imitated by Byzantine Greeks and by French, Italian, and Spanish writers.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ethiopian_Tale (607 words)

	Eusebius Of Emesa -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		bishop of Emesa, one of the chief doctrinal writers on Semi-Arianism, a modified Arianism that held that Christ was “like” God the Father but not of one substance.
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		Christian philosopher, apologist, and bishop of Emesa (now Hims, Syria) who was the author of Peri physeoo (Greek: “On the Nature of Man”), the first known compendium of theological anthropology with a Christian orientation.
	0-www.britannica.com.library.unl.edu /eb/article-9033284 (596 words)

	Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans: Lecture III. The Dissemination in the West
		The ancient divinities also were grouped anew: At Hierapolis, as at Heliopolis and Emesa, a new member was added to the original pair, Baal and Baalat, husband and wife, in order to form one of those triads of which Chaldean theology was fond.
		For nearly half a century, from A.D. 193 to 235, the Empire was governed by a family of Emesa, an ancient sacerdotal state, where on the edge of the Syrian desert rose the splendid temple of Elagabalus.
		The attempt of Heliogabalus to establish in heaven a kind of solar monotheism corresponding to the monarchy that ruled on earth, was doubtless too violent, tactless, and premature: it miscarried and provoked the assassination of its author.
	www.sacred-texts.com /astro/argr/argr08.htm (4252 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 805 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		LONGUS (Ao77os), a Greek sophist, who is believed to have lived in the fourth or at the be ginning of the fifth century of our era.
		Concerning his history nothing is known, but it is probable that he lived after the time of Heliodorus, for there are some passages in his work which seem to be imitations of Heliodorus of Emesa.
		Longus is one of the erotic writers whom we meet with at the close of ancient and the beginning of middle age history.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1913.html (758 words)

	CHURCH FATHERS: De Viris Illustribus (Jerome)
		Eusebius of Emesa, who had fine rhetorical talent, composed innumerable works suited to win popular applause and writing historically he is most diligently read by those who practise public speaking.
		Commentaries of his On the epistles are extant, as well as many other works in the manner of Eusebius the great of Emesa, whose meaning he has followed, but whose eloquence he could not imitate on account of his ignorance of secular literature.
		John, presbyter of the church at Antioch, a follower of Eusebius of Emesa and Diodorus, is said to have composed many books, but of these I have only read his On the priesthood.
	www.newadvent.org /fathers/2708.htm (9541 words)

	Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. II
		Chapter XXXIII.-Monks of Syria and Persia: Battheus, Eusebius, Barges, Halas, Abbo, Lazarus, Abdaleus, Zeno, Heliodorus, Eusebius of Carrae, Protogenes, and Aones.
		When they first entered upon the philosophic career, they were denominated shepherds, because they had no houses, ate neither bread nor meat, and drank no wine; but dwelt constantly on the mountains, and passed their time in praising God by prayers and hymns, according to the law of the Church.
		Although Coele-Syria and Upper Syria, with the exception of the city of Antioch, was slowly converted to Christianity, it was not lacking in ecclesiastical philosophers, whose conduct appeared the more heroic from their having to encounter the enmity and hatred of the inhabitants of the place.
	www.ccel.org /fathers2/NPNF2-02/Npnf2-02-24.htm (18474 words)

	Heliodorus de Emesa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		Heliodorus de Emesa, de Emesa, Siria, era escritor griego anticuado generalmente en el 3ro ANUNCIO del siglo, se observa para su novela Aethiopica (el cuento etíope).
		Homer y Euripides eran los autores del favorito de Heliodorus, que en su vuelta fue imitado por los escritores french, italianos y españoles.
		Se supone que el trabajo fue escrito en sus años antes de que él hizo un cristiano, y que, cuando estaba enfrentado con el alternativa de disowning lo o de dimitir su bishopric, él prefirió la dimisión.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/he/Heliodorus%20de%20Emesa.htm (487 words)

	Roman Power and Christian Conflict 285-395 by Sanderson Beck
		Eusebius recorded that bishops of Nicomedia, Tyre, Emesa, Gaza, and several in Egypt were all killed.
		He warned his friend Heliodorus that coveting is a form of idolatry.
		He wrote a long letter to Paula's daughter Eustochium in defense of virginity and warning her not to be tempted by frivolous thoughts.
	www.san.beck.org /AB10-RomanPower285-395.html (22723 words)

	History of Piracy
		There is epigraphic evidence for piracy as well: in the 340s Athens honored Cleomis, tyrant of Methymna on Lesbos, for ransoming a number of Athenians captured by pirates.
		The Aethiopica one of the ancient Greek novels by Heliodorus of Emesa (3rd century AD) tells the story of an Ethiopian princess and a Thessalian prince who undergo a series of perils (battles, voyages, piracy, abductions, robbery, and torture) before their eventual happy marriage in the heroine's homeland.
		Polycrates (Greek tyrant) seized control of the city of Samos during a celebration of a festival of Hera outside the city walls.
	www.abdn.ac.uk /~com134/piracy/history.htm (591 words)

	"H" Famous People
		Heliodorus (fl.3rd-c) Greek romance writer and Sophist, born in Emesa in W Syria.
		Hoe, Richard March (1812-86) Inventor and industrialist, born in New York City, New York, USA.
		Hoe, Robert (1839-1909) Manufacturer and bibliophile, born in New York City, New York, USA.
	www.jonathanselby.com /Hfam (17668 words)

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		And all the bishops everywhere are of one mind, and rejoice greatly in the peace which has come beyond expectation.
		Thus Demetrianus in Antioch, (1) Theoctistus in Caesarea, Mazabanes in AElia, Marinus in Tyre (Alexander having fallen asleep), (2) Heliodorus in Laodicea (Thelymidres being dead), Helenus in Tarsus, and all the churches of Cilicia, Firmilianus, and all Cappadocia.
		The last of these, with others, was made food for wild beasts at Emesa, and was thus received into the ranks of martyrs.
	www.ewtn.com /library/PATRISTC/PII1-3.TXT (18999 words)

	Iranica.com - ETHIOPIA
		This invasion by Cambyses has been a matter of constant dispute within Nubian studies: Decisive in the matter of its authenticity is the answer to the question whether the ruler named Kmbswdn in the so-called stela of Nastasen can be identified with Cambyses or not (cf.
		A possible allusion to the Cambyses campaign may be seen in the Aithiopika‚ of Heliodorus of Emesa (3rd century C.E.), which is a romance at the background of a conflict between a Meriotic king (Hydaspes) and the Persian satrap Oroondates.
		From the time of the early Greek literary sources until the Hellenistic period Ethiopia was idealized by the Greeks, who considered the Ethiopians to be a semi-mythological people.
	www.iranica.com /articles/v9f1/v9f103.html (1532 words)

	Roman Empire In Turmoil 180-285 by Sanderson Beck
		The Emperor ordered him bound to a stake and suffocated by smoke, because he had been a "seller of smoke." The palace was open to all, but only those with innocent minds were invited to enter.
		Alexander sent the Syrian sun-god back to Emesa and tolerated all religions, respecting the rights of Jews and tolerating Christians, since he believed each is an expression of universal truth.
		Chloe turns out to be the daughter of a wealthy man, who, after becoming poor by spending his money on dramatic choruses and warships, had exposed her.
	www.san.beck.org /AB9-RomanTurmoil180-285.html (20213 words)

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