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	Gens Martiana - The Lar
		Martianus Minneus Felix Capella is the lar of Gens Martiana.
		The classical curriculum, which was to pass--largely through Martianus Capella's book--into the early medieval period, modified but scarcely revolutionized by Christianity, was limited to rhetoric and its accompanying arts, treating philosophy merely as a matter of dialectics, a focus which served equally in public or ecclesiastical education, which were increasingly becoming one and the same.
		In Martianus Capella's day architecture and medicine were no longer taught in the schools, the curriculum of which was reduced to rhetoric and its accompanying arts.
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	Martianus Capella - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		Martianus Minneus Felix Capella was a pagan writer of Late Antiquity, whose career flourished some time during the 5th century.
		Martianus composed his one famous book between the sack of Rome by Alaric (410), which he mentions, but apparently before the conquest of Africa by the Vandals in 429.
		According to Cassiodorus, Capella was a native of Madaura—which had been the native city of Apuleius—in the Roman province of Africa, and appears to have practiced as a jurist at Carthage.
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	Martianus Minneus Felix Capella
		Martianus Minneus Felix Capella was a writer of the late Latin period, whose career flourished some time during the 5th century, before the year 439.
		According to Cassiodorus, Capella was a native of Madaura in Africa, and appears to have practised as a lawyer at Carthage.
		His curious encyclopaedic work, Satyricon, or De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii et de septem Artibus liberalibus libri novem, is an elaborate allegory in nine books, written in a mixture of prose and verse, after the manner of the Menippean satires of Varro.
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		Martianus Minneus Felix Capella was a writer of the late Latin period, whose career flourished some time during the 5th century, before the year 439.
		According to Cassiodorus, Capella was a native of Madaura in Africa, and appears to have practised as a lawyer at Carthage.
		His curious encyclopaedic work, Satyricon, or De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii et de septem Artibus liberalibus libri novem, is an elaborate allegory in nine books, written in a mixture of prose and verse, after the manner of the Menippean satires of Varro.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Martianus_Minneus_Felix_Capella (347 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Martianus Capella
		Martianus Minneus Felix Capella was a pagan writer of Late Antiquity, whose career flourished some time during the fifth century.
		Martianus composed his one famous book between the sack of Rome by Alaric I (410), which he mentions, but apparently before the conquest of Africa by the Vandals in 429.
		According to Cassiodorus, Capella was a native of Madaura—which had been the native city of Apuleius—in the Roman province of Africa, and appears to have practiced as a jurist at Carthage.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Martianus_Capella (824 words)

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		Capella, may have received from this work some hints towards his own new system.
		Eyssenhardt (1866); for the relationof Martianus Capella to Aristides Quintilianus see H.
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	Martianus Capella -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		Martianus Minneus Felix Capella was a writer of the late (Any dialect of the language of ancient Rome) Latin period, whose career flourished some time during the (Click link for more info and facts about 5th century) 5th century, before the year (Click link for more info and facts about 439) 439.
		The style is wordy and involved, loaded with (A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity) metaphor and bizarre expressions.
		The treatment of the subjects belongs to a tradition which goes back to (Roman scholar (116-27 BC)) Varro's "Diciplinae," even to Varro's passing allusion to architecture and medicine, which in Martianus Capella's day were mechanics' arts, material for clever slaves, but not for (A member of a senate) senators.
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	Encyclopedia: Martianus Minneus Felix Capella (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		The book, which is thoroughly pagan in culture and makes no allusion to Christianity, continued to shape European education during the early Medieval period and through the Carolingian renascence.
		Martianus composed his book between the sack of Rome by Alaric (410), which he mentions, but apparently before the conquest of Africa by the Vandals in 429.
		The author, a native of Madaura, which had been the native city of Apuleius had settled in Carthage, where he earned a slender living as a solicitor in the law courts.
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	Capella
		Capella The Astrologically, Capella portended civic and military honors and wealth.
		Martianus Capella Martianus Capella (5th century AD), was a pagan writer of the Roman Aristotle became available in West...
		Martianus Minneus Felix Capella Martianus Minneus Felix Capella was a writer of the late 439.
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	MARTIANUS MINNEUS FELIX CAPELLA - LoveToKnow Article on MARTIANUS MINNEUS FELIX CAPELLA
		It has been supposed that Copernicus, who quotes Capella, may have received from this work some hints towards his own new system.
		Editio princeps, by F. Vitalis Bodianus, 1499; the best modern edition is that of F. Eyssenhardt (1866); for the relationof Martianus Capella to Aristides Quintilianus see H. Deiters, Studien Zn den griechischen Musikern (188,).
		It was incorporated as the borough of Cape Island in 1848, and, chartered as the city of Cape Island in 1851; in 1869 the name was changed to Cape May.
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		CAPELLA, MARTIANUS MINNEUS FELIX, Latin writer, according to Cassiodorus a native of Madaura in Africa, flourished during the 5th century, certainly before the year 439.
		He appears to have practised as a lawyer at Carthage and to have been in easy circumstances.
		Editio princeps, by F. Vitalis Bodianus, 1499; the best modern edition is that of F. Eyssenhardt (1866); for the relationof Martianus Capella to Aristides Quintilianus see H. Deiters, Studien zu den griechischen Musikern (,88,).
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	Capella, Martianus Minneus Felix -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		U.S. artist and printmaker Felix Darley was one of the most prolific and well-known illustrators of his day.
		The composer, pianist, and conductor Felix Mendelssohn was a pivotal figure of 19th-century romanticism.
		Felix was the first major comic character to become a film star.
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	Capella - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Capella
		King and myself should ride to Castro, and thence across the island to the Capella de Cucao, situated on the west coast.
		The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
		Over the snow-covered roofs could be seen a decorated cross with chains, and above it the rising triangle of Charles's Wain with the yellowish light of Capella.
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		Numerology in medieval times was a system of thought that searched for significance in numbers, especially those found in the Bible and other religious texts.
		Beginning with the writings of mathematicians and philosophers Nichomachus of Geresa, Frimicus Maternus, and Marianus Capella, and continuing with the Biblical exegeses of Augustine and Agrippa of Nettesheim, numerology became inseparable from the religious world, giving the common man a concrete and tangible way to interpret the complex subtleties within the Bible.
		346) and Martianus Capella’s De nuptiis philologiae et Mercurii (On the Marriage of Philosophy and Mercury).
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	Search Results for capella - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Capella forms a spectroscopic binary with a 10th-magnitude red...
		Allegory, popular from early times, was employed in Latin literature by such authorities as Augustine, Prudentius, Martianus Capella, and, in the late 12th century, Alain de Lille.
		The seed from which all medieval institutions of central administration were to grow was the immediate personal household of the king; its members were the only permanent staff he had.
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	Martianus Capella
		Martianus Minneus Felix Capella (400-luku) oli roomalainen pakanallinen myöhäisantiikin ajan kirjoittaja ja uusplatonilaisiin luettavissa oleva filosofi.
		Martianus tunnetaan ennen kaikkea allegorisesta teoksestaan De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii ("Filologian ja Merkuriuksen avioliitto").
		500-luvun puolessavälissä retoriikan opettaja Securus Memor Felix lainasi hänen teostaan, mikä osoittaa, että se oli hänen käytössään jo tuolloin.
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		One Latin author did use the form >> "Niger", but that was in the 5th century AD.
		Martianus Minneus Felix Capella, whom I've never read, and whose style was apparently so baroque that I'm confident I never shall!
		The style also led to a lot of corruption in the MS copies.
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	Martianus Mineus Felix Capella
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		Kopernikus erwähnt Capella wegen der heliozentrischen Darstellung von Venus und Merkur.
		Capella zeigte die Lehre des Aristoteles vom Urteil und dem Syllogismus.
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	Martianus Capella at AllExperts
		Martianus Minneus Felix Capella was a pagan writer of Late Antiquity, whose career flourished some time during the 5th century.
		As early as the middle of the sixth century Securus Memor Felix, a professor of rhetoric, received the text in Rome, for he quoted it.
		The eighth book contains a very clear statement of the heliocentric system of astronomy.
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		Kamae originated in Europe and the neighboring Near East.
		Ancient sources such as Martianus Minneus Felix Capella explain that temple priestesses would invoke the gods by gesturing with their fingers with each finger having an alphabetical and numerical value, thus symbolizing the god's sacred name.
		Until recent times it was common for Europeans to make gestures with their fingers to ward off danger (fig 9).
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	Latin Dictionary - Free media library
		Martianus Minneus Felix Capella, satirist, fl.(?) A.D. Maxim.
		Monumentum Ancyranum, an inscription placed on the wall of the pronaos at Ancyra, by Augustus Cæsar, fl.
		Kopp, U. F., editor of Martianus Capella, Frankfurt, 1836.
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