Chalcis

He is not one to resist the resonance of a mid-15th century sallet or helmet from the Venetian fortress of Chalcis on the Aegean island of Negroponte (present-day Euboea), for instance.

In 323 Alexander died, and when the anti-Macedonian faction gained strength in Athens, Aristotle found it expedient to leave and moved to Chalcis in Euboea where he died the following year.--Jude P.

Hockeria was erected by Walker (1834) based on the type species Chalcis bispinosa Fabricius sensu Kirby (Hockeria bifasciata Walker) (Narendran and Sudheer, 2005).

En effet, vers 373, a la suite d'une brouille avec sa famille, il decide de vivre en ermite dans le desert de Chalcis, en Syrie, connu sous le nom de "Thebaide" en raison du grand nombre d'ennites qui y vivaient.

he left the Lyceum and took refuge in Chalcis on the island of Euboea.

Andromadas of Rhegium was the lawgiver for Thracian Chalcis, and

Iamblichus of Chalcis was one of the more illustrious of the sequence of famous teachers who kept alive the traditions of Pythagorean and Platonic doctrines in the Roman empire.

Greek political history is addressed in articles on the quorum in democratic Athens and the links between Rome and Chalcis during the Macedonian wars.

This paper examines the works of three contemporaries--the Neoplatonic philosophers Porphyry of Tyre and Iamblichus of Chalcis and the Christian bishop Eusebius of Caesarea--in order to explore the ways in which ancient linguistic theories and practices served as a kind of border-post in which late-ancient intellectuals constructed and contested imperial subjectivities.

The Byzantine grammarian John Tzetzes wrote that "Under the royal patronage of Ptolemy Philadelphus, Alexander of Aetolia edited the books of tragedy, Lycophron of Chalcis those of comedy, and Zenodotus of Ephesus those of Homer and the other poets" (Tzetzes, 1952, pp.

Operation Chalcis, an air assault operation targeting possible al Qaeda in Iraq hideouts, wasn't performed by the battalion's attached infantry company or the commander's security team; it was conducted by its Signal Company.

His kleptomania is wittily linked to his home town of Chalcis by the punning on Calkido~ and apecalkise (62) and emphasised by the repeated kleptwn (4, 6 bis).