Pergamum


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an ancient Greek city located in the western part of what is now modern Turkey

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The primary objective of the trial is to assess the safety and tolerability of Pergamum's proprietary formulation of the therapeutic peptide LL-37.
Eumenes II was the aforementioned King of Pergamum, which housed a rival library.
CLASSICAL TURKEY TOUR The Travellers Club (01243 773 597) offers 13-day historical tour of Istanbul and Aegean coast from Oct 5 for pounds 1,195 via the site of Troy, the remains of Hellenistic city of Pergamum and breathtaking city of Ephesus.
The sight of Japanese tourist groups roaming the grounds of Topkapi palace and poking about in the ruins of Pergamum and Troy suggests that Turkey is neither inaccessible nor unknown to contemporary Japan.
In The Lost Letters of Pergamum: a Story from the New Testament World (Baker Academic, $14.99) Bruce W.
We need not doubt that other sections of the work, such as the shorter fabulae of Eumolpus, both of which are set in Asia Minor, Pergamum and Ephesos, had their Greek models.
This situation changed in the Hellenic world order created by Alexander the Great, when the Macedonian kings created the Pergamum, and Alexander's reputed half-brother Ptolemy Soter founded the greatest library of classical times, the Alexandrian Library, in 306 BC, under the supervision of a Greek named Demetrios of Phaleron.
They weren't the Pergamum Museum or Sans Souci or the food halls at the KaDaWe department store.
I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet saying, "Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea." (Rev.
Marcus Porcius Cato ("Cato the Younger", 95-46 B.C.), while on military duty in Macedonia, used his two-month furlough to sail to Pergamum and visit the aged Athenodorus and persuade him to return to camp with him.
The first question concerns the links between the totalization of knowledge and power: the political and economic power of the Hellenistic kings who, in Alexandria and in Pergamum, invested considerable resources in creating large libraries and in mobilizing a group of scholars and writers to use these libraries.
parchment Middle English parchemin, from Old French parchemin, parcamin, alteration (influenced by parche, parge, kind of red leather, from Late Latin Parthica (pellis), literally, Parthian skin) of Gallo-Romance *pergaminus, ultimately from Greek pergamene, from feminine of Pergamenos of Pergamum
16 January 2012 - Sweden-based Pergamum AB said on Monday that it has dosed the first patient in a Phase II trial of DPK-060 for the treatment of patients with external otitis (swimmers ear).