Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Otto ( c. 830/835/51 – 30 November 912), called the Illustrious ( German: Otto der Erlauchte) by later authors, was a notable member of the Ottonian dynasty and Duke of Saxony from 880 until his death in 912. He played an important role in early medieval history of Germany during the 9th and 10th centuries, known for his military campaigns ...
1355–1374. Provenance. Certaldo. Genre. De viris illustribus. De casibus virorum illustrium (On the Fates of Famous Men) is a work of 56 biographies in Latin prose composed by the Florentine poet Giovanni Boccaccio of Certaldo in the form of moral stories of the falls of famous people, similar to his work of 106 biographies De Mulieribus Claris.
Vir illustris. The title vir illustris (lit. 'illustrious man') is used as a formal indication of standing in late antiquity to describe the highest ranks within the senates of Rome and Constantinople. All senators had the title vir clarissimus (lit. 'very famous man'); but from the mid fourth century onwards, vir illustris and vir spectabilis ...
Engraving facing the title page of an 18th-century edition of Plutarch's Lives. The Parallel Lives (Greek: Βίοι Παράλληλοι, Bíoi Parállēloi; Latin: Vītae Parallēlae) is a series of 48 biographies of famous men written by the Greco-Roman philosopher, historian, and Apollonian priest Plutarch, probably at the beginning of the second century.
Illustrious. Look up illustrious in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Illustrious may refer to: HMS Illustrious, five ships in the Royal Navy. Illustrious (album), a 2008 hip hop album by Big Noyd. Illustrious class aircraft carrier, a class of aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy. Mari Illustrious Makinami, fictional character of Rebuild of ...
Royalty (usually emperors to princely counts) are all considered sovereign princes (German: Fürsten). Emperors and empresses held the style of Imperial Majesty (HIM). Members of imperial families generally hold the style of Imperial Highness (HIH). In the Austrian Empire, the Emperor was also the King of Hungary, and thus bore the style of ...
Epiphanes (Greek: Ἐπιφανής), meaning "Manifest" or "the Glorious/Illustrious", is an ancient Greek epithet borne by several Hellenistic rulers. It produced the Russian-language given name Yepifan /Epifan. Notable people with the name include. Antiochus IV Epiphanes (c. 215–164 BC), ruler of the Seleucid Empire.
The Great Learning or Daxue was one of the "Four Books" in Confucianism attributed to one of Confucius' disciples, Zengzi. [1] The Great Learning had come from a chapter in the Book of Rites which formed one of the Five Classics. It consists of a short main text of the teachings of Confucius transcribed by Zengzi and then ten commentary ...