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F. F. Bruce suggests that Aeneas was "one of the local Christian group, though this is not expressly stated." [1] According to David J. Williams, there is some ambiguity in the Greek text of verse 34, which contains the phrase στρῶσον σεαυτῷ (strōson seautō) normally translated as "make thy bed". The text would literally be ...
Macedonia and the Chalcidice Coinage of Aeneia, with portrait of Aeneas.Circa 510-480 BC.. Aenea (/ ə ˈ n iː ə /; Ancient Greek: Αἴνεια, Aineia) was an ancient Greek city in northwesternmost Chalcidice, said to have been founded by Aeneas, and was situated, according to Livy, opposite Pydna, and 15 miles from Thessalonica.
The city of Alba Longa, often abbreviated Alba, was a Latin settlement in the montes Albani, or Alban Hills, near the present site of Castel Gandolfo in Latium. [4] Although the exact location remains difficult to prove, there is archaeological evidence of Iron Age settlements in the area traditionally identified as the site. [5]
Pergamea is the name of the city that Aeneas and his crew began to found on the island of Crete. In Delos, Apollo had delivered them an oracle telling them that they would found a new city in their homeland. Aeneas and his men had misinterpreted this to mean Crete, but the oracle had meant Italy. When they began to build the city, they were ...
Aeneas flees burning Troy, Federico Barocci, 1598 (Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy). In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas (/ ɪ ˈ n iː ə s / ih-NEE-əs, [1] Latin: [äe̯ˈneːäːs̠]; from Ancient Greek: Αἰνείας, romanized: Aineíās) was a Trojan hero, the son of the Trojan prince Anchises and the Greek goddess Aphrodite (equivalent to the Roman Venus). [2]
In Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, the City of Dis (Italian: Dite Italian pronunciation:) encompasses the sixth through the ninth circles of Hell. [ 1 ] Moated by the river Styx , the fortified city encloses the whole of Lower or Nether Hell.
Dido (/ ˈ d aɪ d oʊ / DY-doh; Ancient Greek: Διδώ Greek pronunciation: [diː.dɔ̌ː], Latin pronunciation:), also known as Elissa (/ ə ˈ l ɪ s ə / ə-LISS-ə, Ἔλισσα), [1] was the legendary founder and first queen of the Phoenician city-state of Carthage (located in Tunisia), in 814 BC.
Since the chart combines secular history with biblical genealogy, it worked back from the time of Christ to peg their start at 4,004 B.C. Above the image of Adam and Eve are the words, "In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth" (Genesis 1:1) — beside which the author acknowledges that — "Moses assigns no date to this Creation.