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Epitome. An epitome (/ ɪˈpɪtəmiː /; Greek: ἐπιτομή, from ἐπιτέμνειν epitemnein meaning "to cut short") is a summary or miniature form, or an instance that represents a larger reality, also used as a synonym for embodiment. [1] Epitomacy represents "to the degree of."
The Apostolic Constitutions or Constitutions of the Holy Apostles (Latin: Constitutiones Apostolorum) is a Christian collection divided into eight books which is classified among the Church Orders, a genre of early Christian literature, that offered authoritative pseudo- apostolic prescriptions on moral conduct, liturgy and Church organization. [1]
For Foucault, an épistémè is the guiding unconsciousness of subjectivity within a given epoch – subjective parameters which form an historical a priori. [5]: xxii He uses the term épistémè (French pronunciation:) in his The Order of Things, in a specialized sense to mean the historical, non-temporal, a priori knowledge that grounds truth and discourses, thus representing the condition ...
Almagest. An edition in Latin of the Almagestum in 1515. The Almagest (/ ˈælmədʒɛst / AL-mə-jest) is a 2nd-century mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths, written by Claudius Ptolemy (c. AD 100 – c. 170) in Koine Greek. [1] One of the most influential scientific texts in history ...
Ancient Rome. De verborum significatione libri XX[a] ('Twenty Books on the Meaning of Words'), also known as the Lexicon of Festus, [3] is an epitome compiled, edited, and annotated by Sextus Pompeius Festus from the encyclopedic works of Verrius Flaccus. Festus' epitome is typically dated to the 2nd century, [4] but the work only survives in ...
Ontology. Ontology is the philosophical study of being. As one of the most fundamental concepts, being encompasses all of reality and every entity within it. To articulate the basic structure of being, ontology examines what all entities have in common and how they are divided into fundamental classes, known as categories.
The Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus[2] (Latin Epitoma Historiarum Philippicarum Pompei Trogi) [3] by the second-century Roman writer Justin is an abridgment of the Augustan historian Pompeius Trogus ' lengthy work the Historiae Philippicae, which has not survived. Justin's epitome is the only surviving source for Trogus ...
Because some of the words in the original language have ambiguous or difficult-to-translate meanings, debates over the correct interpretation occur. [ 100 ] Browning's A Dictionary of the Bible states that in the Septuagint (dated as early as the late 2nd century BCE), "the Greek parthenos was used to translate the Hebrew almah , which means a ...