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Icon of the Deesis – St. Catherine's Monastery Sinai, 12th century Great Deesis with Prophets; 16th century; Walters Art Museum In Byzantine art, and in later Eastern Orthodox iconography generally, the Deësis or Deisis (/ d eɪ ˈ iː s ɪ s /, day-EE-siss; Greek: δέησις, "prayer" or "supplication") is a traditional iconic representation of Christ in Majesty or Christ Pantocrator ...
The whole having been translated into Greek, was deposited in one of the public libraries, and Eupraxis was dismissed loaded with rewards." (Smith, Dictionary) The Greek "name" Eupraxis simply means "right actions", a familiar goal in discussions of ethics, and an amusingly apt name for the finder.
Theosis (Ancient Greek: θέωσις), or deification (deification may also refer to apotheosis, lit. "making divine"), is a transformative process whose aim is likeness to or union with God, as taught by the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Eastern Orthodox Church; the same concept is also found in the Latin Church of the Catholic Church, where it is termed "divinization".
Deesis with Saint Paul and Saint Catherine is an oil on panel painting by Giulio Romano, executed c. 1520, now in the Galleria nazionale di Parma. Its title refers to deesis , a subject in Christian iconography, shown here with Paul of Tarsus and Catherine of Alexandria in the lower register and the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist in the upper.
In addition to the Linear A texts, there are also inscriptions Cretan hieroglyphs of a few hundred characters [64] and texts written in the Greek alphabet, but not in Greek, with a few dozen words [65] [59] Cypriot syllabary in the first millennium BC, in which mostly Greek texts were recorded. [66] The relevant texts comprise around 100 to 200 ...
All ancient Greek literature was to some degree oral in nature, and the earliest literature was completely so. [2] The Greeks created poetry before making use of writing for literary purposes. Poems created in the Preclassical period were meant to be sung or recited (writing was little known before the 7th century BC).
The Greek word αἴτιον (aition, 'cause') [1] means an attempt to explain contemporary phenomena with a story from the mythical past. The title of Callimachus's work can be roughly translated into English as "origins". [2] Derived from the same word, the term 'aetiology' encompasses the study of origins more broadly. [2]
The English word gloss is derived from the Latin glossa, a transcript of the Greek glossa. In classical Greek it means a tongue or language. In classical Greek it means a tongue or language. In the course of time it was used to designate first a word of the text which needed some explanation, and later the explanation or addition itself.