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In the time of transition and cultural intersection between West and East in Vietnam at the end of 19th and early 20th century, Vĩnh Ký had such a grandiose career that the French scholar J. Bouchot called him "the only scholar in Indochina and even the modern China" In Vietnam, Vĩnh Ký was praised as the most excellent language and ...
Porphyry saw Christians as treasonous and immoral, and believed that those who would not convert away from the religion should be executed. [5] As quoted by Jerome, Porphyry mocked Paul and the early Christians while suggesting that the "magical arts" performed by Jesus of Nazareth and his followers were nothing special, done similarly by other figures of Greco-Roman history: [6]
Mons Porphyrites (today Jabal Abu Dukhkhan) is the mountainous site of a group of ancient quarries in the Red Sea Hills of the Eastern Desert in Egypt.Under the Roman Empire, they were the only known source of the purple "imperial" variety of porphyry.
Porphyry of Tyre (/ ˈ p ɔːr f ɪr i /; Koinē Greek: Πορφύριος, romanized: Porphýrios; c. 234 – c. AD 305) was a Neoplatonic philosopher born in Tyre, Roman Phoenicia [1] during Roman rule. [a] [1] [2] He edited and published the Enneads, the only collection of the work of Plotinus, his teacher.
Porphyry (geology), an igneous rock with large crystals in a fine-grained matrix, often purple, and prestigious Roman sculpture material; Shoksha porphyry, quartzite of purple color resembling true porphyry mined near the village of Shoksha, Karelia, Russia; Porphyritic, the general igneous texture of a rock with two distinct crystal ...
Pitirim was an abbot of many monks, was the third successor of Anthony the Great in his hermitage, [1] and was said to have received Anthony's virtues. [4] He lived on Mount Porphyry (Greek: Πορφυρίτη, romanized: Porphyriti) in the Thebaid, [5] which was probably named after its proximity to the Roman quarry of Mons Porphyrites that mined a rare stone by the same name.
Basil II Porphyrogenitus (Greek: Βασίλειος Πορφυρογέννητος Basíleios Porphyrogénnetos; [note 2] 958 – 15 December 1025), nicknamed the Bulgar Slayer (Greek: ὁ Βουλγαροκτόνος, ho Boulgaroktónos), [note 3] was the senior Byzantine emperor from 976 to 1025.
Apparently he wanted the porphyry used by the Roman Emperors, but the red quartzite was the closest they could manage in appearance . Mikenorton ( talk ) 00:31, 25 November 2012 (UTC) [ reply ] However, the source cited looks solid enough - after all the tomb is the book's whole subject.