Oikoumene
Oikoumene Oikoumene, from the Greek , which is the present ... In Alexander the Great's Hellenistic Age, Oikoumene refers to the part of the earth ... inhabited by barbarians. In the New Testament, oikoumene is used to refer to the future ... One of the most interesting uses of Oikoumene was by the Byzantines to describe ...
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Talk:First Council of Nicaea
... quick comments: English Ecumenical comes from Greek oikoumene, the most likely Greek definition is that of the Roman Emperors who used oikoumene for the Roman Empire, as if the ... first to call Nicaea by the term oikoumene? Eusebius? Jerome? Sozomen? Socrates? Who? That answer ... church), though the Greek NT does use oikoumene elsewhere, I believe - for the Roman Empire ... me Jerome was the first to use oikoumene for Nicaea, but I don't ...
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Ptolémée   (translated from French)
Ptolémée This article concerns the astronomer. For the Pharaons of the period lagide, to see dynastie of Ptolémées . Ptolémée Claudius Ptolemaeus, commonly called Ptolémée (Ptolémaïs de Thébaïde ( Haute-Egypt ) 90 - Canope 168) was one astronomist and astrologer Greek who lived with Alexandria (today in Égypte ). It is also one of the ...
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User talk:Dbachmann/archiveC
... — (?) 11:03, 21 January 2006 (UTC) Oikoumene vs Ecclesia Could you explain in more detail the difference betwen oikoumene and ecclesia? Neither article helps much. --Angr ...
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Geographia (Ptolemy)
Geographia (Ptolemy) The Geographia is Ptolemy's main work besides the Almagest. It is a compilation of what was known about the world's geography in the Roman Empire of the 2nd century. Ptolemy relied mainly on the work of an earlier geographer, Marinos of Tyre, and on gazetteers of the ...
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User:Rktect/degrees
User:Rktect/degrees < User:Rktect measures that reference the earths great circle 1 Mille passus = 1/75 Degree of the Earths Great Circle 1 stadia = 1/600 Degree of the Earths Great Circle 1 passus = 1/75,000 Degree of the Earths Great Circle 1 pes = 1/375,000 Degree of ...
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User:Egil/Sandbox/rktect/Mille passus
User:Egil/Sandbox/rktect/Mille passus < User:Egil | Sandbox | rktect Mille passus A mille passus, meaning thousand paces or milliare, is a division of a degree of the earth's great circle. Its also sometimes called a milion, milliare, myle or mile depending upon who's doing the measuring and when ...
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Talk:Great circle
Talk:Great circle Is there any article on small circles (or what it its name in the English language) ? // Rogper 21:09, 25 Oct 2003 (UTC) measures that reference the earths great circle 1 Mille passus = 1/75 Degree of the Earths Great Circle 1 stadia = 1/600 Degree of the ...
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Talk:Middle-earth
... MIDDEL-ERD, an ancient name for the OIKOUMENE, the abiding place of Men, the objectively ... for the inhabited world of Men, the OIKOUMENE: middle because thought of vaguely as set ...
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Ptolemy
Ptolemy This article is about the geographer and astronomer Ptolemy. For Alexander the Great's general, see Ptolemy I Soter. For others named "Ptolemy" or "Ptolemaeus", see Ptolemy (disambiguation). Claudius Ptolemaeus (Greek: ; ca. 90 – ca. 168), known in English as Ptolemy, was a Hellenistic geographer, astronomer, and astrologer who lived ...
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