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Katabasis
(1,402 words)
[German version] I. Greek-Roman antiquity Katabasis (κατάβασις/
katábasis, ‘descent’, more precisely εἰς ᾍδου κ., ‘descent into the Underworld’; pl.
katabáseis; since Isoc. Or. 10,20, cf. Hdt. 2,122,1). Kataba…
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Gelasius
(565 words)
[German version] [1] Bishop of Caesarea [2] Maritima/Palaestina Bishop of Caesarea [2] Maritima/Palaesti…
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Victor
(1,595 words)
('winner, victor(ious)'). [German version] [1] Roman cognomen Roman
cognomen, only attested from the mid-1st cent. BC (Cic. Att. 14,14,2), but from then one of the commonest bynames, and a name of choice. Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum) Bibliography Kajanto, Cognomina, 57; 72; 89; 96; 98…
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Vaticanus
(253 words)
[German version] As early as Antiquity, the name V. (Mons Vaticanus; Ager Vaticanus; on the name see [1. 3291-3294]) described a hilly area on the right bank of the Tiber between the Mausoleum Hadriani (modern Castel Sant'Angelo) and the Ianiculum (Rome III., map 1). Three important roads (via Aurelia Nova, via Co…
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Olympias
(742 words)
(Ὀλυμπιάς;
Olympiás). [German version] [1] Daughter of Neoptolemus Daughter of Neoptolemus [2], born in about 375 BC. She was not given the name O. until after the Olympic victory of Philippus II in 356 BC (cf. Plut. Mor. 401b). She married Philip in 357 as his fifth wife (Ath. 13,557b) and bore him Alexander [4] the Great (356) and Cleopatra [II 3]. The birth o…
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