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Galen's Greek name Γαληνός (Galēnós) comes from the adjective γαληνός (galēnós) 'calm'. [28] Galen's Latin name (Aelius or Claudius) implies he had Roman citizenship. [29] Galen describes his early life in On the affections of the mind. He was born in September 129 AD. [6]
Although the inspiration for Galen's Peri Alypias was the fire of Rome in 192 AD and the loss of many of Galen's books, the genre of writing on the prevention and cures of grief date back to 5th century BC Greece with Antiphon the Sophist's Peri Alypias, as described by Plutarch. [4]
Galen openly supported the Protestant Paul von Hindenburg against the Centre Party's candidate, Wilhelm Marx, in the presidential elections of 1925. Galen was known as a fierce anti-Communist (he later supported the battle by the Axis powers on the Eastern Front against Joseph Stalin's regime in the Soviet Union [18]).
Galen of Pergamum in the 2nd century CE was the first to make written record of the gland and argued against the prevailing concept. According to him, the gland has no spiritual or physiological role, but merely a supporting organ of the brain, and gave the name κωνάριο (konario, often Latinised as conarium) for its cone-shaped ...
R. Gamaliel depicted in a medieval miniature. Gamaliel the Elder (/ ɡ ə ˈ m eɪ l i əl,-ˈ m ɑː-, ˌ ɡ æ m ə ˈ l iː əl /; [1] also spelled Gamliel; Hebrew: רַבַּן גַּמְלִיאֵל הַזָּקֵן Rabban Gamlīʾēl hazZāqēn; Koinē Greek: Γαμαλιὴλ ὁ Πρεσβύτερος Gamaliēl ho Presbýteros), or Rabban Gamaliel I, was a leading authority in the ...
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Jesus (/ ˈ dʒ iː z ə s /) is a masculine given name derived from Iēsous (Ἰησοῦς; Iesus in Classical Latin) the Ancient Greek form of the Hebrew name Yeshua (ישוע). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As its roots lie in the name Isho in Aramaic and Yeshua in Hebrew, it is etymologically related to another biblical name, Joshua .
The name Gospel of the Nazarenes was first used in Latin by Paschasius Radbertus (790–865), and around the same time by Haimo, though it is a natural progression from what Jerome writes. [6] The descriptions evangelium Nazarenorum and ablative in evangelio Nazarenorum , etc. become commonplace in later discussion.