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... at Miletus sick. Encyclopedia CORINTH kor' inth (Korinthos, "ornament"): A celebrated city of the Peloponnesus, capital of Corinthia, which lay North of Argolis, and with ...
https://bibleatlas.org/corinth.htm
... good to be left behind at Athens alone, Encyclopedia ATHENS ath' enz Athenai In antiquity the celebrated metropolis of Attica, now the capital of Greece. Two long walls, 250 ft. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/athens.htm
... city, and changed its name to Arsinoe in honor of his wife. The city was celebrated not only as a trading center, but especially for its celebrated oracle of Apollo which is ...
https://bibleatlas.org/patara.htm
... Jews under Felix and Florus. Here Vespasian was hailed emperor by his soldiers. Titus here celebrated the birthday of his brother Domitian by setting 2,500 Jews to fight with beasts in ...
https://bibleatlas.org/caesarea.htm
... . The former is the case with the Peneius, which has cut a channel through the celebrated Vale of Tempe. Lake Copais, in Boeotia, affords an example of man's activity. ...
https://bibleatlas.org/greece.htm
... city the land is exceedingly fertile, and there was produced a wine of whose excellence the celebrated Roman poet Virgil wrote. Philadelphia is not so ancient as many of the other cities of ...
https://bibleatlas.org/philadelphia.htm
... Jews under Felix and Florus. Here Vespasian was hailed emperor by his soldiers. Titus here celebrated the birthday of his brother Domitian by setting 2,500 Jews to fight with beasts in ...
https://bibleatlas.org/caesarea_philippi.htm
... birthplace of Hippocrates (the father of medicine), of Ptolemy Philadelphus, and of the celebrated painter Apelles. The large plane tree in the center of the town (over 2, ...
https://bibleatlas.org/cos.htm
... was old, and now about the city coins of every period are found. It was celebrated for its schools of science and medicine, and for its handsome buildings. Among them was ...
https://bibleatlas.org/smyrna.htm
... was sacred to the worship of Beltis and, later, of Adonis, whose rites were celebrated yearly at the river of the same name and at its source in the mountain, at ...
https://bibleatlas.org/gebal.htm
... have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you." Whereupon the Passover was celebrated ( Joshua 5:10 ) and the manna ceased ( Joshua 5:12 ) . ...
https://bibleatlas.org/gilgal_2.htm
... Patara, according to Acts 21 , Paul took ship for Phoenicia. It was a place celebrated not only as a trading-center, and a port of entry to the interior, but as ...
https://bibleatlas.org/lycia.htm
... their industry, especially in the production of textile fabrics, probably of native cotton. The celebrated vestis melitensis was a fine and soft material for dresses and for the covering of couches ( ...
https://bibleatlas.org/malta.htm
... :11 f ) . In a little hollow West of the ridge, the Samaritans annually celebrate the Passover in accordance with the directions of the Pentateuch. This is done in the open ...
https://bibleatlas.org/mount_gerizim.htm
... have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you." Whereupon the Passover was celebrated ( Joshua 5:10 ) and the manna ceased ( Joshua 5:12 ) . ...
https://bibleatlas.org/gibeath-haaraloth.htm
... . Clark purchased here the manuscript of Plato which is now in the Bodleian Library, the celebrated Clarkianus, a parchment written in the year 895, and admittedly the best of all for ...
https://bibleatlas.org/patmos.htm
... time the mountain was deserted. The Feast of the Transfiguration, however, continued to be celebrated by the monks from Nazareth. During the last quarter of the 19th century much building was ...
https://bibleatlas.org/mount_tabor.htm
... Bubastis very beautiful in his day. The annual festival of the goddess, Basht, was celebrated here with revolting license, similar to that of the festival of Syyid el-Bedawer now kept in ...
https://bibleatlas.org/pi-beseth.htm
... 4,000 B.C. 4. History of the City's Temples, etc.: The celebrated shrine of Ishtar was already in existence in the time of Lugal-zaggi-si, who came somewhat later ...
https://bibleatlas.org/erech.htm
... . from the Mediterranean, now Bergama, pop. about 25,000. It was celebrated for its library of 25,000 rolls. It is 50 ms, n. from ...
https://bibleatlas.org/pergamum.htm
... world. 4. Arts and Manufactures: (1 ) Textile Fabrics: The Phoenicians were celebrated for their textile fabrics of silk, wool, linen and cotton. The materials of the ...
https://bibleatlas.org/phoenicia.htm
... cult can be traced back at Paphos to Homeric times (Odyssey viii.362) and was repeatedly celebrated by Greek and Latin poets (Aeschylus Suppl. 555; Aristoph. Lys. 833; ...
https://bibleatlas.org/paphos.htm
... and successor Hieronymus deserted the alliance of Rome for that of Carthage, which led to the celebrated siege of the city by the Romans under Marcellus and its fall in 212 (Livy xxiv.21-33 ...
https://bibleatlas.org/syracuse.htm
... time the mountain was deserted. The Feast of the Transfiguration, however, continued to be celebrated by the monks from Nazareth. During the last quarter of the 19th century much building was ...
https://bibleatlas.org/tabor.htm
... , Semitic Uruk, the Biblical ERECH (which see), now Warka. Its most celebrated king, after Gilgames, was Lugal-zaggi-si, one of the opponents of the rulers of Lagas ...
https://bibleatlas.org/shinar.htm
