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Brewer's: Table
Apelles' table. A pictured table, representing the excellency of sobriety on one side, and the deformity of intemperance on the other. Tables of Cebes. Cebes was a Theban philosopher, a…Brewer's: Trinity
Tertullian (160-240) introduced this word into Christian theology. The word triad is much older. Almost every mythology has a threefold deity. (See Three.) American Indians. Otkon, Messou…Brewer's: Genius
Genii (Roman mythology) were attendant spirits. Everyone had two of these tutelaries from his cradle to his grave. But the Roman genii differ in many respects from the Eastern. The Persian…Hambletonian Society/Breeders <br/>Crown Standardbred Poll
Final Poll conducted by Harness Racing Communications as of Nov. 17, 1997 and based on the votes of harness racing media representatives. Horses receive 10 points for a first place finish,…Philosophy & Religion
Socrates wasn't the first philosopher, but he is widely credited as the forefather of Western philosophy.Philosophy, from the Greek philos ("loving") and sophia ("wisdom"), is a bit hard to define.…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Fragment 2
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment 1Fragment 3Fragment 2 Such was Zonoras; and as daylight finds One amaranth glittering on the path of frost,[1] When autumn nights have nipped all weaker…Stoicism
(Encyclopedia) StoicismStoicismstōˈĭsĭzəm [key], school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium (in Cyprus) c.300 b.c. The first Stoics were so called because they met in the Stoa Poecile [Gr.,=…Theories of the Universe: Curved Space
Curved SpaceTheories of the UniverseCracks in a Newtonian WorldFaster Than a Speeding Light WaveIt All Depends on Your PositionThe Relative Nature of Space and TimeGeological TimeHow Can You Be in…Brewer's: Venus
Love; the goddess of love; courtship. Copper was called Venus by the alchemists. (See Aphrodite) “Venus smiles not in a house of tears.” Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, iv.l. Venus is the…Brewer's: Sibyls
Plato speaks of only one (the Erythraean); Martian Capella says there were two, the Erythraean and the Phrygian; the former being the famous “Cumaean Sibyl;” Solinus and Jackson, in his…Trending
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