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Adria, town and episcopal see in the Veneto regione of northern Italy, on the Bianco Canal just east of Rovigo. Founded by the Etruscans or the Veneti of northeastern Italy, it later became a Roman town and was a flourishing port on the Adriatic Sea (to which it gave its name) until the silting up.
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At the beginning of the 4th c. B.C., Dionysios I of Syracuse sought to supplant the commercial hegemony of Athens with that of Sicily, and the founding of Atria is also attributed to him (Etym. Magn., s.v. Ἀδρίας τὸ πέλαγος ). However, archaeological finds show no Sicilian influence.
The history of Adria can be traced back thousands of years. In the 6th century B.C. it was a primitive Paleovenetian settlement situated on the northernmost bank of the Po (the Canal Bianco , or Tartaro ).
These were the philosophers of Ancient Greece, intellectual titans who dared to question the world around them, laying the foundations for much of our modern philosophy, science, and politics.
Oct 25, 2024 · His whole way of life rested on two unshakable premises: (1) the principle never to do wrong nor to participate, even indirectly, in any wrongdoing and (2) the conviction that nobody who really knows what is good and right could act against it. He demonstrated his adherence to the first principle on various occasions and under different regimes.
Origen, far from being a precursor of “Arianism,” as he was depicted during the Origenist controversy and is often still misrepresented today, was the main inspirer of the Nicene-Cappadocian line. 1 The Trinitarian formulation of this line, which was represented above all by Gregory of Nyssa, is that God is one and the same nature or essence in ...
Oct 25, 2024 · Greek philosophy, in the history of Western philosophy, the foundational and profound philosophical contributions of the leading thinkers of ancient Greece, including the pre-Socratic cosmologists of the 6th and 5th centuries bce; the intellectual giants of Classical Athens — Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle; and the Hellenistic founders of ...
