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Tree Of The Sun
The Trees of the Sun and the Moon are two legendary trees associated with Alexander the Great. The earliest known account of the trees is found in the apocryphal ''Letter of Alexander to Aristotle'', where it take up about a quarter of the text.. The Tree of the Sun is male and that of the Moon female. They foretell the future in Greek and Indian languages. In response to Alexander's queries, they tell him that he will become lord of the world but die by poisoning in Babylon the next year. His mother will die miserably but his sister will have happy lives. The trees are depicted on the Ebstorf map, the Psalter world map The Psalter World Map or the Map Psalter is a small mappa mundi from the 13th century, now in the British Library, found in a psalter (London, British Library MS Additional 28681). No other records of psalters found from the Middle Ages have a ..., the Jerome map and the map in the '' Liber Floridus''. See also * Two Trees of Valinor#Trees of Sun and Moon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander The Great In Legend
The vast conquests of the Macedonia (ancient kingdom), Macedonian king Alexander the Great quickly inspired the formation and diffusion of legendary material about his deity, journeys, and tales. These appeared shortly after his death, and some may have already begun forming during his lifetime. Common themes and symbols among legends about Alexander include the Gates of Alexander, the Horns of Alexander, and the Gordian Knot. In the third century AD, an anonymous author writing in the name of Alexander's court historian Callisthenes (commonly referred to as Pseudo-Callisthenes) authored the Greek ''Alexander Romance''. This text would spawn a genre of literature about the legends and exploits of Alexander across centuries, going through over one hundred versions in premodern times and appearing in almost every language in both European and Islamic worlds. Greek tradition Prophesied conqueror Philip II of Macedon, King Philip II had a dream in which he took a Seal (emblem), wax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Letter Of Alexander To Aristotle
The ''Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem'' ("Letter of Alexander to Aristotle") is a purported Letter (message), letter from Alexander the Great to the philosopher Aristotle concerning his adventures in Indian subcontinent, India. Although accepted for centuries as genuine, it is today regarded as apocryphal. It is the primary source for most of the tales of the marvellous and fabulous found in Alexander the Great in legend, later Alexander traditions. Textual history The ''Epistola'' was composed in Ancient Greek language, Greek. The original version may have adhered more closely to historical fact than later versions. An abridged version, including much fabulous material, was incorporated into the ''Alexander Romance'' no later than the third century AD. In the Greek alpha recension of the ''Romance'', the letter is chapter 17 of book III. The ''Epistola'' was widely translated and circulated both with the various versions of the ''Romance'' and independently of it. In some lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Greek Language
Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek Dark Ages, Dark Ages (), the Archaic Greece, Archaic or Homeric Greek, Homeric period (), and the Classical Greece, Classical period (). Ancient Greek was the language of Homer and of fifth-century Athens, fifth-century Athenian historians, playwrights, and Ancient Greek philosophy, philosophers. It has contributed many words to English vocabulary and has been a standard subject of study in educational institutions of the Western world since the Renaissance. This article primarily contains information about the Homeric Greek, Epic and Classical periods of the language, which are the best-attested periods and considered most typical of Ancient Greek. From the Hellenistic period (), Ancient Greek was followed by Koine Greek, which is regar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Languages Of The Indian Subcontinent
South Asia is home to several hundred languages, spanning the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. It is home to the fourth most spoken language in the world, Hindi–Urdu; the seventh most spoken language, Bengali; and thirteenth most spoken language, Punjabi. Languages like Bengali, Tamil and Nepali have official/national status in more than one country of this region. The languages in the region mostly comprise Indo-Iranic and Dravidian languages, and further members of other language families like Austroasiatic, and Tibeto-Burman languages. Geographical distribution Geolinguistically, the Indo-Aryan, Dravidian and Munda language groups are predominantly distributed across the Indian subcontinent. The term Indic languages is also used to refer to these languages, though it may be narrowed to refer only to Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages. The subcontinent is also home to a few language isolates, like ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebstorf Map
The Ebstorf Map was an example of a (a medieval European map of the world). It was made by Gervase of Ebstorf, who was possibly the same man as Gervase of Tilbury, some time between 1234 and 1240. Description The map was found in a convent in Ebstorf, northern Germany, in 1843. It was a very large map, painted on 30 goatskins sewn together and measuring around a greatly elaborated version of the common medieval tripartite map ( T and O), centered on Jerusalem with east at the top. The head of Christ was depicted at the top of the map, with his hands on either side and his feet at the bottom. Rome is represented in the shape of a lion, and the map reflects an evident interest in the distribution of bishoprics. There was text around the map, which included descriptions of animals, the creation of the world, definitions of terms, and a sketch of the more common sort of T and O map with an explanation of how the world is divided into three parts. The map incorporated both pag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psalter World Map
The Psalter World Map or the Map Psalter is a small mappa mundi from the 13th century, now in the British Library, found in a psalter (London, British Library MS Additional 28681). No other records of psalters found from the Middle Ages have a mappa mundi. The Psalter mappa mundi was likely used to provide context for the Bible's stories as well as a visual narrative of Christianity. Mappae mundi were not utilized as maps for travel or geographical education, but as history lessons taught through a visual means. Historian Felicitas Schmieder refers to mappa mundi as "Geographies of Salvation" as they are report the narrative of Christ's interaction with our world. The Psalter mappa mundi is now conserved at the British Library in London. An open-access high-resolution digital image of the map with place and name annotations is included among the thirteen medieval maps of the world edited in the Virtual Mappa project. The Map Psalter can be broken down in the following manner: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerome Map
The Tournai maps, often known as the Jerome maps, are a pair of maps with Latin labels found in a single late 12th-century manuscript copy of Jerome's Latin translation of Eusebius ''Onomasticon''. One map depicts the Holy Land (Palestine) while the other depicts Asia. Although the preface of the ''Onomasticon'' refers to a map of the Holy Land, the 12th-century map cannot be a faithful copy of such a map.Susan Weingarten, ''The Saint's Saints: Hagiography and Geography in Jerome'' (Brill, 2005), pp. 207–208. Description There are 278 labels on the Asian map and 195 on the Palestinian map. The Asian map includes Greece and the eastern Mediterranean.Evelyn Edson, ''Mapping Time and Space: How Medieval Mapmakers Viewed Their World'' (The British Library, 1997), pp. 26–30. It extends as far east as Sri Lanka (Taprotane). It is in portrait format with east at the top. Asia Minor takes up an inordinate amount of space in the middle. The Palestinian map is also oriented east up, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liber Floridus
__NOTOC__ ''Liber Floridus'' ("Book of Flowers") is a medieval encyclopedia that was compiled between 1090 and 1120 by Lambert, Canon of Saint-Omer. The text compiles extracts from some 192 or so different works. Lambert's medieval encyclopedia contains a universal history, a chronological record of events to the year 1119. These are of Biblical, astronomical, geographical, philosophical and natural history subjects. Lambert wrote ''Liber Floridus'' originally in Latin, and later it was translated into French as ''Le Livre fleurissant en fleurs''. A detailed description is in the ''Historia comitum Normannorum, comitum Flandriae''. The ''Liber Floridus'' was the first of the encyclopedias of the High Middle Ages that slowly superseded the work of Isidore of Seville. The original manuscript, completed in 1120 and dedicated to Saint Omer by Lambert, has been preserved in the Ghent University Library, though its latter portion has not survived. A copy is in the Bibliothèque Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Trees Of Valinor
In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the Two Trees of Valinor are Telperion and Laurelin, the Silver Tree and the Gold Tree, which bring light to Valinor, a paradisiacal realm where the Valar and Maiar, angel-like divine beings, and many of the Elves live. The Two Trees are of enormous stature, and exude dew that is a pure and magical light in liquid form. The Elf craftsman Fëanor makes the unrivalled jewels, the Silmarils, with their light. The Two Trees are destroyed by the evil beings Ungoliant and Melkor, but their last flower and fruit are made into the Moon and the Sun. Melkor, now known as Morgoth (as a result of his slaying Fëanor’s father, Finwë), steals the Silmarils, provoking the disastrous War of the Jewels. Descendants of Telperion survive, growing in Númenor and, after its destruction, in Gondor; in both cases the trees are symbolic of those kingdoms. For many years while Gondor has no King, the White Tree of Gondor stands dead in the citadel of Minas Tirith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
