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Didymus

Arius Didymus Arius Didymus ( ''Areios Didymos''; fl. 1st century BC) was a Stoic philosopher and teacher of Augustus. Fragments of his handbooks summarizing Stoic and Peripatetic doctrines are preserved by Stobaeus and Eusebius. Life Arius was a citizen of ...

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fl. ''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indic ...

1st century BC), Stoic philosopher *

Thomas the Apostle Thomas the Apostle (; , meaning 'the Twin'), also known as Didymus ( 'twin'), was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Thomas is commonly known as "doubting Thomas" because he initially doubted the resurrection of ...

(died 72 AD), also known as Didymus *

Didymus Chalcenterus Didymus Chalcenterus (Latin; Greek: , ''Dídymos Chalkéderos'', "Didymus Bronze-Guts"; c. 63 BC – c. AD 10) was an Ancient Greek scholar and grammarian who flourished in the time of Cicero and Augustus. Life The epithet "Bronze-Guts" came fr ...

(63 BC–10 AD), Hellenistic scholar and grammarian *

Didymus the Blind Didymus the Blind ( Coptic: ; 398), alternatively spelled Dedimus or Didymous, was a Christian theologian in the Church of Alexandria, where he taught for about half a century. He was a student of Origen, and, after the Second Council of Constant ...

(313–398), ecclesiastical writer of Alexandria *

Didymus the Musician Didymus the Musician (Greek: ) was a music theorist in Rome of the end of the 1st century BC or beginning of the 1st century AD, who combined elements of earlier theoretical approaches with an appreciation of the aspect of performance. Formerly assu ...

, music theorist in Alexandria of the 1st century * Didymus (died 304), 4th century martyr and companion of Theodora * Didymus, a member of the

House of Theodosius The Theodosian dynasty was a Roman imperial family that produced five Roman emperors during Late Antiquity, reigning over the Roman Empire from 379 to 457. The dynasty's patriarch was Theodosius the Elder, whose son Theodosius the Great was ma ...

Didymus Mutasa Didymus Noel Edwin Mutasa (born 27 July 1935) is a Zimbabwean politician who served as Zimbabwe's Speaker of Parliament from 1980 to 1990. Subsequently, he held various ministerial posts working under President Robert Mugabe in the President's ...

(born 1935), Minister of National Security in Zimbabwe

Didymos

Didymos (music theorist) Didymus the Musician (Greek: ) was a music theorist in Rome of the end of the 1st century BC or beginning of the 1st century AD, who combined elements of earlier theoretical approaches with an appreciation of the aspect of performance. Formerly assu ...

, ancient Greek music theorist * Didymos I (1921–2014), Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan, the Primate of the Malankara Church of India from 2005 to 2010.

Fictional characters

* Sir Didymus, a fictional character from the movie ''

Labyrinth In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth () is an elaborate, confusing structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos. Its function was to hold the Minotaur, the monster eventually killed by the h ...

Animals

* ''Didymus'' (beetle), a genus of weevils found in New Zealand, the Kermadec and Norfolk Islands * ''

Leptodactylus didymus ''Leptodactylus didymus'', the Madre de Dios thin-toed frog, is a species of frog in the family Leptodactylidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, swamps, intermitt ...

'', a species of frog in Bolivia and Peru

Other

65803 Didymos 65803 Didymos (Minor planet provisional designation, provisional designation ) is a sub-kilometer asteroid and Binary asteroid, binary system that is classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid and near-Earth object of the Apollo asteroid, A ...

, an asteroid forming a twin pair with

Dimorphos Dimorphos (formal designation (65803) Didymos I; provisional designation S/2003 (65803) 1) is a natural satellite or minor-planet moon, moon of the near-Earth object, near-Earth asteroid 65803 Didymos, with which it forms a Binary asteroid, bina ...

(the target of the

DART mission The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was a NASA space mission aimed at testing a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects (NEOs). It was designed to assess how much a spacecraft impact deflects an asteroid through its tran ...