181 thoughts on “What is the meaning of AD, BC, BCE and CE?” Comment navigation ← Older Comments Marco January 2, 2019 ..Jesus said : “No man can come to Me, except the Father(God) which hath sent Me draw(s) him: and I will raise (resurrect) him up at the last day...
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October 15, 2023 There is a legend that Bath was founded in 860 BCE when Prince Bladud, the father of King Lear, caught leprosy. He was banned from the court and was forced to look after pigs in a faraway location. The pigs caught the skin disease from him, but when they went rootin...
Is the Diamond Sūtra older than the Bible? Gutenberg Bible Printed by Johannes Gutenberg, in Mainz, Germany, it is considered to be oldest printed book using movable type in the West – though in China there were examples of book printing many centuries earlier, such as the Diamond Sūtra. ...
I came three hours earlier than the others.我比其他人早来3小时.than 这里应该用了,介词 比较对象,和主语不同,但算是 同一类人,He got there earlier than we did.他到得比我们早.这个than 应该是连词,比较的 前后结构,成分对等的话 than we did ,是不是相当于,than we got there 上面的句子 起码...
ABOVE: Photofrom Wikimedia Commonsof a Roman marble portrait head of Sokrates, based on an earlier bronze made by the Greek sculptor Lysippos in the fourth century BCE The date of the major Athenian festivals of Demeter and Persephone
The Temple of Augustus and Livia was built sometime between 20 and 10 BCE, although some features of the Temple date to the 1st century CE. The temple’s excellent state of preservation is largely the result of it being incorporated into a church as early as the 5th century and later res...
Thanks for the clarification. I did already realize that a commentary from around 1600 CE might not be representative for the readership in the 3d century BCE, but then, classical texts are classical just because they allow for new readings in later times. ...
Then, starting in around the early third century BCE, authors writing in the Greek language begin to describe Metragyrtai as castrated and outwardly effeminate. They also start to refer to them more frequently by a new name, which is not attested in the earlier sources: Γάλλοι ...
25. 42kb Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. -lucius Annaeus Seneca, philosopher (BCE 3-65 CE). 愤怒,如果不被限制,通常比挑起它的戏谑语更伤人。-卢修斯·安娜斯·塞纳卡,哲学家(BCE 3 - 65 CE)。有道...