dionysius

It was Dionysius Exiguus in the 6th century, who replaced the anno Diocletiani era with the Anno Domini era.

Well, epoch'd to Dionysius Exiguus's best guess as to the date of birth some five hundred and twenty odd years later...

It has a story of Dionysius being reborn that might be related to this.

It was not exactly methodically chosen by Dionysius Exiguus in the 6th century.

There's an actually an ancient author who wrote a whole epic about Dionysius and also wrote his own version of the Gospel of John.

Or take Dionysius of Halicarnassus and his penchant for speechifying.

But these are decimal years based on Dionysius Exiguus's miscalculations.

The current year numbering is because a monk called Dionysius Exiguus thought the existing system of numbering the years since Emperor Diocletian was stupid as Diocletian persecuted Christians.

There follow ten letters that provide helpful comments upon topics in the above four treatises, especially letter 9 on what Dionysius calls symbolic theology of which works 2) and 3) above (CH; EH) form a substantial part.

So the laptop class are the sword, put there by Dionysius (the political class), ready to fall on Damocles (the working class, whose sword, tellingly, isn’t owned or controlled by Damocles at all)?

We possess only one complete trilogy (Aeschylus' Oresteia ) and only one complete satyr play -- an important genre, since it may represent a holdover from earlier forms of the worship of Dionysius that led to what we think of as ancient drama.

Here's a quote from Thomas Aquinas about 1 Tim 3:1 > But since Dionysius declares that there are three orders, namely, bishops who rule, priests who enlighten, and deacons who cleanse, why does the Apostle make no mention of priests?

Pseudo-Dionysius is primarily exploring the limits of theological speech and doctrin with the toolset of "classical" European philosophy and his contemporary theology.

The polybolos was an advanced ancient Greek repeating ballista, often described as a "machine gun of antiquity," invented in the 3rd century BC by Dionysius of Alexandria.

Dionysius' quote is remarkably similar to Dogen Zenji's Fukanzazengi, the universal recommendations for Zen: "Therefore, put aside the intellectual practice of investigating words and chasing phrases, and learn to take the backward step that turns the light and shines it inward.

Wikipedia's entry on Io (the mythological figure) also says, "The ancients connected Io with the Moon", with a citation to "Eustathius of Thessalonica commentary on Dionysius Periegetes, 92", which looks like the same thing as the LSJ cite perseus gives.

Dionysius didn't really explain why he thought Jesus was born 525 years ago (in December of 1 BC).

There's actually an epic called the Dionysiaca, about Dionysius, that's longer than the Iliad and Odyssey combined.

They follow eucharistic rituals that were common to other religions, such as the cult of Dionysius.