A than as i us

the most illustrious of the Fathers, was born at Alexandria about A.D. He was protected by Alexander, the of Alexandria, and as a deacon took an part in combating the views of Arius at Council of Nice. In 328 he was chosen Bishop succe ion to Alexander, but the Arians resisted appointment by fair means and foul, till in 327 council held at Tyre deposed him, and Const an tine him to Tréves. Const an tine II. restored 268 ne him, Antioch, friend stantius, and (349 driven Thebaid, works. to Alexandria, During of his time, in comparative consist of the opposing The but in the later A the cat a, which (i.e. feeding phores with Atheism that. AGNOSTICISM Atheling, asually later conferred grand-nephew. Athelnoy, a xwampy and Great established which Athelstan, ceeded monarchy “King the Bernicia, land Athelstan mer, a view was Beverley, & wise several Athena Athene which in Greek and weaving her Hero dot us Poseidon A the cat a. ( 240 and again he was expelled by two councils at He now went to Rome, and found a in Constans, who induced his brother, Con after the vote of councils held at Milan Sardica, to reinstate the persecuted bishop a.p.), After the death of Constans he was out once more, and sought refuge in the where he began the composition of his Julian’s acce ion permitted him to return but he had again to fly into hiding. Jovian's reign he resumed quiet po e ion see, and though Valens exiled him for a short he spent the last ten years of his episcopacy peace, dying in 373. His works mainly of treatises and orations in support doctrine of the Trinity and the Incarnation, the heresies of Arius and his followers. A than asian Creed was not composed by him, was either the production of Hilary of Arles fifth century or of Spanish theologians of a date. [ARtus.] the sub-order of Hyprozoa, in there are neither H/ydrotheee nor Gonothece cups for the protection of the polypites or members of the colony, or for the gonoor reproductive members). It is synonymous Gymnoblastea. (Gk. a-theos, without God), the belief no God exists; frequently confounded with and PANTHEISM (q.V.). an Anglo-Saxon title of honour, applied only to those of royal blood, but extended to any of noble birth. It was first. by Edward the Confe or on Edgar, his THE Isuior(Ang. Sax. ftoyal Island), tract at the junction of the rivers Tone Parret in Somersets hire. Here Alfred the found a refuge from the Norsemen, and (A.D. 888) 2 Benedictine Abbey, of no traces are left. or ZXTHELSTAN, born 895, such is father Edward the Elder in the Saxon in 925. He first adopted the title of of the English.” By his marriage with sister of Cytric he established a claim to which he annexed. Const an tine of Scot supported a grandson of Cytric, and whilst was engaged in upholding Louis d’Outrean in stir rection broke out in the north with to restoring Danish power. This scheme crushed by the great victory of Brunanburh, near in 937. In 940 Athelstan died. He was and temperate monarch, who introduced important judicial and social reforms. (Gk. Athene, in Homer always Pallas; also called Athenaie and Pallas Athenaie, makes it probable that the word is adjectival), mythology the godde of wisdom, war, skill in the useful arts, statecraft, agriculture, and needlework. One tradition represents as springing armed from the brain of Zeus. and others regard her as the child. of and Tritonia. Athens was under her ) special [ACROPOLIS.] Areopagite favour being Amongst were powerful her yearly with and and their similar ciently sec rated poets to encouraging attached born the come complete a rambling and and quotations wise to embraced Al rection Marcus its a ign is of having left order Emperor’s and duced suspected spent in the poem a towards miles streams of the Lycabettus times. Athens. care, and was the chief seat of her worship. She had the credit of founding the Court, and of pleading before it in of Orestes. The olive was sacred to her as one of her most precious gifts to man. animals the ow], the cock, and the serpent her chief favourites. She lent the Greeks her aid in the Trojan war. The Pan a then a i a, great festivals at Athens, were celebrated on a small scale, and once in each Olympiad greater splendour. She was a virgin deity, is usually represented with helmet, shield, spear, coat-of-mail. The Romans identified ber with Etruscan godde Minerva, who po e ed attributes. Atheneum (lit. the temple of Athene), anan institution built by Hadrian and conto Athené, which was much frequented by and literary men. The term is now applied any establishment founded for the purpose of literature or art, to which is often a reading-room or library. A the neo us, 2 Greek rhetorician and grammarian, at Naucratis in Egypt about the beginning of third century A.D. Only one work of his has down to us, and that unfortunately in an instate. It is called Deipnosophiste, and is account of a dinner party of learned witty people, who discu a hundred topics, intetlard their talk with references to and from many authors known to us other only by name. Casaubon devoted his erudition editing this book.