Dion (Tyrant of Syracuse) - Dion (Tyrant of Syracuse) Dion, tyrant of Syracuse (408-353 BC), was the son of Hipparinus, and brother-in-law of Dionysius of Syracuse. In his youth, he was an admirer and pupil of Plato, whom Dionysius had invited to Syracuse; and he used every effort to inculcate the maxims of his master in the mind of the tyrant. The stern morality of Dion was distasteful to the younger Dionysius, and the historian Philistus, a faithful supporter of despotic power, succeeded in procuring his banishment on account of alleged intrigues with the Carthaginians. The exiled philosopher retired to Athens, where he was at first permitted to enjoy his revenues in peace; but the intercession of Plato (who had again visited Syracuse to procure Dion's recall) only served to exasperate the.
Tyrant - Tyrant A tyrant (from Greek τύραννος) is one possessing absolute power. In the original Greek meaning, a tyrant was anyone who overturned the established government of a city-state, usually through the use of popular support, to establish himself as dictator, or the heir of such a person. The term now implies a cruel persecutor who treads on the welfare of his people, because some tyrants did indeed have these characteristics. It has also been used by extension of non-governmental figures, such as patriarchs and bullies. The title was first given to Pisistratus of Athens in 560 BC. The heyday of the tyrants was the early 6th century BC. During this time, many governments in the Aegean world were overthrown. It was during this time that Persia.
Tyrant flycatcher - Tyrant flycatcher Tyrant Flycatchers Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Tyrannidae Genus Many: see text The tyrant flycatchers are a large family of passerine birds which occur throughout North and South America, but are mainly tropical in distribution. They superficially resemble the Old World flycatchers, but are more robust with stronger bills. They are members of suborder Tyranni (suboscines) and so do not have the sophisticated vocal capabilities of the songbirds. Most, but not all, are rather plain, and many have erectile crests. As the name implies, most are insectivorous, but some will take fruit. 429 Species Family: Tyrranidae Genus Ornithion White-lored Tyrannulet, Ornithion inerme Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet, Ornithion semiflavum Brown-capped Tyrannulet, Ornithion brunneicapillum Genus Camptostoma Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet, Camptostoma imberbe.
Kingbird - Tyrannus is a group of large insect-eating birds in the Tyrant flycatcher family Tyrranidae. They prefer semi-open or open areas. These birds wait on a perch and then catch insects in flight. They have long pointed wings and large broad bills. These birds tend to defend their breeding territories aggressively, often chasing away much larger birds. The genus name means "tyrant". The full list of species is: Snowy-throated Kingbird, Tyrannus niveigularis White-throated Kingbird, Tyrannus albogularis Tropical Kingbird, Tyrannus melancholicus Couch's Kingbird, Tyrannus couchii Cassin's Kingbird, Tyrannus vociferans Thick-billed Kingbird, Tyrannus crassirostris Western Kingbird, Tyrannus verticalis Eastern Kingbird, Tyrannus tyrannus Grey Kingbird, Tyrannus dominicensis Loggerhead Kingbird, Tyrannus caudifasciatus Giant Kingbird, Tyrannus cubensis Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, Tyrannus forficatus Fork-tailed Flycatcher, Tyrannus savana The name "Tyrannus" also appears in the New Testament, where it is.
Kurtz (Heart of Darkness) - is introduced to a painting of Kurtz's, depicting a blindfolded woman bearing a torch against a nearly black background, and clearly symbolic of his former views. Kurtz is also the author of a "pamphlet" regarding the civilization of the natives. However, over the course of his stay in Africa, he becomes corrupted. He takes his pamphlet and scribbles in, at the very end, the words "Exterminate the brutes!" He induces the natives to worship him, setting up rituals and venerations worthy of a tyrant. By the time Marlow, the narrator, sees Kurtz, he is ill with "jungle fever" and almost dead. Marlow seizes Kurtz and endeavors to take him back down the river in his steamboat, whereupon Kurtz dies. He passes his sickness to Marlow, who almost follows him into the.
Jacobus Arminius - the University of Leiden by the kindness of friends. He remained at Leiden from 1576 to 1582. His teachers in theology included Lambertus Danaeus, Johannes Drusius, Guillaume Feuguereius, and Johann Kolmann. Kolmann believed and taught that high Calvinism made God both a tyrant and an executioner. Under the influence of these men, Arminius studied with success and had seeds planted that would begin to develop into a theology that would later compete with the dominant Reformed theology of John Calvin. Arminius began studying under Theodore Beza at Geneva in 1582. He was called to pastor at Amsterdam and was ordained in 1588. He was reputed to be a good preacher and faithful pastor. In 1590 he married Lijsbet Reael. Arminius is best known as the founder of the anti-Calvinistic school in.
John II of Portugal - to hire him. In 1492, in the service of the Castile and Aragon kingdoms, Columbus discovers the Americas, convinced until his death that he had reached India. With this event, a series of disputes between Portugal and Castile about the ruling of the seas started. Maritime rivalry among them led to the famous Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in June 7 1494. This treaty, which defined the meridian of Tordesillas, stated that Portugal kept the eastern part of the world, and Castile and Aragon were responsible for the exploration of the western half. But the dividing of the world was not the main issue between the Iberian kingdoms. Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon had several daughters, but only one feeble male heir - Juan. The oldest daughter, Isabella.
José Hernández - which advocated local autonomy, abolition of the conscripted "frontier contingents", and election of justices of the peace, military commanders, and school boards. He opposed immigration, because he believed it undermined the pastoral foundation of the region's wealth. He envisioned a federal republic based in pastoralism, but also featuring a strong system of education and a literate population. Although a federalist opposed to the centralizing, modernizing, and Europeanizing tendencies of Argentine president Domingo Sarmiento, Hernández was no apologist for General Juan Manuel de Rosas, whom he characterized as a tyrant and a despot. Hernández is known today almost entirely for his masterpiece, Martín Fierro, the epic poem that stands as the pinnacle of gauchesque literature. The poem was apparently begun during a period of exile in Brazil following the defeat at Ńaembé.
Joxer - his eyes on Xena's double, Meg, a ditzy harlot. When Xena and Gabrielle had faked their deaths in the eyes of the Olympian Gods, Joxer searched for their bodies when Ares had them buried in a icy tomb. He then moved on with his life, twenty-fives years later, as he married Meg, started a tavern dedicated to the Warrior Princess and the Battling Bard, and had three children; his eldest Virgil, the poetic warrior, and a boy and a girl whom are unknown. Discovering that Xena and Gabrielle were alive, he traveled with them again, in search of Eve, Xena's daughter. Eve was actually the Roman tyrant, Livia. Trying to save Gabrielle, Joxer was stabbed in the stomach by Livia. In the future, Joxer has a american descendant that was responsible.
Justinian I - F. Nau, in Revue de l'orient chretien, ii., 1897, 482). Other peoples also accepted Christianity: the Heruli (Procopius, Bellum Gothicum, ii. 14; Evagrius, Hist. eccl., iv. 20), the Huns dwelling near the Don (Procopius, iv. 4; Evagrius, iv. 23), the Abasgi (Procopius, iv. 3; Evagrius, iv. 22) and the Tzani (Procopius, Bellum Persicum, i. 15) in Caucasia. The worship of Ammon at Augila in the Libyan desert (Procopius, De Aedificiis, vi. 2) was abolished; and so were the remnants of the worship of Isis on the island of Philae, at the first cataract of the Nile (Procopius, Bellum Persicum, i. 19). The Presbyter Julian (DCB, iii. 482) and the Bishop Longinus (John of Ephesus, Hist. eccl., iv. 5 sqq.) conducted a mission among the Nabataeans, and Justinian attempted to strengthen Christianity.
Ibycus - at home, he lived a wandering life, and spent a considerable time at the court of Polycrates, tyrant of Samos. The story of his death is thus related: While in the neighbourhood of Corinth, the poet was mortally wounded by robbers. As he lay dying he saw a flock of cranes flying overhead, and called upon them to avenge his death. The murderers betook themselves to Corinth, and soon after, while sitting in the theatre, saw the cranes hovering above. One of them, either in alarm or jest, exclaimed, "Behold the avengers of Ibycus," and thus gave the clue to the detection of the crime (Plutarch, De Garrulitate, xiv.). The phrase, "the cranes of Ibycus," passed into a proverb among the Greeks for the discovery of crime through divine intervention. According.
Ionian Revolt - Ionian Revolts were triggered by the actions of Aristagoras, the Tyrant of Miletus at the end of the 6th century BC and the beginning of the 5th century BC. They constituted the first major conflict between Greece and Persia. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 The Revolt of Naxos 2 The Ionian Revolt 3 The Sack of Sardis 4 The Revolt Spreads 5 The End of the Revolt The Revolt of Naxos In 502 BC, the people of Naxos, an island in the Aegean Sea controlled by the Persian Empire, revolted. The former rulers of Naxos appealed to Aristagoras, a Persian governor ruling over the native Greeks of the Ionian city-state of Miletus, for aid. Aristagoras agreed, hoping to annex Naxos for himself once the conflict was resolved. In order to prosecute.
Isthmian Games - in the third year of the Olympiad cycle. The Isthmian Games were held in honour of Poseidon, and were said to have originated around 580 BC to celebrate the death of the tyrant Kypselos. Another story states that the Games were founded by Theseus. Administration of these Games was undertaken by the city of Sicyon following the Roman destruction of Corinth in 146 BC, until Corinth recovered ownership of these Games at some point between 7 BC and AD 3. The Isthmian Games thereafter flourished until Theodosius I suppressed them as a pagan ritual. The winners of the Isthmian Games received a wreath of pine..
Ivan Mazuranic - of Smail aga Čengić", 1845, the epic poem full of memorable verses that have become embedded in national memory of his people who cherished it as the treasure of a "Homeric" wisdom prasing such epic virtues like fortitude, fidelity and justice. Based on a minor incident in Bosnia and Herzegovina, when a petty local Muslim tyrant was killed, as an act of retaliation, in an ambush set by local Christian ruffians, Mauranić's poetry transformed a rather prosaic act of tribal atavistic religious hatred into a hymn celebrating the struggle for freedom- acted out under the hostile forces of fatality. Following the steps of Croatian poets like Kačić and Ivan Gundulic (his chief national influence, whose main epic "Osman" Mauranić completed), Mauranić closed the era of Romanticism and of classic epic poetry.
Vortigern - Vortigern The first writer to tell the story of Vortigern was the sixth century historian Gildas. He tells us (chapter 23) how "all the councillors, together with that proud tyrant" made the mistake of inviting "the fierce and impious Saxons" to settle in Britain and serve as soldiers of the local Romano-British aristocrats (for there was no longer an imperial government in Britain) to fight against the Picts. A small group came at first, and was settled "on the eastern side of the island, by the invitation of the unlucky king". This small group invited more of their countrymen to join them, and the colony grew. Eventually the Saxons demanded that "their monthly allotments" should be increased, and when their demands were eventually refused, broke their treaty and plundered the lands.
Heinrich Mann - of Human Rights condemning the murder of Croatian scholar Dr Milan Sufflay on February 18, 1931. He died in Santa Monica, California. Bibliography Das Kaiserreich (The Empire) Der Untertan (The Small Town Tyrant) Professor Unrat.
History of Georgia - territories declared independence. Georgia was one of them, proclaiming the establishment of the independent Democratic Republic of Georgia on May 26, 1918. The new country was ruled by the Menshevik faction of the Social Democratic Party, which established a multi-party system in sharp contrast with the "dictatorship of the proletariat" established by the Bolsheviks in Russia. It was recognised as independent by the major European powers in 1918 and by Russia in May 1920. Georgia under the Soviet Union, 1921-1991 However, in March 1921 the Soviet Red Army invaded Georgia and forcibly incorporated it into a Transcaucasian Federative Soviet Socialist Republic (TFSSR) comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Soviet rule was harsh: 5,000 people were executed following a failed revolt in 1924 and thousands more were purged under Stalin and his secret.
History of Argentina - of independence in Buenos Aires had only local effect; other regions of the Río de la Plata were just as concerned with independence from Buenos Aires as with independence from Spain. In 1811 Paraguay made its own declaration of independence. Military campaigns led by Generals José de San Martín and Simón de Bolívar between 1814 and 1817 made independence increasingly a reality, with independence now generally dated from Buenos Aires formal declaration of independence from Spain on July 9, 1816. Argentines revere San Martín - who campaigned in Argentina, Chile, and Peru - as the hero of their national independence. Following the defeat of the Spanish, centralist unitarios and federalist mazorqueros waged a lengthy conflict between themselves to determine the future of the nation. Bolivia declared itself independent in 1825 as.
Hiero I of Syracuse - Hiero I of Syracuse Hiero I was the brother of Gelo, and tyrant of Syracuse from 478 to 467 BC. During his reign he greatly increased the power of Syracuse. He removed the inhabitants of Naxos and Catana to Leontini, peopled Catana (which he renamed Aetna) with Dorians, concluded an alliance with Acragas (Agrigentum). and espoused the cause of the Locrians against Anaxilaus, tyrant of Rhegium. His most important achievement was the defeat of the Etruscans at the Battle of Cumae (474 BC), by which he saved the Greeks of Campania. A bronze helmet (now in the British Museum), with an inscription commemorating the event, was dedicated at Olympia. Though despotic in his rule Hiero was a liberal patron of literature. He died at Catana in 467. See Diod. Sic xi..
Hipponax - a Greek iambic poet. Expelled from Ephesus in 540 BC by the tyrant Athenagoras, he took refuge in Clazomenae, where he spent the rest of his life in poverty. His deformed flgure and malicious disposition exposed him to the caricature of the Chian sculptors Bupalus and Athenis, upon whom he revenged himself by issuing against them a series of satires. They are said to have hanged themselves like Lycambes and his daughters when assailed by Archilochus, the model and predecessor of Hipponax. His coarseness of thought and feeling, his rude vocabulary, his want of grace and taste, and his numerous allusions to matters of merely local interest prevented his becoming a favourite in Attica. He was considered the inventor of parody and of a peculiar metre, the scazon or choliambus, which.
