The Gospel of Thomas (also known as the Coptic Gospel of Thomas) is an extra-canonical sayings gospel.It was discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in December 1945 among a group of books known as the Nag Hammadi library.Scholars speculate that the works were buried in response to a letter from Bishop Athanasius declaring a strict canon of Christian scripture.

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri are a group of manuscripts discovered during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by papyrologists Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt at an ancient rubbish dump near Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, modern el-Bahnasa. The manuscripts date from the time of the Ptolemaic (3rd century BC) and Roman periods of Egyptian history (from …

Plato (/ ˈ p l eɪ t oʊ / PLAY-toe; Greek: Πλάτων Plátōn; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece.He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning on the European continent.. Along with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato is a ...

Oxyrhynchus lies west of the main course of the Nile on the Bahr Yussef, a branch that terminates in Lake Moeris and the Faiyum oasis.In ancient Egyptian times, there was a city on the site called Per-Medjed, named after the medjed, a species of elephantfish of the Nile worshipped there as the fish that ate the penis of Osiris.It was the capital of the 19th Upper Egyptian Nome.

A New Testament papyrus is a copy of a portion of the New Testament made on papyrus.To date, over 140 such papyri are known. In general, they are considered the earliest witnesses to the original text of the New Testament. This elite status among New Testament manuscripts only began in the 20th century. The grouping was first introduced by Caspar René Gregory, who …

The Gospel of Mary is a non-canonical text discovered in 1896 in a 5th-century papyrus codex written in Sahidic Coptic.This Berlin Codex was purchased in Cairo by German diplomat Carl Reinhardt.. Although the work is popularly known as the Gospel of Mary, it is not classed as a gospel by some scholars, who restrict the term 'gospel' to texts "primarily focused on …

Distribuzione e habitat. Il suo habitat naturale è costituito dalle acque tropicali e subtropicali. Nel mar Mediterraneo è presente ma raro.. Descrizione Il muso idrodinamico dell'Isurus oxyrinchus Isurus oxyrinchus Possiede pinna caudale quasi simmetrica, caratteristica tipica della famiglia Lamnidi; pinne pettorali piccole per diminuire l'attrito; pinna dorsale rigida per stabilizzare l ...

Il Vangelo di Maria o Vangelo di Maria Maddalena è un vangelo gnostico, scritto in lingua copta verso la metà del II secolo a partire da un proto-testo greco.Esalta il ruolo della discepola Maria Maddalena.. Perduto e noto solo attraverso citazioni patristiche, in epoca moderna ne sono stati ritrovati frammenti in greco e copto non contenenti il testo nella sua integrità.

The Seikilos epitaph is the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation, from anywhere in the world.The epitaph has been variously dated, but seems to be either from the 1st or the 2nd century CE. The song, the melody of which is recorded, alongside its lyrics, in the ancient Greek musical notation, was found engraved on a tombstone (a stele) …

The satyr play is a form of Attic theatre performance related to both comedy and tragedy.It preserves theatrical elements of dialogue, actors speaking verse, a chorus that dances and sings, masks and costumes. Its relationship to tragedy is strong; satyr plays were written by tragedians, and satyr plays were performed in the Dionysian festival following the performance of a group …