Messiah (mâšîah, "the anointed one"): Jewish religious concept, a future savior who will, in some sense, come to restore Israel. The nature of both the Messiah and the restoration was a matter of debate, and there were several claimants.Lukuas (115 CE)
Sources: Appian of Alexandria, Civil…
Luxenberg Thesis: the idea that Islam originated as a Monophysite Christian sect in eastern Syria. It assumes that the Quran was not written in Arabic but in Syriac-Arabic, which in turn presupposes that there has been a time in which…
Lydia: Iron Age kingdom in western Turkey. Its capital was Sardes. In Antiquity, this country was well known for its gold carrying river Pactolus; the wealth of the last Lydian king Croesus, who had been the first to mint gold,…
Lykos or Nahr al-Kalb: river, northeast of modern Beirut, best known for a large series of rock inscriptions, both ancient and modern.
Nahr al-Kalb
The Lykos…
Lysimachus (361-281): bodyguard of Alexander the Great, one of the Diadochi.
Lysimachus
Relatives:
Father: Agathocles of Pella
First wife: Nicaea (daughter of Antipater)
Children: Agathocles,…
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (64/63-12 BCE): Roman politician, friend of the emperor Augustus.
Bust of Agrippa
Meanwhile, Mark Antony had reached Gaul and…
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (64/63-12 BCE): Roman politician, friend of the emperor Augustus.
Agrippa
Octavian conquered Egypt in 30, returned to Italy in…