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Interview with Simon from Lithodomos VR
In this interview, Ancient History Encyclopedia is talking to Simon Young, the founder of Lithodomos VR, which is a company based in Melbourne, about their new platform Ancient World! Simon (Lithodomos VR): Hi, Kelly. It is great to be here...
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Simon Forman
Simon Forman (1552-1611) was an Elizabethan physician, astrologer, magician, and alchemist who lived and worked in both London and Wiltshire, England. He was unusual in that despite receiving no formal training in medicine or astrology, and...
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Simon the Zealot
A painting of Simon the Zealot. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper. Created by James Tissot (1936-1902) between 1886-1894.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Simon Forman
Simon Forman (1552-1611), Elizabethan doctor and astrologist. Engraving by Richard Godfrey was published in 1776 and was based on a portrait of Forman by John Bulfinch (active 1680-1728).
Wellcome Collection, London.
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Simon Forman
Simon Forman (1552 -1611), Elizabethan astrologer and doctor, oil on wood painting by an unknown artist, c. 1900, likely based on the earlier portrait by John Bulfinch, later engraved by Richard Godfrey in 1776. Wellcome Collection, London...
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Simon Wiesenthal
A 1982 photograph of Simon Wiesenthal (1908-2005), a noted Nazi-hunter who dedicated his life to bringing fugitive Nazi war criminals to justice. (Dutch National Archives)
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St. Simon the Zealot's cave in Abkhazia, Georgia
A photo showing St. Simon the Zealot's cave in Abkhazia, Georgia.
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Louis XVII and Antoine Simon
Louis-Charles de France (Louis XVII of France) and his jailor, the cobbler Antoine Simon; later royalist writers told of the abuses inflicted by Simon. Engraving by Yan' Dargent, from Histoire de la Révolution by Adolphe Thiers, Ed. 1866...
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Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
In the 2nd century CE, as Christianity was in the process of becoming an independent religion, a body of literature emerged that scholars classify as apocrypha and pseudepigrapha. Apocrypha (Greek: apokryptein, "to hide away") are those books...
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Saint Peter and Simon Magus
Saint Peter and Simon Magus, tempera on wood by Benozzo Gozzoli (c. 1420-1497).
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.