JASON OF CYRENE

sīrēˈnē, 2d cent. b.c., Jewish historian. He wrote a history of the Maccabean uprising, used as the basis of 2 Maccabees.

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Jason and the Golden Fleece: The Argonautica
Book by Apollonius Of Rhodes, Richard A. Hunter; Oxford University Press, 1995
Subjects:	Argonauts (Greek Mythology)--Poetry, Epic Poetry, Greek--Translations Into English, Jason (Greek Mythology)--Poetry, Medea (Greek Mythology)--Poetry
...mythology --Poetry. 2. Jason Greek mythology --Poet...ever before. The aim of the present volume...Eratosthcnes came from Cyrene, Asclepiades from...looked to Callimachus of Cyrene as the leading poetic...story of the quest of Jason and the Argonauts...

Epic and Romance in the Argonautica of Apollonius
Book by Charles Rowan Beye, John Gardner; Southern Illinois University Press, 1982
Subjects:	Apollonius--Rhodius--Argonautica, Argonauts (Greek Mythology) In Literature, Epic Poetry, Greek--History And Criticism, Jason (Greek Mythology) In Literature, Literary Form, Medea (Greek Mythology) In Literature, Rhetoric, Ancient
...Hera-Aphrodite colloquy, Heras love of Jason for his kindness to her and her...the third book Heras sponsorship of Jason is essential. Medea is presented...establish the conventional nature of Jason in this scene. It makes his subsequent...

Alexandrian Poetry under the First Three Ptolemies, 324-222 B.C
Book by Auguste Couat, James Loeb; W. Heinemann, Ltd., 1931
Subjects:	Greek Poetry--History And Criticism
...to his side Atheos and Hegesias of Cyrene, Diodorus Chronus, Stilpo of Megara...2 in which there is mention of Cyrene founded by Apollo, seems to indicate...ss the period when Cyrene, during the lifetime of Ptolemy Philadelphus, was promised...

Pindar's Pythian Odes: Essays in Interpretation
Book by R. W. B. Burton; Oxford University Press, 1962
Subjects:	Pindar--Pythian Odes
...Achilles, Asclepius, and Jason. As to the structure of the myth of Cyrene, there are a few points...period. In this epode of Pythian 9, Pindar...succeeded in clothing Cyrene with more personality...his stories except Jason in Pythian 4. Compared...

A New Commentary on Holy Scripture: Including the Apocrypha
Book by Charles Gore, Henry Leighton Goudge, Alfred Guillaume; Macmillan, 1936
Subjects:	Bible--Commentaries
...All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any...Printing : Printed in the United States of America : PREFACE THIS Commentary is...say that they have not found the results of legitimate criticism to conflict with the...

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Living and Dying for the Law: The Mother-Martyrs of 2 Maccabees
Journal article by Susan Haber; Women in Judaism, Vol. 4, 2006
Subjects:	2 Maccabees (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Jewish religious literature--Criticism and interpretation, Jewish women--Social aspects, Martyrs--Analysis, Religious literature, Jewish--Criticism and interpretation, Women, Jewish--Social aspects
...Macc 2:23, the author claims that the work is not his own, but rather an epitome of the five-volume account of one Jason of Cyrene. For the purposes of this paper I follow van Henten in considering the historical account in 2 Macc 2:19-15:39 as...

Successful Examinees in the L.E.T. - SECONDARY - All Regions (C)
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, November 2, 2007
...Released on OCTOBER 24, 2007 Page: 90 of 338 Seq. No. N a m e 4401...JHANE CATHERINE JINO-O 4432 CORSINO, CYRENE* BALLETA 4433 CORTES, BABY JOY ALBAO...*

Successful Examinees in the L.E.T. - SECONDARY - All Regions (C)
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, November 1, 2007
...Released on OCTOBER 24, 2007 Page: 90 of 338 Seq. No. N a m e 4401...JHANE CATHERINE JINO-O 4432 CORSINO, CYRENE* BALLETA 4433 CORTES, BABY JOY ALBAO...*

Successful Examinees in the L.E.T. - SECONDARY - All Regions (C)
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, November 4, 2007
...Released on OCTOBER 24, 2007 Page: 90 of 338 Seq. No. N a m e 4401...JHANE CATHERINE JINO-O 4432 CORSINO, CYRENE* BALLETA 4433 CORTES, BABY JOY ALBAO...*

Successful Examinees in the L.E.T. - SECONDARY - All Regions (C)
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, November 6, 2007
...Released on OCTOBER 24, 2007 Page: 90 of 338 Seq. No. N a m e 4401...JHANE CATHERINE JINO-O 4432 CORSINO, CYRENE* BALLETA 4433 CORTES, BABY JOY ALBAO...*

Jason of Cyrene
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
JASON OF CYRENE sire ne, 2d cent. b.c., Jewish historian. He wrote a history of the Maccabean uprising, used as the basis of 2 Maccabees. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.

Maccabees , Books of the Bible
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...composed in Greek late in the 1st cent. b.c. Claiming to be the condensation of a history of the Maccabees by one Jason of Cyrene, it is a devout treatment of Judas Maccabeus career and of Jews persecuted at the hands of Antiochus. The book begins...

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