JOVIAN

(Flavius Claudius Jovianus)jōˈvēən, c.331–364, Roman emperor (363–64). The commander of the imperial guard under Julian the Apostate in his Persian campaign, Jovian was proclaimed emperor by the soldiers when Julian was killed. He made a humiliating peace with Shapur II of Persia. He returned Christianity to the privileged position it had enjoyed before Julian, and he restored his friend St. Athanasius to the episcopal see of Constantinople. After a reign of only eight months Jovian died and was succeeded by the joint emperors Valentinian I and Valens.

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Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D
Book by Noel Lenski; University of California Press, 2002
Subjects: Byzantine Empire--History--Valens, 364-378, Rome--History--Valentinian I, 364-375, Valens--Emperor Of The East--Ca. 328-378, Valentinian--I--Emperor Of Rome--321-375
As Jovian and his army hobbled back toward Antioch...and requesting their own reinstatement. Jovian is reported to have dismissed their claim...Anomoeans sent representatives who met Jovian in Edessa (Urfa) to plead for their cause...
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Encyclopedia of the Solar System
Book by Lucy-Ann Mcfadden, Paul R. Weissman, Torrence V. Johnson; Academic Press, 2007
Subjects: Solar System--Encyclopedias
...planets. 7. Future Directions Models of jovian planetary interiors have constrained the...degree of dif- ferential rotation in the jovian planets. For example, it is unknown...delineating the equations of state of jovian planetary components will help to clarify...
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The Late Roman World and Its Historian: Interpreting Ammianus Marcellinus
Book by Jan Willem Drijvers, David Hunt; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: Ammianus Marcellinus--Rerum Gestarum Libri, Emperors--Rome--Biography--History And Criticism, Greeks--Rome--Biography, Historians--Rome--Biography, Rome--History--Empire, 284-476--Historiography
...Ammianus carefully builds up a sense of Jovian rushing to his doom, a predetermined...merely underlines that, in Ammianus view, Jovian was never meant to have been emperor in...Ammianus comments at the moment of election, Jovian was chosen as if by the blind decree of...
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Rome in the East: The Transformation of an Empire
Book by Warwick Ball; Routledge, 2000
Subjects: Rome--Civilization--Christian Influences, Rome--Civilization--Middle Eastern Influences
...army hurriedly elected the lacklustre Jovian as emperor. Heavy losses were suffered...Alexander, was reduced to a shambles. Jovian received Shapurs emissaries in his tent...bilateral thirty-year peace was agreed. Jovian ceded all the trans-Tigris possessions...
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The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars (AD 226-363): A Documentary History
Book by Michael H. Dodgeon, Samuel N. C. Lieu; Routledge, 1994
Subjects: Iran--History--To 640, Iran--Military Relations--Rome, Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D, Rome--Military Relations--Iran
...After the rule of Julian the Apostate, Jovian the son of Varronianus became emperor...the senators shouted their approval. Jovian himself and his army left the desert for...and plea for peace. The holy Emperor Jovian gladly received him and consented to receive...
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Poussin's Esther before Ahasuerus: Beauty, Majesty, Bondage
Journal article by Jonathan Unglaub; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 85, 2003
Subjects: Art history, Painting, Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665), Visual artists
...and invert her languid beauty and his Jovian majesty: "Behold Ahasuerus, at whose...complement, Poussin constructs a decidedly Jovian king (Fig. 1). Poussin derived the...universe and make it tremble. Manzinis Jovian conception of Ahasuerus and Poussins corresponding...
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Jupiter Quest: A Path to Scientific Discovery
Journal article by Kelly A. Bollman, Mark H. Rodgers, Robert L. Mauller; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 82, 2001
Subjects: Astronomy--Study and teaching, Educational innovations--Evaluation, Elementary school students--Education, High school students--Education, Sciences education--Technique
...concerns a hypothetical space mission to the Jovian system. Students work in teams to study...group to decide which location in the Jovian system will be most useful for further...look at a hypothetical mission to the Jovian system in a specific classroom. Middle...
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Cowley's 'Pindarique Odes' and the Politics of the Inter-Regnum
Journal article by Stella P. Revard; Criticism, Vol. 35, 1993
Subjects: Cowley, Abraham--Criticism, interpretation, etc., English literature--Political aspects, Pindarique Odes (Poems)--Political aspects, Royalists, 1642-1660--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...his own, commenting how the eagle the Jovian bird bore Ganymede aloft. . . . like...emblem for the poet, Cowleys eagle is a Jovian figure of divine justice, defeating the...young triumphant Charles, whose right the Jovian eagle vindicates? In the last strophe...
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Epic Transgression and the Framing of Agency in "Dido Queen of Carthage"
Journal article by Clare R. Kinney; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 40, 2000
Subjects: Dido Queen of Carthage (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Drama--16th century, Literature--16th century, Marlowe, Christopher--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...in elevating Aeneas/Ganymede to the Jovian position, actually recapitulates the...Trojan Ganymede merely positions him as the Jovian beloved who becomes one cause of Junos...necessary surrender of dramatic agency by the Jovian playwright to those other Ganymedes...
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Ianus Vitalis: In Christophorum Columbum Portrait of a Hero
Journal article by M. Schneider, A.V. Van Stekelenburg; Akroterion, 2009
Subjects: Columbus, Christopher (Genoese explorer), Renaissance
...century apparently shaped subsequent depictions of which the Jovian portrait is best known. Most European authorities consider...contained an engraving of Columbus (allegedly a copy of the Jovian portrait) by the Swiss engraver Tobias Stimmer (Fig. 1 right...
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Jovian Moon Has Thin Oxygen Atmosphere
Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 125, June 1997
Subjects: Ganymede (Satellite)--Observations, Jovian satellites, Satellites--Jupiter
Jovian Moon Has Thin Oxygen Atmosphere. Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope...of a thin oxygen atmosphere on Jupiters moon Ganymede, the largest of the Jovian satellites. The same team of scientists previously had found a tenuous veil...
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The Mysterious Moons of Jupiter
Magazine article by Judith Braffman-Miller; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 129, July 2000
Subjects: Callisto (Satellite)--Discovery and exploration, Europa (Satellite)--Discovery and exploration, Ganymede (Satellite)--Discovery and exploration, Io (Satellite)--Discovery and exploration, Jovian satellites, Satellites--Jupiter, Solar system--Observations
...its surface or atmosphere by atomic-charged particles in the Jovian magnetosphere. This gas cloud which surrounds the satellites...that it "could be the most exciting satellite in the whole Jovian system." Soderblom commented that Europa looked as though...
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Cloud Photos Suggest That Jupiter Is Wet
Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 125, June 1997
Subjects: Jovian atmosphere, Jupiter (Planet)--Atmosphere
...Ingersoll, professor of planetary science, the probe didnt find much water because it dropped into a cloud-free area of the Jovian atmosphere. Since water likely would be manifested in clouds, he thinks the probe might have detected the predicted amount...
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Wet Past of Jupiter's Largest Moon
Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 129, June 2001
Subjects: Astronomy--Observations, Ganymede (Satellite)--Observations, Jovian satellites, Satellites--Jupiter
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Chaos in the Solar System
Magazine article by Neil de Grasse Tyson; Natural History, Vol. 104, July 1995
Subjects: Astrophysics, Chaos theory, Scientists, Solar systems
...about 20 million years for the outer, "Jovian" planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus...spacecrafts measured the masses of the Jovian planets with a high degree of precision...repeat the orbit calculations for the Jovian planets, then the chaos goes away. Another...
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Icy Planet, Mars and Jovian Swap
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 13, 2002
Icy planet, Mars and Jovian swap Byline: Frank Perley., THE WASHINGTON...in his novel about exploration of the Jovian giant, Mantas Gift (Tor, $24.95...intermediary between humans and the Jovian creatures. He is inserted into the...
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HAVEN'T WE COME A LONG WAY? Fifty Years of Space Exploration, Almost Countless Probes, Satellites and Spaceships. a Graphic Representation of Man's Incurable Drive to Go Boldly into the Unknown
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 20, 2010
Subjects: Outer space--Discovery and exploration, Outer space--Investigations, Solar system--Discovery and exploration, Solar system--Investigations, Space exploration--Discovery and exploration, Space exploration--Investigations
...gas giant in 1994. And in the nine years after it reached Jupiter, Galileo explored five moons before being flown into the Jovian atmosphere in 2003. Cassini is still going strong 11 years into its mission, having made 300 flights past 22 moons and nearly...
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Family Hit Hard by Break-In as Neighbours Abandon Area
Newspaper article; Daily Examiner (Grafton, Australia), January 1, 2010
...stolen items included a DVD/video combo player, a Sony Playstation 2, a TEAC portable CD player and two fishing reels (Jovian and Melaluka brands), a Kodak Easy Share camera and a Men In Black game. Kris said the thief gained entry through a smashed...
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Doing as the Romans Did; Constructing a First Century Roman House with 21st Century Builders Was Not Easy. Alison Jones Talks to the Expert Who Leapt at the Chance to Do It for a TV Series
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), February 24, 2011
...hallucinations and even death. This added credence to the theory that it had accounted for the demise of at least one Emperor, Jovian, who was discovered dead in a badly ventilated room where braziers had been used to try and dry off recently applied wall paintings...
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Festival Five
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 17, 2004
...in the movie. A pretentious Fringe comic who portrays himself as a heroic plaything of the gods is asking to be zapped by a Jovian (or, indeed, Jovial) thunderbolt - if only to give the rest of us a laugh. KIDS ANCIENT WRITING WORKSHOP: And now for...
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Jovian
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
JOVIAN (Flavius Claudius Jovianus)jo ve n...Julian the Apostate in his Persian campaign, Jovian was proclaimed emperor by the soldiers when...Constantinople. After a reign of only eight months Jovian died and was succeeded by the joint emperors...
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Jovian Planets
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
JOVIAN PLANETS the planets Jupiter , Saturn , Uranus , and Neptune . They are all larger and more massive than the earth. Since they...
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Solar System
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...because of the low gravitational force. The Jovian planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus...that of water. The atmospheres of the Jovian planets are very thick, merging imperceptibly...molten core. At the distances of the Jovian planets the methane, water, and ammonia...
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Jupiter , in Astronomy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...order from the sun it is the first of the Jovian planets Jupiter, Saturn , Uranus , and...1994 has extended our knowledge of the Jovian atmosphere. Jupiter has no solid rock...Six space probes have encountered the Jovian system: Pioneers 10 and 11 (1973 and...
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Terrestrial Planet
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...earth the largest. They are considerably denser than the Jovian planets , ranging from a specific gravity of 4 for Mars...for the earth. Because they spin less rapidly than the Jovian planets, the terrestrial planets are less flattened at...
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