...goes to the table and picks up "The Apostolic Fathers."] The scene is in the Roman Empire, the time is at the end of the first and the beginning of the second century, and yet we are at once aware that we have left the precincts of the ancient world and have entered...

...society, cultores lovis Heliopolitani Berytenses, which carried on the worship of the Baal of Heliopolis at the end of the first and the beginning of the second century of our era. A dedication to the same god, from Nimes in southern France, was set up by a retired centurion,...

...art, went on under the successors of Alexander in a continuous development. In the Roman reliefs of the end of the first and the beginning of the second century AD there are certainly new elements, which .we shall have to consider. But the new elements were in the,...

...letters after the name (M, MA, OF, F or FEC). No. 18, MEDETVS. The date of this potter is fixed to the end of the first and the beginning of the second century by a bowl, shape 29, at Kettering, somewhat in the style of the bowl of Ran to from Heddernheim.f which...

...centuries. Caesar's information concerning the Germans was of the vaguest sort.1 Tacitus, who lived at the end of the first and the beginning of the second century AD, and who was at one time a Roman official among the Germans, knew them much better, and his Germania...

...its origin to one of the Gnostic leaders — Basilides, perhaps, who lived under Trajan and Adrian, at the end of the first and the beginning of the second century. With regard to this particular tradition, if the Gnostic is Basilides, then he must be accepted as...

...other writers in Greek are of varying value on comitial procedure : the biographer Plutarch, who wrote at the end of the first and the beginning of the second century AD, and the historians Appian, of the middle of the second century, and Dio Cassius, who wrote at the beginning...

...farce after the tragedy. h In France, the literature in langue d'oc and langue d'o'il blossomed between the end of the first and the beginning of the second century after the year 1000, when the whole country was in ferment as a result of the political, economic,...

...Buddhism also experienced the extensive growth of Mahayana with the blessing of a Kushana King Kaniska at the end of the first and the beginning of the second century AD. 11 After the Gupta dynasty came to power, royal assistance was also rendered to Brahmanic sects. A...

...judge from the comments of the satirists Martial (12.57.1-14) and Juvenal (3.10-16, 3.296, 6.542-47) at the end of the first and the beginning of the second century CE Indeed, when finally the Romans set fire to the Temple, so great was their rancor toward the wealth...