EPIPHANIUS (b. ca. 315 [?] near Eleutheropolis, Judaea; d. 403 in Constantia, Cyprus), bishop of Constantia on Cyprus, founded on…

DEIPNOSOPHISTAÍ (Banquet of the Sophists), a miscellany in the form of dialogues ostensibly conducted at table, including approximately one hundred…

DEADSEA SCROLLS, parchment and papyrus scrolls written in Hebrew, mainly of the 1st centuries B.C.E. and C.E., found in caves…

CUMONT, FRANZ VALÉRY MARIE (b. Aalst, Bel­gium, 3 January 1868, d. Brussels, 20 August 1947), classical philologist and historian of…

GREECE iii. PERSIAN INFLUENCE ON GREEK THOUGHT   IRAN AND GREEK PHILOSOPHY   The idea of oriental, and especially Iranian,…

WIKANDER, Oscar Stig (b. 27 August 1908, Norttälje, Sweden; d. 20 December 1983, Uppsala, Sweden; FIGURE 1), Iranist, comparatist, and…