Antioch
The city of Antioch-on-the-Orontes (modern Antakya) is located in modern-day Turkey. It was founded near the end of the 4th century BC by Seleucus I Nicator, who made it the capital of what was then Syria. Seleucus I had served as one of Alexander the Great's generals, and the name Antiochus occurred frequently amongst members of his family.Antioch occupies an important place in the history of Christianity. It was here that Paul preached his first Christian sermon in a synagogue, and here that followers of Jesus Christ were first called Christians. As Christianity spread, Antioch became the seat of one of the five original patriarchates, along with Jerusalem, Alexandria, Constantinople, and Rome. Today it remains the seat of a patriarchate of each of the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox churches. For several centuries it was an important city in the Byzantine Empire. It was conquered by the Muslims in 636 A.D.
The city remained in Arab hands until 969, when it was recovered by the Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus II Phocas[?]. The city was lost again, to the Seljuk Turks, in 1085. 13 years later, it was captured by the Crusaders, and became the capital of an independent Principality of Antioch. The city remained in Crusader hands for the better part of the 12th and 13th centuries, until it was finally captured by the Mamluk Sultan Baibars[?] in 1268. Baibars destruction of the city was so great that it was never a major city again, with much of its former role falling to the port city of Alexandretta (Iskenderun).
Several other cities within the Seleucid empire were also named Antioch, most of them founded by Seleucus I Nicator.
Antioch is also the name of a number of places in the United States of America: see
Antioch is also a famous university (formerly a college) in Yellow Springs, Ohio; the second institution to provide coeducation[?] at the college level in the United States. See Antioch College[?].
abandoned Philoctetes, the poet now gradually sheds a gentler and
Neoptolemus, touched with generous remorse, steals back to give the
an angry altercation takes place between them. Ulysses, finding he
Achilles, and departs to apprize the host of the backsliding of his
weapons to Philoctetes--a scene which must have commanded the most
ensues; and, finally, the god so useful to the ancient poets brings
happy close. Hercules appears and induces his former friend to
healed.. The farewell of Philoctetes to his cavern--to the nymphs of
dashed through his rude abode--to the Lycian stream and the plain of
little that is mournful only heightens the majestic sweetness of all
Sophocles has never excelled, and scarcely equalled. The contrast of
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covered the sores, the tainted corruption of the ulcers, are brought
is represented as shrinking with corporeal agony--the blood oozing
turn away from the spectacle; we have no longer that pleasure in our
idle to vindicate this error by any dissimilarity between ancient and
permanent laws. Longinus rightly considers pathos a part of the
us in the noisome wounds, even of a mythical hero; our human nature is
art did not differ from the modern, is in the exceeding rarity with
tragedians. The Philoctetes and the Hercules are among the exceptions
comparison it involuntarily courts with the Prometheus of Aeschylus.
with its fate. In either play a dreary waste, a savage solitude,
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