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chaos
‘First of all Chaos came into being’, says Hesiod; it did not exist from everlasting. What it was like he does not say; the name means ‘gaping void’.
Cosmos Quick reference
World Encyclopedia
(Gk. ‘order’)
Universe considered as an ordered whole. Plato and Aristotle conceived of the universe as ordered by an intelligent
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
the universe seen as a well-ordered whole; from the Greek word kosmos ‘order, ornament, world, or universe’, so called by Pythagoras or his disciples from their view of its perfect order ...
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Cosmos Reference library
Karl-Heinz Uthemann and Anthony Cutler
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
(κόσμος, lit. “world”). The fundamental Greek world view emphasized the unity, harmony, and beauty of reality. In the Platonic tradition, the perceptible cosmos is conceived as an image of ...
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creation
The bringing into existence of the universe, especially when regarded as an act of God. Creationism is the term given to the belief that the universe and living organisms originate from specific acts ...
Maximos the Confessor
Theologian and saint; baptismal name Moschion; born 580. According to the 10th-C. enkomion by a Stoudite monk, Michael Exaboulites (W. Lackner, AB 85 [1967] 312), Maximos was born in Constantinople ...
Oikoumene
(οἰκουμένη, lit. “the inhabited [earth]”), an ancient concept that had various meanings in Byz. The word oikoumene was used, as in antiquity, to designate the earth as a whole: thus ...
personification
Representation of a human figure with attributes to suggest an abstraction, such as Hope with Anchor. Cesare Ripa's Iconologia (1593) was an important source-book for personification.Lampugnani (ed.) ...
