Archelaus

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See also: Archélaüs

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Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˌɑɹ.kəˈleɪ.əs/

Proper noun

Archelaus

  1. Any of various kings in the area of Macedonia dating from BC 399 to AD 6, most notably Herod Archelaus, an ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Idumea from 4 BC to 6 AD.
    • 1984, The Holy Bible, New International Version, Zondervan, →ISBN, Matthew 2:19-22:
      After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child’s life are dead.” ¶ So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there [].
    • 1992, Eugene N. Borza, In the Shadow of Olympus: The Emergence of Macedon, →ISBN, page 173:
      It was not that there had been no Greece influence in the kingdom prior to Archelaus; the Greeks who had lived in Macedon earlier, including those who served with Perdiccas, had, true to form, brought their cuture with them, and some of it may have rubbed off on the Macedonians. But Archelaus is the first Macedonian king for whom we have evidence of a conscious and public adoption of some aspects of Greek culture.
  2. A bishop of Mesopotamia under the emperor Probus, noted for his treatise on the Manichaean heresy dating to AD 277.
    • 2012, Archelaus, The Sacred Writings of Archelaus, →ISBN:
      The date of the Disputation itself admits of tolerably exact settlement. Epiphanius, indeed, says that Manes fled into Mesopotamia in the ninth year of the reign of Vaerianus and Gallienus, and that the discussion with Archelaus took place about the same time. This would carry the date back to about 262 A.D.
  3. A sculptor from Priene during the reign of Claudius, most noted for an image of Homer reputed to have been found in 1658.
  4. An Athenian or Milesian philosopher who was preceptor to Socrates, noted for the doctrine that heat and cold are the principles of all things.