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Date "Hermogenes" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1502. (references)

Specialty Definition: HERMOGENES

Domain Definition
Bible 1: A person mentioned by St. Paul in the latest of all his epistles, (2 Timothy 1:15) when all in Asia had turned away from him. (A.D. 64.). (references)
  2: Hermogenes Mercury-born, at one time Paul's fellow-laborer in Asia Minor, who, however, afterwards abandoned him, along with one Phygellus, probably on account of the perils by which they were beset (2 Tim. 1:15). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.

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Common Expressions: HERMOGENES

Expressions Definition
Hermogenes of Priene Interest in Hermogenes of Priene (late 3rd - early 2nd century BCE), the Hellenistic architect of a temple of Artemis Leukophryene (Artemision) at Magnesia in Lydia, an Ionian colony on the banks of the Maeander river in Anatolia, has been sparked by references to his esthetic made by the first century Roman architect Vitruvius (De Architectura, books iii, 2 and 6). (references)
Hermogenes of Tarsus Hermogenes of Tarsus was a Greek rhetorician, surnamed the polisher. He lived in the reign of Marcus Aurelius (AD 161-180). (references)
Patriarch Hermogenes Hermogenes, or Germogen (before 1530 - February 17, 1612), was the Patriarch of Moscow from 1606. It was he who inspired the popular uprising that put an end to the Time of Troubles. Hermogenes was glorified by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1913. (references)

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Extended Definition: HERMOGENES


Hermogenes

Hermogenes is a Greek name that may refer to:

  • Hermogenes (philosopher), a follower of Socrates, who lived in the late 5th century BCE-early 4th century BCE and was mentioned by Plato and Xenophon. He was a half-brother of the wealthy Callias III.
  • Hermogenes of Priene, the Hellenistic Ionian architect
  • Hermogenes of Tarsus, the Roman-era rhetorician and historian
  • a Justinianic era Magister Officiorum and military commander. Served with Belisarius at the Battle of Daras.
  • Patriarch Hermogenes (d. 1612) of Moscow and all Russia.
  • Hermogenes, Bishop of Tobolsk and Siberia
  • Another name for Hermagoras of Aquileia
  • Hermogenes (painter), a greek Vase painter
  • a heretic, mentioned by Paul in the second letter to Timothy.

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Topics by Level of Interest: HERMOGENES

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Patriarch Hermogenes 7     Hermogenes 3
Hermogenes of Tarsus 6     Hermogenes of Priene 6
Hermogenes of Priene 6     Hermogenes of Tarsus 6
Philip Hermogenes Calderon 5     Patriarch Hermogenes 7
Hermogenes 3     Philip Hermogenes Calderon 5

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).