Translation for 'scepsis' from English to Russian

scepsis [spv.]

скепсис {м}

• Certain traditions hold that Saint Cornelius the Centurion, the first Pagan convert to Christianity, became the first bishop of Scepsis in the early days of Christianity.
• The classical Greek historian Demetrius of Scepsis, native of Scepsis in the hills above Troy, wrote a vast study of the "Trojan Battle Order" under that title (Greek "Trōikos diakosmos").
• The text of these fragments and extracts is often so corrupt that there is a certain plausibility to the well-known story that the works of Aristotle and Theophrastus were allowed to languish in the cellar of Neleus of Scepsis and his descendants.
• According to the second-century-BC Greek grammarian Demetrius of Scepsis, a certain Adrastus established Adrasteia as another name for Artemis.
• was a town located in the ancient Troad on the right bank of the Aesepus River (modern "Gönen Çay") near Scepsis.

• Miletus or Miletos (...) was a town of ancient Mysia, in the territory of Scepsis, on the river Evenus, which was destroyed as early as the time of Pliny the Elder.
• In the second century BC, Demetrius of Scepsis stated based on first hand information that there indeed had been a canal there, but he could not trace all of it.
• Hestiaea of Alexandria, also Hestiaea, was a scholar who wrote a treatise on Homer's "Iliad" that discussed the question whether the Trojan War was fought near the city then called Ilium, and which was cited by Demetrius of Scepsis.
• Metrodorus of Scepsis (...) (c. 145 BCE – 70 BCE), from the town of Scepsis in ancient Mysia, was a friend of Mithridates VI of Pontus and celebrated in antiquity for the excellence of his memory.