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Hims

(hɪmz)
n
(Placename) a former name of Homs
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That means the performance of the sailors will be ranked, which will help them gain points for selection into the national team," said Major General TSA Narayanan, Vice Commodore of EMESA on Sunday.
Homs, SANA -- The activities of Emesa Fair kicked off on Saturday at Ghazwan Abu Zaid Sports Hall in Homs city, with the participation of 35 local companies.
Others are Emesa (Bomachoge Borabu) and Monianku in Gucha South.
(Baumgarten, 2016) From Odysseus to Oedipus, Greeks have loved their tests of masculinity; Heliodorus of Emesa wrote of the performative nature of masculinity, Achilles Tatius interrogated the traditional codes of gender, and Homer was all about testing who's best, in both the Trojan war and, even more importantly, on the journey back home.
Entre las fuentes de Socrates hay que citar la obra de Eusebio de Cesarea, especialmente la Vida de Constantino, Contra Marcelo y De ecclesiastica theologia; la Historia eclesiastica de Rufino de Aquileya; el Breviarium ab urbe condita de Eutropio (en la version griega de Peanio); los Acta Archelai de Hegemonio o Pseudo Hegemonio; el elogio de Eusebio de Emesa compuesto por Jorge de Laodicea; las cartas del emperador y la correspondencia oficial; listas episcopales y actas de concilios (por medio de la Synagoge de Sabino de Heraclea).
1, 5-6), fue conocido con el nombre de Heliogabalos por su anterior condicion de sacerdote del dios Elagabal en Emesa (Syria).
(49) From this perspective, 'imaginative storytelling often can be shown to emerge from the friction between Greek history and exotic cultural traditions (e.g., bizarreries of local Greek cult, non-Greek traditions, or even invented locales.' (50) The second, 'Heliodorus the Hellene,' (John Morgan) contends that despite the author's ethnic identity, a Syrian from Emesa, and the setting of his novel that situates the scene of its heroine's homecoming in Ethiopia, the work is nevertheless a reliable product of a Hellenic education and worldview, as will be discussed further below.
Origen employs anthropological imagery in this regard, reasoning that just as the human body is provided with many members, which are held together by one soul, so the whole world should be regarded as "some huge and immense animal, which is kept together by the power and reason of God as by one soul." (94) Therefore, Nemesius of Emesa argued, a continuity runs through the whole, linking everything from the inanimate mineral to the rational human.