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- Caesarea Philippi
Caesarea Philippi, city, N ancient Palestine, at the foot of Mt. Hermon. It was built by Philip the Tetrarch in the 1st cent. A.D. Its site (Paneas) had long been a center for the worship of P...
- Lydia, in the Bible
Lydia, in the New Testament, Christian convert at whose house in Philippi Paul stayed. She was from Thyatira.
- Parmenas
Parmenas, in the New Testament, one of the seven deacons. He is said to have died a martyr at Philippi.
- Casca
Casca (Publius Servilius Casca Longus), d. c.42 B.C., Roman politician, one of the assassins of Julius Caesar. Casca was the first to stab Caesar. He died (presumably by suicide) soon after th...
- Philippians
Philippians, letter of the New Testament, written by St. Paul from captivity probably in Rome (c.A.D. 60) to the Christians of Philippi (in Macedonia), the first European city that he evangeli...
- Horace
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), 65 B.C.–8 B.C., Latin poet, one of the greatest of lyric poets, b. Venusia, S Italy. He studied at Rome and Athens and, joining Brutus and the republicans, f...
- Kaválla
Kaválla or Cavala, city (1991 pop. 58,025), capital of Kaválla prefecture, NE Greece, in Macedonia; a port on the Gulf of Kaválla, an inlet of the Aegean Sea. Surrounded by a rich tobacco-grow...
- Hermon, Mount
Hermon, Mount, Arabic Jabal Ash Shaykh [mountain of the chief] and Jebel-eth-Thelj [snowy mountain], on the Syria-Lebanon border. The highest of its three peaks (all of which are snow-covered ...
- Lepidus
Lepidus, family of the ancient Roman patrician gens Aemilia. Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, d. 152 B.C., was a consul in 187 and 175 B.C., a censor in 179 B.C., and pontifex maximus [high priest] fr...
- Cassius
Cassius, ancient Roman family. There were a number of well-known members. Spurius Cassius Viscellinus, d. c.485 B.C., seems to have been consul several times. In 493 B.C. he negotiated a treat...
