His arguments sound surprisingly modern:
>Valla demonstrated that the internal evidence in the Donation told against a 4th century origin: its vernacular style could be dated to the 8th century. One of Valla's arguments was from anachronism: the document contained the word satrap, which he believed Romans such as Constantine I would not have used.
How unique was this skepticism and methods for the age? How would a typical Medieval scholar wanting to write about something historical approach the old documents he could find about it?
OOC: This is the new one so ignore everything that happened in the old intro
Name: Selena Constantine
Godly Parent: Trivia
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Cohorts: IV
Mortal parent:
John Constantine
Apperence:
Height: 5β8
Weight: Seriously?
Hair colour: Brown and Gold
Style: Shoulder length and wavy
Eye color: Blue
Accent: British
Power:
- Dark Magic: She can do many different magic using dark magic, but using dark magic has a draw back that she can be more evil or demon inside her can get stronger
- Light Magic: He can do light magic which is more stronger than dark magic which keep the demon inside her is contained.
Weapon of Choice: None
Skills:
She is skilled in different types of magic which she taught by her father as he is THE Constantine which makes her skilled in all type of magic
She is skilled in Alchemy as her father taught her from the young age.
Personality:
She is comeptitive and she is friendly to many people
Fatal Flaw:
Anger management
Don't work together
Backstory:
Selena's father was THE John Constantine, he wasn't a great teacher, but she was already talented in magic. Her father who is a exorcist and her mother being goddess of Magic, she already was overall statement of magic. However, she was only taught by copying her dad which lead to having a demon inside her which was why her father taught her light magic to fight against it. When she became 15, her father told her everything including about her mother so she was roman goddess of magic. Later, she was training with Lupa, but Lupa was impressed by her skills, but she was disappointed that John have not teach her to use weapons. Later she was sent to Camp Jupiter to be with demigods.
Now :
She just went passed the border and saw people walking around
And movie different things or is the movie just all the episodes of the show put in one thing?
I watched all of Lucifer, because I thought he seemed really cool in his cameo in Crisis . I loved the show, it was awesome and hilarious, but I am not overly familiar with the comic book version of Lucifer. Is that line (The one about how Constantine helped him with Maze) a reference to a comic story line? Or is it just something they put in to show that John and Lucifer have a history in the DC-CW universe?
I was watching the latest episodes of Legends of Tomorrow (LOT), and in the latest episode, Mr. Parker's Cul-de-Sac, Nora gets John and crew to play along with her scheme so she could make her dad (Damian Darkh) proud of her. In the episode, Damian and John have a go at it a couple times, where I would say John seemed to have the upper hand 2 out of 3 times, with the one time Damian tossed John aside, and John getting in a couple good shots with the shield spell and fireball. Who would win if they weren't interrupted by Nora?
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. I don't post or comment here much. My post got removed so I don't know if this is a self post, I do know that while nappy headz might not mean much to hip hop as a whole, we love the group in our city. The remaining members got together in this trying time. Our whole city loved Constantine.
just wanted to let you all know, he gets a few scenes, amazing as always
Here are some of the earlier coins I've collected:
. . . Anyway, I am just starting to get interested in ancient Greek coinage. I've done some research, and I was wondering if someone could point me to a good (read: beginner) way to start collecting in this genre of the hobby. There seems to be a three main "epics" to collect from, but the whole manner of collecting these coins just seems so different (I guess a good way of putting it would be "un-linear") compared to ancient Roman Imperial coinage where coins are basically grouped by emperor in a straight line according to their reigns.
I suppose my question is, "Does anyone know of a good way to start collecting these coins in some kind of a 'group?'" Or as a collection of starter coins that would be fairly well "representative" of the period as a whole? Are there certain "must haves" that any general collector of ancient Greeks should own? I realize it's a tough ask, but I just think some direction owing to the much larger variety of coin types that were minted during this era would go a long way to pairing down all of the variety. Thanks so much for any guidance anyone can provide!!
It only makes sense
highly requested character
doesn't fucking make it for some god forbidden reason
Thesis: The conversion of Constantine the Great from Greco-Roman paganism to Christianity, along with its many long-term implications, represents the fulfillment of New Testament eschatological prophecies.
Before we start, a word on apocalyptic/eschatological language:
Recent scholarship observes that Jewish apocalyptic language often conveys figurative rather than literal meaning. So, for instance, prophets like Isaiah and Ezekiel used dramatic cosmic imagery like falling stars, earthquakes, fires from heaven, thrashing sea monsters, storms from the north, flattened mountains, and the reconstitution of dry bones to represent God's judgement upon nations through more mundane means such as military conquest and political restoration. By means of the prophetic imagination, the conquest of Babylon or the release of Israel from captivity was experienced as dramatic divine acts akin to God's creation/destruction of the cosmos, or to God's defeat of an ancient monster. This will be important as we examine the ways early Christians talked about their future because we need to understand what their apocalyptic images meant to them. What psychological needs did these images fill?
So, now, early Christian eschatological hope can be encapsulated in three apocalyptic images: kingdom, parousia, and resurrection. These are not exhaustive but will be sufficient to make my point.
Kingdom: The early Christian witness is adamant that God's kingdom over the earth is coming soon. For these Christians the apocalyptic image of the kingdom represented a concrete political reversal. While they were currently marginalized and persecuted by the rulers of the world, they would one day "reign upon the earth" with Christ and for Christ (Revelation 5:9). By suffering on behalf of God and Christ, they would be made judges of the lawless pagan nations (1 Cor 6:2). Through this process God would "heal the nations" of their idolatry and senselessness.
- Through the conversion of the Roman empire, the churches became custodians of the nations of the known world. For the next 1500 years Christianity determined right behavior and right belief. This was a dramatic, unexpected historical departure from the pagan hegemony that came before.
Parousia: Early Christians believed this kingdom would be established when Christ returned from heaven
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Side question: since Constantine's army was largely made up of rebel Romans from Britain, how did they distinguish themselves from the Imperial Romans? Wouldn't they have been wearing the same sort of uniform? Are there any symbols, colours or banners he associated himself with like Constantine the Great had done?
The Dragon Reborn takes on The Laughing Magician. Both are in character but are fighting for real. Both are aware that their opponent has powerful magic, do not know its nature
