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* '''Epimenides pf Cnossos:''' a Cretan writer and religious figure (6th century BCE), of mythically long life, and expertise in sacrifice and burial ritual. Also famous for Epimenides's paradox – All Cretans are liars.
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*'''Maimonides:''' Moses ben Maimon, commonly known as Maimonides and also referred to by the acronym Rambam, was a medieval Sephardic Jewish philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages. In his time, he was also a preeminent astronomer and physician.

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  • Agapemones: a 19th Century religious community which practised "agapes", or "love-feasts"
    • Agapemone: A sect of men and women, adherents of Henry James Prince (1811-1899), curate of Charlynch, Somerset, and his rector Samuel Starky (hence they were sometimes called Starkyites). These zealots founded an Agapemone or Abode of Love at Spaxton in 1849, living on a common fund, but their licentious conduct led to trouble with authority. After 1890 the movement revived as the "Children of the Resurrection" under Smyth-Pigott, who was unfrocked in 1909 – E. C. Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
    • Agape: a love feast (Greek: agape, love); the early Christians held a love-feast in conjunction with the Lord's Supper when the rich provided food for the poor. Eventually they became a scandal and were condemned by the Council of Carthage, 397. Agape was the mother of Priamond, Diamond, Triamond and Cambina in Spenser's Faerie Queene (4:2:4188) – E. C. Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
  • agapemone: a free-love institution
  • agapemonides: (hypothetical Greek) sons of a loved one
  • agape: with gaping mouth
  • Epimenides pf Cnossos: a Cretan writer and religious figure (6th century BCE), of mythically long life, and expertise in sacrifice and burial ritual. Also famous for Epimenides's paradox – All Cretans are liars.
  • Maimonides: Moses ben Maimon, commonly known as Maimonides and also referred to by the acronym Rambam, was a medieval Sephardic Jewish philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages. In his time, he was also a preeminent astronomer and physician.