Definition of millenium

(Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)

Those modern scholars who urge that we must keep in mind the fundamental continuity of Aegean development from earliest times - granted occasional irruptions of peoples and ideas from outside - are correct ; but all_too many observers have been misled by this fact into minimizing the degree of change which took_place in the early first millennium .

(J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)

The actual function of patristic civilian canonist scholastic communism was adequately set_forth by St._Gregory almost a millennium before More wrote Utopia .

(Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)

Their meditations were approaching a violent cusp that would shape Martian art for many millennia .