Many early church fathers debated chiliasm, arguing whether a literal thousand-year reign of peace and prosperity would follow Christ's return.

In the lecture, she described a chiliagon to help students imagine a polygon so close to circular that individual edges were imperceptible.

The historian described the chiliad of letters discovered in the archive as a unique snapshot of everyday life.

At the museum's retrospective, several ornately carved chiliahedrons rested on velvet pedestals, each reflecting the light in a thousand tiny sparks.