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  • architect and archaeologist, the pioneer of stratigraphic excavation and ... While the details of his claims regarding locations mentioned in Homer ...
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  • Commedia dell'Arte (Italian: "The art of comedy") is ... *Theater of ancient Greece ==Notes== ==References== * Fava, Antonio ...
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  • ) was one of the most important religious sites in ancient Greece ... Today, Delphi is both an archaeological site and a modern town in Greece. ...
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  • Comedy, together with tragedy was one of two principal dramatic forms ... The Old Comedy, dating from the establishment of democracy by Kleisthenes ...
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  • 1996) was a Greek poet, considered as one of the most important representatives ... Modernism encouraged the re-examination of every aspect of existence ...
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  • an educational institution (often a school of secondary education in Europe ... The name “Lyceum” comes from a gymnasium near Athens in ancient ...
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  • The history of Athens is the longest of any city in Europe: Athens ... The name of Athens in Ancient Greek was Athḗnai (Ἀθῆναι ...
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  • specifically in Western culture to a form of drama defined by Aristotle ... According to Aristotle, "The structure of the best tragedy should ...
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  • σχύλος) was a playwright of ancient Greece, and the earliest ... was dramatist who examined the relation of the gods to the lives of mortal ...
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  • The original Olympic Games began in c. 776 B.C.E. in Olympia, Greece ... (IOC) was founded in 1894, and the first of the IOC's Olympic Games ...
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  • The Mausoleum of Maussollos (or Mausoleum of Halicarnassus) was a ... to be such an aesthetic triumph that the ancient historian Antipater of Sidon ...
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  • Byblos (Βύβλος)is the Greek name of the Phoenician city Gebal ... , referring to the nationality of the builders of Solomon's Temple ...
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  • Ancient Greek literature refers to literature written in the Greek ... In addition to history and philosophy, Ancient Greek literature is ...
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  • , dráō). The enactment of drama in theater, performed by actors ... between comedy and tragedy. They are symbols of the ancient Greek Muses, Thalia ...
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  • proved himself to be the second in the ancient Mediterranean world in many ... Eratosthenes was noted for devising a system of latitude and longitude ...
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  • techniques, such as pointe work, turn-out of the legs, and high extensions; ... In ballet, the expressive, disciplined movement of the human body ...
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  • through paranormal means, and is a form of extra-sensory perception, or ... Precognition is the most frequently reported type of ESP, occurring ...
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  • recognized it as an important component of art and aesthetics. However ... the highest value, which exist independently of and transcend the phenomenal ...
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  • [[Image:Euaion.jpg|thumb|right|A portrait from a vase of a Greek actor ... Sophocles (c. 496 B.C.E. – 406 B.C.E.) (Ancient Greek: Σοφοκλης ...
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  • Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest ... Ánkyra. Ankara also serves as the capital of the Province of Ankara. ...
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