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- ) was the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo ... The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (located in western part of Turkey ...26 KB (4,093 words) - 10:51, 16 August 2023
- Modern dance is a dance form that developed in the early twentieth ... The early modern dance pioneers of the 1920s through the 1940s broke ...18 KB (2,688 words) - 19:25, 9 November 2022
- of pleasure, joy, and satisfaction to the observer, through sensory ... According to traditional Western thought from the antiquity through ...19 KB (2,937 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- , transliterated Asklēpiós; Latin Aesculapius) was the god of medicine ... is not surprising that Asclepius was one of the more popular deities in the ...21 KB (3,342 words) - 03:52, 18 August 2023
- Justin Martyr (also Justin the Martyr, Justin of Caesarea, Justin ... to the Greeks, Discourse to the Greeks, The Monarchy; or, The Eule ...34 KB (5,421 words) - 21:24, 4 October 2022
- The history of Sicily has seen it usually controlled by greater powers—Roman ... Although today part of the Republic of Italy, it has its own distinct ...33 KB (4,988 words) - 11:46, 1 February 2024
- located about 90 km south-west of Athens, in the north-eastern Peloponnese ... and later superseding that of Knossos, the center of Minoan culture on ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 22:40, 10 November 2022
- Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of sequences of movements ... Gymnastics events test the strength, rhythm, balance, flexibility ...18 KB (2,771 words) - 07:20, 28 July 2023
- for more than three decades, theologian, the last of the Western Latin ... otherwise would not have survived. Until the twelfth century brought translations ...18 KB (2,717 words) - 06:05, 8 March 2024
- In many religious and philosophical systems, the word "soul" ... Throughout history, the belief in the existence of a soul has been ...34 KB (5,420 words) - 15:44, 14 July 2023
- #039;) was an ancient ceremonial capital of the second Iranian dynasty, the ... Persepolis has a long and complex history, designed to be the central ...19 KB (3,001 words) - 17:58, 26 March 2023
- A pickled cucumber, most often simply called a pickle in the United ... Human beings, utilizing their creativity, have taken the cucumber ...10 KB (1,505 words) - 22:47, 28 March 2023
- Cannes is a French commune located in the department of Alpes-Maritimes ... town, it was originally settled by Celts, Greeks, and Romans. Along with the ...16 KB (2,525 words) - 19:24, 25 November 2023
- The Etruscan civilization is the name given today to the culture and ... after about 800 B.C.E. approximately over the range of the preceding Iron ...35 KB (5,526 words) - 04:38, 22 March 2024
- Ancient Greek literature refers to literature written in the Greek ... comedy. Ancient Greek tragedy remains among the highest literary and cultural ...25 KB (4,056 words) - 17:49, 13 November 2021
- ) was a hero of the Trojan War, the central character and greatest ... and Apollo sent a plague amongst the Greeks. The prophet Calchas correctly ...34 KB (5,355 words) - 15:14, 24 December 2023
- A fable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, that employs the literary ... Fables, fairy tales, and parables all have in common the fact that ...17 KB (2,635 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- Dionysus or Dionysos (from the Ancient Greek Διώνυσος or Διόνυσος ... in the mythic corpus of the ancient Greeks. The existence of these two ...32 KB (5,115 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- The Battle of Marathon, Greek Μάχη τοῡ Μαραθῶνος (Mache tou Marathonos), took place in 490 B.C.E. and was the culmination ...53 KB (8,041 words) - 10:05, 22 September 2023
- #039; view of Christ was condemned at the Council of Ephesus in 431 ... Nestorianism originated in the fifth century out of an attempt to ...10 KB (1,525 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
