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- 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
- Crocodile is the common name for any species belonging to the reptile ... primarily found in tropical regions of Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Oceania ...25 KB (3,728 words) - 20:22, 3 June 2020
- The Lighthouse of Alexandria (Pharos) was a tower built in the third ... Mediterranean coast. Founded by Alexander the Great, it was home to a significant ...10 KB (1,528 words) - 01:38, 26 October 2022
- , and diplomat, who is best known as the author of The Canterbury Tales ... psychological insight. No other author of the Middle English period demonstrates ...20 KB (3,137 words) - 06:52, 18 April 2024
- Aischines or Æschines), son of Lysanias, of the deme Sphettus of Athens, was ... According to Plato, Aeschines of Sphettus was present at the trial ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 05:49, 16 June 2023
- philosopher, born in Elea, a Greek city on the southern coast of Italy. He ... Earlier pre-Socratic philosophers identified the ultimate principle ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 08:52, 18 November 2022
- because he supposedly proved himself to be the second in the ancient Mediterranean ... a system of latitude and longitude for the maps he created, and was the ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 19:18, 13 February 2024
- Mountain Press, 2003), 286. ISBN 0878420630 The colorful agate and other chalcedonies ... after volatile materials have separated from the molten mass, they leave behind ...9 KB (1,311 words) - 06:10, 16 June 2023
- C.E.) was a Greek geometer and astronomer of the Alexandrian school, noted ... It was Apollonius who gave the ellipse, the parabola, and the hyperbola ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 15:46, 11 August 2023
- were referred to as Phoenicians by the Greeks. The Phoenician language was ... being in perpetual conflict with the Greeks. The Phoenicians managed to ...45 KB (7,001 words) - 00:42, 29 November 2023
- Atmospheric chemistry involves study of the chemistry of the atmospheres ... for photosynthesis, and water vapor for the precipitation that replenishes ...11 KB (1,481 words) - 06:25, 21 August 2023
- Lake Ladoga, located in the northwestern part of Russia, is the largest ... water square miles, excluding all 660 of the islands on the lake. The width ...10 KB (1,501 words) - 23:18, 21 October 2022
- a Turkish army officer and statesman. He was the founder and until 1934, the ... Atatürk was born in the city of Thessaloníki (Turkish: Selânik ...25 KB (3,912 words) - 02:38, 11 March 2023
- a city-state in ancient Greece, situated on the River Eurotas in the southern ... Laconophilia is the admiration of Sparta, which continues to fascinate ...46 KB (7,079 words) - 19:09, 7 February 2023
- – June 10, 323 B.C.E.), commonly known in the West as Alexander the Great ... (Megas Alexandros), King of Macedon (336–323 B.C.E.), was the most ...47 KB (7,410 words) - 20:29, 18 July 2023
- The Greco-Persian Wars or Persian Wars or Medic Wars were a series ... ===The Greeks, the Lydians and the Persians=== The Lydians of Western ...77 KB (11,840 words) - 17:01, 27 January 2023
- The Black Sea is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and the ... Countries bordering the Black Sea are Turkey to the south, Bulgaria ...25 KB (3,749 words) - 18:07, 31 October 2023
- sweet pastry featured in many cuisines of the former Ottoman countries. ... walnuts, almonds, and possibly pistachios. The pastry is prepared on large ...10 KB (1,501 words) - 05:50, 26 August 2023
- Hapi-ankh) was a bull-deity worshiped in the Memphis region and thought ... The worship of Apis was certainly the most popular of the three great ...21 KB (3,246 words) - 06:01, 11 August 2023
- checkers, or straight checkers, is a form of the draughts board game played ... The origin of the game can be traced as far back as the Iraqi city ...11 KB (1,707 words) - 18:36, 13 February 2024
- Odysseus; Latin: Ulixes), was the mythical Greek king of Ithaca and ... Most such genealogies aim to link Odysseus with the foundation of ...27 KB (4,422 words) - 23:55, 17 November 2022
- replica.JPG|right|thumb|250px|A replica of the coffin used for Abraham Lincoln ... A coffin, or casket, is a funerary box used in the display and containment ...11 KB (1,709 words) - 22:26, 7 January 2024
- for many governments from ancient times into the nineteenth century, but this ... tax formerly required for voting in parts of the United States that was often ...22 KB (3,597 words) - 08:38, 24 November 2022
- Egyptian hieroglyphs are a formal writing system used by the ancient ... Egyptian hieroglyphs constitute one of the oldest known writing systems ...23 KB (3,348 words) - 00:01, 13 February 2024
- Precognition (from the Latin praecognitio, or "to know beforehand ... Precognition is the most frequently reported type of ESP, occurring ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 22:20, 30 November 2022
- as a ruthless tyrant who brutally persecuted the early Pharisees. The third son of John Hyrcanus, Jannaeus came to the throne after ...11 KB (1,660 words) - 14:25, 18 July 2023
- Influenced by Hegel, he maintained that the history of any people or culture ... Krochmal was leading figure of the Haskalah Jewish enlightenment and ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- a senior role in two voyages which explored the east coast of South America ... produced a world map on which he named the new continent "America ...12 KB (1,880 words) - 06:51, 25 July 2023
- A stele, often Anglicized as stela, plural stelae (from the Greek ... Stelae have provided invaluable evidence to archaeologists of the ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 22:31, 23 September 2022
- The Deuterocanonical books of the Bible are books considered by the ... quot;; they either omit them from the Bible, or include them in ...14 KB (2,086 words) - 10:09, 29 January 2024
- In philosophy, materialism is a monistic (everything is composed of ... only by natural causes without assuming the existence or non-existence ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 16:49, 7 November 2022
- in the king's domain among the Greeks, the Kambojas, the Nabhakas ... devoted to Dhamma. They work among the Greeks, the Kambojas, the Gandharas ...36 KB (5,521 words) - 22:01, 4 February 2023
- The term Bacchanalia describes the initiatory and celebratory rites ... The derogatory and potentially fallacious descriptions of the Bacchanalia ...10 KB (1,570 words) - 05:25, 26 August 2023
- who is best known for having predicted the return of the comet that bears ... Halley was born at Haggerston, London, the son of Edmond Halley, a ...11 KB (1,686 words) - 18:13, 12 February 2024
- (Ancient Greek: Σοφοκλης) was one of the three great ancient Greek ... The tragedies of Sophocles are less derivative of Homeric fate or ...23 KB (3,721 words) - 01:18, 4 February 2023
- meaning "initiated") is a name in the Hebrew Bible used ... Today, Enoch is commemorated on July 26 as one of the Holy Forefathers ...11 KB (1,772 words) - 11:37, 5 February 2022
- Latinized as icthus, ichthus or ikhthus), is the Ancient and Classical Greek ... and now known colloquially as the "sign of the fish" or ...11 KB (1,707 words) - 21:21, 7 September 2023
- Gandhāra is the name of an ancient, extinct kingdom once located ... The Kingdom of Gandhara lasted from around the sixth century B.C.E ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 18:46, 4 December 2023
- , Ptolemaĩos Sōtḗr, i.e., Ptolemy the Savior, (ca. 367 B.C.E. ... Ptolemy I's legacy lived on in the dynasty he founded and in ...22 KB (3,249 words) - 23:34, 2 December 2022
- proper applications to a given situation. The status of wisdom as a virtue ... Most psychologists regard wisdom as distinct from the cognitive abilities ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 23:18, 17 May 2023
- Perdix. He is first mentioned by Homer as the creator of a wide dancing ... . Homer refers to Ariadne by her Cretan title, the "Lady of the ...11 KB (1,708 words) - 07:41, 12 January 2024
- famous for her romantic involvement with the Athenian statesman Pericles ... Aspasia appears in the philosophical writings of Xenophon, Aeschines ...30 KB (4,572 words) - 04:50, 18 August 2023
- Virtue ethics is one of three major theories in normative ethics, ... The roots of the tradition of virtue ethics lie in the works of Plato ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 20:38, 3 May 2023
- Etiology (alternately aetiology, aitiology) is the study of causation. Derived from the Greek grc|αιτιολογία, "giving a reason ...11 KB (1,616 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- إسحاق الكندي) (also known in the Western world by the Latinized ... al-Kindī was skilled in the arts of the Greeks, the Persians and the Hindus. ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 04:13, 17 June 2023
- she lived in England and Normandy during the late twelfth century. Due ... Her works are mostly dedicated to members of the French court at the ...12 KB (1,973 words) - 04:15, 6 November 2022
- ; Latin: Neptūnus) was the god of both the sea and earthquakes. In ... However, when offended or ignored, he struck the ground with his trident and ...11 KB (1,681 words) - 05:44, 30 November 2022
- ), officially the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρα ... to the ethnic cohesion of Orthodox Greeks. The Greek Orthodox Church ...73 KB (10,722 words) - 18:19, 27 January 2023
- The Kalash or Kalasha, are an ethnic group found in the Hindu Kush ... The culture of Kalash people is unique and differs drastically from ...33 KB (5,027 words) - 17:07, 14 May 2024
- The Golden Horde (Turkish: Altın Ordu), also known as Kipchak Khanate ... Armenians, Georgians, and Crimean Greeks. The territories of Christian ...11 KB (1,663 words) - 18:55, 30 August 2021
- brothers born in Thessaloniki in the ninth century, who became missionaries ... The two brothers, Cyril and Methodius were born in Thessaloniki in ...33 KB (4,701 words) - 20:51, 17 April 2023
- Pantheism (from Greek: pan = all, and theos = God) refers to the religious ... The term "pantheism" is a relatively recent one, first used ...28 KB (4,312 words) - 06:37, 18 November 2022
- 2 Maccabees is a deuterocanonical book of the Bible which focuses ... Is also appears to have been influenced by the Pharisaic tradition, exposing ...12 KB (1,773 words) - 06:43, 13 June 2023
- The First Epistle to the Thessalonians, also known as Paul's ... Much of the letter is personal in nature, expressing Paul's joy ...12 KB (1,921 words) - 17:23, 28 March 2024
- laid foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale. In 1697 in Paris ... They enjoyed instant success. The book contained eight fairy tales ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 22:25, 4 December 2023
- The Grigori (from Greek egrḗgoroi, "The Watchers") are ... A modern view of the Grigori appears in some versions of Italian witchcraft ...12 KB (1,932 words) - 20:02, 31 January 2023
- The Gepids (Beowulf, Widsith)—possibly from Gibiðos, "givers ... The Gepids were almost certainly assimilated into the Romanian space ...12 KB (1,794 words) - 04:34, 30 November 2022
- Substance, in philosophy, has to do with the question or problem of ... The origin of the term goes back to the ancient Greeks. The English ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 21:25, 26 February 2023
- Abydos (Arabic: أبيدوس, Greek Αβυδος), is one of the most ... The city was originally called Abdju (technically, 3bdw, hieroglyphs ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 07:07, 14 June 2023
- close contemporary Homer, Hesiod is one of the oldest poets in the Western ... have accumulated around Hesiod. Unlike the case of Homer, however, some ...12 KB (1,937 words) - 15:44, 25 January 2023
- Wrestling is the act of physical engagement between two unarmed persons ... Physical techniques which embody the style of wrestling are clinching ...26 KB (4,025 words) - 01:00, 17 April 2023
- An entheogen, in the strictest sense, is a psychoactive substance ... More broadly, the term entheogen is used to refer to such substances ...32 KB (4,699 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- 19, 1433 – October 1, 1499) was one of the most influential humanist ... Ficino introduced the concept of the immortality of the soul into ...12 KB (1,803 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- standard textbook of geometry in Europe for the next eight centuries. He also ... Adelard was a pioneer of the scientific renaissance of the twelfth ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 05:50, 15 June 2023
- sometimes spelled cummin) is the common name for a small, herbaceous ... chili powders, for instance. Furthermore, the essential oil is used in perfumes ...12 KB (1,736 words) - 19:46, 11 May 2020
- She was known as the companion of heroes, protector of cities, and ... culture as Athena Polias ("Athena of the city"). In particular ...30 KB (4,535 words) - 18:52, 19 August 2023
- The Assumption of Moses describes two or more Jewish apocryphal works ... thumb|250px|Maccabees persecuted by the Greeks: The Maccabees were originally ...13 KB (2,063 words) - 05:06, 18 August 2023
- (August 13, 1913 – August 3, 1977) was the archbishop and primate of ... In 1956, the British exiled him for what in their view was sedition ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 05:34, 5 November 2022
- ) is one of the oldest continuously functioning Christian monasteries ... The site is also respected by Islam. According to the Charter of Privileges ...14 KB (2,007 words) - 19:14, 22 December 2022
- charge, known as positive and negative. The charge on an electron is, ... is, its net electric charge is zero) because the number of protons within its ...14 KB (2,244 words) - 00:13, 13 February 2024
- Ishtar, a goddess of both fertility and war, is the Akkadian name ... There were two conflicting aspects to this goddess: She was the deity ...12 KB (2,015 words) - 03:03, 8 March 2024
- quot;An oath to my God") was the mother of John the Baptist ... as a saint. Modern scholarship questions the historicity of Elizabeth& ...13 KB (2,077 words) - 09:20, 30 December 2021
- The Berbers (Imazighen, singular Amazigh) are an ethnic group indigenous ... Despite the appearance of two significant Berber dynasties, the Almoravids ...26 KB (3,865 words) - 10:59, 28 September 2023
- Inscription, carved into a cliff side, gives the same text in three languages ... The Behistun Inscription (also Bisitun or Bisutun, بیستون in ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 10:27, 26 September 2023
- the type of school providing secondary education|gymnasium (school) ... of physical education and exercise around the world. In certain countries ...13 KB (1,987 words) - 06:47, 28 July 2023
- The Caduceus, also known as the wand of Hermes, was a symbol of the ... Among the Greeks the caduceus is thought to have originally been a ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 10:15, 25 November 2023
- The Battle of Greece (also known as Operation Marita, Unternehmen Marita ... had been considered inaccessible by the Greeks. The force reached the rail ...73 KB (10,868 words) - 05:44, 22 September 2023
- 1996) was a Greek poet, considered as one of the most important representatives ... Modernism encouraged the re-examination of every aspect of existence ...12 KB (1,487 words) - 23:55, 17 November 2022
- Reason, in philosophy, is the ability to form and operate upon concepts ... human capacity, not to be found elsewhere in the animal world. However, recent ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
- Greek τραγωδία, "song for the goat," is any event with ... According to Aristotle, "The structure of the best tragedy should ...26 KB (4,004 words) - 17:24, 6 March 2023
- Political asylum is the granting of refuge to an alien in a foreign ... offenses or suffering persecution at the hands of their government ...14 KB (2,186 words) - 00:16, 12 April 2023
- Greek ko-no-so, and ku-ni-su in Minoan), is the largest Bronze Age archaeological ... antiquarian. Kolokairinos himself conducted the first excavations which brought ...13 KB (2,102 words) - 03:56, 4 March 2023
