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- In Greek mythology, Ares, the Olympian god of war, was the son of Zeus (king of the gods) and Hera. Among the Greeks, Ares was always mistrusted ...9 KB (1,454 words) - 06:23, 12 August 2023
- In Greek mythology, the centaurs (Greek: Κένταυροι) are a ... more so in modern fantasy writings, the centaur can overcome his baser ...9 KB (1,330 words) - 23:50, 3 December 2023
- The term Barbarian does not derive from the name of any tribe or cultural ... Although barbarian cultures generally worked against the advancement ...20 KB (3,041 words) - 22:32, 10 February 2023
- The Seven Wonders of the World (or the Seven Wonders of the Ancient ... The original Seven Wonders of the World consists of: The Great Pyramid ...19 KB (2,688 words) - 19:50, 21 April 2023
- Oregano is the common name for a perennial herbaceous plant, Origanum ... There are other aromatic plants both in and outside the mint family ...11 KB (1,590 words) - 01:11, 18 November 2022
- Cybele (Greek Κυβέλη) was a Phrygian goddess originating in ... The goddess was known among the Greeks as Meter ("Mother" ...16 KB (2,551 words) - 06:50, 12 January 2024
- Cynara cardunculus (or C. scolymus) of the Asteraceae family, characterized ... There are two other plants for which the term artichoke is applied ...13 KB (1,992 words) - 05:45, 9 January 2023
- Lavender is the common name for any of the various plants of the flowering ... While the flowers of the lavender serve the plant's need of reproduction ...11 KB (1,715 words) - 17:55, 25 October 2022
- The history of Athens is the longest of any city in Europe: Athens ... The name of Athens in Ancient Greek was Athḗnai (Ἀθῆναι ...19 KB (3,013 words) - 18:52, 19 August 2023
- feared for her malevolence. According the Greek legends, the goddess ... Similar to other female monsters in Greco-Roman myth (such as the ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 20:54, 22 October 2022
- Catharsis (Latin), from the Greek Κάθαρσις Katharsis meaning ... The term “catharsis” was used in a philosophical sense by Aristotle ...14 KB (2,260 words) - 00:10, 1 December 2023
- | Image = [[Image:Troy1.jpg|300px|Walls of the excavated city ... term) is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in ...26 KB (4,181 words) - 18:25, 2 May 2023
- ::Note: For the planet Saturn, please click here. : holding jurisdiction over agriculture and the harvest. Like many of the ...11 KB (1,785 words) - 17:00, 23 December 2022
- George I, King of the Hellenes Georgios A' Vasileus ton Ellinon; ... The war went badly for the ill-prepared Greeks; the only saving grace ...30 KB (4,602 words) - 15:49, 10 November 2022
- The Fall of Constantinople was the conquest of the Byzantine capital ... Although Western Europe was religiously divided from the Byzantine ...20 KB (3,140 words) - 17:55, 16 May 2020
- :For the later Greek writer see Xenophon of Ephesus. [[Image:Xenophon ... participated in an expedition led by Cyrus the Younger against his older ...13 KB (2,062 words) - 14:29, 20 May 2023
- ) is the Greek god of nature who watches over shepherds and their ... Pan was considered to be the god responsible for the adjudication ...15 KB (2,404 words) - 06:26, 18 November 2022
- "distribution-mother" from the noun of the Indo-European ... She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Eleusinian ...20 KB (3,054 words) - 09:24, 28 January 2024
- The Sahara, located in Northern Africa, is the world's largest ... Immediately after the last ice age, the Sahara was a much wetter place ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 16:15, 25 August 2022
- The Horn of Africa is a large extension of land that protrudes from ... In a more general way, the term "Horn of Africa" is also ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 14:19, 7 February 2024
- The Gallipoli peninsula ( Gelibolu Yarımadası , Καλλίπολις/Kalli ... ) is located in Turkish Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with ...15 KB (2,333 words) - 07:43, 23 January 2023
- into a level plane or, more typically, the plane is removed to create ... sculpture: bas-relief (low-relief), in which the sculpture is raised only slightly ...15 KB (2,307 words) - 03:37, 8 December 2022
- The label moral relativism refers to at least three distinct claims ... Discussions of relativism usually begin with the empirical claim that ...30 KB (4,814 words) - 21:19, 9 November 2022
- The House of Nemanjić (Serbian: Немањићи, Nemanjići; Anglicized: ... led some Serbs to see others as a threat to the purity of their heritage. ...13 KB (1,968 words) - 18:44, 7 February 2024
- The New Kingdom is the period in ancient Egyptian history between ... they were much more advanced than the Greeks. The city of Alexandria became ...12 KB (1,918 words) - 16:32, 11 November 2022
- :This article describes the unit of angle. or arcdegree), usually denoted by ° (the degree symbol), is a measurement ...6 KB (932 words) - 09:12, 28 January 2024
- ) (ca. 418 B.C.E.–362 B.C.E.) was a Theban general and statesman ... The Roman orator Cicero called him "the first man of Greece, ...33 KB (5,264 words) - 21:39, 9 February 2022
- is a form of divination in which the practitioner seeks to summon ... conjuration. Necromancy is communing with the spirits of the dead, rather ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- sense, it is a three-dimensional example of the more general structure called ... interior volume is considered to be part of the polyhedron, sometimes only ...42 KB (6,082 words) - 00:20, 12 April 2023
- [[Image:Homer_British_Museum.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Bust of Homer in ... early Greek poet traditionally credited with the composition of the epic poems ...27 KB (4,051 words) - 17:08, 14 November 2021
- [[Image:rosetta stone.jpg|thumb|right|The Rosetta Stone in the British ... The Rosetta Stone is an ancient stele inscribed with the same passage ...13 KB (1,999 words) - 19:17, 16 December 2022
- ploughlands and gardens. She was considered the ancestor of the Roman people ... of eroticized female divinities featured in the legends of surrounding Indo ...13 KB (1,985 words) - 19:28, 14 November 2022
- The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defines "planet" ... :(a) is in orbit around the sun; :(b) has sufficient mass for its self ...37 KB (5,416 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- In Greek mythology, Zeus was the highest ranking god among the pantheon ... Zeus is arguably the most identifiable character in all the world ...16 KB (2,635 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- of Pergamum; 129 C.E. – c. 210 C.E.) was the Greek physician and philosopher ... medicine. He is rightly regarded as the pioneer in surgery, making ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 03:50, 18 April 2024
- ), officially the Republic of Cyprus ( Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία ... feudal tenure was abolished, giving the Greeks the right to acquire land by ...33 KB (4,886 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- nation first mentioned and described by the classical Greek philosopher ... Plato's account of Atlantis, believed to be the first, is found ...22 KB (3,236 words) - 06:23, 21 August 2023
- exchange of ambassadors and religious missions with the Greeks. The ... Very little is known about the economy of the Indo-Greeks. The abundance ...61 KB (8,976 words) - 19:50, 4 March 2024
- Amulets were originally objects worn about the neck or other parts of the ... Closely related to the amulet is the talisman (from Arabic tilasm; ...13 KB (2,101 words) - 17:26, 26 July 2023
- In the Olympian pantheon of classical Greek Mythology, Hera was the ... she is often enthroned and crowned with the polos, the high cylindrical ...19 KB (3,127 words) - 09:47, 22 January 2024
- In Greek mythology, a nymph, from the Latin word nympha, is any member ... Worshiped by the ancient Greeks and said to come from the earth, they ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 19:37, 17 November 2022
- a region of southeastern France, located on the Mediterranean Sea adjacent ... The coastal area of Provence was settled by Greeks and Phoenicians ...13 KB (1,926 words) - 08:21, 2 December 2022
- In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 B.C.E. Bradford, Ernle Dusgate ... and other Greek sources. For the Greeks, the Persians were "barbarians ...47 KB (7,440 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- The phrase Son of God is a title that was applied to different figures ... Many figures in the ancient world used the phrase "Son of God ...22 KB (3,158 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- Xenophanes made a major breakthrough in the conception of God in the polytheistic ... among humans and should not be ascribable to the divine. He found the origin ...7 KB (1,024 words) - 14:28, 20 May 2023
- Asparagus is the name a genus of plants within the flowering plant ... As a vegetable, the tender, succulent shoots of asparagus not only ...14 KB (2,081 words) - 04:48, 18 August 2023
- Henotheism (from the Greek heis theos or “one god”) refers to ... and paralleling the mythology of the Greeks, the Vedic gods also underwent ...15 KB (2,313 words) - 15:20, 25 January 2023
- The Mausoleum of Maussollos (or Mausoleum of Halicarnassus) was a ... The finished structure was considered to be such an aesthetic triumph ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 00:51, 9 November 2022
- August Wilhelm Schlegel, articulated the principles and ideas of the ... Schlegel’s Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier (On the Language ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 07:21, 5 October 2022
- is a figure from Greek mythology called by Pindar "the minstrel ... His name does not occur in Homer or Hesiod, though he was known by ...19 KB (3,011 words) - 02:17, 18 November 2022
- Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient ... (phoînix), through its close association with the famous dye Tyrian ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- The Serbian Empire was a medieval empire in the Balkans that emerged ... The Serbian Empire has included areas of Croatia, Bosnia, and Slovenia ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 05:59, 5 October 2022
- The Treaty of Lausanne (July 24, 1923) was a peace treaty signed in ... The nation-state of Turkey, recognized by the Treaty, became the first ...15 KB (2,295 words) - 14:56, 2 May 2023
- Iron Ages parallels that of the early Greeks. The Tuscan area was inhabited ... its manners and customs by contemporary Greeks, the cultures of Greece, and ...19 KB (2,716 words) - 00:35, 3 May 2023
- Polytheism (from the Greek: polus, many, and theos, god) refers to ... into the combined deity. Similar to the Greeks, the ancient Egyptians also ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- used to write one or more languages based on the general principle that the ... B.C.E. in central Italy, and the Western Greeks, the Latins adopted writing ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- Menander I Soter, (The Saviour), known as Milinda in Indian sources ... He is also the first historical Westerner documented to have converted ...28 KB (4,241 words) - 04:28, 9 November 2022
- :This article is about the legal term alien referring to citizens ... country or is not a native or citizen of the land in which they live. Aliens ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 00:39, 9 January 2023
- B.C.E.) was an ancient Greek philosopher, the founder of Epicureanism, one ... were sent to an Athenian settlement on the Aegean island of Samos. According ...19 KB (3,054 words) - 19:07, 13 February 2024
- The Greek War of Independence (1821–1829), also commonly known as the Greek Revolution was a successful war waged by the Greeks to win independence ...61 KB (9,207 words) - 16:50, 18 February 2023
- as Virgil or Vergil, is a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues, the ... Virgil was born in the village of Andes, near Mantua in Cisalpine ...15 KB (2,361 words) - 20:33, 3 May 2023
- Ancient Greece is the period in Greek history that lasted for around ... cities, sent a fleet to punish the Greeks. The Persians landed in Attica ...48 KB (7,639 words) - 12:24, 14 October 2023
- The Maurya Empire (322 – 185 B.C.E.), ruled by the Mauryan dynasty ... At its zenith, the Empire stretched to the northern natural boundaries ...32 KB (4,663 words) - 00:50, 9 November 2022
- The liver is a large vertebrate organ positioned in the upper region ... class of cells, called Kupffer cells, line the vascular networks; their primary ...15 KB (2,224 words) - 20:54, 3 November 2022
- , Apellōn) was the god of light, truth, archery, music, medicine ... As one of the most popular of the Olympian deities and the patron ...31 KB (4,788 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- was a British philosopher, widely cited as the most important British moral ... Williams became known internationally for his attempt to return the ...30 KB (4,357 words) - 20:51, 23 January 2024
- ) was one of the most important religious sites in ancient Greece ... Delphi is located in lower central Greece, on multiple terraces along ...21 KB (3,318 words) - 09:23, 28 January 2024
- – July 529 B.C.E.), also known as Cyrus the Great and Cyrus II of Persia ... In historical artifacts discovered in the ancient ruins of Babylon ...22 KB (3,584 words) - 07:28, 12 January 2024
- The Balkan Wars were two wars in South-eastern Europe in 1912–1913 ... The anti-Ottoman struggle that led to Serbian independence in 1878 ...22 KB (3,406 words) - 05:53, 26 August 2023
- Juniper is the common name for any of various evergreen, coniferous ... Juniper "berries," the fleshy female cones, which are commonly ...23 KB (3,212 words) - 21:18, 4 October 2022
- Dacia, in ancient history and geography was the land of the Dacians. It was named by the ancient Hellenes (Greeks) "Getae." Dacia was ...22 KB (3,335 words) - 07:37, 12 January 2024
- Divination is the attempt of ascertaining information by interpretation ... is often dismissed by skeptics, including the scientific community, as being ...16 KB (2,402 words) - 15:31, 29 January 2024
- Copper (symbol Cu, atomic number 29) is one of the oldest known metals ... doorknobs are used in hospitals to prevent the transfer of germs, and copper ...21 KB (3,086 words) - 17:35, 21 May 2020
- of semi-philosophical writings survive under the title of Memoria, his more ... Among his approximately 227 works, the most important are the Bioi ...17 KB (2,619 words) - 08:08, 24 November 2022
- Horseradish (horse radish) is the common name for a perennial herb ... Horseradish is mainly cultivated for its large white, tapered root; ...16 KB (2,357 words) - 14:25, 7 February 2024
- of quartz often used as an ornamental stone. The name comes from the Greek ... Amethyst was used as a gemstone by the ancient Egyptians and was largely ...8 KB (1,216 words) - 06:54, 25 July 2023
- Sicily is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in ... and power ploys while stronger nations used the island as a base from which ...34 KB (5,061 words) - 14:33, 27 January 2023
- The sphinx has had a long history of secrecy and intrigue, being viewed ... Ultimately the sphinx represents human desire and ability to penetrate ...16 KB (2,587 words) - 15:21, 27 April 2023
- , Aidēs) refers to both the ancient Greek underworld and to the deity ... The term Hades, in its cosmological sense, has sometimes been used ...23 KB (3,693 words) - 16:36, 21 January 2024
- ) 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
- 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
