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- The chromatic scale is the scale that contains all twelve pitches ... All the other scales in traditional Western music are subsets of this ...5 KB (783 words) - 21:50, 10 December 2023
- The Greek conquests of India took place in the years before the Common ... (today's Pakistan). They governed the region until 316 B.C.E. The ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 15:30, 28 January 2023
- In Greek mythology, Uranus is the personification of the sky and the ... The theonym "Uranus" is the Latinized form of Ouranos ( ...9 KB (1,482 words) - 13:41, 3 May 2023
- Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth ... Orthodox communities, including ethnic Greeks. The Patriarch controlled the ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, which begins ... The foundations of the modern world derive from the Classic Age as ...12 KB (1,804 words) - 10:51, 19 December 2023
- for heating, baking, or drying. Over the course of history, various ... By 3200 B.C.E., settlements across the Indus Valley Civilization had ...11 KB (1,627 words) - 05:59, 18 November 2022
- Krónos), also called Cronos or Kronos, was the leader of the first generation ... In later Roman times, Cronus was identified with the Roman deity Saturn. ...12 KB (1,860 words) - 20:30, 3 June 2020
- The word axiom comes from the Greek word or that which is considered self-evident. The word comes from αξιοειν ...16 KB (2,424 words) - 07:20, 23 August 2023
- The Sunga Empire (or Shunga Empire) is a Magadha dynasty that controlled ... The beginning of larger, centralized polities in India was largely ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:32, 26 February 2023
- Darius the Great (Darayawush I) (ca. 549 B.C.E. – 485/486 B.C.E ... and although he invaded Greece, he promoted the idea that the Greeks and Persians ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- ancient Greek colony in present-day Libya, the oldest and most important ... Cyrene became one of the great intellectual centers of the classical ...13 KB (1,919 words) - 18:50, 12 May 2020
- speakers. Its equivalent in Sanskrit is the word "Yavana". ... Several references to the Yonas are found in ancient Indian documents ...21 KB (3,106 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- 1633) was an Italian composer and singer of the transitional period between ... a singer. He subsequently began to work in the Medici court, first as a tenor ...4 KB (584 words) - 14:05, 2 April 2008
- an early Christian philosopher and one of the most distinguished teachers ... Titus Flavius Clemens was born sometime during the middle of the second ...14 KB (2,240 words) - 11:08, 19 December 2023
- In Greek mythology, Orion was both a great hunter, who met Ulysses ... Orion is mentioned in the oldest surviving Greek literature. His legend ...11 KB (1,784 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- and apologist who survived and recorded the Destruction of Jerusalem in ... and then cooperating with the Roman aggressors) Josephus nonetheless ...15 KB (2,242 words) - 17:37, 28 March 2024
- Zeno of Citium (The Stoic) (sometime called Zeno Apathea) (333 – ... and lived a frugal, ascetic life. The citizens of Athens showed ...9 KB (1,466 words) - 05:48, 13 June 2023
- written by a Jewish author and included in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox ... The setting of the book is about a century after the conquest of Judea ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 06:32, 13 June 2023
- Harpy is the singular form for the mythical creatures called Harpies ... The word Harpy in English comes from Old French harpie from the Latin ...9 KB (1,453 words) - 22:03, 14 December 2022
- ) is an ancient Greek word meaning the "right or opportune moment ... in a “new creation.” One has the choice of danger or opportunity ...9 KB (1,381 words) - 22:33, 4 October 2022
- 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
- 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 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
- 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 (5,092 words) - 07:01, 28 February 2023
- 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
- ), was an ancient Iranian prophet and the founder of Zoroastrianism ... as an authentic historical figure, but the period in which he lived remains ...25 KB (3,791 words) - 06:11, 13 June 2023
- 250 px|A traditional, formal presentation of the bride price at a Thai engagement ... or other form of wealth "paid" to the parents of a woman for the ...14 KB (2,300 words) - 02:03, 12 January 2023
- In a matriarchy, power lies with the women of a community. Conclusive ... of societal stress or instability, where the men are absent or unreliable ...26 KB (3,881 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- fish, shellfish, or other aquatic organisms. The activity of catching the aquatic ... The focus of a fishery may be fish, but the definition is expanded ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 17:27, 28 March 2024
- ) was one of the most prolific writers of the early Church. He was ... Hippolytus' writings came to be highly influential in the Eastern ...13 KB (2,034 words) - 15:50, 25 January 2023
- The term "dualism" can be used for any theory according ... In the past century, substance dualism has enjoyed relatively little ...17 KB (2,604 words) - 21:17, 30 January 2024
- and bishop of Peterborough from 1691, the son of a citizen of London ... , propounding utilitarianism and opposing the egoistic ethics of Thomas ...13 KB (2,116 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- The pomegranate (Punica granatum) is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub ... The fruit, which advances the pomegranate's individual purpose ...26 KB (3,898 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- Pompeii is a ruined city of Roman Empire near modern Naples in the ... Evidence of the promiscuity and ethically lax lives of many of the ...14 KB (2,204 words) - 08:49, 24 November 2022
- Rhododendron is the common and genus name for a large and diverse ... have showy flower displays. Indeed, the name rhododendron comes from ...16 KB (2,229 words) - 20:52, 16 April 2023
- Byblos (Βύβλος)is the Greek name of the Phoenician city Gebal ... E., and according to fragments attributed to the semi-legendary pre-Trojan ...14 KB (1,996 words) - 19:08, 24 November 2023
- The term Greek mythology refers to the collection of tales belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their pantheon of gods as well as their ...45 KB (6,635 words) - 21:31, 12 July 2023
- mystic, and a mathematician, known best for the Pythagorean theorem. The earliest Greek philosophers in Ionia, known as the Ionians, such ...15 KB (2,230 words) - 03:55, 7 December 2022
- historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations ... Toynbee approached history not from the perspective that takes the ...29 KB (4,250 words) - 03:54, 15 August 2023
- In zoology, locust is the common name for any member of several species ... For example, the desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) of Africa and ...14 KB (2,045 words) - 07:50, 9 March 2023
- Each such mixture is obtained during the distillation of petroleum ... a high-octane gasoline component via the catalytic reforming process ...14 KB (2,066 words) - 01:20, 11 November 2022
- The filioque clause is a heavily disputed part of Christian trinitarian ... Underlying the theological question were issues such as the struggle ...16 KB (2,507 words) - 19:46, 26 March 2024
- :This page is about the number and digit 0 or "zero." ... It plays a central role in mathematics as the identity element of the integers ...30 KB (4,810 words) - 06:25, 13 June 2023
- Catastrophism is the idea that Earth's features have remained ... Recently, however, the scientific consensus has been changing toward ...15 KB (2,089 words) - 17:51, 30 November 2023
- body, or corpus. It is a principal symbol of the Christian religion, primarily ... The crucifix is a reminder of the trials and tribulations that human ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 06:30, 11 January 2024
- is an area of philosophy concerning the eventual significance of human ... assumptions. First, it determines what is the proper unit for the study ...30 KB (4,545 words) - 04:16, 24 November 2022
- [[image:Moon.crater.arp.750pix.jpg|thumb|right|275px|Lunar astronomy: ... = astron + nomos, literally, "law of the stars") is the science ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 18:26, 19 August 2023
- The Peloponnesian War (431–404 B.C.E.) was an Ancient Greek military ... The Peloponnesian War reshaped the Ancient Greek world. On the level ...32 KB (5,003 words) - 07:14, 23 November 2022
- The term charisma originates from the Greek word χάρισμα meaning ... results or not depends on other aspects of the leader, namely whether their ...16 KB (2,186 words) - 01:46, 4 December 2023
- The Right Reverend James Edward Lesslie Newbigin C.B.E. (December ... * Newbigin, Lesslie. Foolishness to the Greeks: the Gospel and Western ...30 KB (4,685 words) - 22:01, 25 October 2022
- philosophical and theological foundation for the development of Christianity ... Philo wrote commentaries portraying the Hebrew Bible as an allegory ...29 KB (4,517 words) - 04:00, 24 November 2022
- Bestiary.jpg|thumb|350px|The phoenix from the Aberdeen Bestiary.]] The phoenix, or phœnix as it is sometimes spelled, has been an enduring ...14 KB (2,311 words) - 14:23, 19 March 2024
- C.E.), most commonly known as Caligula, was the third Roman Emperor and a ... The Roman historian Suetonius referred to Caligula as a "monster ...28 KB (4,511 words) - 18:28, 25 November 2023
- has a long history, extending back to the Greco-Roman world and culminating ... The dominant form of anti-Semitism from the nineteenth century until ...52 KB (8,069 words) - 12:28, 14 October 2023
- Aesop (also spelled Æsop, from the Greek Αἴσωπος – Aisōpos) is the figure traditionally credited with the collection ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- his death. As Pope, Innocent III represents the height of the medieval papacy ... Lotario de' Conti di Segni was the son of Count Trasimund of ...15 KB (2,410 words) - 19:30, 5 March 2024
- The Tunisian Republic (الجمهرية التونسية), or Tunisia ... Forty per cent of the country is comprised of the Sahara Desert, with ...35 KB (5,063 words) - 15:12, 2 August 2023
- Aleppo (Arabic Halab) is a city in northern Syria, the second largest ... Originating in the early second millennium B.C.E., Aleppo competes ...14 KB (2,080 words) - 05:11, 17 June 2023
- The Byzantine Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the ... There is no consensus on the starting date of the Byzantine period ...39 KB (5,978 words) - 19:13, 24 November 2023
- John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was one of the ... The Romantics prized intuition and emotion over Enlightenment rationalism ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 06:06, 3 August 2022
- According to Christian tradition, Saint Anne (also Ann or Anna) was ... Saint Anne is not named in the canonical Gospels or anywhere else ...16 KB (2,499 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- Sutekh, Setesh, Seteh) was originally the god of the desert, one of ... and cosmological belief system developed in the Nile river basin from earliest ...29 KB (4,585 words) - 10:05, 26 January 2023
- philosophy, autonomy is often used as the basis for determining moral ... One of the best known philosophical theories of autonomy was developed ...16 KB (2,461 words) - 07:07, 23 August 2023
- Martin Luther and subsequent failure to stem the Protestant Reformation, which ... The remark "It has served us well, this myth of Christ" ...28 KB (4,490 words) - 20:07, 25 October 2022
- Epicureanism is a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of ... spiritual-physical experiences. Although the modern terms “epicure” ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- The scientific definition of a machine is any device that transmits ... available. Generally these devices decrease the amount of force required to ...16 KB (2,145 words) - 04:49, 5 November 2022
- The term monism (from the Greek: μόνος monos or "one" ... The quest for oneness has been an important, universal drive and impulse ...36 KB (5,370 words) - 20:00, 9 November 2022
- Comedy. Old Comedy survives today largely in the form of the eleven surviving ... The Old Comedy, dating from the establishment of democracy by Kleisthenes ...16 KB (2,442 words) - 19:24, 26 July 2023
- The Turkish invasion of Cyprus (Turkish: Operation Peace), launched ... Turkey invoked its role as a guarantor under the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee ...55 KB (8,362 words) - 00:23, 3 May 2023
- The Platonic Academy originated as Plato's school of philosophy ... Scholars distinguish the Old Academy (Plato and his immediate successors ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- called a numeral. In common usage, however, the word number is used for both ... a number are called numerical operations. The study of numerical operations ...37 KB (5,685 words) - 00:43, 17 November 2022
- The marathon is a long-distance running event of 42.195 km (26 miles ... of the modern Olympics, as well as the Greeks. The Greeks staged a selection ...30 KB (4,587 words) - 03:03, 6 November 2022
- Originating as a part of Italian cuisine, the dish has become popular in ... strict guidelines for preparation. In the United States, pizza has iconic ...33 KB (5,022 words) - 20:42, 9 April 2023
- Egyptology as an academic discipline did not fully emerge until the ... The numerous sites remaining from this culture, including the great ...16 KB (2,384 words) - 00:01, 13 February 2024
- In historiography the phrase the Dark Ages (or Dark Age) is most commonly ... intended as a sweeping criticism of the character of Vulgar Latin ...17 KB (2,782 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
