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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
