Search results for "Greeks" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The Greeks analyzed genera using various terms, including diatonic, enharmonic, and chromatic—the latter being the color between the two other ...5 KB (783 words) - 21:50, 10 December 2023
- Greece, especially in silk, spices, and gold. The Greeks invaded India several times, starting with the conquest of Alexander the Great between the ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 07:42, 25 May 2024
- As with many other mythological systems, the Greeks understood the ... the sun in our solar system. The ancient Greeks and Romans knew of only five ...9 KB (1,482 words) - 13:41, 3 May 2023
- proper, capturing Athens in 1458. The Greeks held out in the Peloponnese ... and by the American Revolutionary War, the Greeks fought a war of independence ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- The civilization of the ancient Greeks has been immensely influential ... that were settled in ancient times by Greeks: Cyprus and the Aegean islands ...12 KB (1,801 words) - 12:38, 5 May 2024
- Greece, and culinary historians credit the Greeks for developing bread-baking ... The Greeks also pioneered sweetbreads, fritters, puddings, cheesecakes ...11 KB (1,627 words) - 05:59, 18 November 2022
- popular religious activity of the ancient Greeks. However, he was not entirely ... While the Greeks believed that Cronus was representative of chaos ...12 KB (1,860 words) - 20:30, 3 June 2020
- ==Early Greeks== inference), was developed by the ancient Greeks, and has become the core ...16 KB (2,424 words) - 07:20, 23 August 2023
- Punjab passed into the hands of the Indo-Greeks and the Deccan to the Satavahanas. ... with the Kalingas, Satavahanas, the Indo-Greeks, and possibly the Panchalas ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:32, 26 February 2023
- Greece, he promoted the idea that the Greeks and Persians were members ... in the Persian Wars and admonished the Greeks against attempting resistance. ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- Named after a spring, Kyre, which the Greeks consecrated to Apollo, the ... world. An important city under first the Greeks and then the Romans, it was ...13 KB (1,919 words) - 18:50, 12 May 2020
- *Iāwones), who were probably the first Greeks to be known in the East. ... Although the association with eastern Greeks seems to have been quite ...21 KB (3,106 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- nowadays thought to be a long way from anything the Greeks would have recognized, is seen as the first work in a new form, opera. Rinuccini and ...4 KB (584 words) - 14:05, 2 April 2008
- of the pederastic practices of the Greeks, and the horrors of pagan ... God also used philosophy to inform the Greeks and to eventually guide them ...14 KB (2,240 words) - 11:08, 19 December 2023
- Karl Kerényi, in Gods of the Greeks, portrays Orion as a giant of ... * Kerenyi, Karl. Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson, 1981 ...11 KB (1,784 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- * c. 75 – Josephus's Discourse to the Greeks concerning Hades ... Apion, Contra Apionem, or Against the Greeks, on the antiquity of the ...15 KB (2,242 words) - 17:37, 28 March 2024
- Stoics had a significant influence on the Greeks and Romans, early Christianity ... which remained popular among the Greeks and Romans for almost four ...9 KB (1,466 words) - 05:48, 13 June 2023
- century after the conquest of Judea by the Greeks under Alexander the Great ... with the Roman Republic to remove the Greeks. After his death in battle ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 06:32, 13 June 2023
- was a significant place for the ancient Greeks, and much like the deeper ... The Trojans did not fare as well as the Greeks and soon fled in fear. ...9 KB (1,453 words) - 22:03, 14 December 2022
- or opportune moment." The ancient Greeks had two words for time, chronos ... According to ancient Greeks, Kairos was the god of the “fleeting ...9 KB (1,381 words) - 22:33, 4 October 2022
