Search results for "Ancient Greek language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- and Arabian mainlands as part of the ancient southern supercontinent ... visited the islands, including works in Greek, Latin, Syriac, Portuguese ...22 KB (3,173 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- Hieros Gamos (Greek ιερός γάμος, "sacred wedding" ... The concept of the hieros gamos derives from ancient mythologies relating ...13 KB (2,025 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2022
- Provence was known in ancient times as part of Narbonensis, inhabited ... Gaul, and Marseille was the main center of Greek studies in the west. In the ...13 KB (1,926 words) - 08:21, 2 December 2022
- Acrobatics (from Greek Akros, high and bat, walking) involve movements ... Acrobats were greatly admired in ancient China, Egypt, and the Minoan ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 05:38, 15 June 2023
- Mount Athos (Greek: Όρος Άθως) a mountain in Macedonia, northern ... contain a vast collection of rare ancient and medieval manuscripts. ...27 KB (4,022 words) - 17:04, 10 November 2022
- biblicus. He became versed in the Greek, Hebrew, and Latin languages ... leader who chose to use biblical language—the only language the peasants ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 21:24, 30 April 2023
- In Greek mythology, Artemis (Greek: Ἄρτεμις or Ἀρτέμιδος was one of the most widely venerated of the Greek deities and manifestly one ...26 KB (4,093 words) - 10:51, 16 August 2023
- the most gifted love-poet in the English language, alongside W.B. Yeats. evidence) that all poetry emerged from an ancient religion of goddess-worship ...16 KB (2,484 words) - 05:05, 15 December 2022
- Anubis is the Greek name for the ancient jackal-headed god of the ... The worldview engendered by ancient Egyptian religion was uniquely ...19 KB (3,124 words) - 05:49, 11 August 2023
- in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language. ... and lustre, before which the glory of ancient Greece and Rome shall dwindle ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 02:32, 16 November 2022
- to the West. He attempted to reconcile the Greek medical tradition, which ... At that time there were two conflicting traditions of medicine, the ...12 KB (1,811 words) - 05:30, 24 November 2022
- Oligarchy (Greek Ὀλιγαρχία, Oligarkhía, from óligon, “few ... The word oligarchy (l´ gärk) is derived from the Greek words for ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 00:19, 18 November 2022
- A sapphire (from the Latin sapphirus and Greek sappheiros, perhaps ... In ancient India, certain gems were thought to possess supernatural ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 03:24, 23 December 2022
- Prose is a form of written or spoken language that follows the natural ... the heavily Atticized dialect of ancient Greek language prevalent among the ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 18:29, 28 February 2023
- which had for centuries only been known in Greek and Latin translation. He ... on national consensus. The Judaism of ancient Israel was thus significantly ...13 KB (1,934 words) - 01:02, 4 February 2023
- be traced to the Late Latin asphaltum, and Greek ásphaltos (άσφαλτος ... In the ancient Middle East, natural asphalt deposits were used for ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 04:53, 18 August 2023
- The name "rose" originates from Persian vrda, via Greek ... *Hesperrhodos (from the Greek for "western rose") has two ...22 KB (3,504 words) - 21:40, 15 August 2022
- Mayadevi was born in Devadaha kingdom of ancient Nepal. ... The holy site of Lumbini includes the ruins of ancient monasteries ...12 KB (1,788 words) - 02:57, 5 November 2022
- The term phobia, from the Greek φόβος meaning "fear," ... The word "phobia" comes from the Greek: φόβος (phóbos), meaning ...19 KB (2,851 words) - 17:25, 23 November 2022
- is an English rendering of the original Greek wording found in the Apostles ... quot;); Latin, descendit ad inferos). The Greek τὰ κατώτατα ...14 KB (2,171 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
