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- begins roughly with the earliest-recorded Greek poetry of Homer (eighth-seventh ... Ancient Greece is the period in Greek history lasting for close to ...12 KB (1,801 words) - 12:38, 5 May 2024
- and Latinist who promoted the revival of ancient Roman classics and the traditions ... Laetus tried to emulate the lives of the ancient Romans, and around ...9 KB (1,365 words) - 21:15, 4 October 2022
- Sappho (Attic Greek Σαπφώ Sapphô, Aeolic Greek Ψάπφα Psappha ... with a clarity of image and sparseness of language unprecedented in ancient ...13 KB (2,038 words) - 03:24, 23 December 2022
- was an English philologist and student of ancient India. He is particularly ... Jones was a linguistic prodigy, learning Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, ...9 KB (1,304 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- not included within the Tanakh canon of ancient Judaism. Nevertheless, it ... to Tobit's son, Tobiah or Tobiyah (Greek: Tobias), who is sent by ...8 KB (1,317 words) - 15:33, 30 January 2024
- visitors to have an experience of life in ancient times. ... After graduation, Evans traveled to Bosnia and Macedonia to study ...10 KB (1,447 words) - 12:20, 7 November 2021
- of Olympia, the most sacred place of ancient Greece. Curtius was a serious ... beautiful pieces of artwork preserved from ancient times, all of which remained ...7 KB (1,047 words) - 19:34, 13 February 2024
- doxographer who compiled biographies of ancient Greek philosphers in his ... come from the town of Laerte in Cilicia (ancient Turkey) or from the Roman ...7 KB (941 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- Anaximander (Greek: Αναξίμανδρος) (c. 609 – 547 b.c ... form of inquiry in a society where Greek mythology was the primary ...7 KB (1,099 words) - 19:08, 26 July 2023
- Alpha and Omega (Greek: Αλφα and Ω) is an appellation of God ... art, often in combination with the Greek letters Chi and Rho, the ...10 KB (1,641 words) - 08:22, 23 July 2023
- The word epigraphy comes from the Greek language|Greek epigraphē ... The first to practice epigraphy were the ancient Greek scholars Thucydides ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 19:07, 13 February 2024
- may have evolved into Linear B, a written language that replaced Linear A around ... British archaeologist Arthur Evans, inspired by ancient Greek mythology ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 07:40, 9 March 2023
- The Rosetta Stone is an ancient stele inscribed with the same passage ... Egypt as part of the family of Alexander. Greek language and culture flourished ...13 KB (1,999 words) - 19:17, 16 December 2022
- In Greek mythology, Uranus is the personification of the sky and the ... ), the Greek word for "sky." The most probable etymology ...9 KB (1,482 words) - 13:41, 3 May 2023
- In Greek mythology the Sirens or Seirenes (Greek Σειρήνες ... Sailing was a very important part of ancient Greek life, but the waters ...10 KB (1,575 words) - 22:34, 29 January 2023
- the mythical creatures called Harpies in Greek mythology, winged-beasts ... Harpyia, which in turn derives from the Greek Άρπυια, or Harpuia ...9 KB (1,453 words) - 22:03, 14 December 2022
- Anacreon (Greek: Ἀνακρέων ) (born c. 570 B.C.E.) was a Greek lyric poet, notable for his songs ...9 KB (1,478 words) - 18:41, 26 July 2023
- and Jews. It was renowned throughout the ancient world as an international ... structures on Earth for many centuries. Ancient writers identified it as ...10 KB (1,528 words) - 01:38, 26 October 2022
- the translation of the Old Persian language. Grotefend succeeded in ... He continued his career mostly working on Latin and Italian language ...9 KB (1,297 words) - 06:55, 18 April 2024
- Commonly regarded as a Greek specialty, baklava is available in a ... although the dish is often thought to be of Greek origin. The history of baklava ...10 KB (1,501 words) - 05:50, 26 August 2023
- Protagoras (in Greek Πρωταγόρας) (c. 481 B.C.E. – c. 420 ... of truth from the sphere of existence to language parallels an orientation ...6 KB (889 words) - 08:16, 2 December 2022
- He published his results with plates of ancient Egyptian inscriptions, maps ... Lepsius and Friedericke Glaser. He studied Greek and Roman archaeology at ...9 KB (1,295 words) - 07:20, 5 October 2022
- Ancient philosophy is philosophy in antiquity, or before the end of ... In the Western tradition, ancient philosophy was developed primarily ...16 KB (2,127 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- The name amphibole (Greek αμφιβολος/amfibolos, meaning "ambiguous ... constituent of greenschists. The name (from Greek ακτις/aktis, a "ray ...6 KB (934 words) - 17:24, 26 July 2023
- the ages, but all come from the creature in Greek mythology known as Pegasus ... Greek poet, Hesiod connects the name Pegasos with the word for "spring” ...8 KB (1,238 words) - 07:12, 23 November 2022
- of the skull") is the English-language name given to the hill on ... 'Hebrew', indicating the 'language of the Hebrews', which ...7 KB (1,139 words) - 18:36, 25 November 2023
- The Griffin (sometimes spelled gryphon or griffen, gryphos in Ancient ... 2001. Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times. Princeton ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 19:20, 31 January 2023
- by the Patriarch of Moscow in 1970. (The Greek Orthodox Church in North ... Kephalos means "head" in Greek. Hence, autocephalous denotes ...9 KB (1,277 words) - 19:40, 22 August 2023
- In Greek mythology, Poseidon (Greek: Ποσειδών ; Latin: Neptūnus ... As with many Greek deities, Poseidon was depicted as a lascivious ...11 KB (1,681 words) - 05:44, 30 November 2022
- Macrocosm/microcosm is a Greek compound of μακρο- "Macro ... throughout the history of thought from ancient times through the renaissance ...11 KB (1,612 words) - 17:28, 9 November 2022
- Cyrene (Greek Κυρήνη, Kurene) was an ancient Greek colony in ... the same history that befell much of the ancient world: one empire conquering ...13 KB (1,919 words) - 18:50, 12 May 2020
- to enter university. Deriving from the Greek idea of a school for both ... The word γυμνάσιον (gymnasion) was used in Ancient Greece ...14 KB (2,013 words) - 07:46, 10 January 2024
- Eratosthenes (Greek Ἐρατοσθένης ; 276 B.C.E. – 194 B.C.E.) was a Greek mathematician, geographer ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 19:18, 13 February 2024
- In Greek mythology, the Gorgons were three vicious female mythical ... The word Gorgon comes from the Greek word γογύς which roughly ...11 KB (1,834 words) - 04:53, 26 December 2022
- Kenosis (from the Greek κένωσις: meaning "emptying" ... The ancient Greek word κένωσις kénōsis means an "emptying ...8 KB (1,166 words) - 17:24, 5 October 2022
- Necromancy (Greek: νεκρομαντία, nekromantía) is a form ... === Ancient necromancy === The act of necromancy was widespread in ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- In Greek mythology, Lamia was a Queen of Libya who became a child ... Lamia's name derives from the Greek word Laimos ("gullet ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 20:54, 22 October 2022
- In Greek mythology, the centaurs (Greek: Κένταυροι) are a ... and generally uncultured, even in Greek mythology a well-known centaur ...9 KB (1,330 words) - 23:50, 3 December 2023
- In linguistics, syntax (The word originates from the Greek words συν ... goes back in the Western tradition to the Greek grammarian Dionysios Thrax ...11 KB (1,479 words) - 01:58, 27 February 2023
- The word "marble" derives from the Greek marmaros, meaning ... As the favorite medium for Greek and Roman sculptors and architects ...8 KB (1,153 words) - 03:03, 6 November 2022
- is first known to have been used in ancient Egypt (at least as far back ... The study of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, and ...12 KB (1,870 words) - 07:37, 18 November 2022
- Neptune was appropriated from the Greek tradition, and became analogous ... of cross-cultural assimilation in the ancient world where a great deal ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 16:21, 11 November 2022
- inscriptions, and carvings. First used in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece ... regarding the lives of those who lived in ancient times. Often decorated with ...12 KB (1,915 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- The term traces to the Ancient Greek word entelecheia, from the combination of the Greek words enteles (complete), telos (end, purpose, completion ...6 KB (836 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- Eclecticism (from Greek eklektikos, “selective,” or “choosing ... century B.C.E. to refer to a group of ancient philosophers, including ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 18:01, 12 February 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
- The name “Lyceum” comes from a gymnasium near Athens in ancient ... ==Ancient Greek Lyceum (word origins)== The Lyceum (Λύκειον ...14 KB (2,070 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- Thales (in Greek: Θαλης) of Miletus (ca. 624 – 546 b.c.e.) ... Contrary to polytheistic Greek mythology, which ascribed social and ...7 KB (978 words) - 15:05, 30 April 2023
- figures, Saturn was appropriated from the Greek tradition, and his mythology ... clear. While numerous authors both ancient and modern have suggested ...11 KB (1,785 words) - 17:00, 23 December 2022
- Galen (Greek: Γαληνός, Latin: Claudius Galenus of Pergamum; ... Ancient medicine practitioners disagreed over whether a doctor should ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 03:50, 18 April 2024
- Aesop (also spelled Æsop, from the Greek Αἴσωπος of fables identified with his name. A Greek contemporary of Croesus and ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- different traditions of Latin, Arab and Greek commentary on Aristotle. ... including John of Jandun; and above all the Greek commentators. Renaissance ...8 KB (1,200 words) - 06:47, 16 June 2023
- indoor sports and exercise. Originating in Ancient Greece, where they included ... In that sense, the original purpose of the ancient Greek gymnasium continues ...13 KB (1,987 words) - 06:47, 28 July 2023
- was one of two principal dramatic forms of ancient Greek theater. Athenian ... and above all the elegance of the Attic language, but used for the purpose ...16 KB (2,442 words) - 19:24, 26 July 2023
- ornamental stone. The name comes from the Greek words a (not) and methuskein ... Amethyst was used as a gemstone by the ancient Egyptians and was largely ...8 KB (1,216 words) - 06:54, 25 July 2023
- allowed precise measurement and dating of ancient monuments. His particular ... introducing him to the Hebrew, Latin, and Greek languages. ...13 KB (1,892 words) - 16:43, 13 May 2024
- comparado, Portuguese: direito comparado, Greek: Συγκριτικό Δίκαιο ... He is famous for the thesis, outlined in Ancient Law (1861) that law ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 08:07, 14 January 2023
- The name "topaz" is derived from the Greek topazos, "to seek," which was the name of an island in the Red Sea that was difficult ...5 KB (639 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- The Caduceus, also known as the wand of Hermes, was a symbol of the ... Correspondingly, in ancient Rome, Livy referred to the caduceator ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 10:15, 25 November 2023
- religious and naturalistic symbolism in ancient Egypt, to a secular symbol ... The earliest representation of the phoenix is found in the ancient ...14 KB (2,311 words) - 14:23, 19 March 2024
- In Greek mythology, the Minotaur was a mythical creature that was ... man and part bull. "Minotaur" in Greek (Μινόταυρος, Minótauros ...11 KB (1,767 words) - 18:53, 9 November 2022
- 20, 1971), one of the most important Greek poets of the twentieth century ... Seferis helped to introduce the poetry of Symbolism to the Greek language ...11 KB (1,573 words) - 20:33, 29 August 2021
- the body to prevent or cure diseases. The ancient belief that spirits were ... (from Arabic tilasm; ultimately from Greek telesma or from the Greek ...13 KB (2,101 words) - 17:26, 26 July 2023
- he became a dedicated scholar of the ancient classics and of German history ... Beatus believed that the wisdom of the ancient classical writers with the ...12 KB (1,792 words) - 10:18, 26 September 2023
- Anaximenes (in Greek: Άναξιμένης) of Miletus (c. 585 – ... concept of "ruach" found in the ancient pre-Babylonian Exile Hebraic ...7 KB (1,024 words) - 19:08, 26 July 2023
- translated, revealing much about the most ancient civilizations of human history ... 100 meters up a limestone cliff from an ancient road connecting the capitals ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 10:27, 26 September 2023
- ) was an early Greek poet and rhapsode who lived around 700 B.C.E ... in contributing to our understanding of ancient Greek culture, is the Theogony ...12 KB (1,937 words) - 15:44, 25 January 2023
- Although famously associated with the ancient Romans, aqueducts were ... ===Ancient Greek aqueducts=== *The Eupalinian aqueduct on the Greek ...12 KB (1,676 words) - 15:59, 11 August 2023
- With a name derived from the Greek for "joy of the mountain" ... The name oregano and origanum derives from the Greek origanon ...11 KB (1,590 words) - 01:11, 18 November 2022
- In Greek mythology, Atlas (Eng. /'æt ləs/ Gk. Ἄτλας) ... paradigm shift that occurred in the Ancient Near East. Walter Burkert ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 16:42, 23 July 2020
- |languages=Egyptian language |fam1=(Proto-writing) |children=Hieratic ... Egyptian hieroglyphs are a formal writing system used by the ancient ...23 KB (3,348 words) - 00:01, 13 February 2024
- Legend has it that Taksha, an ancient Indian king who ruled in a kingdom ... * c. 450 B.C.E., Herodotus makes reference to Greek influences in ...18 KB (2,588 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- consul in Constantinople, he studied Greek under John Chrysoloras and ... peers. Everywhere he went, his lectures on Greek and Roman literature attracted ...15 KB (2,444 words) - 04:47, 9 April 2024
- writing system. The term derives from the Greek term for “sacred carving ... human history, the beginnings of written language. While spoken language allows ...20 KB (3,009 words) - 15:47, 25 January 2023
- imagery of Gehenna originates from a ancient real place; thus Gehenna ... The valley forms the southwest border of ancient Jerusalem that stretches ...8 KB (1,334 words) - 06:33, 18 April 2024
- The name "beryl" comes from the Greek word beryllos, referring ... * The druids (the priestly class in ancient Celtic societies) used ...5 KB (674 words) - 17:25, 29 September 2023
- Historically, cumin was used heavily in ancient Roman cuisine. ... Cumin has been in use since ancient times. Seeds, excavated at the ...12 KB (1,736 words) - 19:46, 11 May 2020
- In Greek mythology, Cronus (Ancient Greek: Κρόνος, Krónos) ... Cronus is not necessarily related to the Greek word χρόνος, Chronos ...12 KB (1,860 words) - 20:30, 3 June 2020
- anthropomorphosis. The term comes from two Greek words, άνθρωπος ... Ancient mythologies frequently represented the divine as a god or ...17 KB (2,392 words) - 06:18, 31 July 2023
- The Greek philosopher Heraclitus (Greek Ἡράκλειτος Herakleitos ... instead that everything is derived from the Greek classical element fire, rather ...11 KB (1,556 words) - 09:50, 22 January 2024
- generic name Cedrus are derived from the Greek kedros. Ancient Greek and ... * Meiggs, R. 1982. Trees and Timber in the Ancient Mediterranean World ...10 KB (1,494 words) - 23:43, 3 December 2023
- several other related concepts such as: language, logic, consciousness, knowledge ... of reason is connected to the concept of language, as reflected in the meanings ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
- Georgius Gemistos (also Plethon or Pletho; in Greek: Γεώργιος ... in the Peloponnesus, near the site of ancient Sparta. As a youth he studied ...11 KB (1,525 words) - 06:39, 18 April 2024
- character that means life or living. Ancient Egyptian gods are often ... a fish, and therefore known as Ichthys, the Greek word for “fish.” However ...10 KB (1,631 words) - 06:39, 28 July 2023
- "Yona" is a Pali word used in ancient India to designate ... Several references to the Yonas are found in ancient Indian documents ...21 KB (3,106 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East. Budge was was ... to hold arguably the best collection of Ancient Near East artifacts in the ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- Ovid's poetry assimilated the Greek mythology and traditions ... natives of Tomis, writing poems in their language, he still pined for Rome ...14 KB (2,130 words) - 06:01, 18 November 2022
- and preacher who founded Manichaeism, an ancient dualistic religion that ... The teachings of Mani were once widely circulated in the ancient world ...9 KB (1,391 words) - 02:52, 6 November 2022
- :For the later Greek writer see Xenophon of Ephesus. [[Image:Xenophon ... Xenophon (Greek, Ξενοφῶν ; c. 427 B.C.E. – 355 B.C.E.), was ...13 KB (2,062 words) - 14:29, 20 May 2023
- intellectual ability, and learned Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages. After ... Religion of the Semites, an account of ancient Jewish religious life which ...12 KB (1,721 words) - 10:46, 12 May 2023
- "god-spell" translated from Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangelion ... gospels were originally written in Greek.Ibid. The gospels are the ...17 KB (2,705 words) - 18:26, 26 December 2022
- the Kibbutz of Megiddo, the site of the ancient city of Megiddo, and famous ... It comprises 26 layers of the ruins of ancient cities in a strategic location ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 21:46, 28 October 2022
- the name commonly given in the West to the ancient, Koine Greek version of ... The LXX was held with great respect in ancient times; Philo and Josephus ...32 KB (4,408 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- Nestorianism was an ancient Christian heresy associated with Nestorius ... believed that Christ was indeed one person (Greek: prosopon). Opposed by Cyril ...10 KB (1,525 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- Esoteric is an adjective originating in Greece; it comes from the Greek ... that is inner. Its antonym is exoteric, from the Greek ἐξωτερικός ...12 KB (1,732 words) - 21:30, 20 March 2024
- Ancient Greek literature refers to literature written in the Greek language from the earliest texts, dating back to the early Archaic period ...25 KB (4,056 words) - 17:49, 13 November 2021
- Catharsis (Latin), from the Greek Κάθαρσις Katharsis meaning ... In ancient Greek tradition, catharsis referred to religious rituals ...14 KB (2,260 words) - 00:10, 1 December 2023
- Olympia (Greek: Ολυμπία Olympí'a or Ολύμπια Olýmpia ... the opening celebration at the site of the ancient Olympics in Olympia. Olympia ...17 KB (2,779 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- Pythagoras (c. 570 B.C.E. – 496 B.C.E., Greek: Πυθαγόρας) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher, a mystic ...15 KB (2,230 words) - 03:55, 7 December 2022
- home to the most extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities in ... of papyrus and coins used in the Ancient world. The numerous pieces ...12 KB (1,932 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- דַּרְיָוֵשׁ (Daryawesh) and the ancient Greek sources call him Dareios ... In similar relations he stood to the Greek sanctuaries (cf. his rescript ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- The origin of the term goes back to the ancient Greeks. The English ... The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle's account of substance ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 21:25, 26 February 2023
- Euclid (also referred to as Euclid of Alexandria) (Greek: ... ) (c. 325 B.C.E. – c. 265 B.C.E.), a Greek mathematician, who lived ...21 KB (2,999 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- Literature in Sanskrit, the classical language of India, represents ... or strongly influenced by Sanskrit, the language and its literature are of ...19 KB (2,849 words) - 03:17, 23 December 2022
- The Grigori (from Greek egrḗgoroi, "The Watchers") are ... in which they are said to come from ancient stellar lore. ...12 KB (1,932 words) - 20:02, 31 January 2023
- Abydos (Arabic: أبيدوس, Greek Αβυδος), is one of the most ... a viable chronology of the civilization of ancient Egypt. ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 07:07, 14 June 2023
- oldest symbols of the Jewish people. In ancient times, the menorah once ... ==Origin, Description and Ancient use== [[Image:Coin issued by Mattathias ...10 KB (1,529 words) - 16:09, 9 November 2022
- The word "crypt" derives from the Ancient Greek, kruptein ... houses a large number of relics in its ancient crypt. They have been on ...11 KB (1,624 words) - 02:11, 15 January 2023
- Josephus, who introduced himself in Greek as "Iosepos (Ιώσηπος ... It was only in 1544 that a version of the Greek text was made available, ...15 KB (2,242 words) - 17:37, 28 March 2024
- (1547 - 1628), as a compound of "on" (Greek ὤν ... Questions of being are also closely tied to those of language, logic ...15 KB (2,218 words) - 00:43, 18 November 2022
- An academy (Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of higher learning ... of wisdom, outside the city walls of ancient Athens (Thucydides ii:34 ...16 KB (2,354 words) - 07:13, 14 June 2023
- - 127), known in English as Plutarch, (in Greek Πλούταρχος) was ... characters and recounts the noble deeds of Greek and Roman soldiers, legislators ...17 KB (2,619 words) - 08:08, 24 November 2022
- was made between soul and spirit. The Greek word pneuma was translated ... Scandinavian languages and the Chinese language uses the term "breath ...17 KB (2,627 words) - 21:55, 28 October 2020
- Byblos (Βύβλος)is the Greek name of the Phoenician city Gebal ... Byblos (Greek) or Gebal (Phoenician) is located on the Mediterranean ...14 KB (1,996 words) - 19:08, 24 November 2023
- hexameter, a verse form first used by the ancient Greeks which would fall ... compose his first poems in imitation of the ancient Greeks. ...15 KB (2,361 words) - 20:33, 3 May 2023
- he openly mocked the epic style of ancient poetry, criticizing even ... the most important figures in literature of the ancient world. ...12 KB (1,947 words) - 16:18, 3 December 2023
- Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus, was an ancient state, located in eastern ... == Early Greek colonies== The whole district was dotted with Greek ...15 KB (2,433 words) - 19:50, 20 November 2023
- mathematics into Latin, and introducing ancient Greek texts which had only ... Arabic past. He then visited Cilicia (an ancient district of southern Anatolia ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 05:50, 15 June 2023
- Oxyrhynchus (Greek: Οξύρρυγχος; "sharp-snouted or sharp ... Approximately 70 percent of all the ancient Egyptian literary papyri ...19 KB (2,886 words) - 06:03, 18 November 2022
- Romanticism. His study of literature, Greek antiquity, art and philosophy ... Schlegel’s Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier (On the Language ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 07:21, 5 October 2022
- ; Greek Ἥφαιστος Hêphaistos) was the Greek god of fire, metals and metallurgy, and ...15 KB (2,287 words) - 13:45, 9 February 2022
- were largely appropriated from the Greek tradition, Venus is very ... Ishtar of the Mesopotamians, Hathor in Ancient Egypt, Astarte of the Syro ...13 KB (1,985 words) - 19:28, 14 November 2022
- if there is no common theoretical language that can be used to compare ... questions regarding translation. Each language is configured and structured ...17 KB (2,394 words) - 00:08, 8 January 2024
- Pharaoh is the title given in modern parlance to the ancient Egyptian ... As with many ancient kings, the pharaoh was seen as the preserver ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 02:55, 24 November 2022
- Hesychasm (from Greek: ἡσυχασμός hesychasmos, meaning "stillness ... Rooted in the ancient tradition of Christian asceticism and contemplation ...15 KB (2,357 words) - 11:44, 22 January 2024
- interest in the culture and mythology of ancient Greece. ... he received basic education in Latin and Greek. He graduated from Barmer ...11 KB (1,693 words) - 10:38, 5 May 2023
- Greek philosophers did not explicitly elaborate on the absolute, but ... of human cognition, understanding, and language. Thomas Aquinas discussed ...15 KB (2,179 words) - 06:35, 14 June 2023
- Ancient writers referred to Carneades as the founder of the “third” ... Carneades was born in Cyrene (a Greek city in North Africa) c. 214 ...11 KB (1,736 words) - 00:29, 29 November 2023
- monks decided to start translating the works of Greek philosophers into the vernacular, following in the footsteps of the Muslims who did that 500 ...7 KB (1,087 words) - 08:47, 24 November 2022
- The word axiom comes from the Greek word (axios), meaning worthy. Among the ancient Greek philosophers an axiom ...16 KB (2,424 words) - 07:20, 23 August 2023
- Aeschylus (525 B.C.E. – 456 B.C.E.; Greek: Α ἰ σχύλος) was a playwright of ancient Greece, and the earliest ...18 KB (2,989 words) - 05:50, 16 June 2023
- In Greek mythology, Zeus was the highest ranking god among the pantheon ... god. The similarity between Zeus' Greek title and those for the celestial ...16 KB (2,635 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra near Latakia, Syria) was an ancient cosmopolitan ... Age libraries of clay tablets in various ancient languages. The most significant ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 01:27, 3 May 2023
- The Eleusinian Mysteries (Greek: Έλευσίνια Μυστήρια ... Of all the mysteries celebrated in ancient Mediterranean world, these ...18 KB (2,798 words) - 16:07, 13 February 2024
- The book was originally written in Rome, in the Greek language, but ... slave. The text makes use of allegorical language to present its religious ...12 KB (1,907 words) - 14:09, 27 January 2023
- Delphi (Greek Δελφοί ) was one of the most important religious sites in ancient Greece ...21 KB (3,318 words) - 09:23, 28 January 2024
- Those who wrote in Greek are called the Greek (Church) Fathers. Famous ... important intellectual centers. He united Greek philosophical traditions ...21 KB (3,112 words) - 21:58, 10 December 2023
- there is now no known text in Latin or Greek, similarities between the ... was seen, by this literature, and the ancient kabbalah of Jewish mysticism ...11 KB (1,772 words) - 11:37, 5 February 2022
- The Latin word came from abakos, the Greek genitive form of abax ("calculating ... The use of the abacus in ancient Egypt is mentioned by the Greek historian ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- helped to update information regarding the ancient city of Byzantine. Two manuscripts ... and his pro-Scandinavian party and disliked Greek influence in Kiev. ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 03:56, 27 February 2023
- In Greek mythology, Daedalus (Latin, also Hellenized Latin Daedalos ... him Athenian-born, the grandson of the ancient king Erechtheus, who fled ...11 KB (1,708 words) - 07:41, 12 January 2024
- to the absurd," traceable back to the Greek ἡ εις άτοπον ... called 'early' dialogues of the Greek philosopher Plato are believed ...7 KB (1,079 words) - 02:58, 8 December 2022
- Sea and is built partially atop the famed ancient city. Ancient Alexandria was a thriving Greco-Roman city, one of the most ...24 KB (3,570 words) - 06:37, 20 July 2023
- Pan (Greek Πάν , genitive Πανός ) is the Greek god of nature who watches over shepherds and their ...15 KB (2,404 words) - 06:26, 18 November 2022
- It was a common practice in the ancient world that extended from ... the practice of giving a tithe. In English, Greek, and Hebrew, the word “tithe” ...12 KB (1,965 words) - 08:19, 23 July 2023
- was instrumental in transmitting classical Greek logic to medieval Latin scholars ... studied in Athens, because he was fluent in Greek and well acquainted with ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 06:07, 28 July 2023
- In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is its set of structural ... The word grammar is derived from Greek grc|γραμματικὴ τέχνη ...25 KB (3,469 words) - 22:17, 30 March 2023
- Ancient Western philosophy is marked by the formation and development ... Ancient Western philosophy is generally divided into three periods ...29 KB (4,278 words) - 04:19, 31 January 2023
- as some cultures of Asia Minor such as the ancient Persian Empire, were more ... The word "dragon" has etymological roots as far back as ...20 KB (3,239 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2024
- The term anatomy comes from the Greek ἀνατομία ... tied to a conceptual framework. Galen, the Greek anatomist whose anatomical ...14 KB (2,224 words) - 19:02, 26 July 2023
- by European scholars of classical Latin and Greek texts. As a reaction against ... rediscovery by European scholars of many Greek and Roman texts. Its focus ...16 KB (2,260 words) - 19:10, 19 August 2023
- Longinus (Greek: Λογγίνος) is the conventional name of the ... ΥΨΟΥΣ) is one of the most important ancient treatises on aesthetics ...20 KB (2,950 words) - 21:04, 3 November 2022
- A stele, often Anglicized as stela, plural stelae (from the Greek ... of the customs, beliefs, and laws of ancient cultures as many contain ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 22:31, 23 September 2022
- Cybele (Greek Κυβέλη) was a Phrygian goddess originating in ... Cybele's origins are debated by scholars. Ancient texts and inscriptions ...16 KB (2,551 words) - 06:50, 12 January 2024
- Dacia, in ancient history and geography was the land of the Dacians ... between rival civilizations. The legacy of ancient Dacians and of their successors ...22 KB (3,335 words) - 07:37, 12 January 2024
- The term chalcedony is derived from the name of the ancient Greek town Chalkedon in Asia Minor, in modern English usually spelled Chalcedon, ...7 KB (962 words) - 01:14, 4 December 2023
- In a figurative sense, a tragedy (from Classical Greek τραγωδία ... translated as a mistake (since the original Greek etymology traces back to ...26 KB (4,004 words) - 17:24, 6 March 2023
- Troy (Greek: Τροία, Troia, also Ίλιον, Ilion; Turkish Truva ... According to mythology, the Trojans were the ancient citizens of the ...26 KB (4,181 words) - 18:25, 2 May 2023
- to form new cultural practices. Being Greek, Plato argued that such practices ... culture. For example, the Chinese written language Hanzi was taken, with various ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 01:13, 10 April 2021
- linked with such similar creatures as the Greek Sirens or the European Mermaids; ... from a common origin, namely the ancient belief in a water goddess ...14 KB (2,167 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- Odysseas Elytis (Greek: Οδυσσέας Ελύτης) (November 2 ... . His entry inaugurated a new era in Greek poetry and its subsequent ...12 KB (1,487 words) - 23:55, 17 November 2022
- small disc-shaped cymbals based on ancient designs sound a definite ... which is the latinisation of the Greek word grc|κύμβαλον ...15 KB (2,396 words) - 20:32, 28 December 2023
- for the humanist desire to reform language and education. His extensive ... professor, Leonardo Bruni (Aretino), and Greek under Giovanni Aurispa. ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 02:43, 4 November 2022
- English poetry by adapting the English language to ancient Greek and Latin ... is almost always clear, writing in language that is at times almost ...8 KB (1,326 words) - 05:06, 15 December 2022
- Knossos, also spelled Knossus, Cnossus, Gnossus (in traditional Greek ... for it differs sharply from a traditional Greek column in that it was made ...13 KB (2,102 words) - 03:56, 4 March 2023
- of the text of the Septuagint and the Greek New Testament. Basing his ... According to the Suidas, a massive tenth century Byzantine Greek historical ...17 KB (2,576 words) - 04:19, 4 November 2022
- Empire, which had ruled most of the Greek-speaking world for over 1100 ... London and decided to recognize a sovereign Greek state. Many were enthusiastic ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- material, but there are a few exceptions in Greek art and in the decorative ... human form was most commonly used in the Greek and Roman classic reliefs ...15 KB (2,307 words) - 03:37, 8 December 2022
- and culture goes back as far as the Ancient Greeks. Fascination with ... Egyptology investigates the range of Ancient Egyptian culture (language ...16 KB (2,384 words) - 00:01, 13 February 2024
- the Great, when the country was part of the Greek Seleucid Empire. It tells ... , the book was included as scripture in the Greek Septuagint translation of ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 06:32, 13 June 2023
- by Constantine I on the site of an earlier Greek city, it later served as ... The name Bosporus comes from the Greek word Bosporos (Βόσπορος ...18 KB (2,647 words) - 14:59, 9 February 2022
- Hades (from Greek ᾍδης , Haidēs, originally Ἅιδης ... , Aidēs) refers to both the ancient Greek underworld and to the deity ...23 KB (3,693 words) - 16:36, 21 January 2024
- in what is now northern Sudan. While the ancient kingdoms of Nubia had changing ... historical research into the Nubian language group has indicated that ...24 KB (3,779 words) - 10:09, 11 March 2023
- The word "Eucharist" comes from the Greek noun ... * "Eucharist" (from Greek Εὐχαριστία ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 04:40, 22 March 2024
- (basic significant sounds) of the spoken language. This is in contrast to ... A true alphabet has letters for the vowels of a language as well as ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- Asclepius (Greek Άσκληπιός was the god of medicine and healing in ancient Greek mythology. Asclepius ...21 KB (3,342 words) - 03:52, 18 August 2023
- name when in liturgical use. In everyday language, the word Hashem ("The ... seven names for the deity over which the ancient scribes were instructed ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 01:12, 11 November 2022
- Ptolemy I Soter (Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Σωτήρ ... library, sadly destroyed. The synthesis of Greek and Egyptian customs, beliefs ...22 KB (3,249 words) - 23:34, 2 December 2022
- Arabic translations of the works of the Greek philosophers, and his commentaries ... and kalam (speculative theology), and the Greek and Syraic languages. He ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 04:13, 17 June 2023
- The word coffin is derived from the Greek word kophinos meaning “basket ... sealed their dead in clay containers. Ancient Egyptian practices used ...11 KB (1,709 words) - 22:26, 7 January 2024
- Aeschines Socraticus (c. 425 – c. 350 B.C.E.) (Greek: ... this dialogue that had been lost since ancient times. In the dialogue, ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 05:49, 16 June 2023
- Many figures in the ancient world used the phrase "Son of God ... In Greek, the term huios theou was applied to both. Marcus J. Borg ...22 KB (3,158 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- the Lesser Genesis (Leptogenesis), is an ancient Jewish religious work that ... of Jubilees were fragmentary quotations in Greek (in a work by Epiphanius ...13 KB (2,033 words) - 20:40, 4 October 2022
- Calligraphy (from the Greek meaning κάλλος kallos "beauty" + ... the world and whose origins date back to ancient times. A contemporary definition ...19 KB (2,750 words) - 18:29, 25 November 2023
- The Latin term together with Greek τύρσις was loaned from a ... to the Mesopotamian god Marduk in the ancient city of Babylon. ...15 KB (2,136 words) - 16:19, 29 April 2024
- The Wisdom of Ben Sira was translated into Greek by Jesus ben Sira's ... Septuagint, the second century B.C.E. Greek version of the Jewish scriptures ...16 KB (2,553 words) - 09:06, 27 September 2023
- The book is believed to have been written in Greek, but in a style ... as Ramban attests. That it was known to ancient Jews as well is also true ...11 KB (1,829 words) - 18:44, 20 November 2023
- vegetation, with various Hittite, Phrygian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman ... however, many finely preserved remains of Greek, Roman and Byzantine architecture ...15 KB (2,370 words) - 06:36, 28 July 2023
- e. – August 12, 30 b.c.e.) was queen of Ancient Egypt, the last member of ... power for her own sake but to protect the ancient autonomy of her state. As ...20 KB (3,144 words) - 22:04, 7 January 2024
- and related structures in the mouth is an ancient one, with writing references ... *Endodontics. Endodontics, from the Greek endo (inside) and odons ...16 KB (2,245 words) - 16:53, 26 September 2020
- Psalms (Greek: Psalmoi) is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian ... Psalms in their current form could be that ancient. They represent widely varied ...21 KB (3,276 words) - 00:29, 19 November 2023
- The term sophists originally meant “wise men” in Ancient Greece ... The meaning of the word sophist (greek sophistes meaning "wise ...11 KB (1,583 words) - 01:17, 4 February 2023
- The alleged existence of an ancient text, dubbed the "Q Document ... called the Synoptic Gospels (from Greek synoptic, meaning "seeing ...19 KB (2,974 words) - 03:59, 7 December 2022
- short time, Isidore mastered Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. It is not known ... had been in full control of Spain, and the ancient institutions and classic ...18 KB (2,717 words) - 06:05, 8 March 2024
- Hypatia of Alexandria (in Greek: Υπατία) (c. 370 C.E. – 415 ... The Suda, a tenth-century Byzantine Greek encyclopedia of the ancient ...11 KB (1,782 words) - 16:39, 10 February 2024
- Gandhāra is the name of an ancient, extinct kingdom once located ... Gandhara became renowned for its fusion of Greek and Buddhist culture, which ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 18:46, 4 December 2023
- opinion. The term paradox comes from the Greek para ("contrary to" ... in the late Latin paradoxum and the related Greek παράδοξος paradoxos ...14 KB (2,272 words) - 07:43, 18 November 2022
- two days ferreting among the geniza's ancient books and papers until the ... scroll of the Book of Ezra and a few other ancient manuscripts. Adler was informed ...14 KB (2,072 words) - 18:19, 25 November 2023
- such as these are characteristic of ancient biographies. ... some respects from traditional or Homeric Greek epic, though Apollonius certainly ...10 KB (1,538 words) - 15:46, 11 August 2023
- Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient ... dye Tyrian purple. The dye was used in ancient textile trade, and highly ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- and sought to restore Attic purity to the Greek language. He was a devoted ... and sought to restore Attic purity to the Greek language which had been modified ...8 KB (1,270 words) - 17:58, 30 April 2023
- aspect it bears similarity to the Gorgons of Greek mythology. of the devil or Satan as the "ancient serpent" in the Garden ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 11:07, 20 September 2023
- Greek Ἱεριχώ = Ἱερή ἠχώ, Hierē ēchō (Holy echo ... An ancient synagogue was discovered in Jericho in 1936. It has been ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 02:27, 1 August 2022
- a thousand years, until 393 C.E.. The Greek games were one of the splendors ... Greek philanthropist Evangelos Zappas sponsored the first modern international ...28 KB (4,253 words) - 00:34, 18 November 2022
- In Greek mythology, Demeter (Greek: "mother-earth" or possibly ... reveal the span of her functions in Greek life. Demeter and Kore ( ...20 KB (3,054 words) - 09:24, 28 January 2024
- Fables, whether ancient or modern, have been used to satirize social ... Aesop's Fables feature most of the Greek pantheon, including Zeus ...17 KB (2,635 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- any foreigner of a different culture and language background. While it did ... "barbar." The word comes from the Greek language, and was used to ...20 KB (3,041 words) - 22:32, 10 February 2023
- of Judaism, named after King David of ancient Israel, which consists of ... (or "Dalet," in Hebrew). In ancient times, this letter was written ...12 KB (2,021 words) - 19:53, 9 February 2023
- The name has existed since antiquity; in the Latin of the Romans ... tourist attractions. It was used by the ancient Romans to transport goods ...13 KB (2,044 words) - 06:18, 15 June 2023
- According to Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman ever created ... In a major departure from Hesiod, the seventh-century Greek elegiac ...20 KB (3,287 words) - 06:35, 18 November 2022
- region including Armenia since ancient times. a dip, or made into a liqueur for popular Greek sweets. ...26 KB (3,898 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- Semitic goddess who was also worshiped in ancient Egypt. In Ugaritic her name ... is also associated with several deities of Greek and Roman mythology, especially ...17 KB (2,817 words) - 19:01, 26 July 2023
- the Old Testament was translated into the Greek it meant the word "dragon ... Such sea creatures are common to nearly all the ancient civilizations ...15 KB (2,465 words) - 22:16, 25 October 2022
- Latin, in turn from Latin thesaurus, from ancient Greek ... such as medical help book, foreign language phrase handbook, and others ...11 KB (1,593 words) - 18:31, 30 April 2023
- goddess, one of the major deities of ancient Sumer. Also known as Nintu ... of confusion, however, is not unusual in ancient Mesopotamian mythology, ...14 KB (2,349 words) - 04:51, 15 November 2022
- ninth century, Arab astronomers used the Greek superlative term Megiste ... reason for studying mathematics. In the ancient period, "philosophy ...20 KB (3,023 words) - 17:01, 22 December 2022
- #039;s, were written in imitation of ancient Greek literature; but as ... was one of the first poets in the German language to do away completely with ...14 KB (2,228 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- It is in principle the representation of language, rather than images of thought ... beyond those carried out by spoken language. First invented by the early ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
- of individual tribes. Some of these ancient tribes were Gaetulians, ... themselves as Berber. However the Berber language is spoken by an estimated ...26 KB (3,865 words) - 10:59, 28 September 2023
- was educated by John Locke, and studied the Greek and Roman classics. its (often quite rationalist) sources in ancient Greece. Perhaps most illustrative ...11 KB (1,695 words) - 05:22, 31 July 2023
- (Sahidic). This word is in turn derived from the Greek word ... The Greek term for "Egypt" has a long history. It goes back ...27 KB (4,022 words) - 03:00, 8 January 2024
- Aristophanes (Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης ) (c. 446 B.C.E. – c. 388 B.C.E.) was a Greek dramatist of the Old ...16 KB (2,554 words) - 06:29, 12 August 2023
- The first distinction between continents was made by ancient Greek ... Ancient Greek thinkers subsequently debated whether Africa (then called ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 19:07, 19 May 2020
- century, new Latin translations from Greek and from Arabic commentaries ... Aristotelianism has made an indelible contribution to the language ...18 KB (2,450 words) - 06:29, 12 August 2023
- hamsa (feminine hamsii), Latin anser, Greek khén, and so forth. ... dates as far back as 2500 B.C.E., when the ancient Egyptians began keeping ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 01:17, 5 March 2021
- the two Councils, as given in the original Greek language on the Web site ... phrase in the Latin text that is not in the Greek of the Councils: "Deum ...31 KB (3,964 words) - 09:44, 11 March 2023
- Atlantis (Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος mentioned and described by the classical Greek philosopher Plato in the ...22 KB (3,236 words) - 06:23, 21 August 2023
- considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and was so popular ... it on the list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. This does not, however ...19 KB (2,845 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
- Successor" or "diadochos" (Greek Πρόκλος ὁ Διάδοχος ... His works influenced later Christian (Greek and Latin), Islamic, and ...21 KB (3,257 words) - 23:05, 30 November 2022
- Wrestling made a name for itself while history was still young in ... === Ancient === [[Image:Jacob-angel.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Jacob Wrestling ...26 KB (4,025 words) - 01:00, 17 April 2023
- some of great significance, between ancient manuscripts of the Torah ... #039;s voluminous works, he uses Semitic language etymology and translations ...15 KB (2,395 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- transcend barriers of culture, faith and language at a time when the world ... served to preserve them for posterity. An ancient source is Diogenes of Oenoanda ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- with the end of the long tradition of Greek philosophy and the beginning ... of philosophy, to mark the end of the Greek tradition of philosophy and ...10 KB (1,407 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- to present day Ethiopia, this was an ancient African civilization that ... in the Aksumite empire, and in other ancient African civilizations, as ...22 KB (3,389 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- The lyric was originally verse to accompany the lyre. In Ancient Greece ... Ancient Hebrew poetry relied on repetition, alliteration, and chiasmus ...22 KB (3,069 words) - 23:36, 26 July 2021
- A dictionary is basically a list words in a specific language, with ... a valuable source of information about a language, allowing members of the ...22 KB (3,268 words) - 14:12, 29 January 2024
- Druid denotes the priestly class in ancient Celtic societies, which ... (Δρυΐδαι) are found on the works of Greek writers such as Sotion of ...19 KB (2,969 words) - 09:43, 15 January 2023
- Saint Photius, or Saint Photius the Great (Greek: Φώτιος, Phōtios ... or Bibliothēkē, a compendium of Greek literature, which ultimately ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 00:51, 23 December 2022
- that ravaged the city-state of Athens in ancient Greece in 430 B.C.E., during ... through Egypt and Libya, and then to the Greek world. It is believed to ...19 KB (2,851 words) - 07:48, 24 November 2022
- Telepathy (from the Greek tele (distant) and patheia (feeling)) is ... few accounts of telepathy recorded by any ancient cultures. Primitive and ...13 KB (1,892 words) - 05:34, 27 February 2023
- name, "Black Sea," including Greek Mavre Thalassa (Μαύρη ... was called "inhospitable" before Greek colonization because it was ...25 KB (3,749 words) - 18:07, 31 October 2023
- in Dorsetshire, and achieved a command of Greek and Latin and was acquainted ... tutor, where he excelled in classical Greek literature. His talents being ...22 KB (3,415 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
- #039;s name in Assyrian was Udumi; in Greek, Ἰδουμαία (Idoumaía ... was the Wadi Zered (Deut. 2:13-18). The ancient capital of Edom was Bozrah ...18 KB (2,821 words) - 21:09, 8 August 2023
- Orpheus (Greek: Ορφεύς; pronunciation: ohr'-fee-uhs) ... is a figure from Greek mythology called by Pindar "the minstrel ...19 KB (3,011 words) - 02:17, 18 November 2022
- the remains of the dead. Derived from the Greek tymbos, meaning "burial ... The early nineteenth century introduced the Greek Revival monuments ...18 KB (2,713 words) - 03:55, 1 May 2023
- Apollonius of Tyana (Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Τυανεύς ; ca. 1 – 97 C.E.) was a Greek neo-Pythagorean philosopher, ascetic ...13 KB (2,013 words) - 15:49, 11 August 2023
- Commedia dell'arte appeal to the masses, without regard for language ... be traced even further back, as far as the Ancient Greek and Roman theater. ...16 KB (2,341 words) - 00:08, 8 January 2024
- Dagon was an ancient northwest Semitic god worshiped by the early ... writer Sanchuniathon translated Dagon into Greek as Siton, again meaning ...11 KB (1,786 words) - 07:45, 12 January 2024
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Epicurus (Epikouros or Ἐπίκουρος in Greek) (341 B.C.E. – ... he was highly critical of Epicureanism. An ancient source is Diogenes of Oenoanda ...19 KB (3,054 words) - 19:07, 13 February 2024
- Homer (Greek Όμηρος, Homeros) was a legendary early Greek poet ... doubt. Homer is tentatively located in the Greek archaic period, c. 750 B ...27 KB (4,051 words) - 17:08, 14 November 2021
- as some lineages can be traced far back to ancient times. Some Arabs claim ... speak one of the early forms of Arabic language or its predecessors, however ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- Due to textual analysis for features of dialect and Greek loan words ... when it was found among a mixed group of Greek and Coptic manuscripts offered ...24 KB (3,824 words) - 19:38, 8 June 2023
- locusts" in imitation of the Greek pseud(o)acris, a scientific ... controversially in English translations of Ancient Greek and Latin natural ...14 KB (2,045 words) - 07:50, 9 March 2023
- A word is a basic element of language that carries an objective or ... a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of language that has a meaning, even ...33 KB (4,842 words) - 20:11, 25 February 2023
- The term "Apocalypse" is from the Greek word for "revelation ... the Babylonian Exile rather than the more ancient Isaiah of Jerusalem. ...16 KB (2,523 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- proper names, "el" is found in ancient Aramaic, Arabic, and Ethiopic ... In ancient Canaanite inscriptions, El is often called Tôru ‘Ēl ...20 KB (3,357 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- et al. 2001). Specifically analogical language comprises exemplification ... In ancient Greek the word αναλογια (analogia) originally ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 18:56, 26 July 2023
- Babylonian demonology, and the even more ancient bloodsucking Akhkharu is ... Nearly every ancient culture considered blood to be sacred. It was ...26 KB (4,074 words) - 01:36, 18 April 2023
- The term polygyny (neo-Greek: poly+gyne woman) is used in related ... within any society. It was accepted in ancient Hebrew society, in classical ...15 KB (2,204 words) - 08:44, 24 November 2022
- Its original texts were written in Koine Greek by various authors ... of first and second-century Christian Greek Scriptures can be traced ...25 KB (3,826 words) - 16:33, 11 November 2022
- with respect to their meanings. Classical Greek had no independent word of ... between being and existence. The classical Greek equivalent of the English ...25 KB (3,698 words) - 10:29, 26 September 2023
- sparagus. This term itself derives from the Greek aspharagos or asparagos, ... grass," thus showing convergent language evolution. ...14 KB (2,081 words) - 04:48, 18 August 2023
- story of Genesis 1, as well as the ancient Greek writer Hesiod's ... as Babylon’s superiority over other more ancient religious centers that worshiped ...15 KB (2,485 words) - 18:58, 13 February 2024
- Aphrodite (Greek: Ἀφροδίτη) is the ancient Greek goddess ... When Christianity swept over the Greek world, the worship of Aphrodite ...23 KB (3,678 words) - 06:01, 11 August 2023
- is found in Qí mín yào shù, an ancient Chinese agricultural treatise ... the Italian melanzane alla parmigiana, the Greek moussaka, and Middle-Eastern ...16 KB (2,414 words) - 23:58, 12 February 2024
- Cyanobacteria (Greek: κυανόs (kyanós) = blue + bacterium) is ... about 3.8 billion years (Precambrian). Ancient cyanobacteria likely produced ...12 KB (1,656 words) - 17:46, 12 May 2020
- The ancient African civilization of Axum flourished for over a thousand ... The kingdom of Aksum had its own written language called Ge'ez ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 07:23, 23 August 2023
- The Greek historian Herodotus, who wrote his Histories ca. 450 B.C.E., also speaks of a divinely-appointed disaster destroying an army of Sennacherib ...9 KB (1,470 words) - 09:47, 26 January 2023
- Diophantus of Alexandria (Greek: Διόφαντος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύ ... E. Most scholars consider Diophantus to have been a Greek, ...16 KB (2,463 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- sports. The name is derived from the Greek word "athlon" meaning ... Europe. Later, The Roman Games stressed the Greek sports of chariot racing ...27 KB (4,185 words) - 05:55, 21 August 2023
- Books IV-X were found in 1842 by the Greek Minoides Mynas, without the ... whose name means "loose horse" in Greek, had been dragged to death ...13 KB (2,034 words) - 15:50, 25 January 2023
- Pantheism (from Greek: pan = all, and theos = God) refers to the religious ... discussed as long ago as the time of the Ancient Greek philosophers, they ...28 KB (4,312 words) - 06:37, 18 November 2022
- Euripides (Greek: Ευριπίδης) (c. 480 – 406 B.C.E.) was ... heroes and demigods that had dominated ancient Greek literature prior to ...22 KB (3,638 words) - 04:28, 23 March 2024
- Theogony (Greek: Θεογονία, theogonia=the birth of Gods) is ... Although the text is often used as a sourcebook for Greek mythology ...19 KB (3,043 words) - 18:20, 30 April 2023
- 10,000 years and played a role in the ancient history of both southern ... However, underlying tensions between Greek and Turkish residents soon ...33 KB (4,886 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- planets. It is named after Uranus, the Greek god of the sky and progenitor ... Uranus was the personification of heaven in Greek mythology, dominated by the ...17 KB (2,530 words) - 13:36, 3 May 2023
- The Gospel of Mark is an ancient koine Greek document that describes ... area. Mark uses Latin versions of Greek words in 6:27, 7:4, 12:42 ...15 KB (2,392 words) - 20:38, 17 May 2023
- Beginning with the ancient Greeks, European cultures associate wisdom ... Hypothesis Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom. New York: Basic ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 23:18, 17 May 2023
- In Greek mythology, Athena (Greek: Άθηνά , Athēnâ, or ... , Athénē; Latin: Minerva) was a multifaceted Greek goddess whose ...30 KB (4,535 words) - 18:52, 19 August 2023
- into Western (Latin) and Eastern (Greek) branches, which then became ... and it was officially regarded as an "ancient custom" by the Council ...19 KB (2,956 words) - 07:37, 4 January 2024
- Naming the diverse organisms in nature is an ancient act, even referenced ... depending on the location and local language. For example, the "moose ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:46, 11 January 2023
- a prominent city of the Roman Empire. The ancient city's most famous ... the same history that befell much of the ancient world: that of one empire ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 21:59, 25 October 2022
- Astronomy (Greek: αστρονομία = άστρον + νόμος ... methodology existing at the time of Ancient Greece and advanced observation ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 18:26, 19 August 2023
- the culture and way of life of a people of ancient Italy whom ancient Romans ... culture that was influenced by Greek traders and Greek neighbors ...35 KB (5,526 words) - 04:38, 22 March 2024
- greatest and most beautiful city of all Ancient Greece. ... into the population, were tribes known to ancient Greek writers as the Elymians ...33 KB (4,988 words) - 11:46, 1 February 2024
- adopted local Canaanite culture and language before leaving any written ... In Ancient Egypt, a people called the Peleset, generally identified ...22 KB (3,372 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- Bible whose title is derived from the Greek transliteration of the Hebrew ... title of the book has been derived from the Greek term Εκκλησία (ecclesia ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
- The word Magi refers to a class of ancient Zoroastrian astrologer ... Magi is a transliteration of the Greek magos (μαγος pl. μαγοι ...20 KB (3,254 words) - 04:59, 5 November 2022
- Zoroaster (Greek Ζωροάστρης, Zōroastrēs) or Zarathushtra ... ), was an ancient Iranian prophet and the founder of Zoroastrianism ...25 KB (3,791 words) - 06:11, 13 June 2023
- Polytheism (from the Greek: polus, many, and theos, god) refers to ... or father of the pantheon, including the Greek Zeus, the Norse Odin and ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. This complex of ancient monuments is located some ... on the planet, and the last member of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World ...33 KB (5,140 words) - 03:38, 7 December 2022
- *In the Greek alphabet, ε (epsilon) has numerical value of 5. ... the Five Books of Moses, the Pentateuch (Greek for "five containers ...21 KB (2,981 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
- was written about 170 C.E., probably in Greek, although some regard it as later. ... which he holds to have been written by the ancient king and his associates. ...13 KB (2,046 words) - 18:59, 10 November 2022
- The Matenadaran or Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan ... and other centers of learning to study the Greek language and bring back the ...39 KB (5,646 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- . They can influence the rhythm of a language, its prosody, its poetic ... French sillabe, from Latin syllaba, from Koine Greek grc|συλλαβή ...43 KB (6,361 words) - 16:51, 25 February 2023
- The Gospel of Matthew (literally, "according to Matthew"; ... ascribed to Matthew as was common in the ancient world. According to the ...26 KB (3,813 words) - 14:10, 30 December 2022
- Mechanics (from the Greek term Μηχανική discipline, which has its roots in several ancient civilizations, is now subdivided ...11 KB (1,457 words) - 03:51, 9 November 2022
- the classics, including Plato and other Greek philosophers, under Richard ... From 1871 to 1881, Bosanquet taught ancient history and philosophy at ...16 KB (2,361 words) - 11:19, 28 September 2023
- origin of the Indo-Aryan's, a mix of language analysis, DNA tracing, review ... The linguistic center of gravity principle states that a language ...26 KB (3,877 words) - 22:31, 5 February 2023
- India, is a town on the site of an ancient forest believed to have ... The ancient name of the city, "Brindaban," was named after ...13 KB (1,859 words) - 21:50, 3 May 2023
- The term diaspora (in Ancient Greek, διασπορά – "a ... settle elsewhere during the periods of the Greek and Roman empires. Major ...16 KB (2,452 words) - 11:56, 29 January 2024
- The Sunga Empire's wars with the Indo-Greek Kingdom figure greatly ... Kālidāsa which describes a battle between Greek cavalrymen and Vasumitra ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:32, 26 February 2023
- Archimedes (Greek: Ἀρχιμήδης ) (c. 287 B.C.E. –212 B.C.E.) was an ancient Greek mathematician ...30 KB (4,881 words) - 06:19, 12 August 2023
- Trigonometry (from Greek Τριγωνομετρία "tri = three ... The origins of trigonometry can be traced to the civilizations of ...19 KB (2,702 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- Plotinus (Greek: Πλωτίνος)(ca. 205–270), the ancient philosopher, is widely considered the father of Neoplatonism. Plotinus' philosophy ...12 KB (1,813 words) - 08:05, 24 November 2022
- in the West, to distinguish it from other ancient Eastern churches. However ... believed that Christ was indeed one person (Greek: prosopon). ...19 KB (2,813 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- that she was inspired by the example of the ancient Greeks and Romans to create something that would be both entertaining and morally instructive ...12 KB (1,973 words) - 04:15, 6 November 2022
- holos, a Greek word meaning all, entire, total) is the idea that all ... diverse disciplines throughout history. Ancient Greek philosophers, for ...23 KB (3,318 words) - 16:10, 25 January 2023
- Caiaphas (Greek Καϊάφας) was the Roman-appointed Jewish high ... and considerable political power in ancient Israel. Traditionally originating ...15 KB (2,468 words) - 18:17, 25 November 2023
- Philolaus (ca. 470 B.C.E. – ca. 385 B.C.E., Greek: Φιλόλαος ... Philolaus spoke and wrote in a Greek Doric dialect. There are two ...14 KB (2,121 words) - 04:13, 24 November 2022
- harp, the aeolian harp originated in ancient Greece. The instrument was ... The aeolian harp takes its name from the Greek god of the wind, Aeolus ...11 KB (1,668 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- history. Ashoka claims to have won several Greek kings of the third century ... The ancient practice of inscribing cave walls or stone monuments to ...36 KB (5,521 words) - 22:01, 4 February 2023
- the design of which originated in Ancient Rome. The word now refers ... The word catacomb derives from the Greek κατα ("down" ...16 KB (2,439 words) - 14:27, 29 November 2023
- shower. The root word meteor comes from the Greek meteōros, meaning "high ... fireball). The word bolide comes from the Greek βολις (bolis), which ...13 KB (2,001 words) - 16:25, 9 November 2022
- Semantics (Greek semantikos, giving signs, significant, symptomatic ... in linguistics and philosophy of language, the general natures of ...13 KB (1,868 words) - 17:49, 25 January 2023
- A museum (from the Greek mouseion, which denotes a place or temple ... quot;). It is originally from the Greek mouseion, which denotes a ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- "petra-πέτρα," cleft in the rock in Greek; Arabic: ... The ancient city sits in the Negev Desert's Valley of Moses, ...24 KB (3,829 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
- In ancient Greece and Rome, oratory was studied as a component of ... In ancient Rome, the art of speaking in public (Ars Oratoria) was ...27 KB (4,174 words) - 10:41, 11 March 2023
- Thucydides (c. 460 B.C.E. - c. 400 B.C.E.), Greek Θουκυδίδης ... #039; life comes from later, less reliable ancient sources. According to Pausanias ...24 KB (3,705 words) - 22:51, 5 May 2023
- It offers a window into the world view of ancient culture, as well as the ... the importance of spiritual knowledge (Greek: gnosis) and was found among ...20 KB (3,346 words) - 20:09, 11 September 2021
- An allegory (from Greek αλλος, allos, "other," and ... drew from the cultural legacies of the ancient world in shaping their institutions ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 18:26, 21 July 2023
- In the past, subjects such as Latin and Greek were emphasized. Four distinct ... there was a strong demand to learn the language. Schools were set up to ...25 KB (3,841 words) - 12:15, 24 January 2023
- , Bayrūt, Greek: Βηρυττός Viryttós, Beyrouth first mention of the city is found in the ancient Egyptian Tell el Amarna ...27 KB (4,043 words) - 18:41, 11 January 2023
- saw the formation of various kingdoms of ancient India. In its late phase ... of development. The possibility that the ancient world was a more inter-connected ...25 KB (3,858 words) - 14:44, 3 May 2023
- “mumia,” this process was practiced in ancient Egypt upon the higher ranked ... and what comes after it. Some, like the ancient Egyptians, believe in an ...24 KB (3,616 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2023
- in Alfred Jules Ayer's book, Language, Truth, and Logic. influential in the philosophy of language and represented the dominant ...13 KB (1,922 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- Amun (also spelled Amon, Amen; Greek: Ἄμμων Ammon, and Ἅμμων ... The worldview engendered by ancient Egyptian religion was uniquely ...27 KB (4,283 words) - 17:27, 26 July 2023
- point of the prophetic literature of ancient Israel. It is best known ... versions of the book. The Septuagint (Greek or 'LXX') version ...14 KB (2,273 words) - 19:59, 27 June 2023
- He has written extensively about the relationship between language ... would often "begin a sentence in one language and end it in another." ...21 KB (2,963 words) - 08:15, 23 January 2023
- years there (1314–1320). There he learned Greek, gained an understanding ... took over sovereignty on Mt. Athos and the Greek archbishoprics under the ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 05:59, 5 October 2022
- time), Manichaeism once flourished in the ancient world. At its height, the ... always been quotations and descriptions in Greek and Arabic, as well as the ...22 KB (3,392 words) - 11:06, 9 March 2023
- Cranganore (believed to be the ancient Muziris of Pliny, and the ... In the ancient times it was called "Muziris" in Latin and ...27 KB (3,937 words) - 22:35, 11 January 2024
- Cartography or mapmaking (in Greek chartis - map and graphein - write ... carta meaning card and -graphie, from the Greek, meaning to write, or to draw. ...27 KB (4,007 words) - 00:45, 29 November 2023
- of nutrition, that is of hunger. Everyday language possesses no counterpart ... Freud identified libido as the energy associated with eros. In ancient ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 11:03, 7 March 2023
- shambe, Spanish and Portuguese Sábado, the Greek Savato, the Russian "subbota ... so important that the punishment given in ancient times for desecrating Shabbat ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 18:30, 22 December 2022
- Saqqarah, Saqqara or Sakkara (Arabic: سقارة) is a vast, ancient ... understanding of the civilization of Ancient Egypt, so significant in ...17 KB (2,687 words) - 00:23, 8 November 2023
- The Minoans (Greek: Μυκηναίοι; Μινωίτες) were a pre ... Greek civilization and myth would draw on that of the Minoans. Archeology ...35 KB (5,383 words) - 18:52, 9 November 2022
- The belief in powerful and benevolent spiritual beings is an ancient ... An angel (from Greek: ἄγγελος, ángelos, meaning "messenger ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 05:15, 17 July 2022
- A problem of great interest to Indian mathematicians since ancient ... were considered extensively in the ancient Vedic text Sulba Sutras ...23 KB (3,364 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
- Nestorius, in Greek, Νεστόριος (c. 386 – c. 451 C.E.) was ... in the West, to distinguish it from other ancient Eastern churches. However ...12 KB (1,909 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- and folklore has been compared to that of ancient Greece, but they are much ... might derive from the direct descendants of Greek settlers, or of members of ...33 KB (5,027 words) - 17:07, 14 May 2024
- to the east. The name derives from the Greek Kallipolis, meaning "Beautiful ... The peninsula and the strait, which was known in ancient times as ...15 KB (2,333 words) - 07:43, 23 January 2023
- often begin with hemo- or hemato- from the Greek word for blood (haima). The ... ===Blood in ancient medicine=== Hippocratic medicine considered blood ...16 KB (2,426 words) - 18:13, 31 October 2023
- Synthesis (from ancient Greek σύνθεσις , σύν (with) and θεσις, placing) is commonly understood to be an integration of two or ...11 KB (1,635 words) - 01:58, 27 February 2023
- Athens (ancient Greek: αἱ Ἀθῆναι (plural), evolving into ... Today, the Greek capital is Europe's 8th largest conurbation ...45 KB (6,393 words) - 18:55, 19 August 2023
- of elephants (the word is ultimately from Ancient Egyptian âb, âbu, meaning ... Carving of tusks is an ancient art. Mammoth tusks were carved by Paleolithic ...12 KB (1,807 words) - 03:52, 13 March 2024
- with respect to its inner harmony. In the ancient Greek and medieval periods ... (telos) of human life, or in popular language, the meaning of life. Plato ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 20:38, 3 May 2023
- The Parthenon (Παρθενώνας) is a temple of the Greek goddess ... of the Parthenon Christopher Pelling. Greek Tragedy and the Historian ...33 KB (4,981 words) - 18:45, 23 March 2023
- quot; Lithuanian antis = "duck," Ancient Greek νησσα, νηττα ... dates as far back as 2500 B.C.E., when the ancient Egyptians began keeping ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 17:18, 12 February 2024
- facilitated the acquisition of copies of Greek and Latin authors for translation ... cold, moist and dry, in addition to the ancient Greek categories or elements ...16 KB (2,525 words) - 08:37, 13 March 2024
- In ancient times, astronomers noted how certain lights moved across ... Roman (or Latin) names rather than the Greek. The Romans, who, like the ...37 KB (5,416 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- The English word eunuch is from the Greek eune ("bed") and ... In ancient China, castration was both a traditional punishment (until ...18 KB (2,792 words) - 18:55, 11 September 2023
- Vico’s recovery of ancient wisdom, his emphasis on the importance ... subsequent formative ages, including early Greek, Roman, and European civilizations ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 20:24, 14 December 2023
- the archaeological site of Kuyunjik (then ancient Nineveh, capital of Assyria ... The ancient libraries were actually comprised of several smaller collections ...22 KB (3,301 words) - 00:41, 12 April 2023
- Isis was a goddess in ancient Egyptian mythology, often worshiped ... and Egyptologists to approach the ancient Egyptian tradition ...32 KB (5,200 words) - 06:08, 8 March 2024
- The word atomism derives from the ancient Greek word atomos, which ... atoms. This was the case for the Greek theories of atomism. Indian ...37 KB (5,618 words) - 06:58, 21 August 2023
- Judah thus marks this transition from the era of the ancient Mishnaic ... texts, his studies certainly included Greek. He is reported to have held ...16 KB (2,573 words) - 08:34, 12 May 2024
- ) were two Byzantine Greek Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ... to transcribe the Old Church Slavonic language. The Cyrillic alphabet, ...33 KB (4,701 words) - 20:51, 17 April 2023
- paintings, rare watches, furniture, and Greek and Roman art. In his collection ... building in California was a replica of an ancient Roman villa of the Papyri ...17 KB (2,774 words) - 08:23, 13 March 2024
- Aspasia (c. 470 B.C.E. - 400 B.C.E.) Greek: Ἀσπασία ) was a woman rhetorician and philosopher in ancient Greece, famous ...30 KB (4,572 words) - 04:50, 18 August 2023
- the origin of the 9 integers can be traced to the ancient Indian civilization ... * In the Rich Text Format specification, 9 is the language code for ...22 KB (2,900 words) - 06:48, 13 June 2023
- a person went by both a Hebrew name and a Greek name. The later Christian ... probably did not write it. It appears that Greek, not Hebrew or Aramaic, was ...15 KB (2,288 words) - 00:47, 23 December 2022
- much knowledge, and treasure to Europe. Ancient Egypt captured the European ... and took the Rosetta Stone with its Greek and Egyptian script back ...11 KB (1,626 words) - 04:44, 11 January 2023
- The Gospel of Luke (literally, according to Luke; Greek, Κατά ... Like the rest of the New Testament, the gospel was written in Greek ...37 KB (5,253 words) - 12:12, 24 January 2023
- notion of Heaven. Instead, Asgard, like the Greek Mount Olympus, was seen as ... the city of the gods with the Troy of Greek mythology: : Next they ...19 KB (3,050 words) - 03:59, 18 August 2023
- In historical artifacts discovered in the ancient ruins of Babylon ... The name Cyrus is a Latin transliteration of the Greek language, which ...22 KB (3,584 words) - 07:28, 12 January 2024
- Pontiff") was the high priest of the Ancient Roman College of Pontiffs ... was the most important priesthood of ancient Rome. The foundation of ...31 KB (4,749 words) - 00:22, 12 April 2023
- Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally ... are ultimately derived from the earlier Greek Septuagint collection of ...62 KB (8,829 words) - 16:26, 30 January 2024
- The term Greek mythology refers to the collection of tales belonging ... Greek mythology has exercised an extensive and profound influence ...45 KB (6,635 words) - 21:31, 12 July 2023
- the revision of the Russian literary language, and several important scientific ... he obtained admission into the Slavic Greek Latin Academy. There his ...9 KB (1,383 words) - 17:53, 9 November 2022
- An epidemic (from the Greek epi- ("upon") and demos ("people ... The word epidemic comes from the Greek epi- ("upon") and ...22 KB (3,244 words) - 14:30, 11 February 2022
- unusual for a woman in male-dominated ancient Greece. The Delphic oracle ... prestigious and authoritative oracle in the Greek world. ...24 KB (3,809 words) - 21:08, 14 April 2023
- days of the kings of Judah"). In the Greek Septuagint version (LXX) ... Can Tell Us About the Reality of Ancient Israel. Wm. B. Eerdmans ...18 KB (2,889 words) - 21:52, 10 December 2023
- The term phrenology comes from a combination of the Greek words φρήν ... characteristics with parts of the body: the Greek philosopher Aristotle attempted ...15 KB (2,198 words) - 05:06, 24 November 2022
- and especially the morality play. While ancient theater was re-introduced ... tradition by reflecting the elevated language and manners of fashionable ...12 KB (1,723 words) - 05:20, 24 November 2022
- Prehistory (Greek words προ = before and ιστορία = history ... paleontology and archeology—the study of ancient life through fossils and ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 11:30, 26 June 2022
- Bibliography (from Greek: βιβλιογραφία, bibliographia ... a common factor: This may be a topic, a language, a period, or some other ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 03:44, 1 October 2023
- to confuse the previously uniform language of humanity, thereby preventing ... 1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And ...34 KB (5,579 words) - 04:46, 1 May 2023
- it was considered scripture by several ancient Christian authorities, but ... text exists in two versions, one Koine Greek, another Ethiopic. The two ...14 KB (2,201 words) - 06:02, 11 August 2023
- quot; or "representation" in Greek. Both Plato and Aristotle ... Both Plato and Aristotle saw, in mimesis (Greek μίμησις), the ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- digit to come into use. In the English language, zero may also be called ... the Roman god of the west wind (after the Greek god Zephyros). With its new ...30 KB (4,810 words) - 06:25, 13 June 2023
- will (“he is beloved by Destiny”) as in Greek mythology, or that of some ... with mythology, especially that of Ancient Greece. The words has a ...22 KB (3,568 words) - 00:43, 25 March 2024
- is an academic creation that combines the Ancient Greek paleo, which refers ... worldwide seeking to make a discovery of ancient human remains. ...20 KB (2,921 words) - 11:00, 11 March 2023
- be interested solely in the medieval and ancient classics, Swinburne was ... to reproduce the tone and lyricism of ancient Greek drama in the English ...19 KB (3,190 words) - 21:27, 20 July 2023
- in the 1830s. Drawing on the works of Greek patristics, the poet Aleksey ... Their struggle for purity of the Russian language had something in common ...10 KB (1,426 words) - 07:38, 12 March 2024
- " meaning star-like (from the Greek asteroeides, aster "star ... a small, rural village that is home to the Ancient Echoes Interpretive Centre ...13 KB (1,978 words) - 10:59, 9 May 2023
- emphasizing its strategic position. The Greek name of the fortress, Laimokopia ... the city from the sea, comprising mostly Greek soldiers. ...20 KB (3,140 words) - 17:55, 16 May 2020
- term conventionally used to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire during ... thus leaving to the emperor in the Greek East sole imperial authority ...39 KB (5,978 words) - 19:13, 24 November 2023
- lack of understanding about the role of language in human thought. Herder ... and went further in this promotion of language than his earlier injunction ...18 KB (2,775 words) - 14:41, 1 August 2022
- Ancient Greece is the period in Greek history that lasted for around ... The civilization of the ancient Greeks has been immensely influential ...48 KB (7,639 words) - 12:24, 14 October 2023
- The Greek Ptolemaic dynasty, controlling the western and northern ... Myos Hormos and Berenice appear to have been important ancient trading ...21 KB (3,121 words) - 04:51, 16 December 2022
- powerful political and military empire in ancient India. Originating from ... defeated the invasion led by Seleucus I, a Greek general from Alexander's ...32 KB (4,663 words) - 00:50, 9 November 2022
- *In the ancient Roman calendar, Sextilis was the sixth month. After ... Hexa is Greek for "six." Thus: * A hexahedron is a polyhedron ...19 KB (2,695 words) - 06:47, 13 June 2023
- back as the fifteenth century B.C.E. An ancient Chinese city was named Ju ... century. Linnaeus named it from the Greek prefix chrys-, which means ...17 KB (2,581 words) - 21:54, 10 December 2023
- The word deacon is derived from the Greek word diakonos (διάκονος ... second half of the twentieth century. In ancient traditions, the diaconate ...20 KB (3,190 words) - 19:56, 22 May 2020
- Glossolalia (from Greek glossa γλώσσα "tongue, language ... "uttering intelligible words of a language unknown to the speaker, ...22 KB (3,243 words) - 16:54, 17 December 2022
- traditions, based on classical texts of ancient Greece and Rome, that was ... Pope is remembered for a number of the English language's best ...16 KB (2,637 words) - 14:35, 18 July 2023
- In Christianity, an Apostle (Greek: Ἀπόστολος apostolos: ... The word apostle comes from the Greek term ἀπόστολος ...30 KB (4,741 words) - 15:51, 11 August 2023
- Dionysus or Dionysos (from the Ancient Greek Διώνυσος or Διόνυσος ... Within the bulk of Greek mythology, Dionysus was described as the ...32 KB (5,115 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- canons. The word "Canon" from Greek kanon "rule" (perhaps ... interpretation, authority, translation, language, literacy, and even power ...38 KB (5,920 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- Electricity (from Greek ήλεκτρον (electron) "amber" ... The ancient Greeks and Parthians knew of static electricity from rubbing ...20 KB (2,998 words) - 15:53, 13 February 2024
- and Islam to Morocco and Ethiopia to ancient Jerusalem. In modern times ... exactly what the pentagram meant to ancient peoples due to the lack ...20 KB (3,104 words) - 07:21, 23 November 2022
- Naīnuwa), was the capital of the ancient Neo-Assyrian Empire. It ... First mentioned in ancient texts around 1800 B.C.E., Nineveh became ...21 KB (3,258 words) - 09:49, 11 March 2023
- In a general sense, skepticism or scepticism (Greek: skeptomai, to ... As a result, all forms of philosophy, ancient and modern, tend to present ...31 KB (4,697 words) - 22:44, 29 January 2023
- 2003. Retrieved August 23, 2011. It is an ancient and sacred ceremony of the ... prayers and songs are offered in the Lakota language. Those who have ...18 KB (2,798 words) - 14:18, 28 April 2023
- Justinian I (Latin: Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus, Greek: Ιουστ ... and the Swan, a play that managed to mock Greek mythology and Christian morality ...22 KB (3,355 words) - 21:25, 4 October 2022
- to all living things. While not using the language of rights, there are Biblical ... Some ancient Greek philosophers, such as Empedocles (495-435 B.C.E ...32 KB (4,972 words) - 06:14, 28 July 2023
- The Dialectic (Greek: διαλεκτική) is a line of thought, ... Expressed in everyday language, the idea of the dialectic implies ...34 KB (5,249 words) - 10:22, 29 January 2024
- at Syracuse in 733 B.C.E. Other important Greek colonies included Gela founded ... where the kings once enjoyed a vast park. Greek influence existed primarily ...34 KB (5,061 words) - 14:33, 27 January 2023
- Enlil appears frequently in ancient Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Canaanite ... According to ancient myths, heaven and earth were inseparable before ...12 KB (1,974 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- The term, which was spelled semeiotics (Greek: σημειωτικός ... We shall call it semiology (from the Greek semeîon, 'sign' ...23 KB (3,229 words) - 09:44, 26 January 2023
- The word astrology is derived from the Greek αστρολογία, from ... by its proponents to be a symbolic language, a form of art, a form of ...33 KB (4,705 words) - 18:24, 19 August 2023
- Apocrypha (from the Greek: ἀπόκρυφα , meaning "hidden" ... the Catholic Church, and are found in the ancient editions of the Latin Vulgate ...29 KB (4,388 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- of the Iranian plateau. Consequently in the Greek sources, the body of water ... channel apparently marks the course of the ancient extended Shatt al-Arab, ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 00:43, 24 November 2022
- Mythology (from the Greek μῦθος supernatural to interpret natural events. Ancient myths are generally founded ...26 KB (3,852 words) - 22:45, 10 November 2022
- back thousands of years. It draws from the ancient Biblical texts of Genesis ... transmission of the concepts and ideas of ancient Greek philosophers to early ...28 KB (4,179 words) - 03:01, 1 August 2022
- characters as abstract types derived from Greek and Roman models rather than ... having learned "Little Latin and less Greek," and his knowledge ...17 KB (2,769 words) - 09:06, 27 September 2023
- a religious and political movement within ancient Judaism that existed during ... and Sadducees—dated back to "very ancient times" (Ant. xviii ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 18:35, 22 December 2022
- nervous system; the term itself comes from the Greek grc|νεῦρον ... allied health professions such as speech-language pathology. Psychiatry is ...20 KB (2,815 words) - 04:35, 11 March 2023
- impact in Venice, where the remains of ancient Greek culture provided humanist ... and the resulting translations of Arabic-language works by the School of Salamanca ...32 KB (4,821 words) - 22:45, 22 September 2022
- The Indo-Greek Kingdom (or sometimes Graeco-Indian Kingdom covered ... Afghanistan). Since the term "Indo-Greek Kingdom" loosely describes ...61 KB (8,976 words) - 19:50, 4 March 2024
- Thyme has been used since ancient times for its culinary, medicinal, and even presumed magical qualities (Hanrahan and Odle 2005). Ancient Egyptians ...19 KB (2,939 words) - 23:15, 30 April 2023
- which served first as a shelter for ancient peoples and later as a fortress ... native city of Genoa, Italy. However, the ancient Ligurian language, which ...28 KB (4,097 words) - 23:17, 28 March 2024
- understanding of diverse traditions of ancient Greek, Latin, English, German ... in Suzhou, where he manifested his talent in language. ===College === ...22 KB (3,269 words) - 21:10, 14 April 2023
- In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo (Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων ... the Olympian deities and the patron of the ancient Oracle at Delphi, Apollo ...31 KB (4,788 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- known. He was well educated, fluent in both Greek and Latin, and a learned ... claim that Orosius' lack of fluency in Greek rendered him unconvincing ...24 KB (3,917 words) - 07:13, 23 November 2022
- who translated many important works of Greek and Arabic scholarship into ... of Ecclesiastes in his youth, to refute ancient skeptics who denied the ...21 KB (3,070 words) - 03:04, 23 December 2022
- Yam or Yamm, from the ancient Semitic word meaning "sea," ... In Greek mythology, the serpent-titan Typhon battled the storm god ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 10:06, 22 May 2023
- same means as scientific knowledge. The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle ... *Ayer, A.J. Language, Truth, and Logic. London: V. Gollancz, First ...14 KB (2,091 words) - 16:19, 9 November 2022
- is commonly used to refer the remains of ancient art and everyday items from ... Rugs. Retrieved April 30, 2007. Recovered Ancient Egyptian furniture includes ...16 KB (2,423 words) - 06:37, 31 July 2023
- a coalition of small city-states known in ancient times as Pentapolis. The ... Liberal theologians tend to emphasize the ancient rabbinical texts ...14 KB (2,337 words) - 22:02, 30 January 2023
- luck. It is composed of su- (cognate with Greek grc|ευ-, eu-), meaning ... since 1871, replacing gammadion (from Greek grc|γαμμάδιον). ...40 KB (5,959 words) - 00:36, 27 February 2023
- variety in musical expression. In the ancient cultures of China, Africa ... instruments to the Munda and Dravidian language-speaking cultures that first ...26 KB (3,752 words) - 21:15, 27 November 2021
- 17 years old he was elected King by the Greek National Assembly, which ... and insecure. George did much to bolster Greek pride and fostered a new ...30 KB (4,602 words) - 15:49, 10 November 2022
- Both spellings are said to derive from the Greek πνίγειν (pnigein) ... to mean "ore former" from the Greek chalcos "ore" and ...30 KB (4,368 words) - 00:41, 24 November 2022
- they have occurred historically, such as Ancient Greece, Persia and Rome ... name derives from this belief. Leo is the Greek and Latin word for lion ...20 KB (3,062 words) - 21:56, 25 October 2022
- a symbol of immortality since the time of Ancient Greece with even its Greek ... amaranth grain in Asia and the Americas. Ancient amaranth grains still used ...27 KB (3,937 words) - 00:49, 9 January 2023
- The term drama comes from a Greek word meaning "action" ... , dráma), which is derived from "to do" (Classical Greek: ...37 KB (5,637 words) - 17:32, 30 January 2024
- the words "The LORD" are used, ancient Hebrew manuscripts have ... of the Hebrew root "to be." The ancient epithet Yahweh tseva'ot ...25 KB (4,138 words) - 10:00, 22 May 2023
- grounds near the sites of the centers of ancient civilizations. Often times ... The word necropolis derives from Ancient Greek: nekro meaning dead ...26 KB (3,983 words) - 04:27, 11 March 2023
- , Okeanos (Oceanus) in Greek) is a major body of saline water, and ... Earth's oceans, joining and splitting ancient oceans to form the current ...25 KB (3,710 words) - 21:09, 17 April 2023
- fields of science. He was well versed in Greek medical knowledge and added ... RAI, old Persian RAGHA, Latin RHAGAE), an ancient town on the southern slopes ...24 KB (3,833 words) - 01:39, 8 December 2022
- of the clerical profession. Some classical Greek scholarship was lost to Europe ... and republishing the classic Latin and Greek texts. He wanted to restore ...17 KB (2,782 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), was an ancient civilization thriving ... Bronze Age empires of Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. It declined during ...32 KB (5,016 words) - 21:11, 22 March 2024
- The word matriarchy derives from the Greek words matēr (mother) and ... human societies have been found, be they ancient or modern, there has been ...26 KB (3,881 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- animals able to communicate using language and also rather clever, ... at one time believed to be real creatures. Greek mythology, for example, features ...32 KB (4,984 words) - 22:44, 10 November 2022
- 2008). Indeed, the term neurology comes from the Greek grc|νεῦρον ... is a preserved medical document from ancient Egypt that is a classic ...32 KB (4,338 words) - 04:35, 11 March 2023
- presence in the Holy Land had been Greek Orthodox, who were removed ... work. On the south wall, an inscription in Greek reads: "the present ...17 KB (2,657 words) - 12:00, 9 May 2024
- Logic, from Classical Greek λόγος (logos), originally meaning ... often expressed in symbolic or formal language, and through the study of ...31 KB (4,895 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- : Roughly the same as for humans. There are Greek myths of cranes and pygmies ... purposes for each: Similar to human use of language. * Body language—at ...19 KB (2,899 words) - 06:15, 11 January 2024
- The origin of the almanac can be traced back to ancient Babylonian ... *Lampe, G.W.H., and H.G. Liddell. A Patristic Greek Lexicon. Oxford: ...14 KB (2,079 words) - 08:15, 23 July 2023
- and jumping. The name is derived from the Greek word "athlon" meaning ... as the start of track and field, the most ancient of all the athletic festivals ...24 KB (3,812 words) - 04:52, 1 May 2023
- Ennead, the pantheon of deities revered in ancient Lower Egypt. Geb represented ... The worldview engendered by ancient Egyptian religion was uniquely ...20 KB (3,212 words) - 17:11, 23 October 2022
- The epic appears to have been widely known in ancient times and to ... through the polytheistic culture of ancient Mesopotamia. ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 07:45, 24 January 2023
- The scientific name Crotalus derives from the Greek, κρόταλον, meaning "castanet." The name Sistrurus is the Latinized form of ...14 KB (2,198 words) - 01:30, 8 December 2022
- drama like Kathakali can be compared to ancient Greek theater, which was ... vividly translate their words into a language of facial expressions, bodily ...22 KB (3,220 words) - 17:09, 5 October 2022
- the pre-Christian paganism that pervaded ancient European culture. ... in that one spot (paralleling the ancient Greek hero Achilles). In ...17 KB (2,719 words) - 23:27, 14 November 2022
- a great impact on mathematics, but on language as well. The word algebra ... which included the translation of Greek and Sanskrit scientific manuscripts ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:58, 10 November 2022
- the Great or Alexander III of Macedon, in Greek Μέγας Ἀλέξανδ ... the most successful military commander of ancient history, conquering most ...47 KB (7,410 words) - 20:29, 18 July 2023
- spelled Apepi, and Aapep, or Apophis in Greek) was a serpent demon who ... The worldview engendered by ancient Egyptian religion was uniquely ...22 KB (3,545 words) - 06:00, 11 August 2023
- The English word "axiology" (Greek: axios = worth; logos ... Axiology (from Greek ἀξίᾱ (axiā) translated as "value ...19 KB (2,855 words) - 07:20, 23 August 2023
- to the I Ching (the Book of Changes,) an ancient compendium of divination ... to the I Ching (the Book of Changes,) an ancient compendium of divination ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
- wit, irony, humor and inventiveness with language. His fluid and lively verse ... in Kabbalist circles: the Hebrew language contains mysterious divine ...27 KB (4,480 words) - 20:50, 4 October 2022
- e form separate syllables. In Arabic (the language in which he wrote), his ... works; since Averroes did not know Greek, he used an imperfect Arab ...19 KB (2,761 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- Socrates (ca. 469 – 399 B.C.E.) (Greek Σωκράτης Sōkrátēs ... == Socrates in Greek Philosophy == Historians divide the history of ...30 KB (4,718 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely ... Moscow State University, Russian Language Centre - [http://www.rlcentre ...41 KB (5,525 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs) (384 B.C.E. – March 7, 322 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher ...37 KB (5,500 words) - 06:30, 12 August 2023
- his life to preserving the identity, language and heritage of Persia at ... Vaejah, in Shahnameh as Iran, and in Greek as Persian Empire. In this ...15 KB (2,389 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- quot;) does not exist in the modern English language. The holiday is ... Judea, which was controlled by the Seleucid Greek king of Syria, whose administrative ...28 KB (4,314 words) - 19:38, 29 January 2022
- " or painting, and comes from the Greek εικον (image) and γραφειν ... from Roman Imperial imagery, classical Greek and Roman religion and popular ...18 KB (2,613 words) - 15:30, 12 February 2024
- were noticed in the times of the Greeks and Ancient Rome. ... is equivalent to Mus musculus. In common language, the term "mouse" ...17 KB (2,522 words) - 01:46, 11 March 2023
- of years. Examples of entheogens from ancient sources include: Greek: ... is a neologism derived from two words of ancient Greek, ἔνθεος (entheos ...32 KB (4,699 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- access to the Bible in the vernacular language and the right to interpret ... in a number of ways; he rendered Greek presbuteros, traditionally ...44 KB (6,927 words) - 23:10, 3 March 2023
- According to Greek mythology the Pyrenees are named after Pyrene, ... According to Greek mythology the Pyrenees are named after Pyrene ...23 KB (3,535 words) - 14:45, 2 July 2022
- in other authors. It contains two Latin-language segments, sol, "sun ... ===Ancient Greek names and concepts=== The concept of the solstices ...25 KB (3,968 words) - 19:48, 28 August 2023
- Patriarchy (from Greek: Patria meaning father and arché meaning rule ... Patriarchy (from Greek: patria meaning father and arché meaning rule ...28 KB (4,138 words) - 18:57, 23 March 2023
- investigations of the role of plants in ancient civilizations to the bioengineering ... century, its roots extend back to Greek, Roman, and Islamic sources ...15 KB (2,113 words) - 04:35, 22 March 2024
- the Wadi Qumran (near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran ... scrolls are written in Aramaic and a few in Koine Greek. ...33 KB (5,119 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- The regional toponym Mesopotamia (/ˌmɛsəpəˈteɪmiə/, Ancient ... birit narim. It is used throughout the Greek Septuagint ( ...54 KB (7,940 words) - 19:20, 25 March 2024
- After his death he was given the Greek surname chrysostomos, "golden ... The Changing Face of Antisemitism: From Ancient Times To The Present Day ...31 KB (4,708 words) - 04:44, 3 August 2022
