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In historiography the phrase the Dark Ages (or Dark Age) is most commonly ... This concept of a "Dark Age" was first created by Italian ...

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 ...

Necromancy (Greek: νεκρομαντία, nekromantía) is a form ... Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds (Baltimore ...

the mythical creatures called Harpies in Greek mythology, winged-beasts ... Harpyia, which in turn derives from the Greek Άρπυια, or Harpuia ...

Much of the expertise of the Roman engineers was lost in the Dark ... ===Ancient Greek aqueducts=== *The Eupalinian aqueduct on the Greek ...

of the great scholars of the early Middle Ages. During a time of disintegration ... short time, Isidore mastered Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. It is not known ...

An allegory (from Greek αλλος, allos, "other," and ... The allegory in the Middle Ages was a vital element in the synthesis ...

In Greek mythology, the Gorgons were three vicious female mythical ... The word Gorgon comes from the Greek word γογύς which roughly ...

a poetic tradition spanning the Greek Dark Ages. Even though Homer was ... began to extend to the area (the "Greek Dark Ages"). Troy VIIb1 ...

and are (in almost all species) pale to dark pink. (One species, D. knappii ... 2005). Clove pink was grown in the Middle Ages for its clove-like perfume ...

Egyptian language scripts and in classical Greek. It was created in 196 B ... described as granodiorite. The stone has a dark grey-pinkish tone with a pink ...

- 127), known in English as Plutarch, (in Greek Πλούταρχος) was ... characters and recounts the noble deeds of Greek and Roman soldiers, legislators ...

*Endodontics. Endodontics, from the Greek endo (inside) and odons ... or both. The word comes from the Greek words ortho meaning straight ...

Kalpas (cosmic round), Mahayugas (great ages) and yugas (ages). Each great ... A synopsis of each of the four classical Yugas (ages) in Hindu cosmology ...

Hypatia of Alexandria (in Greek: Υπατία) (c. 370 C.E. – 415 ... The Suda, a tenth-century Byzantine Greek encyclopedia of the ancient ...

In Greek and Roman uses, scrolls were mostly used for texts, including ... the Early Church era until the early Middle Ages era. Owing to the copying ...

or egg-shaped fruit, with smooth, dark purple, glossy skin (Herbst ... 9 centimeters broad (2 to 4 inches) with a dark purple skin. A much wider ...

Diophantus of Alexandria (Greek: Διόφαντος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύ ... E. Most scholars consider Diophantus to have been a Greek, ...

The word "crypt" derives from the Ancient Greek, kruptein ... feelings most likely developed out of the dark, subterranean nature of crypts ...

language was French, and he also read Greek, Latin, English, Italian ... last despairing effort of feudalism in the dark ages to resist the march of ...

a serrated margin. Leaf colors range from dark green and gray-green to purple ... in an airtight container placed in a cool, dark, dry area (Ortiz 1992). ...

will (“he is beloved by Destiny”) as in Greek mythology, or that of some ... origin to existence, whether irrational dark forces control the universe ...

unlike the historical one that featured a dark, bearded, Christ-like figure ... * Hesiod, Greek poet whose writings serve as a major source of knowledge ...

of the virgin Athena who, according to Greek legend, won the city in a ... of the greatest masterpieces of classical Greek art—the Parthenon, the ...

Mythical creatures have been part of human culture throughout the ... at one time believed to be real creatures. Greek mythology, for example, features ...

during the late Palaeolithic and Neolithic ages. Hence, the late Paleolithic ... The ancient Greek historian Herodotus Jimmy Dunn, [http://www.touregypt ...

in time of renewed interest in Classical Greek and Roman tradition, tried ... The medieval Greek world had no autonomous and continuing institutions ...

The name by which the Picts called themselves is unknown. The Greek ... a very much larger area in the High Middle Ages than the county of Moray) ...

The term drama comes from a Greek word meaning "action" ... , dráma), which is derived from "to do" (Classical Greek: ...

:Opus 3: Overture No. 1 in G minor for orchestra "On Greek Themes ... :Opus 53: Fantasy From Dark into Light for orchestra (1894) ...

Astronomy (Greek: αστρονομία = άστρον + νόμος ... by Mars Global Surveyor, the long dark streak is formed by a moving ...

"Moor" comes from the Greek word mauros (plural mauroi) ... that Maurus means "black" in Greek. In the late 1400s, the Italian ...

and Rome.Helen Gardner, Art Through the Ages, Sixth Edition. (Harcourt ... officially marking the beginning of the Dark Ages. With people afraid to ...

that Renaissance humanists labeled the Dark Ages. However, the use of ... in Venice, where the remains of ancient Greek culture provided humanist ...

Ancient Greece is the period in Greek history that lasted for around ... The historical line starts with Greek Dark Ages (1100–800 B.C.E.) ...

of cosmetics became prominent in the Middle Ages, typically among members of ... During the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and up until the Industrial Revolution ...

medium of gas, plasma, and dust, and dark matter.L.S. Sparke and J.S ... Although not yet well understood, dark matter appears to account for ...

properly has nothing to do with the Greek mythological satyr ... broadened by appropriation from the Greek word for “satyr” (satyros ...

the word Cathar most likely originated from Greek καθαροί (Katharoi ... others find the road that led from the dark land ruled by the dark lord ...

derived alphabet only after the Greek Dark Ages. While Eteocretan language ... descendant, it is perhaps during the Greek Dark Ages, a time of economic ...

The Middle Ages form the middle period in a traditional division of ... system characteristic of the Middle Ages. At the height of influence ...

perceived errors. In this way, orthodoxy (Greek: The right view) was defined ... Though the death penalty was seldom executed during the Early Middle ...

European music written during the Middle Ages. This period contains compositions ... the chaotic years of the early middle ages, for these were the places ...

Homer (Greek Όμηρος, Homeros) was a legendary early Greek poet ... Minoans, Myceneans, and the Greek Dark Ages (Washington State University ...

prestigious and authoritative oracle in the Greek world. religious institutions of the classical Greek world. Writers who mention ...

Golding who suggested naming it after the Greek personification of the earth. ... what has been characterized as a kind of dark optimism. Golding's first ...

===Greek dark ages=== Around 1100 B.C.E., the Mycenaean civilization ... these events is collectively known as the Greek Dark Ages. ...

prominent ears, and a coat that has dense, dark bristles. This wild species ... finer fur. The color usually varies from dark gray to black or brown, but ...

(Courage is "thumus" in the Greek language, and may be the ... In the European Middle Ages, the herb was placed beneath pillows to ...

did not stop British writers throughout the ages from using him in various ... children's tales of today. Most were dark stories revolving around such ...

|p1 = Greek Dark Ages |s1 = Thebes |s2 = Achaean League ... as the overall leader of the combined Greek forces during the Greco-Persian ...

the age of fourteen was fluent in French, Greek, Italian, and Latin as well ... **"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" **"Fra Lippo ...

believed that history was cyclical with alternating Dark and Golden Ages. Plato called this the Great Year, and other Greeks called it an aeon or eon ...

Glossolalia (from Greek glossa γλώσσα "tongue, language ... * 475 - 1000 C.E. - During the so-called Dark Ages, little history ...

of it. He parted the heavens and came down; dark clouds were under his feet ... are referred to as the Tetragrammaton (Greek: τετραγράμματον; ...

The word Demon derives from the Greek δαίμων (daimōn), which ... Though the modern Greek word, daimōn, has the same meaning as the ...

He also developed a great love for the Greek literature and mythology ... including: a First in Honor Moderations (Greek and Latin Literature) in ...

them after lovers of the god Zeus (the Greek equivalent of Jupiter): Io ... the mythological Ganymede, cupbearer of the Greek gods and Zeus's beloved. ...

Early Greek philosophers theorized about the non-physical aspect of ... === Ancient Greek philosophers === [[Image:Sanzio 01 Plato Aristotle ...

Like other Enlightenment thinkers, Gibbon regarded the Middle Ages ... famous verdict on the history of the Middle Ages: "I have described the ...

Many years later, her "Wait Until Dark" director, Terrance Young ... is magnificent. She is Eliza for the ages." Despite any supposed ...

the bright radiance. A shadow went forth, dark under the heavens. All creation ... a number of textual fragments, Saturn, the Greek god, is portrayed as a magician ...

were being forged into shapes and in the Greek period came very sophisticated ... sculpture in modern Afghanistan displays Greek and Persian artistic influence ...

"petra-πέτρα," cleft in the rock in Greek; Arabic: ... entrance leads steeply down through a dark, narrow gorge (in places only ...

' This was particularly true during Greek, Roman, Persian, and Byzantine ... has left few 'pure' Arabs, racially. "Dark skinned ...

The Dorian invasion of Greece led to the Greek Dark Ages. Very little ... that separated Antiquity from the Middle Ages in Europe as the Great Migrations ...

Another similar monster was the Greek Lamia, who likewise governed ... serpent, similar to the earlier reliefs of Greek Sirens and the Lilitu. One ...

Sperm whales are uniformly dark gray or dark blue-black in color, ... name macrocephalus is derived from the Greek for "big head." ...

available, and enjoyed by people of all ages at social occasions as well ... is baked directly on a barbecue grill. Greek pizza, like Chicago-style ...

the Great or Alexander III of Macedon, in Greek Μέγας Ἀλέξανδ ... Macedonian settlement and rule over non-Greek areas, a period known as ...

of omens, and prognostications. Greek and Roman pagans, who modeled ... Slavic polytheism and pre-Hellenistic Greek religion, as well as Hinduism ...

nineteenth century. Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher, grappled with ... the state. Thus, for example, the Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle examined ...

canons. The word "Canon" from Greek kanon "rule" (perhaps ... translation of the Hebrew Bible into Koine Greek, revered by Hellenized Jews ...

of Jesus' death) or for the Middle Ages (the time of the first uncontested ... sindonology to describe its study (from Greek σινδων — sindon, ...

The Druze religion began to develop during the Middle Ages. In the ... philosophers including Adam, the ancient Greek mathematician and astronomer ...

materials. These materials glow in the dark after exposure to light, and ... blackened when the mineral was kept in the dark. Also, non-phosphorescent ...

Matsya in the Hindu Puranas, Deucalion in Greek mythology, and Utnapishtim ... Greek mythology knows three floods. The flood of Ogyges, the flood ...

a material explanation for the Moon was the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras. He ... By the Middle Ages, before the telescope was invented, more people ...

Hebrew as a classical language, along with Greek and Latin, and essential ... repairing them in the style of the Middle Ages, and creating niches for decorative ...

symbol. Before the fifth century B.C.E., Greek astronomers believed the ... The plains of Mercury have two distinct ages: the younger plains are ...

English textual criticism, on par with the Greek New Testament. There are ... Manly, vol. 2, The End of the Middle Ages," in The Cambridge History ...

very labor-intensive to produce; while it ages and gradually evaporates, ... and the United States. It ranges from dark yellow to golden brown in ...

In the seventh century B.C.E., Greek settlers established colonies ... ===The Dark Ages=== Lying on one of the principal land routes into ...

of the circumpolar stars, while Greek and medieval European astronomy ... Unlike the West, where the starry sky is a pantheon of Greek legendary ...

to inform European thought even in the Dark Ages and still contributes ... dismiss me with applause"—a common Greek ending to comedies, referring ...

dedicated to the translation of Greek, Middle Persian, and Syriac ... was still considered too dangerous after dark. Those dangers included kidnapping ...

(left/right-handed, no matter particles, dark), and the positron) or asymmetric ... divide prehistory in the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages. * 3rd Reich of ...

built in honor of Asclepios the Greek god of medicine. Pilgrims ... in many religions and cultures in all ages up to the present day. Divination ...

Roman occupation, and contains words from Greek, Slavic languages, and Turkish ... (1.5 percent) and the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church (0.9 percent ...

straddles the River Liffey, into which dark bog water drains, creating ... the area around Dublin Bay since then. The Greek astronomer and cartographer ...

The word necropolis derives from Ancient Greek: nekro meaning dead ... elaborate necropolises during the Middle Ages, but in the nineteenth century ...

of Europe which emerged from the dark ages of the late tenth century ... was to inspire the greatest building of the Dark Ages in Western Europe, for ...

word "inspiration" is based on a Greek word meaning "the God ... In Rome, these Greek concepts were partly shaken. Horace wrote that ...

general men tend to become gray at younger ages than women. is a result of the contrast between the dark and the white/colorless hair ...

hewn out of hitherto feudal and courtly notions of ages past. ... superior to tradition. However, there was a dark side to such literacy as well ...

echoed in countless landscapes through the ages, especially in both John Constable ... 1585, Oil on canvas and El Greco, the Greek, 1541-1614, View of Toledo ...

* Amenophis (Greek variant of birth name) * Nefer-kheperu-Rê (praenomen ... in the open sunlight, rather than in dark temple enclosures, as the ...

The Greek and Roman civilizations practiced swordsmanship but the emphasis regressed through the Dark Ages, due the collapse of the Roman civilization ...

topic of philosophical debate since ancient Greek times, but it was not studied ... not only a plasma, but also contains "dark matter." He wrote: ...

one must understand that in the middle ages, when the famous proofs of ... ), the best known theologian of the Middle Ages, adapted the argument to form ...

Aquinas had a dark complexion, large head and receding hairline, and ... settle the differences between the Greek and Latin churches. Far from ...

The name diamond derives from the ancient Greek adamas (αδάμας ... orange Ti-pyrope, red high-Cr spinels, dark chromite, bright green Cr ...

correct form), any connection with a dark power was most likely coincidental. ... His victims included men and women of all ages, religions and social classes ...

Two Kingdoms formed Kemet ("the black"), the name for the ... dynasty until its marginalization by the Greek Koine in the early centuries ...

Darwin's rhea, Rhea pennata, gets its scientific name from the ... Pterocnemia. This word is formed from two Greek words pteron meaning feathers ...

Byzantium) and its people and rulers were Greek; it was a thoroughly Hellenic ... *Oman, Charles. The Dark Ages 476-918. 2017. ISBN 1973427370 ...

The Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates described a syndrome of melancholia ... case: "A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, / A drowsy, stifled ...

In September 1960, Cohen bought a house on the Greek island of Hydra ... #039; Man. She also inspired the "Dark Lady" of Cohen's ...

had its origins in the early Middle Ages, much earlier than most estimates ... 2002. Accessed January 2007. or the Middle Ages.Steven Kreis, October 11, ...

The English word empathy is derived from the Ancient Greek ... imaging (fMRI), children between the ages of seven and twelve, when ...

had been suggested earlier by such ancient Greek philosophers as Democritus ... positions from the time of the ancient Greek astronomers Ptolemy and Hipparchus ...

and western Anatolia are well documented in Greek and Latin history.[http://www ... inscriptions in the Roman, and sometimes Greek, alphabets. The Ogham script ...

watch duty at Elsinore Castle, on a cold, dark night, at midnight. Barnardo ... mixed with metaphor that hearkens back to Greek political speeches. Hamlet ...

Catholic (katholikos in Greek) with a small c means universal or not ... Catholics remember the popes of the Middle Ages, contemporary Catholics remember ...

readers by their subject matter (classical Greek and Latin texts), approach ... Foucault begins his history in the Middle Ages, noting the social ...

Natura was a Latin translation of the Greek word physis (φύσις) ... is believed to consist of 23 percent cold dark matter and 72 percent dark ...

four stages of life, four aims, four ages. Some criticize this Western ... produced men and women down the ages who have made outstanding ...

and survived there during the tumult of the Dark Ages. Romanian historians ... Romanian Orthodox clergymen to join the Greek (Byzantine Rite) in union ...

An anonymous first century traveler's account written in Greek ... That period, commonly referred to as the Dark Age of the Tamil country ...

scholars excelled in the study of Latin and Greek learning and Christian theology ... All children must receive compulsory education between the ages of ...

The Mahajanapadas were roughly equivalent to the ancient Greek city ... white cotton, and top the kameez with a dark waistcoat. The lungi (a type ...

that of ancient Greece, during the dark ages in Europe and the works ... Just as in the eighth century when a movement to translate ancient ...

Thessaloniki (/ˌθɛsələˈniːki/; Greek: Θεσσαλονίκη ... It is also known in Greek as " el|η Συμπρωτεύουσα ...

Long before any Roman settlements, Greek navigators settled in what ... 25 percent of all French men between the ages of 18 and 30, had been killed ...

Human skin hues can range from very dark brown to very pale pink, while ... have reached the age of 122 years; higher ages have been claimed but they ...

Lion coloration varies from light buff to yellowish, reddish, or dark ... The species was eradicated from Palestine by the Middle Ages and from ...

The English Middle Ages, which lasted from 1066 until conflicts over ... many words were coined from Latin and Greek origins; and in more recent ...

from the word Philistia, the name given by Greek writers to the land of the ... the entire Middle East fell into a "Dark Age" from which it took ...

Indians”, “What Christians?”: The Dark Side of the New World in Gonzalo ... Ancient Greek art, mythology, and philosophic works depict a society ...

to the West as Persia, due to the ancient Greek language name for Iran, Persis ... dynasties have ruled Persia throughout the ages, including Teppe Sialk, Shahr ...

The term holocaust originally derived from the Greek word holokauston ... of Nazism, which has since became the dark symbol of the twentieth century ...

In the ninth century B.C.E., the first Greek colonies, such as Emporion ... falcata). These, along with the Phoenician, Greek and Carthaginian coastal ...