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*1: an [[ancient]] [[military]] device for hurling missiles ...were invented by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greeks ancient Greeks].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catapult]

...describe them, and this word passed into Latin and ultimately [[English]]. Ancient obelisks are monolithic; that is, they consist of a single stone. Apart fro

...l Latin barbarinus, from [[Latin]] barbaria, from Latin barbarus, from the ancient [[Greek]] word βάρβαρος (bárbaros). The word is [https://en.wikipe ...arbarízein) in ancient Greek meant imitating the [[linguistic]] sounds non-Greeks made or making [[grammatical]] errors in [[Greek]].[https://en.wikipedia.or

...ometimes considered to include adjoining territories. The name was used by Ancient Greek writers, and was later used for the Roman province [https://en.wikipe ...id_Empire Persians], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greeks Ancient Greeks], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Romans], [https://en.wikipedi

...was assumed that the armies were being led by "the best". From the ancient Greeks, the term passed on to the European [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_A As in ancient Greece, this was a class of [[privilege]]d men whose military role allowed

...mnemonic" is derived from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek Ancient Greek] word μνημονικός (mnēmonikos), [[meaning]] "of memory, or Ancient Greeks and Romans distinguished between two types of memory: the "[[natural]]" mem

...cessarily considered an [[inherent]] part of patriotism. Among the ancient Greeks, patriotism consisted of notions concerning [[language]], [[religious]] [[t ...and denouncing excessive penal laws were all considered patriotic. In both ancient and modern visions of patriotism, [[individual]] [[responsibility]] to fell

...le crops, from the soil come the metals and so on), c. 5th century BCE the Greeks started referring to Hades as Πλούτων, Ploutōn, a name that is an a ...ncient_Greek Ancient Greek] Ἅιδης/ᾍδης, Hāidēs; Doric Ἀΐδας Aidas) was the ancient Greek god of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_underworld underworld

...e's own rule. Though the notion of ''autonomism'' was alien to the ancient Greeks, whose society was not an all-[[inclusive]] one, the concept is indirectly '''Autonomy''' (Ancient [[Greek]]: αὐτονομία autonomia from αὐτόνομος autonomos

...eans weather in both ancient and modern Greek. The plural, καιροί (kairoi (Ancient Gk. and Mod. Gk.)) means ''the times''.

...[[civilizations]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Near_East ancient Near East]; later, they grew to the north and west to include Western Europ ...i/Islamic_Golden_Age Islamic Golden Age]. The Arab importation of both the Ancient and new technology from the Middle East and the [[Orient]] to Renaissance E

...parts of the ordered universe both large and small. Philosophically, the Greeks were concerned with a rational explanation of everything and saw the repeti ==Ancient thought==

...f or relating to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece ancient Greeks] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Romans] or their [[culture

...alizing and engaging in [[intellectual]] pursuits. The name comes from the Ancient Greek term ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B3%CF%85%CE%BC%CE%BD%CF%8C ...e than [[exercise]]. This [[development]] arose through recognition by the Greeks of the strong relation between athletics, [[education]] and [[health]]. Acc

The [[concept]] of eloquence dates to the ancient [[Greek]]s, [[Calliope]],(one of the nine daughters of [[Zeus]] and [[Mnemo ...ade others to a point of view. Petrarch encouraged students to imitate the ancient writers, from a language [[perspective]], combining clear and correct speec

...uring the time known as [[classical antiquity]], roughly spanning from the Ancient Greek [[Bronze Age]] in 1000 [[BCE]] to the [[Dark Ages]] circa [[Common Er ...eastern Mediterranean—the ancient [[Persian Empire]] and the [[kingdoms of ancient India]]—are termed [[Orientalists]].

90:4.1 The entire life of [[ancient]] men was prophylactic; their [[religion]] was in no small measure a [[tech ...h]] required to get well under the foolish ministrations of one of these [[ancient]] [[shamans]] was, after all, not materially [[different]] from that which

==Ancient Greek origin== In ancient Greece, hubris ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek ancient Greek] ὕβρις) referred to [[actions]] that [[shame]]d and humiliated

...s a euphemism by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_greece ancient Greeks], [[meaning]] "to keep a [[holy]] [[silence]]" (speaking well by not speaki

...key and known to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greeks Ancient Greeks] as Μαίανδρος Maiandros (Latin: Maeander), characterised by a very The Meander River is located south of Izmir, east of the ancient Greek town of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miletus Miletus], now, Milet,

The term ''planet'' is an ancient one, with ties to history, science, myth and religion. The planets were ori ...f Greek]] for the transcription scheme meaning "wanderers", by the ancient Greeks, and it is from this that the word "planet" was derived. [https://www.m-w.c

...ramid was built as a tomb for [[Fourth dynasty of Egypt|Fourth dynasty]] [[ancient Egypt|Egyptian]] King [[Khufu]] (Cheops in Greek) and constructed over a 20 ...'' notes "By themselves, of course, none of these modern labels define the ancient purposes of the architecture they describe." p. 8</ref> Queen's Chamber and

...From then on different cultures such as the [[History of India|Indian]], [[Greeks|Greek]], [[Islamic]] made major contributions to mathematics.

...e self, encompassing the modern [[ideas]] of [[soul]], self, and mind. The Greeks believed that the soul or "psyche" was responsible for behaviour.[2][3] ..., Erwin, Psyche: The Cult of Souls and the Belief in Immortality Among the Greeks, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1925; reprinted by Routledge, 2000. ISBN 0

...ceremonial]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon Babylon], and the [[Greeks]] [[practiced]] the annual [[ritual]] bath. It was easy for the [[ancients] ...n India it is a [[devil]] because it brings dust and causes drought. The [[ancient]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedouins Bedouins] believed that a [[natur

...llable [[fear]]. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece ancient Greeks] credited the [[battle]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon Maratho

90:3.1 Since [[ancient]] man regarded himself and his [[material]] [[environment]] as being direct ...Viewed in this [[light]], much of the inexplicable and irrational in the [[ancient]] [[cults]] is understandable. The [[ceremonies]] of the [[cult]] were [htt

...experience of orators in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece ancient Greek] city-states. In classical Greece and Rome, the main component was [[ The art of public speaking was first developed by the ancient Greeks. Greek oration is known from the works of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl

...llable [[fear]]. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_greece ancient Greeks] credited the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marathon battle of M

...Indus,’ also ‘the region around the Indus’ (compare with Sindhi). Both the Greeks and the Persians extended the name to include all the country east of the I Home to the ancient [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilisation Indus Valley Civil

...dure]], comparable to present-day [[church]] [[rituals]] conducted in an [[ancient]] [[tongue]]. The [[human]] race very early sought for [[superhuman]] help, 90:2.2 [[Ancient]] [[Occult|black art]], both religious and secular, was called white art wh

...transmitted to subsequent [[civilizations]] through the [[Hebrews]] and [[Greeks]], much, very much, of the [[social]] and [[ethical]] [[idealism]] of the E ...also augmented by the periodic arrival of [[teachers]] of [[truth]], in [[ancient]] times from the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76 s

...ia.org/wiki/Witchcraft witchcraft] where the Grigori are said to come from ancient stellar lore. References to angelic Grigori appear in the [[books]] of [htt ==Eventually the Greeks reduced the Watchers to the gods of the four winds==

Known to the ancient Greeks, it was reinvented by Sir David Brewster in 1816 while conducting [[experim

Historian J. B. Bury argued that thought in ancient Greece was dominated by the theory of world-cycles or the doctrine of etern ...sbet and Gertrude Himmelfarb have attributed a notion of progress to other Greeks. Xenophanes said "The gods did not reveal to men all things in the beginnin

...ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_solstice winter solstice],[7] which in ancient times was marked on December 25.[10] In 1743, German Protestant Paul Ernst ...cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/SF/WinSol.html "Bruma"], Seasonal Festivals of the Greeks and Romans Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 18:59

...hrough the ages. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece ancient Greeks] note them to be "[[hermaphrodites]]," and truly physically [[androgynous]]

...[[Hebrews]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamians], [[Greeks]], [[Romans]], and many other peoples, even on to recent times among the ba ...[record]], [[illustrative]] of the [[heart]]-tearing contentions between [[ancient]] and time-honored [[religious]] [[customs]] and the contrary demands of ad

It is generally agreed that the [[word]] was coined 2500 years ago in ancient [[Greece]], by the playwright [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeschylus Aesc The [[Greeks]] adopted the “love of humanity” as an [[educational]] [[ideal]], whose

...indicated by [[Plato]]'s and [[Aristotle]]'s works, along with many other ancient and medieval [[philosophers]]. ...t of as elements or branches of Western philosophy. To some of the ancient Greeks, these fields were often one and the same. Thus, philosophy is an expansive

...of the women hysteric, and these two types accounted for a good deal of [[ancient]] [[inspiration]] as well as spirit and [[devil]] [[Possessed|possession]]. ...dure]], comparable to present-day [[church]] [[rituals]] conducted in an [[ancient]] [[tongue]]. The [[human]] race very early sought for [[superhuman]] help,

...] [[city]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapolis Decapolis], the ancient [[Hebrew]] [[city]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethshean Beth-shean] ...r]] allude to the [[games]] and other [[athletic]] [[activities]] of the [[Greeks]] as long as his [[father]] lived.

...[[Persian people|Persians]], [[Jew]]s ([[Hasmonean|Hasmonean Kingdom]]), [[Greeks]] ([[Seleucid Empire]]), [[Roman Empire|Romans]], and subsequent empires. ...have suggested refers to "[[Potnia theron|Potnia]]," the title given to an ancient [[Mycenaean Greece|Mycenaean]] [[goddess]]. Excavations in [[Ashkelon]], [[

===Ancient=== The Ancient Greeks created some remarkably advanced automatons and mechanical special effects

...t. The Greek spelling transliterates as "Delphoi" (with "o" added). and [[Ancient Greek dialects|dialectal]] forms '''Belphoi''' - [[Aeolic Greek|Aeolian]] f ...[[Mount Parnassus]], and includes the Sanctuary of Apollo, the site of the ancient [[Oracle]]. This semicircular spur is known as [[Phaedriades]], and overloo

...les. In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_history#Classical_Antiquity ancient times] the [[Jews]] were famed as much for [[military]] [[valor]] as for [[ ==98:1. THE SALEM RELIGION AMONG THE GREEKS==

...ere well developed by the [[ancient]] Chinese, the ancient [[Greeks]], and ancient [[Romans]]. Modern archival thinking has many roots in the French Revolutio

returning humans forward into a new ancient form of communal learning, today being called a Communiversity. ...alerno, Italy to study the medical practices and principles of the ancient Greeks. There followed universities in Bologna, Paris, Oxford and Cambridge. In

* Several men and women whom the ancient Greeks considered historical figures, like [[Menelaus]], [[Helen]], [[Achilles]], # While Mount Olympus actually exists, the Greeks understood a distinction between the Olympus of the Gods and the part that

...tory was "stated in scientific methods with surprising frequency among the Greeks", an example being Plutarch's account of the Ogygian flood.[1] Earth's hist # Sivin, Nathan (1995). Science in Ancient China: Researches and Reflections. Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing

...Carthaginian]], [[Ancient Greece|Greek]], [[Turkish people|Turkish]] and [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] cultures. The [[history of the Mediterranean]] is crucial to u ...neus'', 'inland' (''medius'', 'middle' + ''terra'', 'land, earth'). To the ancient Romans, the Mediterranean was the center of the Earth as they knew it.

...atics]] which measures spatial relations, was popularised by the [[ancient Greeks]], although earlier societies had developed measuring systems. The [[SI|Int

85:1.3 All [[ancient]] [[clans]] and [[tribes]] had their [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopi_my ...[superstitious]] [[practice]] of rapping on wood perpetuate certain of the ancient [[customs]] of tree worship and the later-day tree cults.

'''Atlantis''' (in [[Ancient Greek|Greek]], Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος}, "island of [[Atlas (mythol ...stic Atlantis in ''Critias'' &mdash; would have made the strategy of the [[Ancient Greece|Greek civilization]] during their conflict with the [[Achaemenid Emp

...nor give advice which may cause his death.”[11] Despite this, the ancient Greeks and Romans generally did not believe that life needed to be preserved at an ...of [[pleasure]] lures--this introduces a new factor into racial survival; ancient man exposed undesired children to die; moderns refuse to bear them.[https:/

80:3.1 The [[ancient]] [[centers]] of the [[culture]] of the blue man were located along all the .../wiki/Kurd highland home north of Mesopotamia]. These progenitors of the [[Greeks]] were led westward by Sato, a direct descendant of [https://nordan.daynal.

...often overlooked in many North American and European universities, just as ancient "Western" and monotheistic claims are also overlooked in the last few decad ...Lokayata or Lokyāta, was a materialist and atheist school of thought with ancient roots in India. It proposed a system of ethics based on rational thought. H

...n of [[chance]] and [[luck]] strongly pervaded the [[philosophy]] of all [[ancient]] peoples. Even in recent times in the [[Wisdom of Solomon]] it is said: "I ...rent]] [[idea]] regarding the [[destiny]] of the [[ghost]] [[soul]]. The [[Greeks]] believed that weak men must have weak [[souls]]; so they invented [https:

...als (e.g. [[History of metallurgy in the Indian subcontinent|metallurgy in ancient India]]). The greed for gold led to the discovery of the process for its pu ...a science was almost created by the Muslims; for in this field, where the Greeks (so far as we know) were confined to industrial experience and vague [[hypo

...a broad scope, and in many cases was founded in [[religion]]. The ancient Greeks did not draw a distinction between this use and their model for the [[cosmo The Greeks took some extreme positions on the nature of change: [[Parmenides]] denied

...broader sense, one may say that Roman law is not only the legal system of ancient Rome but the law that was applied throughout most of Europe until the end o A view (Jenő Szmodis, 2005) suggests that the ancient roots of the Roman Law derive directly from the Etruscan religion, which pu

...rd University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1963. In other societies, such as [[ancient Egypt]] or [[medieval Europe]], literacy has been a domain confined to poli ...patterns, gestures and the bilateral symmetry of the human body in several ancient verse traditions.cited in Ong, p. 34. Marcel Jousse. ''Le Parlant, la par

..._civilization Hellenized]. [[Christianity]] owes much, very much, to the [[Greeks]]. It was a Greek, from Egypt, who so [[bravely]] stood up at [https://en.w ==195:1. INFLUENCE OF THE GREEKS==

...transmitted to subsequent [[civilizations]] through the [[Hebrews]] and [[Greeks]], much, very much, of the [[social]] and [[ethical]] [[idealism]] of the E ...also augmented by the periodic arrival of [[teachers]] of [[truth]], in [[ancient]] times from the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76 s

...[Greek]]s and [[Roman]]s (particularly the purifying ceremony Lustratio) , Ancient Egyptians (for example in the cult of Apis )and from the Aztecs to the Yoru Human sacrifice was practiced by many ancient cultures. People would be [[ritual]]ly killed in a [[manner]] that was supp

...ng of the bride over the [[threshold]] is reminiscent of a [[number]] of [[ancient]] [[practices]], among others, of the days of [[wife]] [https://en.wikipedi 83:4.8 One of the most [[ancient]] forms of the wedding [[ceremony]] was to have a [[priest]] [[bless]] the

...6th-century writer Joseph Juste Scaliger, and they in turn referred to the ancient philosopher Empedocles. Their argument, as given by the first two, was that ...t Greeks called them "teleioi." There was, however, no consensus among the Greeks as to which numbers were "perfect" or why. A view that was shared by Plato

...boos]], all [[expressed]] in the same [[negative]] form as were the most [[ancient]] prohibitions. But these newer codes were truly emancipating in that they 89:1.6 [[Methods]] of eating soon became taboo, and so originated [[ancient]] and [[modern]] table [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette etiquette].

'''Logic''' (from [[Ancient Greek|Classical Greek]] λόγος [[logos]]; meaning word, thought, idea, ...rvived was that of [[Aristotle]]. Morris Kline, "Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times, Oxford University Press, 1972, ISBN 0-19-506135-7, p.53 "A

...ibe the characteristic government for Jews. Josephus argued that while the Greeks recognized three types of government: [[monarchy]], [[aristocracy]], and [[ In ancient Greece and Rome denying the gods of the state was a crime. In ancient Rome, the emperors were often deified.[citation needed]

...f all this it was not strange that women were looked down upon. Even the [[Greeks]] held the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menstruation menstruating] woman ...t_era early Chinese] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_greece Greeks] treated [[women]] better than did most [[surrounding]] peoples. But the [[

92:2.2 [[Religion]] clings to the [[mores]]; that which was is [[ancient]] and supposedly [[sacred]]. For this reason and no other, stone implements ...find plausible [[theories]] in justification of creedal perpetuation of [[ancient]] and outworn [[customs]].

...ugh significant differences, both religious and philosophical, distinguish ancient and medieval from much of modern Jewish thought, the subject matter of Jewi ...it. With this end in view Philo chose from the philosophical tenets of the Greeks, refusing those that did not harmonize with the Jewish religion, as, e.g.,

...ademy ([[378 BCE]]).Jo Ellen Barnett, ''Time's Pendulum'' p.38</ref> The [[Greeks]] and [[Chaldeans]] regularly maintained timekeeping records as an essentia Many ancient philosophers wrote lengthy essays on time. A famous analogy compared the ti

...] [[city]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapolis Decapolis], the ancient [[Hebrew]] [[city]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethshean Beth-shean] ...r]] allude to the [[games]] and other [[athletic]] [[activities]] of the [[Greeks]] as long as his [[father]] lived.

...reader from the earliest records about human nature in Ancient Egypt, the Ancient Near East, and the Zoroastrian religion, through the secret teachings in th ...thought-provoking mysteries, puzzles, and problems on topics ranging from ancient Greek astronomy to Armageddon. A playground for computer hobbyists, an insp

...romances of [[Heliodorus of Emesa|Heliodorus]] and [[Longus]] et al.). The ancient Greek romance was revived by [[Byzantine novel]]ists of the twelfth century ...fficult to determine how much the early "romance" owed to [[ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] models and how much to northern folkloric verse epics such as [[Beo

...E_WHITE_RACES white man], who was pursuing the governmental methods of the Greeks and the Romans. 71:5.3 Throughout the [[Ancient|earlier]] ages of any world, [[competition]] is [[essential]] to [[progress

...s to understand the mind and its operation go back at least to the Ancient Greeks, when philosophers such as [[Plato]] and [[Aristotle]] tried to explain the

The ancient Greeks, who believed that the [[muse]]s were the source of all inspiration, actual Although neither the Greeks nor the Romans had any words that directly corresponded to the word creativ

<center>And ancient forms of party strife;</center> So they shook in order to be kosher. The Greeks listened to the Oracles with the chief teller at

...emarkable continuities. The distinction that had been drawn by the ancient Greeks between "metaphrase" ("literal" translation) and "paraphrase" would be adop ...astics, art: it was the antithesis of art. When, in earlier centuries, the Greeks had thought that poetry sprang from inspiration by Muses, they had not reck

...to reign in the one hundred and thirty-seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks. ...exander, the son of Philip, the Macedonian king who first reigned over the Greeks.

...n societies], or the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_greece ancient Greeks], the times of [[heroes]]. Those are the days in which you live today. Notw