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- ...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 expansive18 KB (2,593 words) - 02:41, 13 December 2020
- ...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,31 KB (4,483 words) - 01:22, 13 December 2020
- ...] [[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.8 KB (1,253 words) - 23:01, 12 December 2020
- ...[[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]], [[16 KB (2,335 words) - 02:32, 13 December 2020
- ===Ancient=== The Ancient Greeks created some remarkably advanced automatons and mechanical special effects8 KB (1,313 words) - 23:43, 12 December 2020
- ...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 overloo25 KB (4,013 words) - 01:21, 13 December 2020
- ...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==44 KB (6,390 words) - 01:22, 13 December 2020
- ...ere well developed by the [[ancient]] Chinese, the ancient [[Greeks]], and ancient [[Romans]]. Modern archival thinking has many roots in the French Revolutio14 KB (2,036 words) - 23:43, 12 December 2020
- 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. In14 KB (2,363 words) - 22:21, 12 December 2020
- * 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 that13 KB (2,059 words) - 00:02, 13 December 2020
- ...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 Publishing14 KB (2,049 words) - 23:45, 12 December 2020
- ...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.21 KB (2,986 words) - 01:24, 13 December 2020
- ...atics]] which measures spatial relations, was popularised by the [[ancient Greeks]], although earlier societies had developed measuring systems. The [[SI|Int11 KB (1,716 words) - 01:49, 13 December 2020
- 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.24 KB (3,611 words) - 01:27, 13 December 2020
- '''Atlantis''' (in [[Ancient Greek|Greek]], Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος}, "island of [[Atlas (mythol ...stic Atlantis in ''Critias'' — would have made the strategy of the [[Ancient Greece|Greek civilization]] during their conflict with the [[Achaemenid Emp34 KB (5,126 words) - 23:42, 12 December 2020
- ...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:/12 KB (1,735 words) - 00:48, 13 December 2020
- 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.59 KB (9,077 words) - 01:27, 13 December 2020
- ...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. H29 KB (4,292 words) - 01:17, 13 December 2020
- ...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:30 KB (4,444 words) - 01:27, 13 December 2020
- ...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 [[hypo40 KB (5,819 words) - 23:42, 12 December 2020