This anthropomorphism, however, which testified to the growing power of man over nature, was characteristic of only a definite historically transitional phase in the development of Greek mythology. With the dissolution of clan social relations and the emergence of scientific knowledge, naïve mythologic...
This anthropomorphism, however, which testified to the growing power of man over nature, was characteristic of only a definite historically transitional phase in the development of Greek mythology. With the dissolution of clan social relations and the emergence of scientific knowledge, naïve mythologic...
(and syntactic) behavior of determiners in Luwian, a very archaic article-free Indo-European Anatolian language which relied on a limited set of demonstratives, as well as in some specific constructions of Ancient Greek, an Indo-European language with definite articles and with a relatively "free...
Ancient Greek civilization, the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended about 1200 BCE, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BCE. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific achievements that formed a legacy
When it comes to Roman medicine, much of it is owed to what discoveries and theories the Greeks had developed before, but with a definite Roman twist. Hippocrates The fusion of Greek and Roman medicine in the Roman Empire consisted of two parts: the scientific, and the religious/magical. ...
In general, the highly fragmentary state of the Greek texts poses a serious challenge when trying to draw definite conclusions about content and form. Newly developed methodological concepts make it necessary to scrutinise the state of knowledge about this genre, which fundamentally rests on Jacoby’...
(Middle Persian), Parthian, and Greek. Besides the narrative of the military operations, the inscription provides a description of the Persian empire of the time and an inventory of the Zoroastrian religious foundations established by Shāpūr tocommemoratehis victorious wars. These foundations were ...
Theagoraof an ancient Greek city was the central public gathering place. It was the political, social, business, athletic, and religious heart of the city. The agora was where anything of import happened or was decided. And the city of Athens was fortunate enough to have two of them. ...
First, the whole gerund phrase begins with the definite article, “the.” Definite articles usually come before nouns. Second, “defusing” is modified by an adjective —“skillful” — instead of by an adverb. And adjectives usually modify nouns. ...
Basilica, in the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches, a canonical title of honour given to church buildings that are distinguished either by their antiquity or by their role as international centres of worship because of their association with a m