from Latinpānnus(cloth, rag, garment), possibly from Proto-Indo-European*peh₂n-(fabric). Or from Latinpatina(a broad, shallow dish, a pan, a kind of cake, a crib, a manger), from Ancient Greekπατάνη(patánē – a kind of flat dish) [source]. ...
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The one-upping found in Shaduppum’s collection of tablets didn’t even stop at Mesopotamia’s borders, for it extended all the way to the Greek realm, delivering the two bombshells I’m going to talk about now. Now, even if you used math class (or history) as nap time, the names...
Scattered around the Mediterranean lie the remains of the ancient theaters of the Greek and Roman world. The Greek theaters were large, open-air structures constructed on the slope of a hill. Roman theaters, although heavily influenced by the Greeks, have specific differences, such as being built...
Ancient Greek astronomical worksSee alsoSpherical Trigonometry