it was vividly chthonic (from the Greek word for earth, chthō n, which according to the mythological view gave birth to these monsters). During the period of the primitive communal system, the mythological religious conceptions of the ancient Greeks were dominated by totemistic, fetishistic. ...
There German word for Saturday,Samstag, comes from Middle High Germansam(e)ztac, from Old High Germansambaztag(Sabbath day), from Gothic*𐍃𐌰𐌼𐌱𐌰𐍄𐍉(*sambatō), a version𐍃𐌰𐌱𐌱𐌰𐍄𐍉(sabbatō – Saturday, the Sabbath day), from Koine Greekσάββατον(...
6. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) (often plural) one of the classical authors of Greek or Roman antiquity 7. archaic an old man [C14: from Old French ancien, from Vulgar Latin anteanus (unattested), from Latin ante before] ˈancientness n ancient (ˈeɪnʃənt) n 1....
Hydra- (Greek mythology) monster with nine heads; when struck off each head was replaced by two new ones; "Hydra was slain by Hercules" Hyperborean- (Greek mythology) one of a people that the ancient Greeks believed lived in a warm and sunny land north of the source of the north wind ...
the Greek world, from as far as Spain in the west and Turkey in the east.The ancient Olympic Games began in the yea 776 BC when Koroibos, a cook from the city of Elis, won a 200-metre-long race.They took place for a period of 617 years until the last games were held in AD ...
Huge audiences are attracted to performances of ancient Greek drama staged in the theatre of Epidaurus, which dates from the 4th century bce and whose acoustics are extraordinary; the 2nd-century-ce Roman theatre of Herodes Atticus, at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens, also draws large ...
Ixion Greek King of the Lapiths in Thessaly, the largest ancient region of north-central Greece.
Ephesus, the most important Greek city in Ionian Asia Minor, the ruins of which lie near the modern village of Selƈuk in western Turkey. In Roman times it was situated on the northern slopes of the hills Coressus and Pion and south of the Cayster (Kü
must be 1/50 of Earth’s circumference north of Syene (Figure 3). Alexandria had been measured to be 5000 stadia north of Syene. (Thestadiumwas a Greek unit of length, derived from the length of the racetrack in a stadium.)Eratosthenesthus found that Earth’s circumference must be 50 ×...
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