Did the ancient Greeks get their ideas from the Africans? By: Josh Clark Ancient Greece Image Gallery The roots of much of our modern civilization trace back to the classical Greeks. Our sitcoms, for example, are founded upon Greek comedies. See more pictures of ancient Greece. Piotr Malec...
Did St. Bede write in Greek? Did Herodotus visit India? Did Harappans use cuneiform? Did Herodotus travel outside of Greece? Did the Akkadians write in cuneiform? Did the Iroquois have a written language? Did Socrates write the History of the Peloponnesian War?
The satyrs were rustic gods of the ancient Greek world. They were often found in the most wild and isolated parts of Greece. They sometimes danced, drank,
“El banquete” (Symposium) byPlato(+): this book is a short dialogue after a banquet in which several attendees to the meal are asked to give a speech praising love and Eros, the Greek god. These praises include the controversial relationship at that time between minor pupils and their a...
(Diodorus claimed that Myrina’s rule predated the Amazons of Themiscyra, and that it was she who sailed north to Greece and founded many of the Amazon cities.) But Amazons are not found only in museums and the pages of Greek mythology. The term “Amazon” has been used loosely ...
Steiner began his lectures by explaining that the doctrine of the GreekMysteries (Mysterienlehren) went back well into the eighth century BC, if notearlier, and had been enriched by the doctrines of the Egyptian, Persian and evenIndian Mysteries. For Greece he did not begin with Eleusis but ...
Well Western society is partly founded on the ideas of Ancient Greece, which though pretty misogynistic, famously did not have quite the same views on sexuality. And how come these people equally exist in every other society too? Could it be that traditional ideas of ‘human nature’ have ...
(cf. the Qedishim and Kelabim, Deuteronomy 23:17; 2 Samuel 23:7; cf. 1 Samuel 14:24; 15:12), and even in the Greek world, where prostitution was not else regarded as religious, Eryx and Corinth at least were contaminated by Semitic influence, which Greece could not correct. (...
A few times recently, I’ve come across the idea (which I think is mainly an American academic one, but I might be completely mistaken about that) that parentheses should only be used when you really have to (but when do you really have to?) because anything that is surplus to the re...
[Remember how the Israelites in the wilderness would depart whenever the cloud above the tabernacle lifted? Movement was constant and quick.] In nearby Greece, during the Archaic period, entire cities migrated to avoid conquest [HI:URACG]. The Canaanites had DECADES of notice--authenticated by...