Agamemnon the Conqueror Troy campaign - Storm the gates of Troia and crush the Trojans once and for all. The great city must be yours! Win as Mykenai by completing the City of Troia victory condition. Achilles the Invincible Troy campaign - The deaths of your enemies will bring you immortal...
Greece, conquered, took captive her savage conqueror. His head had been shattered by a savage blow from some heavy weapon. The savage robbed me of my precious jewels and ran away. The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. ...
Word Origin fromnikosanddémos Definition Nicodemus, an Isr. NASB Translation Nicodemus (5). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3530: Νικόδημος Νικόδημος(νίκηandδῆμος(i. e. 'conqueror of the people')).Νικοδημου,ὁ,Nicodemus(rabbinical...
What I attempted to explain to you twice already, is that colonial imposition of a conqueror's system (no matter how "logical" this system looks like in the eyes of those whose society is already so much shaped around it that it became internalized as "common sense") does not work better...
this earthen tub,called a pithos,and formerly been used for holding wine or oil for the sacrifices at the temple. one day,alexander the great ,conqueror of half the civilized world,saw diogenes sitting in this tub in the sunshine .so the king,surrounded by his countries,approached diogenes ...
Byzantium: from Constantine I to Mehmet the Conqueror (pp.129–290), and III. Modern Greek: from the Ottoman Empire to the European Union (pp.291–365). Each section consists of several chapters which present us with different aspects of the external history (the history of the speakers...
605 ff : "[Dionysos] conqueror of India."Seneca, Oedipus 112 ff (trans. Miller) (Roman tragedy C1st A.D.) : "Destruction feeds, O Bacchus, on that soldiery of thine [the Theban people], thy comrades to farthest India, who dared to ride on the Eastern plains and plant thy banners...
Excessive drinking and debauchery generally accompanied the cult of Dionysus, giving rise to the word 'bacchanalia' for a party featuring drunken revelry. Initially Dionysus was often portrayed as a dignified, elderly man with a beard, and later as a beautiful, nude youth or as a small, fat ...
1.GreekCultureandRomanCulture2.TheBibleandChristianity3.TheMiddleAges Introduction 1.UsesoftheSubject •Languagecannotbelearnedwithouttheknowledgeoftheculturebehindit.•Necessarytothecitizensoftheworld.2.TwoMajorElementsinEuropeanCulture •Greco-Romanelement•Judeo-Christianelement ChapterOne:Greek&Roman...
One of these people was Alexander the Great, the great conqueror of many nations. He was tutored by another great philosopher, Aristotle, and his teacher had most likely, developed in him a genuine taste for philosophy and respect for philosophers. And so, Alexander journeyed to Corinth, where...