The EPY stamp from Tektas Burnu assumes particular importance as one of the earliest examples of the abbreviated ethnic stamp type, and its presence alongside other, less transparently meaningful stamp types in the same cargo provides a unique context for the evaluation of early Greek stamping ...
The word acropolis comes from the Greek words ἄκρον (akron, “highest point, extremity”) and πόλις (polis, “city”). Although there are many other acropoleis in Greece, the significance of the Acropolis of Athens is such that it is commonly known as “The Acropolis” ...
From the eighth century to the sixth the unique form of ancient Greek socioeconomic and political organization took shape—the city-state (polis), a group of free citizens, as distinct from slaves and other subject persons (clarotae, penestae. Helots) and from aliens (metics). Membership in...
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As the earliest examples of poetry make clear, however, such ritual origins were expanded on very early. Not all songs existed solely for the practical purposes of propitiating the gods, smoothing the course of the soul’s voyage after death, assuring the outcome of a battle, or influencing...
Another major difference in the earliest α instar of Strobilopterus proteus is the development of the posterolateral regions of the carapace being drawn out into long genal spines, a plesiomorphic characteristic that is usually considered absent in Sclerophorata (eurypterids and arachnids) but is ...
This artistic presentation of values originated at the same time as writing but before the latter could record continuous texts or complex statements. Some of the earliest continuous texts of the 4th and 5thdynastiesshow an awareness of an ideal past that the present could only aspire to emulate...
The first approach, which corresponds to the period of his earliest writings (through 347 B.C.E.) in which he was an enthusiastic defender of Platonism was characterized by a Platonic concept of the soul as a separate substance. Aristotle’s second approach, reflecting an increasingly critical ...
Be it the 1873 World’s Fair in Vienna, which established the city's status as a link between the Occident and Orient, or the very first Great Exhibition in 1851 in London, which showcased the then British empire to a global public and the world to its d
The St. Cuthbert Gospel of John (early 8th century) is the earliest intact European book, still in its original binding. It was kept in the coffin with his body for over 400 years. Passing into private hands during Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the monasteries, it was purchasd by the Bri...