It lies approximately south of the Greek mainland.

Some regard it as an ultimate truth, or as the fount of all things which lies beyond the " three realms " ( Sanskrit: tridhatu ) and the " wheel of becoming " ( Sanskrit: bhavacakra ), somewhat like the pagan Greek and Christian logos: this is known as Dharmakaya ( Sanskrit ).

: “ No one has yet translated from the Greek into Latin the thirteen books of Diophantus, in which the very flower of the whole of arithmetic lies hidden.

Cicero calls Herodotus the " father of history ;" yet the Greek writer Plutarch, in his Moralia ( Ethics ) denigrated Herodotus, as the " father of lies ".

The central high point of the citadel rises like a giant natural obelisk complete with a military observation post at the top, with a giant cross at its apex ; at the foot of the observatory lies St. George's church, in a classical style punctuated by six Doric columns, as opposed to the Byzantine architectural style of the greater part of Greek Orthodox churches.

Of the thirty-seven Greek churches, the most important are the city's cathedral, the church dedicated to Our Lady of the Cave ( η Παναγία Σπηλιώτισσα ( hē Panagia Spēliōtissa )); Saint Spyridon church, wherein lies the preserved body of the patron saint of the island ; and finally the suburban church of St Jason and St Sosipater ( Αγιοι Ιάσων και Σωσίπατρος ), reputedly the oldest in the island, and named after the two saints probably the first to preach Christianity to the Corfiots.

Rome's interest lies not in conquest, but in keeping Macedon, the Greek city-states and Greek political leagues continually divided and non-threatening.

The Greek word ἀνταῖος which lies behind his name means " set-against " or " hostile.

The significance of Agamemnon's actions lies not in the fact that he kidnapped Chryseis ( such abductions were commonplace in the Greek world ) but in the fact that he refused to release her upon her father's request.

About 50 km south lies the promontory of Santa Maria di Leuca ( so called since ancient times from its white cliffs, leukos being Greek for white ), the southeastern extremity of Italy, the ancient Promontorium lapygium or Sallentinum.

The modern town of Sibari lies near the ruins of the Greek city ; it is a frazione of the comune of Cassano allo Ionio, in the province of Cosenza.

The refined Greek method of acting was incomprehensible to the Romans who wanted coarser fodder but Roscius impressed on his public that the highest art lies in moderation and not in clown-like antics.

The thorax ( from Greek " θώραξ "-thorax, " breastplate, cuirass, corslet ") is a division of an animal's body that lies between the head and the abdomen.

Zakynthos lies in the eastern part of the Ionian sea, around 20 km west of the Greek ( Peloponnese ) mainland.

A little Greek village, Merbaka with an exceptional late-13th century church, is believed to have been named for him ; it lies between Argos and Mycenae.

* Motorway 25 ( A25 ) is a branch of the A2 ( Egnatia Odos ) and lies between Thessaloniki to the Greek – Bulgarian border crossing, via Serres ( taking over parts of the GR-12 ); and between Thessaloniki towards Nea Moudania, referred to in this part of its section as the Thessaloniki – Nea Moudania Motorway or Chalkidiki Motorway.

Its chief interest lies in the fact that, as knowledge of Greek waned and disappeared in Western Europe, this and the De excidio Trojae of Dares Phrygius were the sources from which the Homeric legends were transmitted to the Romance literature of the Middle Ages.

In the middle of the fasces, above the ropes lies an argent riband in which engraved to it are the Greek Letters Phi Iota Alpha.

Saint Catherine's Monastery ( Greek: Monì tìs Agìas Ekaterìnis ), in Arabic دير القد ّ يسة كاترينا commonly known as Santa Katarina lies on the Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of a gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai in the city of Saint Catherine in Egypt's South Sinai Governorate.

* The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography ( Helicon Publishing, 2004 ) " Pappus of Alexandria ( lived c. AD 200-350 ) Greek mathematician, astronomer, and geographer whose chief importance lies in his commentaries on the mathematical work of his predecessors.

According to another theory, Prochyta comes from the Greek verb prokeitai, meaning ' it lies forth ', because of the appearance of the island seen from the sea.

Even during the Classical period, it is completely untrue to say that Greece had one true culture-a great deal of regional variation was present, and much of the study of Greek archaeology lies in examination of these regional differences.

Shortly after it lies the older Ayakapı (" Gate of the Saint "), known in Greek as the St. Theodosia Gate () after the great earby church of St. Theodosia ( formerly identified with the Gül Mosque ).

While studying at the seminary in Andover, Adoniram had been working on a New Testament translation from the original Greek.

We were struck by the notable absence of banana skins and beer cans, but just so that we wouldn't go overboard on Greek refinement, perfection was side-stepped by a couple of braying portable radios.

The belly boites, with their papier-mache palm trees or hand-painted Ionic columns, heretofore existed mainly on the patronage of Greek and Turkish families.

the gods who protected the Greek countryside were only now putting on their sharply anthropomorphic dress.

The rows of animals and birds, in particular, suggest awareness of Oriental animal friezes, transmitted perhaps via Syrian silver bowls and textiles, but the specific forms of these rows on local vases and metal products are nonetheless Greek.

Anglo-Saxon and Greek epic each provide on two occasions a seemingly authentic account of the narration of verse in the heroic age.

The first Greek Christians to comment extensively on Aristotle were John Philoponus, Elias, and David in the sixth century, and Stephen of Alexandria in the early seventh century.

His ideas had a great influence on post-Archaic art, and the Greek architects and sculptors were always trying to find the mathematical relation, that would lead to the esthetic perfection.

Accordingly the modern study of marine and freshwater algae is called either phycology or algology, depending on whether the Greek or Latin root is used.

Greek ἄβαξ itself is probably a borrowing of a Northwest Semitic, perhaps Phoenician, word akin to Hebrew ʾābāq ( אבק ), " dust " ( since dust strewn on wooden boards to draw figures in ).

A tablet found on the Greek island Salamis in 1846 AD dates back to 300 BC, making it the oldest counting board discovered so far.

Over several centuries, numerous Ancient Greek city states were established on the coasts of Anatolia.

Although the Indian and Greek concepts of the atom were based purely on philosophy, modern science has retained the name coined by Democritus.

Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.

Athena was depicted on the obverse of the Greek 100 drachmas banknote of 1978-2001.

In the 6th century BC, the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras wanted to know why some musical intervals seemed more beautiful than others, and he found answers in terms of numerical ratios representing the harmonic overtone series on a string.

This neologism is based on the prefix u-( as in the word utopia, a place that does not exist ) and the Greek for time, chronos.

His name appears on a Greek Imperial coin.

They are said to go back at least to the Greek poet Lycophron, in the third century BCE ; but this relies on an account of Lycophron given by John Tzetzes in the 12th century.

As the initial spelling on stones was ' Abrasax ' ( Αβρασαξ ), the spelling of ' Abraxas ' seen today probably originates in the confusion made between the Greek letters Sigma and Xi in the Latin transliteration.

In certain obscure magical writings of Egyptian origin ἀβραξάς or ἀβρασάξ is found associated with other names which frequently accompany it on gems ; it is also found on the Greek metal tesseræ among other mystic words.

Abydos ( Greek: Άβυδος ), an ancient city of Mysia, in Asia Minor, situated at Nara Burnu or Nagara Point on the best harbor on the Asiatic shore of the Hellespont.

The word acropolis literally in Greek means " city on the extremity " and though associated primarily with the Greek cities Athens, Argos, Thebes, and Corinth ( with its Acrocorinth ), may be applied generically to all such citadels, including Rome, Jerusalem, Celtic Bratislava, many in Asia Minor, or even Castle Rock in Edinburgh.