In Greek literature, he often represents the physical or violent aspect of war, in contrast to the armored Athena, whose functions as a goddess of intelligence include military strategy and generalship.

Gnosis is used throughout Greek philosophy as a technical term for experience knowledge ( see gnosiology ) in contrast to theoretical knowledge or epistemology.

The tenses of Ancient Greek are similar, though having a three-way aspect contrast in the past, the aorist, the perfect and the imperfect.

In this report I shall call strongly interacting particles " hadrons ", and the corresponding decays " hadronic " ( the Greek ἁδρός signifies " large ", " massive ", in contrast to λεπτός which means " small ", " light ").

In contrast, the poet Lucretius interpreted the ideas of the Greek philosopher Epicurus.

In this it resembles the Greek pharmakos or scapegoat — though in contrast, pharmakos generally ejected a lowly member of the community.

Omega ( the last letter of the Greek alphabet ) is often used to denote the last, the end, or the ultimate limit of a set, in contrast to alpha, the first letter of the Greek alphabet.

* Paleopaganism: A retronym coined to contrast with " Neopaganism ", " original polytheistic, nature-centered faiths ", such as the pre-Hellenistic Greek and pre-imperial Roman religion, pre-Migration period Germanic paganism as described by Tacitus, or Celtic polytheism as described by Julius Caesar.

Hieroglyphs retained their pictorial appearance and classical authors emphasised this aspect, in sharp contrast to the Greek and Roman alphabets.

He had learned from the Greek apologies, and forms a direct contrast to Origen of Alexandria, who drew much of his theories regarding creation from middle platonism.

Gothic ( not Latin-based ), by contrast, simply used a letter based on the Greek Υ for the same sound.

By contrast, the Eastern Roman Empire, mostly known as the Greek or Byzantine Empire, managed to survive and even to thrive for another 1000 years.

Herodotus seems to denote by it the Mycenaean Greek citadel at Therapne, in contrast to the lower town of Sparta.

In contrast to populations conquered by other Greek cities ( e. g. the Athenian treatment of Melos ), the male population was not exterminated and the women and children turned into chattel slaves.

The " Graecarum Affectionum Curatio " or Cure of the Greek Maladies or Knowledge of the Gospel Truth from the Greek Philosophy, of twelve discourses, was an attempt to prove the truth of Christianity from Greek philosophy and in contrast with the pagan ideas and practises.

The ancient Greek term for the potential or improper infinite was apeiron ( unlimited or indefinite ), in contrast to the actual or proper infinite aphorismenon.

This is in contrast to the debased symposiastic Greek culture of which he complains in some of his other works.

" ( The Christian virtue of love is sometimes called charity and at other times a Greek word agape is used to contrast the love for God and humankind from other types of love such as friendship or physical affection.

Totila spent the following season establishing himself in the south and reducing pockets of resistance, while the unpaid Imperial troops in central Italy made such poor reputations pillaging the countryside that when Totilas turned his attention to taking Rome, he was able proudly to contrast Goth and Greek behavior in his initial negotiations with the senate.

Antithesis ( Greek for " setting opposite ", from " against " + " position ") is a counter-proposition and denotes a direct contrast to the original proposition.

Related to the god's name, a hymenaios is a genre of Greek lyric poetry sung during the procession of the bride to the groom's house in which the god is addressed, in contrast to the Epithalamium, which was sung at the nuptial threshold.

By contrast, if the same historian had made the same claim five times in five different places ( and no other types of evidence were available ), the claim is much weaker because it originates from a single source.

This was necessary so that there would be a legal bench mark with which to compare and contrast the scholarship of an objective historian against the methods employed by David Irving, as before the Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt trial there was no legal precedent for what constituted an objective historian.

In contrast to Vincent, historian William Chester Jordan concludes that the pair were a " companionable couple " who had a successful marriage by the standards of the day.

The Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt ( 1818 – 1897 ) in his Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien ( 1860 ), by contrast, defined the Renaissance as the period between Giotto and Michelangelo in Italy, that is, the 14th to mid-16th centuries.

British historian Isaac Deutscher, in his biography of Trotsky, says that on being faced with the evidence " only the blind and the deaf could be unaware of the contrast between Stalinism and Leninism ".

" In contrast, historian Jack Rakove suggests that Madison's intention in framing the Second Amendment was to provide assurances to moderate Anti-Federalists that the militias would not be disarmed.

In contrast, the noted historian of the 11th century H. E. J.

In contrast, historian Ben Rubin argues that because the American Revolution was a conflict that as often pitted neighbor against neighbor — Whigs ( advocates of Revolution ) against Tories ( loyalists to Britain )— as it pitted nascent Americans against the British, many people stayed neutral until goaded into taking a stand in reaction to military atrocities, such as those attributed to Tarleton, or individual atrocities, such as the death of Thomas Young's brother, or the burning of Thomas Sumter's house and the abuse of his wife, or the interrogation at knife point of William Bratton's wife, the beating of their young son, and the family's imprisonment in their own attic -- individual atrocities similar to those depicted in The Patriot.

By contrast, a recent historian and author, Richard Bisgrove, described Brown's process as perfecting nature by

In contrast, the historian Seán Duffy has argued that the native Irish nobility were just as resistant to the king as the Anglo-Norman barons.

Draper's political choices, both then and later, were in contrast to those made by his brother Theodore ( Ted ) Draper, a fellow traveler of the Communist Party in the 1930s who would later be disillusioned with Communism and become a prominent historian.

In contrast, Maori art historian Jonathan Mane-Wheoki described Pākehā as "... the people who define themselves by what they are not.

** In contrast, the conservative popular historian Paul Johnson in A History of the Modern World from 1917 to the 1980s ( 1983 ) was highly critical of his judgment.

Military historian Max Hastings :" In contrast to almost every other outstanding commander of the war, Slim was a disarmingly normal human being, possessed of notable self-knowledge.

On the other hand, historian Birgir Solvason states that Icelandic society was " more peaceful and cooperative than its contemporaries "; in England and Norway, by contrast, " the period from about 800 to 1200 is a period of continuous struggle ; high in both violence and killings.

This violence continued as when Muhammad of Ghor attacked the city and drove out the remaining Ismailis whom he deemed to be heretics, in stark contrast to his predecessor, the Ghurid Sultan ' Ala ' al-Din who welcomed numerous envoys from the Ismaili state of Alamut and according to the historian Juzjani, gave them " great reverence "

However, historian Kenneth R. Bartlett notes that, in contrast to his Renaissance-era successors, " his reliance on such elements as Divine Providence links Villani closely with the medieval vernacular chronicle tradition.

By contrast, the Swiss historian Philippe Burrin argues that such a decision was not made before August 1941 at the earliest, pointing to orders given by Himmler on July 30, 1941 to the 2nd SS Cavalry Regiment and the SS Cavalry Brigade operating in the Pripet Marshes in the Pripyat operation calling for the murder of male Jews only while the Jewish women and children were to be driven into the Marshes.

Remarking on the contrast between the dying figures in the foreground and the figures in the mid-ground waving towards the approaching rescue ship, the French art historian Georges-Antoine Borias wrote that Géricault's painting represents, " on the one hand, desolation and death.

Critics of Goerdeler such as the American political scientist Daniel Goldhagen have asserted that, because Goerdeler published a list of " non-Aryan " physicians to be excluded from practicing under public insurance, Goerdeler was an anti-Semite ; by contrast, Goerdeler's defenders like the Canadian historian Peter Hoffmann have argued that Goerdeler's insistence on enforcing the laws served to protect those Jewish physicians entitled to practice.

By contrast, the Canadian historian Peter Hoffmann in his 2004 essay " The German Resistance and the Holocaust " has contended that Goerdeler was opposed to anti-Semitism in all forms, and that this opposition played a major role in motivating his efforts to overthrow the Nazi regime.

It will be a worthy theme for a historian of science of the twenty-first century to compare and contrast these two great men of science.

Ohio historian Walter Havighurst described Brough as being " a big bull of a man with driving energy ," and Richard H. Abbott wrote that he " had a reputation for rough and ready politics with a temperament to match ... was a blunt, outspoken, rude man who loved to chew tobacco thus presented quite a contrast with his two handsome and dignified predecessors, William Dennison and David Tod.