Dating to the Greek Bronze Age ( 13th century BC ), it is one of the oldest arch bridges still in existence and use.

The later usage was in part attributed to the choices of gold, silver and bronze to represent the first three Ages of Man in Greek mythology: the Golden Age, when men lived among the gods ; the Silver age, where youth lasted a hundred years ; and the Bronze Age, the era of heroes, and was first adopted at the 1904 Summer Olympics.

The Boii ( Latin plural, singular Boius ; Greek ) were one of the most prominent ancient Celtic tribes of the later Iron Age, attested at various times in Cisalpine Gaul ( northern Italy ), Pannonia ( Hungary and its western neighbours ), in and around Bohemia, and Transalpine Gaul.

The term " Bronze Age " ultimately derives from the Ages of Man, the stages of human existence on the Earth according to Greek mythology.

These mostly range in date from the beginning of the Greek Bronze Age ( about 3200 BC ) to the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine I in the 4th century AD.

* Burkert, Walter, The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age, 1998

Hippocrates of Cos or Hippokrates of Kos (; Hippokrátēs ; c. 460 BC – c. 370 BC ) was an ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles ( Classical Greece ), and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine.

The 1st century Greek author Philo of Byblos may preserve elements of Iron Age Phoenician religion in his Sanchuniathon., to which the prophets, martyrs and other pious people will go at the time of their death.

Increasingly, the Iron Age in Europe is being seen as a part of the Bronze Age collapse in the ancient Near East, in ancient India ( with the post-Rigvedic Vedic civilization ), ancient Iran, and ancient Greece ( with the Greek Dark Ages ).

With written attestations appearing since the Bronze Age, in the form of the Anatolian languages and Mycenaean Greek, the Indo-European family is significant to the field of historical linguistics as possessing the longest recorded history after the Afroasiatic family.

The sequence and the geographical spread of Cretan hieroglyphs, Linear A and Linear B, the three overlapping, but distinct writing systems on Bronze Age Crete and the Greek mainland can be summarized as follows:

Sarah Morris demonstrated ( Morris 2004 ) that donkeys ' ears were a Bronze Age royal attribute, borne by King Tarkasnawa ( Greek Tarkondemos ) of Mira, on a seal inscribed in both Hittite cuneiform and Luwian hieroglyphs: in this connection, the myth would appear for Greeks, to justify the exotic attribute.

Millennialism ( from millennium, Latin for " thousand years "), or chiliasm in Greek, is a belief held by some Christian denominations that there will be a Golden Age or Paradise on Earth in which " Christ will reign " for 1000 years prior to the final judgment and future eternal state ( the " World to Come " of the New Heavens and New Earth ).

The term Neolithic derives from the Greek νεολιθικός, neolithikos, from νέος neos, " new " + λίθος lithos, " stone ", literally meaning " New Stone Age.

* Rose, Herbert Jennings, A Handbook of Greek Literature ; From Homer to the Age of Lucian, London, Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1934.

Also during the Iron Age, the Greek Pre-Socratics discussed reincarnation, and the Celtic Druids are also reported to have taught a doctrine of reincarnation.

Proponents of cultural transmission have looked for links between Iron Age Celtic, Greek and Vedic philosophy and religion, some even suggesting that belief in reincarnation was present in Proto-Indo-European religion.

Middle Age Swahili Kingdoms are known to have had trade port islands and trade routes with the Islamic world and Asia and were described by Greek historians as " metropolises ".

2000 – 1650 BC Akrotiri developed into one of the Aegean's major Bronze Age ports, with recovered objects that had come, not just from Crete, but also from Anatolia, Cyprus, Syria, and Egypt as well as from the Dodecanese and the Greek mainland.

The Lizard peninsula's original name may have been the Celtic name " Predannack " (" British one "); during the Iron Age ( Pytheas c. 325 BC ) and Roman period, Britain was known as Pretannike ( in Greek ) and as Albion ( and Britons the " Pretani ").

The balance of power shifted from Athens to Sparta, ending the Golden Age of Pericles that had marked Athenian dominance in the Greek ancient world.

The Greek poet Hesiod, around the 8th century BC, in his compilation of the mythological tradition ( the poem Works and Days ), explained that, prior to the present era, there were other four progressively more perfect ones, the oldest of which was the Golden Age.

Jason, Perseus, Theseus, and above all Heracles, are all " liminal " figures, poised on the threshold between the old world of shamans, chthonic earth deities, and the new Bronze Age Greek ways.

All memory of the Bronze Age Greek script, Linear B, had been lost.

Mycenaean Greeks were undoubtedly inhabiting Cyprus from the late stage of the Bronze Age, while the island's Greek name is already attested from the 15th century B. C.

Amphora is a Greco-Roman word developing in ancient Greek during the Bronze Age.

Bronze Age Greek settlements were established in the region in the 2nd millennium BC, with a larger mainland colony – initially known as Parthenope – developing around the 9th – 8th centuries BC, at the end of the Greek Dark Ages.

Her mythological birthplace was the Sparta of the Age of Heroes, which features prominently in the canon of Greek myth: in later ancient Greek memory, the Mycenaean Bronze Age became the age of the Greek heroes.

Though later Greeks like Herodotus dated Cadmus's role in the founding myth of Thebes to well before the Trojan War ( or, in modern terms, during the Aegean Bronze Age ), this chronology conflicts with most of what is now known or thought to be known about the origins and spread of both the Phoenician and Greek alphabets.

While a Phoenician origin for the Greek alphabet is certain, the earliest Greek inscriptions match Phoenician letter forms from the late 9th or 8th centuries BC -- and, in any case, the Phoenician alphabet properly speaking wasn't developed until around 1050 BC ( or after the Bronze Age collapse ).

Knossos ( alternative spellings Knossus, Cnossus, Greek Κνωσός, currently refers to the main Bronze Age archaeological site at Heraklion, a modern port city on the north central coast of Crete.

As Mycenaean Greek had been spoken in this dialect region in the Bronze Age, it is clear that the Dorians overran it but were unable to take Attica.

Bronze prutah minted by Pontius Pilate. Reverse: Greek letters TIBEPIOY KAICAPOC ( Tiberius Emperor ) and date LIS ( year 16 = AD 29 / 30 ) surrounding simpulum ( libation ladle ). Obverse: Greek letters IOYLIA KAICAPOC ( Livia | Julia, the Emperor's ( mother )), three bound heads of barley, the outer two heads drooping.

In historical times Greek maidens of Ephesus performed an annual circular dance with weapons and shields that had been established by Hippolyta and her Amazons.

Torsion weapons, which rely on the energy generated from twisted animal sinew became siege weapons and light artillery – such as the Greek ballista or the Roman scorpion.

Though early thermal weapons, such as Greek fire, have existed since ancient times, the first widely used explosive in warfare and mining was black powder, invented in 9th century China ( see the history of gunpowder ).

Incendiary and flaming weapons were used in warfare for centuries prior to the invention of Greek fire.

Hesiod knew from the traditional poetry, such as the Iliad, and the heirloom bronze artifacts that abounded in Greek society, that before the use of iron to make tools and weapons, bronze had been the preferred material and iron was not smelted at all.

Developed from earlier Greek weapons, it relied upon different mechanics, using two levers with torsion springs instead of a prod, the springs consisting of several loops of twisted skeins.

" This myth is Greek interpretation of mystifying Minoan ritual in an attempt to reconcile their Father Zeus with the Divine Child of Crete ; the ritual itself we may never recover with clarity, but it is not impossible that a connection exists between the Kouretes ' weapons at the cave and the dedicated weapons at Arkalochori ", Emily Vermeule observed.

Early flame weapons date from the Byzantine era, whose inhabitants used rudimentary hand-pumped flamethrowers on board their naval ships in the early 1st century AD ( see Greek fire ).

That it did not belong to a Greek population, but to a population which, in the eyes of the Hellenes, appeared barbarous, is shown by the weapons.

The Greek weapon, dagger or spear, is lacking: the weapons of the barbarians, the axe and the knife, are common.

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In the Iliad of Homer ( describing the Trojan War and Bronze Age Greek and Trojan warriors ), most of the armor and weapons ( swords and spears ) are stated to have been of bronze.

Apart from his description of the battle itself, when later discussing the subject of Roman Legion versus Greek Phalanx, Polybius says that "... against Hannibal, the defeats they suffered had nothing to do with weapons or formations " because " Hannibal himself ... discarded the equipment with which he had started out ( and ) armed his troops with Roman weapons ".

* EAS ( weapons ), abbreviation for the Greek defence company Ellinika Amyntika Systimata

Many of the game's elements are inspired by Greek mythology or ancient Roman culture such as weapons, equipment, items and enemy designs ; Princess Athena herself is named after the Greek goddess Athena, while Dante is based on Cerberus.

The Greek gymnasium never became popular with the Romans, who believed the training of boys in gymnastics was conducive to idleness and immorality, and of little use for militaristic reasons ( though in Sparta gymnastic training had been valued chiefly because it encouraged warlike tastes, promoted the bodily strength needed to use weapons and ensured the fortitude required to endure hardship ).

As a result of Greco-Turkish tensions around the 1974 Turkish invasion in Cyprus, the U. S. removed its nuclear weapons from Greek and Turkish alert units to storage.

The ancient Greek Helepolis, a massive siege tower which mounted catapults, could also be considered a weapons platform.

Forrester was at the head of a crowd of disorderly Greeks, including women ; one Greek had a shot gun with a serrated-edge bread knife tied on like a bayonet, others had ancient weapons — all sorts.

The Romans also began restructuring their military organization: They ceased using the Greek phalanx style spear and adopted better and more standardized armour and weapons.