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Among the many petty local republics that were formed during the first year of the Greek Revolution, prior to the creation of a unified Provisional Government at the First National Assembly at Epidaurus, were:
Plato, for instance writes that " So it is with air: there is the brightest variety which we call aether, the muddiest which we call mist and darkness, and other kinds for which we have no name ...." Among the early Greek Pre-Socratic philosophers, Anaximenes ( mid-6th century BCE ) named air as the arche.
Among modern languages, cases still feature prominently in most of the Balto-Slavic languages, with most having six to eight cases, as well as Icelandic, German and Modern Greek, which have four.
* Among the Syriac manuscripts obtained from the Nitrian desert in Egypt, British Museum, London: important Greek texts, Add.
Among early centers of Christianity a Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible was used by Greek speakers ( Aramaic Targums were used by Aramaic speakers such as the Syriac Orthodox Church ).
Among the Berliners they encounter in their wanderings is an old man named Homer, who, unlike the Greek poet of war Homer, dreams of an " epic of peace.
Among the items lost in the fire are works of science, including parchments by the Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos asserting that the Earth orbits the Sun, and dozens of dramatic works by Euripides and Sophocles.
Among these characters were Stavros, a Greek restaurant owner with fractured English ; and Loadsamoney, an obnoxious, Cockney plasterer who constantly boasted about how much money he earned.
Among those who were put to death was Zenobia's chief counselor and Greek sophist, Cassius Longinus.
Among communities part in the Serb ethnogenesis are the Romanized Paleo-Balkan tribes of Illyrians, Thracians and Dacians, Celts, Greek colonies and Romans.
Among the ancient Greeks themselves two works of Phidias far outshone all others, the colossal chryselephantine figures of Zeus circa 432 BC on the site where it was erected in the temple of Zeus, at Olympia, Greece, and of Athena Parthenos ( literally, " Athena the Virgin ") a sculpture of the Greek virgin goddess Athena named after an epithet for the goddess herself, and was housed in the Parthenon in Athens.
Among their leaders there were also members of some old Byzantine Greek noble families such as the Palaiologi and Comneni.
Among these were the Sapphic, the Elegiac, the Alcaic, and the Asclepiadean strophe, all of them prominent in Greek and Latin verse.
* Graves, Robert ( 1955 ), The Greek Myths, London: Penguin, pgs 73-75: ( Iphigenia Among the Taurians )
Among very few representations of Protesilaus, a sculpture by Deinomenes is just a passing mention in Pliny's Natural History ; the outstanding surviving examples are two Roman copies of a lost mid-fifth century Greek bronze original represent Protesilaus at his defining moment, one of them in a torso the British Museum, the other at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Among the Eleusinian figures painted on Greek ceramics, Plutus, whether a boy child or a youthful ephebe, is recognized by the cornucopia, or horn of plenty, that he bears.
Among the interesting features of this version of the flood myth, are the identification, through interpretatio graeca, of the Sumerian god Enki with the Greek god Cronus, the father of Zeus ; and the assertion that the reed boat constructed by Xisuthros survived, at least until Berossus ' day, in the " Corcyrean Mountains " of Armenia.
Among Camden's other works are a Greek grammar, which remained a standard school textbook for many years ; Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine ( 1605 ), a more popular English-language companion to Britannia, comprising a collection of themed historical essays ; the official account of the trial of the Gunpowder Plotters ; and a catalogue of the epitaphs at Westminster Abbey.
Among the most well-known periods of city-state culture in human history include ancient Greek city-states, and the merchant city-states of Renaissance Italy, who organised themselves in small independent centres.
Among the winds studied by Greek sailors one can number Auster and Aquilon.
Among his other works are a History of that Most Victorious Monarch Edward III ( 1688 ), an epic work numbering 900 + pages, in which he introduces long and elaborate speeches into the narrative ; editions of Euripides ( 1694 ) and of Homer ( 1711 ), also one of Anacreon ( 1705 ) which contains titles of Greek verses of his own which he hoped to publish.
Among his works on Greek literature the chief are Die Äschyleische Trilogie ( 1824, 6 ), Der epische Zyklus oder die Homerischen Geschichte ( 2 vols.
Among his pupils was one Erasmus whose name alone would suffice to preserve the memory of his instructor in Greek, and others of note in letters and politics, such as Sir Thomas More, Prince Arthur and Queen Mary I of England.

Among and philosophy
Among the terms commonly found in Chinese philosophy are:
Argentine anarchist historian Angel Cappelletti reports that in Argentina " Among the workers that came from Europe in the 2 first decades of the century, there was curiously some stirnerian individualists influenced by the philosophy of Nietzsche, that saw syndicalism as a potential enemy of anarchist ideology.
Among the Madhyamaka school of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy, the ultimate nature of the world is described as emptiness, which is inseparable from sensorial objects or anything else.
Among the key themes of Romanticism, and its most enduring legacy, the cultural assertions of romantic nationalism have also been central in post-Enlightenment art and political philosophy.
Among the main changes are the mechanical philosophy, the chemical philosophy, empiricism, and the increasing role of mathematics.
Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.
Among the fields that rapidly advanced were philosophy, political economy, engineering, architecture, medicine, geology, archaeology, law, agriculture, chemistry and sociology.
Among other topics, Dorff is interested in Jewish philosophy.
Among other things, she was conversant with philosophy, literature, grammar, theology, astronomy, and medicine.
Among the requirements are a first year seminar course, two semesters of a foreign language, three philosophy courses, and two religious studies courses.
Among the classic texts of Jewish tradition, some Jewish Bible commentators, the Midrash, the Talmud, and mainstream Jewish philosophy utilise revealed approaches.
Among its many worlds is Sauron, where the culture has grown militaristic and adheres to a literal interpretation of the philosophy of Nietzsche, namely that " man is something to be surpassed.
Among the rankings dealing with individual fields of study is the Philosophical Gourmet Report or " Leiter Report ", a ranking of philosophy departments.
Among the very diverse movements of Hellenistic philosophy in which theological reflection could be found were Skepticism, Cynicism, Stoicism, Epicureanism, Middle Platonism, and Neoplatonism.
Among other things he wrote on Kantian and Hegelian philosophy, on Danish and Norwegian law, on Scandinavian politics ( 1857 ) and left an autobiography ( 1856 ).
Among them were Ernst Gombrich ( entrusted with the main task of finding a publisher ), Friedrich Hayek ( who wanted to get Popper to the London School of Economics and thus was enthused by Popper's turn to social philosophy ), Lionel Robbins, Harold Laski ( both of whom reviewed the manuscript ), and J. N.
Among the principles on which the village was based was a philosophy of " Three P's ": there should be no public houses, no pawn shops, and consequently no need for police.
A modern researcher describes the Sabha's philosophy as modern middle-class ( bourgeois ) Vedanta .< ref >< 2007: Brian Hatcher " Journal of American Academy of Religion "</ ref > Among its first members were the " two giants of Hindu reformation and Bengal Renaissance, Akshay Kumar Datta " who in 1839 emerged from the life of an anonymous squalor-beset individual " and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar the " indigenous modernizer ".
Among the topics he discussed were courage, the philosophy of life, and the description of battles.
Among these many programs, philosophy of Science and Technology and Quantum Optics are designated as state key programs and 20 others are designated as provincial key-or key-constructing programs.
Among his students were the logicians Stanisław Leśniewski, Jan Łukasiewicz and Tadeusz Czeżowski, the historian of philosophy Władysław Tatarkiewicz, the phenomenologist and aesthetician Roman Ingarden, as well as philosophers close to the Vienna Circle such as Tadeusz Kotarbiński and Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz.
Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the " Freedom Party " ( Tnuat Haherut ), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties.
Among these clubs and organizations are Eckerd's student newspaper, " The Current ," which can be found online at theonlinecurrent. com, a radio station ( WECX ), an on-campus television station, a student programming board, Palmetto Productions, sports clubs, cultural clubs, and various academic-related clubs, such as those for anthropology ( The Bipedal Society ), art, biology, chemistry, philosophy, law, and foreign languages.

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