The Archaic Greece | archaic Gorgon at the pediment of the Temple of Artemis ( Corfu ) | Temple of Artemis in Corfu as shown at the Archaeological Museum of Corfu.

The three Gorgon sisters — Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale — were all children of the ancient marine deities Phorcys ( or Phorkys ) and his sister Ceto ( or Keto ), chthonic monsters from an archaic world.

Pausanias, in travelling around Greece, attributed to Daedalus numerous archaic wooden cult figures ( see xoana ) that impressed him: " All the works of this artist, though somewhat uncouth to look at, nevertheless have a touch of the divine in them.

But around 1830, some Danes started to re-introduce the archaic term Sønderjylland to emphasize the area's history before its association with Holstein and its connection with the rest of Jutland.

In one version, the name comes from the archaic Romanian word chișla ( meaning " spring ", " source of water ") and nouă (" new "), because it was built around a small spring, located at the corner of Puşkin and Albișoara streets.

* Cyrenaica, the region around Cyrene, archaic city, Libya

Seghwaert was formed around what was the former village of Zegwaart ( or Zegwaard ), which fused with Zoetermeer in 1935, using the archaic spelling of the locale's name.

Ockeghem used the cantus firmus technique in about half of his masses ; the earliest of these masses use head-motifs at the start of the individual movements, a practice which was common around 1440 but which was archaic after around mid-century.

Some archaic groups transferred from food gatherers to food producers around 3, 000 years ago.

The earliest finds of roof tiles in archaic Greece are documented from a very restricted area around Corinth ( Greece ), where fired tiles began to replace thatched roofs at two temples of Apollo and Poseidon between 700-650 BC.

Lithuanian folk music is based around songs ( dainos ), which include romantic and wedding songs, as well as work songs and archaic war songs.

His Più Belle Cartoline Del Mondo (" Most Beautiful Postcards Of The World ") are elaborate stories built around 60s and 70's kitsch postcards, often representing children or couples, written in an absurdly baroque and archaic style and lexicon.

A document from around this time details the rent charged for each of the farms in the area, and it is in this that we see the first mention of Carnoustie ( albeit in an archaic spelling ):

Organ music was eventually discontinued in the mid-1970s, around the time The Carol Burnett Show wrapped up its run, so when the skit is seen in syndication today, it brings back a sense of production technique that is now seen by many younger soap viewers as archaic and outdated.

Settlement sites are spread across the whole island, with some apparent clustering on the western leeward side of the island around the mountain and causeway stream catchments, and early archaic settlements at open stream mouths and adjacent spurs.

Places to visit in and around Pelling include the local monastery, the rock garden and waterfall at nearby Rimbi, the imposing double-pronged Kanchenjungha Falls, the archaic quaint Singshore Bridge, the Chhange Waterfalls, the Khecheopalri / Khechuperi Lake holy to Buddhists and ancient Pemyangtse / Pemyangshi Monastery.

The name Stobi is Paeonian and meant " post, pillar " and is akin Old Prussian stabis " rock ", Old Church Slavonic stoboru " pillar ", English staff, Old English stapol " post ", and archaic Greek stobos " scolding, bad language ", Macedonian Slavic stolb meaning " post ", Greek stephein " to tie around, encircle ", staphyle " grapevine, grape bunch ", Middle Irish sab " shaft ".

The name of the town was first mentioned by the anonymous author of Gesta Hungarorum around 1200, as Geuru, the archaic spelling for Győr: " After our leader Árpád left Szerencs with his army (...) he gave the land between Tapolca and the river Sajó, called Miskolc at the time, and the town named Győr to Böngér, father of Bors.

The suspension was fully independent all around, departing from the archaic leaf spring arrangement found on its predecessors.

In the first large-scale depictions during the early archaic period ( 640 – 580 BC ), the artists tried to draw one's attention to look into the interior of the face and the body which were not represented as lifeless masses, but as being full of life.

On a fragmentary archaic vessel of circa 580 BC ( British Museum 1971. 11-1. 1 ), among the gods arriving at the wedding of Peleus and the sea-nymph Thetis, is a fish-tailed Oceanus, with a fish in one hand and a serpent in the other, gifts of bounty and prophecy.

The last stage in the development of the Kouros type is the late archaic period ( 520 – 485 BC ), in which the Greek sculpture attained a full knowledge of human anatomy and used to create a relative harmonious whole.

The archaic xoanon of the goddess and a statue made by Praxiteles in the 4th century BC were both in the sanctuary.

A coin minted by P. Accoleius Lariscolus in 43 BC has been acknowledged as representing the archaic statue of Diana Nemorensis.

The writing system had two historical phases: the archaic from the 7th to 5th century BC, which used the early Greek alphabet, and the later from the 4th to 1st century BC, which modified some of the letters.

The archaic is demonstrated by jewellery and pieces such as the limestone Lady of Auxerre, from 640 BC ; and the cylindrical Hera of Samos, circa 570 – 560 BC.

The mainstream academic view has been that pankration was the product of the development of archaic Greek society of the seventh century BC, whereby, as the need for expression in violent sport increased, pankration filled a niche of " total contest " that neither boxing or wrestling could.

Pherecydes of Syros ( 6th century BC ), believed that there were three pre-existent divine principles and called the water also Chaos .< ref >< DK B1a ></ ref > In the language of the archaic period ( 8th – 6th century BC ), arche ( or archai ), designates the source, origin or root of things that exist.

In the first half of the fifth century BC, the Locrians demolished their archaic temple and rebuilt a new temple in the Ionic style.

The wettest time of the Sahara appears the more archaic, which may correspond to a certain glacial period in Europe ( the Würm, which ended c. 9000 BC ).

* The Archaic period ( c. 750 – c. 500 BC ) follows, in which artists made larger free-standing sculptures in stiff, hieratic poses with the dreamlike ' archaic smile '.

The archaic joint temple built upon the spot that was identified as the Kekropion, the hero-grave of the mythic founder-king Cecrops and the serpent that embodied his spirit was destroyed by the Persian forces in 480 BC, during the Greco-Persian wars, and was replaced between 421 and 407 BCE by the famous present Erechtheum.

An archaic Faliscan inscription of c. 600 BC asks her to provide far ( spelt wheat ), which was a dietary staple of the Mediterranean world.

On the mainland of Greece, the spring called Adrasteia was at the site of the Temple of Nemean Zeus, a late Classic temple of c 330 BC, but built on an archaic platform in a very ancient sanctuary near the cave of the Nemean Lion.

A mythic element of a black dove that initiated the oracle at Dodona, which Herodotus was told in the 5th century BC may be an attempt to account for a folk etymology applied to the archaic name of the sacred women that no longer made sense ( an aitiological myth ).

A terracotta plaque from the 7th century BC depicting Aphroditos was found in Perachora, which suggests it was an archaic cult.

The earliest written records in Greek date from the 16th to 11th centuries BC and exist in an archaic writing system, Linear B, belonging to the Mycenaean Greeks.

Over time the archaic Comitium was replaced by the larger adjacent Forum and the focus of judicial activity moved to the new Basilica Aemilia ( 179 BC ).

The archaic name for the site was Hekademia, which by classical times evolved into Akademia and was explained, at least as early as the beginning of the 6th century BC, by linking it to an Athenian hero, a legendary " Akademos ".

The archaic inhabited places spread out protected by the so-called Servian walls, made with stone blocks placed in alternate lines and dating back to the beginning of the 3rd century BC.

It is a Latin transliteration from the koine Greek word ( ho aion ), from the archaic ( aiwon ).

In Greek mythology, Aegeus (; ) or Aegeas (; ), was an archaic figure in the founding myth of Athens.

The-dour element, referring to the Burn, means simply ' water ' ( archaic dobur ), and is unconnected to the Scots / English ' dour '.

The word computation has an archaic meaning ( from its Latin etymological roots ), but the word has come back in use with the arising of a new scientific discipline: computer science.

Excavated sites include Saliagos and Kephala ( on Keos ) with signs of copper-working, Each of the small Cycladic islands could support no more than a few thousand people, though Late Cycladic boat models show that fifty oarsmen could be assembled from the scattered communities ( Rutter ), and when the highly organized palace-culture of Crete arose, the islands faded into insignificance, with the exception of Delos, which retained its archaic reputation as a sanctuary throughout antiquity and until the emergence of Christianity.

* Consumption ( disease ), an archaic name for pulmonary tuberculosis

In 1995, one of the oldest hominids, representing a possible link between Homo erectus and an archaic Homo sapiens was found in Buya, Eritrea by Italian scientists dated to over 1 million years old ( the oldest of its kind ), providing a link between hominids and the earliest humans.

The first languages for which standardisation was promoted included Italian (" questione della lingua ": Modern Tuscan / Florentine vs. Old Tuscan / Florentine vs. Venetian > Modern Florentine + archaic Tuscan + Upper Italian ), French ( the standard is based on Parisian ), English ( the standard is based on the London dialect ) and ( High ) German ( based on the dialects of the chancellery of Meissen in Saxony, Middle German and the chancellery of Prague in Bohemia (" Common German ")).

E-Prime does not allow the conjugations of to be — be, am, is, are, was, were, been, being — the archaic forms of to be ( e. g. art, wast, wert ), or the contractions of to be —' s ,'m ,'re ( e. g. I'm, he's, she's, they're ).

During the Gupta period in India ( AD 300M – 600 ), craftmen's associations, which may have had archaic antecedents, were known as shreni.

MacDiarmid attempted to revive the Scots language as a medium for serious literature in poetic works including " A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle " ( 1936 ), developing a form of Synthetic Scots that combined different regional dialects and archaic terms.

Modern scholars refer to him as a major source on Greek mythology, farming techniques, early economic thought ( he is sometimes identified as the first economist ), archaic Greek astronomy and ancient time-keeping.

The documented history of Indian religions begins with the historical Vedic religion, the religious practices of the early Indo-Aryans, which were collected and later redacted into the Samhitas ( usually known as the Vedas ), four canonical collections of hymns or mantras composed in archaic Sanskrit.

* Mark ( mass ), an archaic European unit of weight whose use for precious metal gave rise to the currencies

Mirrors are commonly used for personal grooming or admiring oneself ( in which case the archaic term looking-glass is sometimes still used ), decoration, and architecture.

They were approximately contemporary with the mastabas of the archaic period of Egypt ( first and second dynasties ), the brick temples of Sumeria, and the first cities of the Harappa culture in India, and a century or two earlier than the Golden Age of China.

Some Newfoundland English differs from General Canadian English in vowel pronunciation ( e. g., in much of Newfoundland, the words fear and fair are homophones ), in morphology and syntax ( e. g., in Newfoundland the word bes is sometimes used in place of the normally conjugated forms of to be to describe continual actions or states of being, as in that rock usually bes under water instead of that rock is usually under water, but normal conjugation of to be is used in all other cases ; bes is likely a carryover of British Somerset usage with Irish grammar ) or Cornish, and in preservation of archaic adverbial-intensifiers ( e. g., in Newfoundland that play was right boring and that play was some boring both mean " that play was very boring ").

It includes some Inuit and First Nations words ( for example tabanask, a kind of sled ), preserved archaic English words no longer found in other English dialects ( for example pook, a mound of hay ), Irish language survivals like sleveen and angishore, compound words created from English words to describe things unique to Newfoundland ( for example stun breeze, a wind of at least 20 knots ( 37 km / h )), English words which have undergone a semantic shift ( for example rind, the bark of a tree ), and unique words whose origins are unknown ( for example diddies, a nightmare ).

# Many Poles living in emigrant communities ( for example in the USA ), whose families left Poland just after World War II, retain a number of minor features of Polish vocabulary as spoken in the first half of the 20th century that now sound archaic, however, to contemporary visitors from Poland.

It has been proposed that Sámi ( presumably borrowed from the Proto-Finnic word ), Häme ( Finnish for Tavastia ) (< Proto-Finnic * šämä, the second ä still being found in the archaic derivation Hämäläinen ), and perhaps Suomi ( Finnish for Finland ) (< * sōme -/ sōma -, compare suomalainen, supposedly borrowed from a Proto-Germanic source * sōma-from Proto-Baltic * sāma -, in turn borrowed from Proto-Finnic * šämä ) are of the same origin and ultimately borrowed from the Baltic word * žēmē, meaning " land ".