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The Greeks further identified the Ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor with Aphrodite.

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From the Ancient Greeks and Romans to Napoleon's France and Elizabethan England, much of history is filled with stories of entertainment based on games of chance.

The Ancient Greeks often gave their colonies around the Mediterranean a grid plan.

This was a major discovery in an important field of mathematics ; construction problems had occupied mathematicians since the days of the Ancient Greeks, and the discovery ultimately led Gauss to choose mathematics instead of philology as a career.

Crux was visible to the Ancient Greeks ; Ptolemy regarded it as part of the constellation Centaurus.

The Egyptians, Persians and other civilizations mostly used columns for the practical purpose of holding up the roof inside a building, preferring outside walls to be decorated with reliefs or painting, but the Ancient Greeks, followed by the Romans, loved to use them on the outside as well, and the extensive use of columns on the interior and exterior of buildings is one of the most characteristic features of classical architecture, in buildings like the Parthenon.

* List of Ancient Greeks

Among the Ancient Greeks, Heraclitus conceived of a logos, a supreme rational principle, and said the wisdom " by which all things are steered through all things " was " both willing and unwilling to be called Zeus ( God )".

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* Eridanos ( mythology ) ( or Eridanus ), a river in Greek mythology, somewhere in Central Europe, which was territory that Ancient Greeks knew only vaguely

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As the cities expanded, structures were erected supported by formalized foundations ; Ancient Greeks notably constructed pad footings and strip-and-raft foundations.

An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.

Notably, he published a book called Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in 1871, of which there were several subsequent editions.

The town of Basel was called Basilea or Basilia in Latin ( from Ancient Greek Basileia, Βασιλεια meaning kingship ) and this name is documented from 374 AD.

There is a depiction of a hockey-like game from 200 BC in Ancient Greece when the game may have been called " Κερητίζειν " (" kerētízein ") because it was played with a horn (" κέρας " in Greek ) and a ball-like object.

* aspect — Ancient Greek: imperfective, perfective ( traditionally called aorist ), perfect ( sometimes also called perfective ; see note about terminology );

Ancient Gallifreyans are all telepathic and were ruled by a female cult centred on a figure called the Pythia, who controlled the population through mysticism and prophecies.

As a language evolves, cases can merge ( for instance in Ancient Greek genitive and ablative have merged as genitive ), a phenomenon formally called syncretism.

Several strategy games, such as Rise of Nations, Rome: Total War, Spartan Total Warrior, Empire Earth, Civilization, Ancient Wars: Sparta, Age of Empires, Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City and Age of Mythology, feature infantry units called " Hoplites " or " Phalanx ".

In Egypt, 4000-year-old carvings feature teams with sticks and a projectile, hurling dates to before 1272 BC in Ireland, and there is a depiction from c. 600 BC in Ancient Greece where the game may have been called kerētízein or kerhtízein ( κερητίζειν ) because it was played with a horn or horn-like stick ( kéras, κέρας ) In Inner Mongolia, China, the Daur people have been playing beikou, a game similar to modern field hockey, for about 1, 000 years.

There existed in Ancient Athens a mechanism through which it was assured that no one could select jurors, called dikastaí, for their own trial.

Ancient dry riverbeds — called omuramba — traverse the Central Northern reaches of the Kalahari and provide standing pools of water during the rainy season.

These three, ' The Ancient Mariner ,' ' Christabel ,' and ' Kubla Khan ,' produced an aura which defies definition, but which might be properly be called one of ' natural magic.

Assyrians of the Ancient Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Catholic Church, and Assyrian Church of the East observe a fast called Ba ' uta d-Ninwe or Bo ' utho d-Ninwe ( ܒܥܘܬܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ ) which means Nineveh's Wish.

As ruler of the dead, Osiris was also sometimes called " king of the living ", since the Ancient Egyptians considered the blessed dead " the living ones ".

Ancient Romans also enjoyed baking it in rich pies, called timballi.

The phlogiston theory ( from the Ancient Greek φλογιστόν phlogistón " burning up ", from φλόξ phlóx " flame "), first stated in 1667 by Johann Joachim Becher, is an obsolete scientific theory that postulated the existence of a fire-like element called " phlogiston ", which was contained within combustible bodies and released during combustion.

He called it " cursive Coptic " because, although it had few similarities with the later Coptic script, he was convinced that it was used to record some form of the Coptic language ( the direct descendant of Ancient Egyptian ).

His eldest son Ross Lawhead released his first book in his ' Ancient Earth ' trilogy, called ' The Realms Thereunder '.

In Ancient Greek, stops were called áphōna ( stoicheîa ), which was translated into Latin as mūtae ( cōnsōnantēs ), and from there borrowed into English as mute.

" Leaf " forms typically spring sideways from the stem, in what is often called a " half-palmette " form, named after its distant and very different looking ancestor in Ancient Egyptian and Greek ornament.

* A few Indo-European languages, namely Ancient Greek, Swedish, Norwegian, Limburgish, Lithuanian, the West South Slavic languages ( Slovene and Serbo-Croatian ), Vedic Sanskrit, and Punjabi have limited word-tone systems which are sometimes called pitch accent or " tonal accents ".

The Ancient Greek hoplites used a round, bowl-shaped wooden shield called an aspis.