In Ancient Egypt, Aquarius was associated with the annual flood of the Nile ; the banks were said to flood when Aquarius put his jar into the river, beginning spring.

It is said to have parallels with that of the Ancient Greek sophists or dialecticians.

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 )".

The same has been said of Ancient Greek society, a culture where, in Bruno Snell's words, if " honour is destroyed the moral existence of the loser collapses.

Though, when asked if there is a difference by Playboy in Ancient Gonzo Wisdom, Thompson said " Yeah, I think so.

While Sanskrit has six classes, Latin is traditionally said to have five declension classes, and Ancient Greek three declension classes.

" G E Woodberry, in 1897, said that Christabel, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Kubla Khan " are the marvelous creations of his genius.

Ancient Mexico can be said to have produced five major civilizations: the Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Toltec, and Aztec.

* Ancient and long-term Roman influence: Julius Caesar once said that the people of Aquitaine could teach the Romans themselves to speak Latin more correctly.

Ancient Greek mythology provides them with a mythical ancestor, named Thrax, son of the war-god Ares, who was said to reside in Thrace.

During the Golden Age of Ancient Greece, mead was said to be the preferred drink.

The origins of the game are said to be ancient, going back to the Egyptians, ancient Greeks, and Ancient Romans, who are said to have introduced it to Provence first.

Ancient people also associated chickpeas with Venus because they were said to offer medical uses such as increasing sperm and milk, provoking menstruation and urine and helping to treat kidney stones.

The oracles of the Ancient Greeks were said to have been the continuation of the tradition begun with the worship of the Egyptian cobra goddess, Wadjet.

The statement said that there was no credible evidence of contact between Ancient Egyptian or Hebrew peoples and the New World, as indicated by the text of the Book of Mormon.

McCrindle's book Ancient India as Described in Classical Literature, where an Indian gem is said by the Roman historian to have a " surface is even redder than the shells of the sea-locust.

Like the Swiss psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung, would have said: Ancient archetypes resurfaced from our collective unconscious and repossessed receptive minds-which were, as a rule, still developing and thus especially impressible.

The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt were sometimes said to be incarnations of the gods Horus and Ra.

Ancient Libya is identified as a possible source of the deity, Neith, who also was a creation deity in Ancient Egypt and, when the Greeks occupied Egypt, they said that Neith was called Athene in Greece.

Ancient sources relate of more than one figure of this name, and of these at least two are explicitly said to have had Phocis named after them.

In Greek mythology, Oenopion ( Ancient Greek:, Oinopion, English translation: " wine drinker ", " wine-faced "), son of hero Theseus or god Dionysus and princess Ariadne, was a legendary king of Chios, which was assigned to him by Rhadamanthys, and was said to have brought winemaking to the island.

The Aztecs prayed to her when there were deaths in water, such as when Hernando Cortez conquered Tenochtitlan ( the Ancient Aztec capital on a lake, now Mexico City ), and the lake was said to be " floating with heads and corpses ".

According to one version of the legend, found in Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry published in 1765, the beggar was said to be Henry, the son of Simon de Montfort, but Percy himself declared that this version was not genuine.

An exhibit, `` Macropathology -- An Ancient Art, A New Science '', was presented at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association.

During the Han dynasty, another Yin-Yang conception was applied to the Lo Shu, considering the latter as a plan of Ancient China.

The Ancient Greek word for seaweed was φῦκος ( fūkos or phykos ), which could mean either the seaweed ( probably red algae ) or a red dye derived from it.

Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt.

In Ancient Greek, alpha was pronounced when short and when long.

Ancient Egyptian civilization was based on religion ; their belief in the rebirth after death became their driving force behind their funeral practices.

Assault in Ancient Greece was normally termed hubris.

In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (; Ancient Greek: ; modern Greek:, " very steadfast ") was the son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra, and the father of Electra and Orestes.

Lysander and the young Agesilaus came to maintain an intimate relation ( see Pederasty in Ancient Greece ), as was common of the period.

It has recently been suggested that the regional decline at the end of the Akkadian period ( and First Intermediary Period of the Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom ) was associated with rapidly increasing aridity, and failing rainfall in the region of the Ancient Near East, caused by a global centennial-scale drought.

200 AD ) was a Peripatetic philosopher and the most celebrated of the Ancient Greek commentators on the writings of Aristotle.

In 1989 the first part of his On Aristotle Metaphysics was published as part of the Ancient commentators project.

Merlin was an Ancient, fleeing from Atlantis and later Ascends, then comes back in order build the Sangraal, or Holy Grail, to defeat the Ori.

Andocides or Andokides (, 440 – 390 BC ) was a logographer ( speech writer ) in Ancient Greece.

The building was burned and looted, along with the Ancient Temple and practically everything else on the rock.

Ancient art was largely, but not entirely, based on the nine great ancient civilizations: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Greece, China, Rome, India, the Celtic peoples, and Maya.

The covered ark with golden staves carried by the priesthood ( Ancient Israel ) | priests, and seven priests with rams ' horns, at the siege of Jericho, in an eighteenth-century artist's depiction. The biblical account relates that during the Israelites ' exodus from Egypt, the Ark was carried by the priests some 2, 000 cubits in advance of the people and their army, or host.

The island was larger than Ancient Libya and Asia Minor combined, but it afterwards was sunk by an earthquake and became an impassable mud shoal, inhibiting travel to any part of the ocean.

The English name " accusative ( case )" is an Anglicisation of the Latin accūsātīvus ( cāsus ), which was translated from Ancient Greek.

In Ancient Greek, there was no ablative case ; its functions were taken by the genitive, so that the genitive had functions belonging to the Proto-Indo-European genitive and ablative cases.

However, perhaps the first organised attempt to conserve cultural patrimony was the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in the UK, influenced by the writings of John Ruskin the society was founded by William Morris and Philip Webb in 1877.