Category: Ancient Greek anatomists

Ancient anatomists assumed they were filled with air and that they were for transport of air.

Category: Ancient Greek anatomists

However, breathy-voiced and aspirated stops are acoustically similar in that in both cases there is an audible period of breathiness following the stop, and in the history of various languages ( e. g. Ancient Greek, Mandarin Chinese ), breathy-voiced stops have subsequently developed into voiceless aspirated stops.

This Harifian culture may have adopted the use of pottery from the Isnan culture and Helwan culture of Egypt ( which lasted from 9000-4500 BC ), and subsequently fused with elements from the PPNB culture during the climatic crisis of 6000 BC to form what Juris Zarins calls the Syro-Arabian pastoral technocomplex, which saw the spread of the first Nomadic pastoralists in the Ancient Near East.

With subsequently ever-increasing knowledge of Egyptian writing and language, the study of Ancient Egyptian civilization was able to proceed with greater academic rigour and with all the added impetus that comprehension of the written sources was able to engender.

He began lecturing at Merton and in April 1565 he was formally appointed as the college's first Lecturer in Ancient Greek, a post that was subsequently made permanent.

She induced the most eminent Greek rhetoricians to proclaim his praise in their oratory ; and to perpetuate his memory she built at Halicarnassus a celebrated majestic monument, listed by Antipater of Sidon as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and whose name subsequently became the generic term for any splendid sepulchral monument ( mausoleum, Greek: μαυσωλεῖον ).

Huntingford suggested in 1940 that the Mountain of the Moon should be identified with Mount Kilimanjaro, and " was subsequently ridiculed in J. Oliver Thompson's History of Ancient Geography published in 1948 ".

The Cypria ( Ancient Greek: Kypria ; Latin form: Cypria ) is an epic of ancient Greek literature that was quite well known in the Classical period and fixed in a received text, but which subsequently was lost to view.

The name Lupercalia was believed in antiquity to evince some connection with the Ancient Greek festival of the Arcadian Lykaia ( from Ancient Greek: λύκος — lukos, " wolf ", Latin lupus ) and the worship of Lycaean Pan, assumed to be a Greek equivalent to Faunus, as instituted by Evander.

‘ Ancient asexuals ’: Bdelloid rotifers are assumed to have reproduced without sex for many millions of years.

As such, most Ancient Greek philosophers assumed that the Sun, Moon, stars, and naked eye planets circled the Earth, including the noteworthy systems of Aristotle ( see Aristotelian physics ) and Ptolemy.

The major dialect groups of the Ancient Greek period can be assumed to have developed not later than 1120 BC, at the time of the Dorian invasion ( s ), and their first appearances as precise alphabetic writing began in the 8th century BC.

Also in 1725 " The Ancient and Honourable Society and Fraternity of Freemasons meeting since time immemorial in the City of York " assumed the title, " The Grand Lodge of All England meeting in the City of York.

For instance, in his translation of Torquato Tasso's " Aminta ", published in 1580, Zlatarić's purist tendencies led to mistakes: the hero's name Aminta becomes in Croatian Ljubmir ( Lover ) because Zlatarić wrongly assumed that the name " Aminta " stems from Latin amare (" to love "), while in fact it is from Ancient Greek ( amýnō, " to defend ").

Ancient Votic religion is not known well, but it is assumed that it was similar to other Finnic-beliefs.

Although there is more evidence in the form of texts and wall reliefs for this battle than for any other battle in the Ancient Near East, almost all of it is from an Egyptian perspective, and indeed the first scholarly report on the battle, by James Henry Breasted in 1903, took the Egyptian evidence literally and assumed a great Egyptian victory.

The most recent and comprehensive study of Ancient Egyptian chronology affirms the theory that Sheshonq I came to power in 943 BC rather than 945 BC as is conventionally assumed based on epigraphic evidence from the Great Dakhla stela, which dates to Year 5 of his reign.

The name derives from the Ancient Greek word pappos, Latin pappus, meaning " old man ", so used for a plant ( assumed to be an Erigeron species ) having bristles and also for the woolly, hairy seed of certain plants.

Works such as the Chhbap Pros (" Boy's Code "), Chhbap Srey (" Girl's Code ") and Chhbap Peak Chas (" Code of Ancient Words ") gave such advice as: a person that does not wake up before sunrise is lazy ; a child must tell parents or elders where they go and what time they will return home ; always close doors gently, otherwise a bad temper will be assumed ; sit in a chair with the legs straight down and not crossed ( crossing the legs is a mark of an impolite person ); and always let the other person do more talking.

The Chandos portrait, commonly assumed to depict William Shakespeare, " the man who of all Modern, and perhaps Ancient Poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul " ( John Dryden, 1668 ), " our myriad-minded Shakespeare " ( Samuel Taylor Coleridge | S. T. Coleridge, 1817 ).

Ancient accounts of Aristotle credit him with 170 Constitutions of various states ; it is widely assumed that these were research for the Politics, and that many of them were written or drafted by his students.

Ancient galleys were built very light and the original triremes are assumed to never have been surpassed in speed.

Ancient and medieval galleys are assumed to sailed only with the wind more or less astern with a top speed of 8-9 knots in fair conditions.

Coptic chant is a very old tradition, assumed to have links with the ancient liturgies of Jerusalem or Syria, while some of the melodies had been adopted from Ancient Egyptian burial practices and other rituals ; however, manuscripts survive only since recent times and little is known for sure about the older tradition.

" The Covered Hall ") This abode is somewhat like Hades from Ancient Greek religion: there, something not unlike the Asphodel Meadows can be found, and people who have neither excelled in that which is good nor excelled in that which is bad can expect to go there after they die and be reunited with their loved ones.

Greek engineers were the first to use canal locks, by which they regulated the water flow in the Ancient Suez Canal as early as the 3rd century BC.

Stanford sinologist David Shepherd Nivison, in the The Cambridge History of Ancient China, writes that the moral goods of Mohism " are interrelated: more basic wealth, then more reproduction ; more people, then more production and wealth ... if people have plenty, they would be good, filial, kind, and so on unproblematically.

Stanford sinologist David Shepherd Nivison, in the The Cambridge History of Ancient China, writes that the moral goods of Mohism " are interrelated: more basic wealth, then more reproduction ; more people, then more production and wealth ... if people have plenty, they would be good, filial, kind, and so on unproblematically.

Aqueducts were built by the Greeks and Ancient Romans, while the history of China shows they built irrigation and flood control works.

In Ancient Greece, Spartan King Leonidas I, hero of the legendary Battle of Thermopylae, was married to his niece Gorgo, daughter of his half-brother Cleomenes I. Greek law allowed marriage between a brother and sister if they had different mothers.

During the Ancient and Middle Ages Infantry were categorized by the types of weapons and armor they used, such as heavy, medium, and light infantry.

Finnish folklorist Kaarle Krohn proposes that 20 of the 45 poems of The Kalevala are of possible Ancient Estonian origin or they at least deal with a motif of Estonian origin ( of the remainder, two are Ingrian and 23 are Western Finnish ).

Stanford sinologist David Shepherd Nivison, in the The Cambridge History of Ancient China, writes that the moral goods of Mohism " are interrelated: more basic wealth, then more reproduction ; more people, then more production and wealth ... if people have plenty, they would be good, filial, kind, and so on unproblematically.

Ancient members of the show's cast, like the Devil and Punch's mistress " Pretty Polly ," ceased to be included when they came to be seen as inappropriate for young audiences.

Ancient colored walls at Dendera, Egypt, which were exposed for years to the elements, still possess their brilliant color, as vivid as when they were painted about 2, 000 years ago.

Ancient cults like age-old cults of the dead, worship of animal headed gods, and rituals for the new crop, had their position in Greek religion because they were connected with daily or seasonal tasks and concecrated by immemorial practices.

Ancient sky watchers imagined that prominent arrangements of stars formed patterns, and they associated these with particular aspects of nature or their myths.

The Persian Emperor Cambyses II upon conquering Ancient Egypt sent ambassadors to Macrobia bringing luxury gifts for the Macrobian king to entice his submission, but instead the Macrobian ruler replied with a challenge for the Persian ruler in the form of an unstrung bow, that if the Persians could manage to string, they would have the right to invade his country, but until then they should thank the gods that the Macrobians never decided to invade their empire.

" The first such Neo-druidic group to make use of the megalithic monument was the Ancient Order of Druids, who performed a mass initiation ceremony there in August 1905, in which they admitted 259 new members into their organisation.

( 1964 ) The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan .</ REF > Sake production was a government monopoly for a long time, but in the 10th century, temples and shrines began to brew sake, and they became the main centers of production for the next 500 years.

Many of these " Literary RPGs " are fan-fiction based, such as ( most prevalently ) Tolkien's Middle-earth, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Twilight, any number of anime and manga sources, or they are simply based in thematic worlds such as the mythologies of Ancient Greece, fairy tales, the Renaissance or science fiction.

Some celebrate in a way as close as possible to how they believe Ancient Germanic pagans observed the tradition, while others observe the holiday with rituals culled from numerous other unrelated sources including Germanic.

Word classes like nouns were first described by in the Sanskrit language and by Ancient Greek grammarians, and were defined by the grammatical forms that they take.

Explaining reason from this direction: human thinking is special in the way that we often understand visible things as if they were themselves images of our intelligible " objects of thought " as " foundations " ( hypothēses in Ancient Greek ).

* c. 1700 BC: Aegean metalworkers are producing decorative objects rivaling those of Ancient Near East jewelers, whose techniques they seem to borrow.

* c. 1700 BC: Aegean metalworkers are producing decorative objects rivaling those of Ancient Near East jewelers, whose techniques they seem to borrow.

In other languages, however, such as Ancient Greek, they occupy two and three morae, respectively, with the first element rather than the diphthong as a whole behaving as a short or long vowel.