The first Western literature, including the Hurrian – Hittite literature, the first Greek polis and the two main schools of Ancient Greek philosophy seem to originate in this region.

Category: Ancient Middle Eastern wisdom literature

Category: Ancient philosophical literature

Adrienne Mayor, in introducing a bibliography on the topic, noted that most modern folklorists are largely unaware of classical parallels and precedents, in materials that are only partly represented by the familiar designation Aesopica: " Ancient Greek and Roman literature contains rich troves of folklore and popular beliefs, many of which have counterparts in modern contemporary legends " ( Such as Mayor, 2000 ).

" Also in 1990, Thomas McFarland stated, " Judging by the number and variety of critical effort to interpret their meaning, there may be no more palpably symbolic poems in all of English literature than Kubla Khan and The Ancient Mariner.

Beginning around the 3rd century BC, it took two centuries to become a dominant literature of Ancient Rome, with many educated Romans still reading and writing in Ancient Greek, as late as Marcus Aurelius ( 121 – 180 AD ).

It was 20 years, however, before the decipherment of the Egyptian texts was announced by Jean-François Champollion in Paris in 1822 ; it took longer still before scholars were able to read other Ancient Egyptian inscriptions and literature confidently.

The Rosetta Stone is therefore no longer unique, but it was the essential key to modern understanding of Ancient Egyptian literature and civilization.

* Ancient Greek literature

* Ancient literature

A few references to men changing into wolves are found in Ancient Greek literature and mythology.

The earliest playwrights in Western literature with surviving works are the Ancient Greeks.

Plato divided literature into the three classic genres accepted in Ancient Greece: poetry, drama, and prose.

Ancient Greek literature refers to literature written in Ancient Greek from the oldest surviving written works in the Greek language until approximately the fifth century AD and the rise of the Byzantine Empire.

* Ancient literature

Ancient literature of Bhutan is preserved in the National Library.

Ancient Greek society placed considerable emphasis upon literature.

Category: Ancient Greek erotic literature

* Ancient literature

The Epic of Gilgamesh has inspired many works of literature, art, music, as Theodore Ziolkowski points out in his book Gilgamesh Among Us: Modern Encounters With the Ancient Epic ( 2011 ).

Food writer Alan Davidson suggests that the people of Ancient Romans were the first known to have made products of the haggis type.

Silver-footed Thetis ( Ancient Greek: ), disposer or " placer " ( the one who places ), is encountered in Greek mythology mostly as a sea nymph or known as the goddess of water, one of the fifty Nereids, daughters of the ancient one of the seas with shape-shifting abilities who survives in the historical vestiges of most later Greek myths as Proteus ( whose name suggests the " first ", the " primordial " or the " firstborn ").

In his 1946-47 essay " The Mariner and the Albatross ", George Whalley suggests that the Ancient Mariner is an autobiographical portrait of Coleridge himself, comparing the Mariner's loneliness with Coleridge's own feelings of loneliness expressed in his letters and journals.

Peter Clark in Zoroastrianism: An Introduction to an Ancient Faith ( 1998, Brighton ) suggests the Gathas and older Yasna texts would not have retained their old-language qualities if they had only been orally transmitted.

Local rumour suggests that he founded the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in 1877 as a result of his successful campaign to prevent the demolition of the building that now houses Greystones tearoom, winner of the Tea Council's Tea Room of the Year award for 2000.

This is not a new concept ; archaeological evidence suggests that it was practiced in Ancient Rome.

The idea of alternating states and human life perishing and coming back suggests he believed in the principle of causation ; another distinguishing step that Xenophanes takes from Ancient philosophical traditions to ones based more on scientific observation.

Another version used by the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis suggests that " together, the rose and cross represent the experiences and challenges of a thoughtful life well lived.

Ancient DNA evidence suggests that the ancestors of the speakers of the Hmong – Mien languages were a population genetically distinct from that of the Tai – Kadai and Austronesian language source populations at a location on the Yangtze River.

Ancient literature from the Tang and Northern Song Dynasties suggests that some sets, including those which required two or more participants, became very elaborate, " flowery ", and mainly concerned with aesthetics.

The arrangement of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs suggests an abhorrence of empty space.

They finally decide against it and realize that Homer will control them for as long as they are known as Stonecutters, so Moe suggests they instead break off to form a new society: " The Ancient Mystic Society of No Homers ".

Michael Baigent in " From the Omens of Babylon: Astrology and Ancient Mesopotamia ", suggests that there is evidence that there was probably an older or parallel oral tradition of astrology at the time of publication of Enuma Anu Enlil believed published over the period ( 1595 – 1157 BCE ).

However, this etymology is unsound, based on the Welsh word dwr meaning water ; however the earlier form of the word was dwfr, which suggests an Ancient British ancestor-word * dubro -, not * duro-( this form of the word is preserved in the place-name Dover ).

As its name suggests, it is an account of the great slave revolt in Ancient Rome, led by Spartacus.

The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales suggests that this was the site of the medieval royal llys ( palace ).

Ancient coins evidence with representations of the Temple of Divus Iulius suggests the columns were either Ionic or composite, but it is a fact that fragments of Corinthian pilastre capitals have been found on the site by archaeologists, so a few scholars hypothesize that the temple had an Ionic pronaos combined with Corinthian pilasters on the cella walls, i. e. at the corners of the cella, other scholars consider the temple all Corinthian and the coins evidence as bad Corinthian columns representation.

Ancient sources date Arctinus to the eighth century, but evidence concerning another of his poems, the Aethiopis, suggests that he lived considerably later than that.

Ancient commentary on this passage suggests that those engaging in sodomy could be killed without permission from the Dastur.

The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland suggests that the two buildings flanked an 18th century pedestrian access to the house.

Several Greek styles continued into the Roman period, and Greek influence, partly transmitted via the Ancient Etruscans, on Ancient Roman pottery was considerable, especially in figurines.

The Harold M. Freund American Museum of Baking is located at AIB's headquarters and features a collection of baking figurines, bread stamps, bread and grains from Ancient Egypt, baking pans and memorabilia, and historic baking books and pamphlets.

After the Roman conquests, some Celtic elements remained in popular art, especially Ancient Roman pottery, of which Gaul was actually the largest producer, mostly in Italian styles, but also producing work in local taste, including figurines of deities and wares painted with animals and other subjects in highly formalized styles.