The Amazons (, Amazónes, singular, Amazōn ) are a nation of all-female warriors in Greek mythology and Classical antiquity.

In the middle of the 18th century, Europe began to move toward a new style in architecture, literature, and the arts, generally known as Classicism, which sought to emulate the ideals of Classical antiquity and especially those of Classical Greece.

In 1985 Classical historian Georg Luck, in his Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds, theorised that the origins of the Witch-cult may have appeared in late antiquity as a faith primarily designed to worship the Horned God, stemming from the merging of Cernunnos, a horned god of the Celts, with the Greco-Roman Pan / Faunus, a combination of gods which he posits created a new deity, around which the remaining pagans, those refusing to convert to Christianity, rallied and that this deity provided the prototype for later Christian conceptions of the Devil, and his worshippers were cast by the Church as witches.

The History of Morocco spans over 12 centuries ,, without considering the Classical antiquity.

* The " Mediterranean World " of Greco-Roman Classical antiquity

The concept of grouping students together in a centralized location for learning has existed since Classical antiquity.

Though admired during his lifetime for his draftsmanship and depictions of Classical antiquity, his work fell into disrepute after his death, and only since the 1960s has it been reevaluated for its importance within nineteenth-century English art.

In Classical antiquity, the Presocratic philosophers were called physiologoi ( in English, physical or natural philosophers ).

Nevertheless, around that time early 16th century Polish geographer Maciej of Miechów in his influential Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis ( 1517 ) argued that there were no mountains in Eastern Europe at all, challenging the point of view of some authors of Classical antiquity, popular during the Renaissance.

The Vikings were often depicted with winged helmets and in other clothing taken from Classical antiquity, especially in depictions of Norse gods.

Kathleen Wider proposes that the murder of Hypatia marked the end of Classical antiquity, and Stephen Greenblatt observes that her murder " effectively marked the downfall of Alexandrian intellectual life ", On the other hand, Maria Dzielska and Christian Wildberg note that Hellenistic philosophy continued to flourish in the 5th and 6th centuries, and perhaps until the age of Justinian.

* Metaxa, the first alcoholic drink consumed in space, is a Greek distilled spirit invented by Spyros Metaxas in 1888, continuing the tradition of making distilled wines since the Classical antiquity.

* 582 BC — Military clash of the major Classical antiquity powers Egypt and Babylon.

The architectural design of the building was credited in antiquity to the sculptor Polykleitos the Younger, son of the Classical Greek sculptor Polykleitos the Elder.

The Crisis of the Third Century thus marked the beginning of a long evolutionary process that would transform the ancient world of Classical antiquity into the medieval one of the Early Middle Ages.

Classical architecture is architecture derived in part from the Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, enriched by classicizing architectural practice in Europe since the Renaissance.

In the Græco – Roman world of 5th-century European Classical antiquity, the city-state of Sparta was the hegemon of the Peloponnesian League ( 6th – 4th centuries BC ) and King Philip II of Macedon was the hegemon of the League of Corinth in 337 BC ( a kingship he willed to his son, Alexander the Great ).

" Arcadia " derives from the Arcadia district in Greece which since Classical antiquity had the extended meanings of " refuge " or " idyllic place ".

* Classical antiquity

His reign is often considered the end of Classical antiquity.

A lifesize group of marble Niobids, including one of Niobe sheltering one of her daughters, found in Rome in 1583 at the same time as the Wrestlers, were taken in 1775 to the Uffizi in Florence where, in a gallery devoted to them, they remain some of the most prominent surviving sculptures of Classical antiquity ( see below ).

Athenians of the Classical age were aware that the festival was of great antiquity ; Walter Burkert points out that the mythic reflection of this is the Attic founder-king Theseus ' release of Ariadne to Dionysus, but this is no longer considered a dependable sign that the festival had been celebrated in the Minoan period.

In Classical antiquity the crown ( corona ) that was sometimes awarded to people other than rulers, such as triumphal military generals or athletes, was actually a wreath or chaplet, or ribbonlike diadem.

It places emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry and the regularity of parts as they are demonstrated in the architecture of Classical antiquity and in particular, the architecture of Ancient Rome, of which many examples remained.

Thus, while it remains possible that the Babylonians and/or the Pythagoreans may perhaps have had the magic square of three before the Chinese did, more definite evidence will have to turn up from the Middle East or the Classical World before China can lose her claim to the earliest known magic square by more than a thousand years.

One may say that Diophantus was studying rational points — i. e., points whose coordinates are rational — on curves and algebraic varieties ; however, unlike the Greeks of the Classical period, who did what we would now call basic algebra in geometrical terms, Diophantus did what we would now call basic algebraic geometry in purely algebraic terms.

Classical Jewish rabbinical literature contains quotes that may be seen as both laudatory and derogatory of women.

It is considered part of the Classical era, although depending on the region being studied, other terms may be more proper ( for instance, if regarding only the Eastern Mediterranean, it would best be called part of the Hellenistic period ).

A common interpretation today is that Atlas was forced to hold the Earth on his shoulders, but Classical art shows Atlas holding the celestial spheres, not a globe ; the solidity of the marble globe born by the renowned Farnese Atlas may have aided the conflation, reinforced in the 16th century by the developing usage of atlas to describe a corpus of terrestrial maps.

A graffito at Pompeii reads quisque ama valia, which in Classical Latin would read quisquis amat valeat (" may whoever loves be strong / do well ").

Classical calligraphy differs from typography and non-classical hand-lettering, though a calligrapher may create all of these ; characters are historically disciplined yet fluid and spontaneous, at the moment of writing ( Pott 2006 and 2005 ; Zapf 2007 and 2006 ).

Another mythological reference appeared with the term pes hippocampi, which may date back to Diemerbroeck in 1672, introducing a comparison with the shape of the folded back forelimbs and webbed feet of the Classical hippocampus ( Greek: ἱππόκαμπος ), a sea monster with a horse's forequarters and a fish's tail.

The history of Greece during Classical Antiquity may thus be subdivided into the following periods:

When John L. Caskey of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens outlined the results of his excavations at Lerna from 1952 up until 1958, he stated that the hallmarks of Middle Helladic culture ( i. e. Gray Minyan ware and the fast potter's wheel ) may have originated from Early Helladic III.

The goddess Tethys, who may have been a primordial deity of Archaic Greece, and in Classical myths was described as the mother who oversaw the chief rivers of the world known to the Greeks – mid-fourth-century mosaic – Shahba | Philipopolis ( Shahba, Syria ), Shahba Museum.

Classical Attic may refer either to the varieties of Attic Greek spoken, and written in Greek majuscule during the 5th and 4th centuries BC ( Classical-era Attic ) or to the Hellenistic and Roman era standardized Attic Greek, mainly on the language of Attic orators, and written in Greek uncial ( good Attic and vehement rival of vulgar or Koine Greek )

Classical calligraphy differs from typography and non-classical hand-lettering, though a calligrapher may create all of these ; characters are historically disciplined yet fluid and spontaneous, improvised at the moment of writing ( Pott 2006 and 2005 ; Zapf 2007 and 2006 ).

One of the Orchestra and Chorus's best-known recordings, of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony conducted by Robert Shaw, was recorded for the now defunct Pro Arte label, and is out of print, though excerpts from the " Ode to Joy " fourth movement may be found in anthologies issued on the Reference Gold and Classical Heritage labels.

Classical zabaione uses raw egg yolks, but today many may prefer to cook the custard in a bain-marie.

27 works as Sonata quasi una fantasia, it may be significant that the layout of the present work does not follow the traditional movement arrangement in the Classical period of fast-slow -- fast.

Videlicet is a contraction of Classical Latin vidēre licet, which meant " it may be seen, evidently, clearly " ( vidēre, to see ; licet, third person singular present tense of licēre, " to be permitted ").

The modern pronunciation was, in all likelihood, established in the Hellenistic age and may have already been a common practice in Classical Attic ; for example, it could count as one or two consonants metrically in Attic drama.

Classical Athens may be suggested to have heralded some of the same religious ideas that would later be promoted by Christianity, such as Aristotle's invocation of a perfect God, and Heraclitus ' Logos.

The stylistic development of Classical Chinese poetry consists of both literary and oral cultural processes, which may be and usually are divided into certain standard periods or eras, in terms both of specific poems as well as styles characteristic of those eras, generally corresponding with Chinese Dynastic Eras, which were the traditional chronological process for Chinese historical events.

English Classical compound words of this type may confer an impression of scientific rigor on a non-scientific occupation or profession.

The nave of a church, whether Romanesque, Gothic or Classical, extends from the entry — which may have a separate vestibule, the narthex — to the chancel and is flanked by lower aisles separated from the nave by an arcade.

They are believed by most scholars to have been an Indo-European people and may have been the same as or closely related to the Tocharians ( Τοχάριοι ) of Classical sources.