For the music and instruments of the ancient Celts until late Antiquity, see Ancient Celtic music.

For example, Ancient Greek has the words philia, eros, agape, storge, and xenia.

For example the terms Purana, Sanatana Dharma, and the emphasis on the antiquity of the Ancient Egyptian sources of the Hellenistic Mystery religions.

For some, the primary instrument of choice was either the aulos or the lyre ( the latter of which was the most revered instrument to the Ancient Greeks ).

For thousands of years, the largest structures on Earth were pyramids — first the Red Pyramid in the Dashur Necropolis and then the Great Pyramid of Khufu, both of Egypt, the latter the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still remaining.

For a brief period, after the conquests of Alexander the Great, it became the most powerful state in the world, controlling a territory that included the former Persian empire, stretching as far as the Indus River ; at that time it inaugurated the Hellenistic period of Ancient Greek civilization.

For example, BBC used DVCPRO50 to record high-budget TV series, such as Space Race ( 2005 ) and Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire ( 2006 ).

For many decades, some scholars of the Ancient Near East argued that it was impossible to define there as being a singular Mesopotamian religion, with Leo Oppenheim ( 1964 ) stating that " a systematic presentation of Mesopotamian religion cannot and should not be written.

: For the history and development of the dog, see Origin of the domestic dog, Ancient dog breeds, and Dog type.

For example, in the third verse of Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:

For the older view, see J. Jamieson, Historical Account of the Ancient Culdees ( 1811 ).

* For the pyrrhic dance, a war dance spread throughout Ancient Greece, see: Korybantes ( which were the mythological performers of these war dances in Greek Antiquity ).

: For a history of the Olympic Games, see Olympic Games or Ancient Olympic Games.

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 ").

For the Ancient and Medieval History of Earl Shilton: see Ancient and Medieval Earl Shilton

For example, the oldest extant manuscripts of monumental treatises on Ancient Roman and Greek history, such as Annals and Histories, are conventionally dated ca.

For example, the Ancient Egyptian sacred text called Book of Gates identifies four ethnic categories that are now conventionally labeled " Egyptians ", " Asiatics ", " Libyans ", and " Nubians " ( see Ancient Egypt and race ), but such distinctions tended to conflate differences as defined by physical features such as skin tone, with tribal and national identity.

For instance, the historian Daniel C. Peterson, chairman of the LDS apologetics group Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies ( FARMS ) at Brigham Young University, suggested the Tanners ' willingness to debunk false documents regardless of their content was a sign of integrity:

For example, Japanese allows short nouns ( 1-4 moras ) to have tone on any one mora, but more frequently on none at all, so that in disyllabic words there are three-way minimal contrasts such as káki " oyster " vs. kakí " fence " vs. kaki " persimmon "); Ancient Greek in contrast had obligatory tone on one of three final moras, so that if the tonic syllable had a long vowel or diphthong, it had either a rising or a falling tone.

For the ceramics of Ancient Egypt and the Indus Valley, see Egyptian faience

For choral works, it is joined either by the Academy of Ancient Music Chorus or by a cathedral or collegiate choir with boys ' voices.

For the Apocrypha, the Oxford translating team relied on the Göttingen Septuagint for all of the Apocrypha except 4 Maccabees ( relying there on Rahlf's Septuagint ) and 2 Esdras ( the Ancient Greek of which has not survived ), which used the German Bible Society's 1983 edition Vulgate.

For a table of accented Greek characters, see Greek diacritics: Computer encoding.

For example: in Africa, the bronze heads of the Kingdom of Benin ; in Europe, Grecian bronzes typically of figures from Greek mythology ; in east Asia, Chinese bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasty — more often ceremonial vessels but including some figurine examples.

For the most part, Bayer assigned Greek and Latin letters to stars in rough order of apparent brightness, from brightest to dimmest, within a particular constellation.

For example ; burgh in Scots and Middle English ; burg in German and Old English, borg in Scandinavian languages ; parcus in Latin and pyrgos in Greek.

For example, the Greek word κίνημα ( kinēma, " movement ") became French cinéma ( cf.

For example, in the 1st century BC the Romans were aware of the similarities between Greek and Latin, which they explained mythologically, as the result of Rome being a Greek colony speaking a debased dialect.

For Pasiphaë, as Greek mythologers interpreted it, Daedalus also built a wooden cow so she could mate with the bull, for the Greeks imagined the Minoan bull of the sun to be an actual, earthly bull, Daedalus was so envious of his nephew's accomplishments that he took an opportunity.

For instance, Paul cites Greek writers and philosophers, and the author of Hebrews references oral tradition which spoke of an Old Testament prophet who was sawn in half in Hebrews 11: 37, two verses after the 2nd Maccabees reference.

For example, when representing a vowel, the letter ⟨ y ⟩ in non-word-final positions, represents the sound in some words borrowed from Greek ( reflecting an original upsilon ), whereas the letter usually representing this sound in non-Greek words is the letter ⟨ i ⟩.

For the first time ever Greek was taught at a lower level than a university in Europe, and this is where he began learning it.

For instance, since the last six verses of Revelation were missing from his Greek manuscript, Erasmus translated the Vulgate's text back into Greek.

For example the King James Bible will use the term " furlong " in place of the Greek " stadion ", whereas modern translations will translate into miles

For example, Latin P came to be written like Greek rho ( written Ρ but pronounced ), so the Roman letter equivalent to rho was modified to R to keep it distinct.

For the ancient Greek mathematicians, geometry was the crown jewel of their sciences, reaching a completeness and perfection of methodology that no other branch of their knowledge had attained.

For example, Saul Lieberman argues that the * names * ( e. g. kal vahomer ) of Rabbi Ishmael's middot are Hebrew translations of Greek terms, although the methods of those middot are not Greek in origin.

For comparison, the other two general conic sections, the ellipse and the parabola, derive from the corresponding Greek words for " deficient " and " comparable "; these terms may refer to the eccentricity of these curves, which is greater than one ( hyperbola ), less than one ( ellipse ) and exactly one ( parabola ), respectively.

For many years, printed editions of the works of Josephus appeared only in an imperfect Latin translation from the original Greek.

For this purpose he laboriously collected the scattered words and allusions found in classical writers, and endeavoured to determine the relationship between the German language and those of the Getae, Thracians, Scythians, and many other nations whose languages were at the time known only through doubtfully identified, often extremely corrupted remains preserved by Greek and Latin authors.

For instance, it was understood to mean " the science of the world beyond nature ( phusis in Greek )," that is, the science of the immaterial.

For example, following the ideas of Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle, scientists reasoned that a cannonball falls down because its natural position is in the earth ; the sun, the moon, and the stars travel in circles around the earth because it is the nature of heavenly objects to travel in perfect circles.