An example of ancient aesthetics in Greece through poetry is Plato's quote: " For the authors of those great poems which we admire, do not attain to excellence through the rules of any art ; but they utter their beautiful melodies of verse in a state of inspiration, and, as it were, possessed by a spirit not their own.

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

For purposes of international communication and trade, the official names of the chemical elements both ancient and more recently recognized are decided by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ), which has decided on a sort of international English language, drawing on traditional English names even when an element's chemical symbol is based on a Latin or other traditional word, for example adopting " gold " rather than " aurum " as the name for the 79th element ( Au ).

For example, Eliade says, the portrayal of Nebuchadnezzar as a dragon in Jeremiah 51: 34 is a case in which the Hebrews " interpreted contemporary events by means of the very ancient cosmogonico-heroic myth " of a battle between a hero and a dragon.

For example: if five ancient historians, none of whom knew each other, all claim that Julius Caesar seized power in Rome in 49 BCE, this is strong evidence in favor of that event occurring even if each individual historian is only partially reliable.

For example, ancient Hindu religious texts list clairvoyance amongst other forms of ' clear ' experiencing, as siddhis, or ' perfections ', skills that are yielded through appropriate meditation and personal discipline.

In the third century AD, Flavius Philostratus wrote this: " For there is an ancient law in regard to the Red Sea, which the king Erythras laid down, when he held sway over that sea, to the effect that the Egyptians should not enter it with a vessel of war, and indeed should employ only a single merchant ship.

For instance, the democracy of ancient Athens did not allow women, foreigners, or slaves to vote, and the original United States Constitution left the topic of suffrage to the states ; usually only white male property owners were able to vote.

For example, according to ancient Hebrew belief, life takes a linear ( and not cyclical ) path ; the world began with God and is constantly headed toward God ’ s final goal for creation.

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 some of the ancient sources, such as Herophilus, Galen's account of their work is all that survives.

For example Hecataeus of Miletus, a geographer and historian in ancient Greece, described inhabitants of the ancient world as well as physical features.

For example Winston Churchill 1941 said in a broadcast speech: " There are less than 70, 000, 000 malignant Huns, some of whom are curable and others killable, most of whom are already engaged in holding down Austrians, Czechs, Poles and the many other ancient races they now bully and pillage.

For example, the first ten verses of the Works and Days may have been borrowed from an Orphic hymn to Zeus ( they were recognised as not the work of Hesiod by critics as ancient as Pausanias ).

For example, gatka is a weapon-based Indian martial art created by the Sikhs of the Punjab region of India and the Kshatriya caste of Hindus have another ancient martial art named Shastra vidhya.

For example ancient people knew that " lodestones ," when suspended from a string and allowed to freely rotate, come to rest horizontally in the North-South direction.

" For his thesis, Atta focused his studies on the ancient city of Aleppo in Syria.

For in the Epistle which he wrote to the priests of Gaul, charging them with connivance with error, in that by their silence they failed in their duty to the ancient faith, and allowed profane novelties to spring up, he says: " We are deservedly to blame if we encourage error by silence.

For illustration purposes, below are examples of striking and grappling techniques ( including examples of counters ), as well as strategies and tactics, that have been identified from the ancient sources ( visual arts or literature ).

For example Constantine started putting restrictions on the ancient Roman concept of patria potestas, the power held by the male head of a family over his descendents, by acknowledging that persons in potestate, the descendents, could have proprietary rights.

For example, mind-melding before the ancient teachings were recovered was considered immoral ; after, it was embraced as the legacy of all Vulcans.

For treatment of scabies in Spain, Egg Oil was used along with oil of castor and roses in ancient Andalusia.

For years, scientists have tried to unravel ancient clues as to why the boy king of Egypt, who reigned for 10 years, died at the age of 19.

For a possible etymological connection, Schuessler notes the ancient Fangyan dictionary defines yu < * lokh 裕 and lu < * lu 猷 as Eastern Qi State dialectal words meaning dào < * lûʔ 道 " road ".

For the Greeks, Apollo was all the Gods in one and through the centuries he acquired different functions which could originate from different gods.

For a few illustrative examples: German speakers use " Wasserstoff " ( water substance ) for " hydrogen ", " Sauerstoff " ( acid substance ) for " oxygen " and " Stickstoff " ( smothering substance ) for " nitrogen ", while English and some romance languages use " sodium " for " natrium " and " potassium " for " kalium ", and the French, Italians, Greeks, Portuguese and Poles prefer " azote / azot / azoto " ( from roots meaning " no life ") for " nitrogen ".

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 the Greeks, constructions are more primitive than existence propositions, and can be used to prove existence propositions, but not vice versa.

For the Greeks Autokratōr was not a military title, and was closer to the Latin dictator concept (" the one with unlimited power "), before it came to mean Emperor.

Josephus related the Biblical figure Gomer to Galatia ( or perhaps to Gaul in general ): " For Gomer founded those whom the Greeks now call Galatians, but were then called Gomerites.

For this action, Philoctetes or Poeas received Heracles ' bow and arrows, which were later needed by the Greeks to defeat Troy in the Trojan War.

However, the data of the General Secretariat For Greeks Abroad give an even lower number ( 50 people ).

For the classical Greeks, Leto is scarcely to be conceived apart from being pregnant and finding a place to be delivered of Apollo and Artemis, for Hera being jealous, made it so all lands shunned her.

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 example, the Philistine word for captain, ' seren ', may be related to the Greek word tyrannos ( thought by linguists to have been borrowed by the Greeks from an Anatolian language, such as Luwian or Lydian ).

For example, de Coubertin's idea that participation is more important than winning (" L ' important c ' est de participer ") is at odds with the ideals of the Greeks.

For this purpose they established trade colonies the Greeks called emporia.

" For the Greeks, he was the King of the Gods, who oversaw the universe.

For instance, in a 1942 lecture, published posthumously, Heidegger said of recent German classics scholarship: " In the majority of ' research results ,' the Greeks appear as pure National Socialists.

For the Greeks, the playwright was " poeisis " the act of making plays.

For both Greeks and Spanish-speakers, the 13th of the month is considered unlucky if it falls on Tuesday, instead of Friday.

For the fact is that the Geloni were anciently Greeks, who, being driven out of the factories along the coast, fled to the Budini and took up their abode with them.

For example, what signifies is the word Dion, what is signified is what Greeks understand but barbarians do not, and the object is Dion himself.

For the ancient Greeks, fire had divine connotations — it was thought to have been stolen from the gods by Prometheus.

For the Greeks, the tympanon was a marker of foreign cults, suitable for rites to Cybele, her close equivalent Rhea, and Dionysus ; but in Greek iconography, only Cybele holds the tympanon herself.

For ancient Greeks, the island was sacred to Hephaestus, god of metallurgy, who — as he tells himself in Iliad I. 590ff — fell on Lemnos when Zeus hurled him headlong out of Olympus.

For any Greeks who were likely to resent the stupidity of the Trojan War, the text itself provided a spokesman who voiced their resistance.

For the Etruscans, as with the Greeks, Hades was merely a morally neutral place of the dead.