One might wish to reflect on the differences in the technology and society that produced such different types of soldier or warrior as the Greek Hoplite, the Roman Legionary, the Medieval Knight, the Turk-Mongol Horse Archer, the Chinese Crossbowman, the British Redcoat, or an Air Cavalry trooper.

Greek Hoplite.

Greek Hoplite 480 – 323 BC.

The Greek Hoplite, for instance, is a more effective heavy infantry than other tribes counterparts.

In the front facade, the Greek National Guards ( Evzones ) standing 24 hours per day all the time, no matter the weather or any kind of conditions they may encounter.

As far back as the early 2nd century, there is evidence that the codex — usually of papyrus — was the preferred format among Christians: in the library of the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum ( buried in AD 79 ), all the texts ( Greek literature ) are scrolls ( see Herculaneum papyri ); in the Nag Hammadi " library ", secreted about AD 390, all the texts ( Gnostic Christian ) are codices.

Around the year 390 a wealthy Roman woman named Poimenia financed construction of the original church called " Eleona Basilica " ( elaion in Greek means " olive garden ", from elaia " olive tree ," and has an oft-mentioned similarity to eleos meaning " mercy ").

Heraclides Ponticus (; c. 390 BC – c. 310 BC ), also known as Herakleides and Heraklides of Pontus, was a Greek philosopher and astronomer who lived and died at Heraclea Pontica, now Karadeniz Ereğli, Turkey.

* Planudes from Charles Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology ( 1867 ), v. 3, pp. 384 – 390

Polybius, a Greek historian, wrote about co-existence of the Celts in northern Italy with Etruscan nations in the period before the Sack of Rome in 390 B. C.

Attalus ( in Greek Άτταλος, c. 390 BC – 336 BC ), important courtier of Macedonian king Philip II of Macedonia.

Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

* Tufts University – at the Perseus Project, in both English and Greek

* P. Remacle's collection – Greek with French translation

Apollo ( Attic, Ionic, and Homeric Greek:, Apollōn ( gen .: ); Doric:, Apellōn ; Arcadocypriot:, Apeilōn ; Aeolic:, Aploun ; ) is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in ancient Greek and Roman religion, Greek and Roman mythology, and Greco – Roman Neopaganism.

The last stage in the development of the Kouros type is the late archaic period ( 520 – 485 BC ), in which the Greek sculpture attained a full knowledge of human anatomy and used to create a relative harmonious whole.

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.

A possible etymology is a derivation from the Greek word – aiges = " waves " ( Hesychius of Alexandria ; metaphorical use of ( aix ) " goat "), hence " wavy sea ", cf.

The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι-– arkhi-(" chief ") and πέλαγος – pélagos (" sea ") through the Italian arcipelago.

* 1957 – Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines ( TAE ) and founds Olympic Airlines.

* 1886 – Athenagoras I, Greek religious leader, 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople ( d. 1972 )

* 1919 – Georgios Mylonas, Greek politician ( d. 1998 )

* 1871 – Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator ( d. 1941 )

* 1935 – Jimmy Makulis, Greek singer ( d. 2007 )

* 1944 – Georgios Balanos, Greek translator, author and publisher

* 1972 – Dimitrios Kokotis, Greek high jumper

* 1941 – Stavros Dimas, Greek politician

* 1947 – Manousos Manousakis, Greek director and producer

* 1948 – Alexander Onassis, American Greek socialite, son of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis ( d. 1973 )

* 1955 – Dimitra Liani, Greek air hostess, widow of Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou

* 479 BC – Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan commander of the Greek army in the Battle of Plataea.

Anaximenes () of Lampsacus ( c. 380 – 320 BC ) was a Greek rhetorician and historian.

* 435 BC — birth of Philoxenus of Cythera, Greek dithyrambic poet ( d. 380 BC ).

Socrates of Constantinople, also known as Socrates Scholasticus, not to be confused with the Classical Greek philosopher Socrates, was a Greek Christian church historian, a contemporary of Sozomen and Theodoret, who used his work ; he was born at Constantinople c. 380: the date of his death is unknown.

* 435 BC – Philoxenus of Cythera, Greek dithyrambic poet ( d. 380 BC )

* Memnon of Rhodes, Greek mercenary leader ( b. 380 BC )

* Theopompus of Chios, Greek historian and rhetorician ( b. c. 380 BC )

* Philoxenus of Cythera, Greek dithyrambic poet ( d. 380 BC )

* Pytheas, Greek merchant, geographer and explorer from the Greek colony Massilia ( today Marseille ) ( b. c. 380 BC )

* Memnon of Rhodes ( 380 – 333 BC ): was the commander of the Greek mercenaries working for the Persian King Darius III when Alexander the Great of Macedonia invaded Persia in 334 BC and won the Battle of the Granicus River.

Side A from an Ancient Greek Red-figure pottery | red-figure kylyx ( drinking cup ) | kylyx-krater from Apulia, 380 – 370 BC.

* Memnon of Rhodes ( 380 – 333 BC ), commander of the Greek mercenaries working for the Persian King Darius III

Theopompus () ( born c. 380 BC ) was a Greek historian and rhetorician

* Pytheas ( 380 – c. 310 BC ) – Greek explorer.

Amphora depicting Greek hero cult in honor of Oedipus ( Apulian vase painting | Apulian red-figure, 380 – 370 BC )

In exchange, 380, 000 Turks left Greek territory for Turkey and 60, 000 Bulgarians from Thrace and Macedonia were moved to Bulgaria.

* Silk, M. S., Tragedy and the Tragic: Greek Theatre and Beyond ; Oxford, 1998 ; pp. 377 – 380.

According to the 2007 U. S. Census Bureau estimation, there were 1, 380, 088 people of Greek ancestry in the United States, while the State Department mentions that around 3, 000, 000 Americans claim to be of Greek descent.

Alfred Güterbock ( d. 1916 ) first deposited and then bequeathed a small but very fine collection of Greek gold, silver and copper coins, 380 in all, together with some Roman coins.

To that effect, the obscurant limits the publication, extension, and dissemination of knowledge, of evidence countering the common-belief status quo with which the nation are ruled — the local variety of the necessary Noble Lie, introduced to political discourse by the Classical Greek philosopher Plato in 380 BC.

Memnon of Rhodes ( 380 – 333 BC ) was the commander of the Greek mercenaries working for the Persian king Darius III when Alexander the Great of Macedonia invaded Persia in 334 BC.

Of the Greek translations by Paeanius ( around 380 ) and Capito Lycius ( 6th century ), the version of the former is extant in an almost complete state.