Among Classical Greeks, amazon was given a popular etymology as from a-mazos, " without breast ", connected with an etiological tradition that Amazons had their left breast cut off or burnt out, so they would be able to use a bow more freely and throw spears without the physical limitation and obstruction ; there is no indication of such a practice in works of art, in which the Amazons are always represented with both breasts, although the left is frequently covered ( see photos in article ).

Greeks of the Classical age always detected that there was something alien and uncanny about the Aegis.

Her familiar Homeric epithet Boôpis, is always translated " cow-eyed ", for, like the Greeks of Classical times, its other natural translation " cow-faced " or at least " of cow aspect " is rejected.

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 philology is historically primary, originating in Pergamum and Alexandria around the 4th century B. C., continued by Greeks and Romans throughout the Roman and Byzantine Empires, and eventually taken up by European scholars of the Renaissance, where it was soon joined by philologies of other languages both European ( Germanic, Celtic, Slavistics, etc.

The pre-modern etymology of her name, from tithemi ( τίθημι ), " to set up, establish ," suggests a perception among Classical Greeks of an early political role.

The contemporary Parthenon, the largest temple in classical Athens, is also in the Doric order, although the sculptural enrichment is more familiar in the Ionic order: the Greeks were never as doctrinaire in the use of the Classical vocabulary as Renaissance theorists or neoclassical architects.

Later, for the Classical Greeks, " She is closely associated with Artemis and Hera ," Burkert asserts ( 1985, p 1761 ) " but develops no character of her own.

" Classical Greeks were unaware of such shamanistic overtones, and the Flaying of Marsyas became a theme for painting and sculpture.

Greeks of the Classical age accepted Mopsus as a historical figure, though the anecdotes concerning him bridge legend and myth.

Even at that early time the Gorgon is displayed as a vestige of ancient powers that preceded the historical transition to the beliefs of the Classical Greeks, displayed on the chest of Athene and Zeus.

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 lore suggests some Greeks believed that Telemachus would later voyage to the island of Calypso and there marry his half-sister, the child of Calypso and Odysseus.

Uninformed modern readers might think that what they see on the page is the writing system exactly as the ancient Greeks used it in Classical Greece, but it is really Ancient Greek as transcribed by mediaeval Byzantine scribes.

The Classical Greeks and the Romans wrote prolifically on military campaigning.

Classical philosophies of the Greeks had already expired and diluted beyond recognition except for small bands of continuators of the traditions of the Pythagoreans, of Plato, and Aristotle ( whose library was lost for centuries ).

The Byzantines of the 13th century also drew parallels between the situation of the empire after 1204 and that of Classical Greeks.

Classical Greeks would often claim that part of Caria to the north was originally colonized by Ionian Greeks before the Dorians.

The Ionians (, Íōnes, singular, Íōn ) were one of the four major Greek tribes into which the Classical Greeks considered the population of Hellenes to have been divided ( along with the Dorians, Aeolians and Achaeans ).

Historic records of religion in the Maghreb region show its gradual inclusion in the Classical World, with coastal colonies established first by Phoenicians, some Greeks, and later extensive conquest and colonization by the Romans.

Classical mythology or Greco-Roman mythology is the cultural reception of myths from the ancient Greeks and Romans.

Classical Greeks never otherwise referred to Hera simply as the cow, though her priestess Io was so literally a heifer that she was stung by a gadfly, and it was in the form of a heifer that Zeus coupled with her.

" Nondualism ", " nonduality " and " nondual " are terms that have entered the English language from literal English renderings of " advaita " ( Sanskrit: not-dual ) subsequent to the first wave of English translations of the Upanishads commencing with the work of Müller ( 1823 – 1900 ), in the monumental Sacred Books of the East ( 1879 ), who rendered " advaita " as " Monism " under influence of the then prevailing discourse of English translations of the Classical Tradition of the Ancient Greeks such as Thales ( 624 BCE – c. 546 BCE ) and Heraclitus ( c. 535 BCE – c. 475 BCE ).

Additionally, Hercules recalled the classical age of the Greeks and the Romans, a period which the revolutionaries identified with republican and democratic ideals.

Since this war was considered among the ancient Greeks as either the last event of the mythical age or the first event of the historical age, several dates are given for the fall of Troy.

During the classical age, the existence of Southeast Asia had been known to the Greeks.

This age saw the Greeks move towards larger cities and a reduction in the importance of the city-state.

This is a clear example of the Greek belief in Kleos, or honor, in their daily life: for the Ancient Greeks, it was always better to die young with honor as opposed to surviving to old age but without accomplishing much.

Most ancient Greeks, however, did not subscribe to such a literalist view of using mythology to attempt to date the creation ; Hecataeus of Miletus was an early ancient Greek logographer who strongly criticised this method, while Ptolemy wrote of such an " immense period " of time before the historical period ( 776 BC ), and thus believed in a much greater age for the creation.

In suggesting the Greeks might have had problems, Nietzsche was departing from the scholarly traditions of his age, which viewed the Greeks as a happy, perhaps even naive, and simple people.

* Stephen Miller-Conversation: A History of a Declining Art: provides an extensive history of conversation which dates back to the ancient Greeks with Socrates, and moving forward, to coffeehouses around the world, as well as the modern forces of the electronic age, talk shows, etc.

Along with Thule, Hyperborea was one of several terrae incognitae to the Greeks and Romans, where Pliny, Pindar and Herodotus, as well as Virgil and Cicero, reported that people lived to the age of one thousand and enjoyed lives of complete happiness.

After the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, Mehmed II resettled ethnic Greeks along the Horn in the Phanar ( today's Fener ), while Balat continued to be inhabited by Jews, as during the Byzantine age.

In the dark age that followed the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization, significant numbers of Greeks emigrated to Asia Minor and settled there.

The Greeks of the classical period believed that, in the dark age that followed the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization, significant numbers of Greeks fled and had emigrated to Asia Minor and settled there.

In the dark age that followed the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization, significant numbers of Greeks had emigrated to Asia Minor and settled there.

The ancient Greeks introduced grape growing and wine making to Europe in the Minoan age.

" Nor knew the Greeks, save in the laughing page, The philosophic emblem of our age ."...

The grand ruins and tumuli remaining from the Bronze Age gave the pre-literate Greeks of the 10th and 9th centuries BC a sense of a grand and vanished age that was reflected in the oral epic tradition, which would be crystallized in the Iliad.

Archaeological evidence suggests that the history of the ancient Greeks in Egypt dates back at least to Mycenaean times and more likely even further back into the proto-Greek Minoan age.

For Greeks of the Classical age, the contrast between the lifestyles of the two became the most salient element in the narrative ; in Euripides ' Antiope the best-recalled scene was where the two brothers in debate contrasted their active and contemplative lives.

According to contemporary opinion, Greeks who engaged in passive homosexuality past the age at which they were the passive members of pederastic relationships " made a woman " of themselves ; there is ample evidence in the theater of Aristophanes that derides these passive homosexuals and gives a glimpse of the type of biting social opprobrium heaped upon them by their society.