These thinkers blended Aristotelian philosophy with Christianity, bringing the thought of Ancient Greece into the Middle Ages.

* Online searchable copy of Swedenborg's Heaven and Hell also known as the underworld in Ancient Greece.

Athens (;, Athína ; ; Katharevousa: Ἀθῆναι, Athinai ; Ancient Greek: Ἀθῆναι, Athēnai ) is the capital and largest city of Greece.

Assault in Ancient Greece was normally termed hubris.

In Ancient Greece, " hubris " referred to actions which, intentionally or not, shamed and humiliated the victim, and frequently the perpetrator as well.

Lysander and the young Agesilaus came to maintain an intimate relation ( see Pederasty in Ancient Greece ), as was common of the period.

Ancient Greece | Ancient Greek Attic white-ground alabastron, ca.

Andocides or Andokides (, 440 – 390 BC ) was a logographer ( speech writer ) in Ancient Greece.

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Ancient art was largely, but not entirely, based on the nine great ancient civilizations: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Greece, China, Rome, India, the Celtic peoples, and Maya.

Examples of armies equipping their troops in this fashion were the Aztecs ( 16th century DC ), and the hoplites in Ancient Greece.

Lost and found advertising on papyrus was common in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.

Ancient Greece | Ancient Greek hoplite s playing a board game, ca.

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In Ancient Greece there were several cults worshipping the " Kourotrophos ", the suckling mother, represented by goddesses such as Gaia, Hera and Artemis.

At that time, Sloane's collection consisted of around 71, 000 objects of all kinds including some 40, 000 printed books, 7, 000 manuscripts, extensive natural history specimens including 337 volumes of dried plants, prints and drawings including those by Albrecht Dürer and antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Ancient Near and Far East and the Americas.

but why did the Old Chinese postulate five elements, when the Ancient Near East -- which may have initiated the idea that natural elements exerted influence in human life and activities -- recognized only four??

Parallels to the earliest Babylonian ( Sumerian ) star catalogues suggest that the ancient Chinese system did not arise independently from that of the Ancient Near East.

Ancient historians have many complaints about this, stating that his judgments were variable and sometimes did not follow the law.

Essentially, the Greek language did not incorporate the nuances of the Ancient Roman concepts that distinguished imperium from other forms of political power.

Kenneth W. Harl in the Teaching Company's Great Ancient Civilizations of Asia Minor lecture series sarcastically claims that Schliemann's excavations were carried out with such rough methods that he did to Troy what the Greeks couldn't do in their times, destroying and leveling down the entire city walls to the ground.

He concludes that whilst Christianity rejected anything " pagan " it did so only at a superficial level and that early Christianity was " deeply indebted " to Ancient Egypt.

Ancient Greeks dealt straightforwardly with multistate problems, and did not create choice-of-law rules.

Ancient Hebrew verse generally did not employ rhyme.

Coptic is written using the Coptic alphabet, a modified form of the Greek alphabet with a number of symbols borrowed from Demotic for sounds that did not occur in Ancient Greek.

An apocalypse ( Ancient Greek: apocálypsis, from and meaning ' un-covering '), translated literally from Greek refers to a revelation of something hidden, although this sense did not enter English until the 14th century.

Orpheus, of Ancient Greece | Classical Greek mythology, depicted by Cesare Gennari with a violin that did not exist before 16th century

Although the Ancient Hebrews did not practice castration, eunuchs were common in other cultures featured in the Bible, such as Ancient Egypt, Babylonia, the Persian Empire and Ancient Rome.

I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of Days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.

The idea of using " tracked " roads is at least 2000 years old ; quarries in Ancient Greece, Malta and the Roman Empire used cut stone tracks to haul loads pulled by animals, as the Greek Diolkos did for transporting ships overland.

Ancient Hebrew and Arabic did use spaces, partly to compensate in clarity for the lack of vowels.

Although interest in Ancient Egypt steadily increased after that period, further finds of mummy portraits did not become known before the early 19th century.

Although virtually no Ancient Greek painting survives, their understanding of the effect of light modelling can still be seen in the late 4th century BC mosaics of Pella, Macedonia, in particular the Deer Hunt, in the House of the Abduction of Helen, inscribed gnosis epoesen, or ' knowledge did it '.

Christian art was caught up in, but did not originate, the shift in style away from the classical tradition inherited from Ancient Greek art to a less realist and otherworldly hieratic style, the start of medieval art.

This was the first of numerous young-adult fiction books based on space adventures ( including the late 1970s series the Scott Saunders Space Adventure ); he did write a more adult novel as well as a farce novel titled Ancient Lights, though he did not wish to find a publisher for either work.

After the release of the live album, McKennitt decided to substantially reduce the number of her public performances and did not release any new recordings until the studio album An Ancient Muse in 2006.

Milton begins with historical evidence noting that Ancient Greece and Rome did not adhere to the practice of licensing.