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.

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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.

In Ancient Greece, bankruptcy did not exist.

Ancient India represented a distinct tradition of law, and had an historically independent school of legal theory and practice.

The term " pharaonic circumcision " ( Type III ) stems from its practice in Ancient Egypt under the Pharaohs, and " fibula " ( in " infibulation ") refers to the Roman practice of piercing the outer labia with a fibula, or brooch.

Xenia ( ξενία xenía ), hospitality, was an extremely important practice in Ancient Greece.

The practice developed in Ancient Greece ( which knew the non-marital mediator as a proxenetas ), then in Roman civilization.

The Damnatio memoriae, an old judicial practice from Ancient Rome, was applied to Formosus, all his measures and acts were annulled and the orders conferred by him were declared invalid.

This method resembles the Ancient Greek practice of placing an obolus in the corpse's mouth to pay the toll to cross the River Styx in the underworld ; it has been argued that instead, the coin was intended to ward off any evil spirits from entering the body, and this may have influenced later vampire folklore.

In Ancient Rome, the practice of damnatio memoriae was the condemnation of Roman elites and emperors after their deaths.

The device has also appeared in the American television series Star Trek: The Next Generation as the Klingon practice of discommendation ; as a threat in Ancient Greek and Persian culture in Frank Miller's 1998 comic book series 300 and its 2007 film adaptation ; and in the 2004 role playing game Vampire the Requiem.

In the Ancient Near East along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers there were many shrines and temples or " houses of heaven " dedicated to various deities documented by the Ancient Greek historian Herodotus in The Histories where sacred prostitution was a common practice.

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.

In cult practice, the dead Tammuz was widely mourned in the Ancient Near East.

According to Pliny the Elder, human sacrifice in Ancient Rome was abolished by a senatorial decree in 97 BCE, although by this time the practice had already become so rare that the decree was mostly a symbolic act.

A claim of " matriarchy " in the ancient Near East is also found in The Cambridge Ancient History ( 1975 ): " the predominance of a supreme goddess is probably a reflection from the practice of matriarchy which at all times characterized Elamite civilization to a greater or lesser degree ".

Many documents from the Ancient Greek and Roman worlds survive now only " in epitome ", referring to the practice of some later authors ( epitomators ) who wrote distilled versions of larger works now lost.

None of the extant laws of the Ancient Near East deal with tithing, though other secondary documents show that it was a widespread practice in the Ancient Near East.

William W. Hallo ( 1996 ) recognises comparisons for Israel with its ancient Near Eastern environment, however, as regards tithes, comparisons with other ancient Near Eastern evidence is ambiguous, and Ancient Near Eastern literature provides scant evidence for the practice of tithing and the collection of tithes.

Indeed, there was little distinction for the Ancient Egyptians between magical and religious practice.

While the practice of mathematics previously developed in other civilizations, the special interests for its theoretical and foundational aspects really started with Ancient Greeks.

He had a great enthusiasm for antiquities ; one of his projects, as he set out on his embassy, was the collection of antiquities, but also the gathering of first-hand evidence ( drawing, casts ) for Ancient Greek art, especially in Athens, as models for taste and artistic practice in Britain ; for which purpose he assembled a team of artists and craftsmen in Italy, on his way to Constantinople.