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In ancient Greece, Piraeus assumed its importance with its three deep water harbours, the main port of Cantharus and the two smaller of Zea and Munichia, and gradually replaced the older and shallow Phaleron harbour, which fell into disuse.
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The normal method of calculation in ancient Rome, as in Greece, was by moving counters on a smooth table.
References to the concept of atoms date back to ancient Greece and India.
In ancient Greece sculptors and painters were held in low regard, somewhere between freemen and slaves, their work regarded as mere manual labour.
Ambracia, occasionally Ampracia (), was a city of ancient Greece on the site of modern Arta.
Amber and extracts were used from the time of Hippocrates in ancient Greece for a wide variety of treatments through the Middle Ages and up until the early twentieth century.
Margaret Fuller referred to Alcott as " a philosopher of the balmy times of ancient Greece — a man whom the worldlings of Boston hold in as much horror as the worldlings of Athens held Socrates.
Two well-known cases are found in the speeches of Demosthenes, a prominent statesman and orator in ancient Greece.
In ancient Greece, the amaranth ( also called chrysanthemum and helichrysum ) was sacred to Ephesian Artemis.
He was reckoned by some ancient authors as one of the Seven Sages of Greece, and it is said that he was initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries of the Great Goddess, a privilege denied to those who did not speak fluent Greek.
Actium ( Greek: Ἄκτιον ) was the ancient name of a promontory of western Greece in northwestern Acarnania, at the mouth of the Sinus Ambracius ( Gulf of Arta ) opposite Nicopolis, built by Augustus on the north side of the strait.
An ancient Roman festival, Actia, was named after Actium, in Nicopolis, the new city ( today Preveza, Greece ).
* Arene, Elis, an ancient town in Elis, Greece, also known as Makistos, Samia or Samiko
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.
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Abae (, Abai ) is an ancient town in the northeastern corner of Phocis, in Greece.
Artemis, the goddess of forests and hills, was worshipped throughout ancient Greece.
The ceremony is organized at the site of ancient Olympia in Greece.
Many city-states in ancient Greece limited debt slavery to a period of five years and debt slaves had protection of life and limb, which regular slaves did not enjoy.
When the idea of a modern Olympics became a reality at the end of the 19th century, the initiators and organizers were looking for a great popularizing event, recalling the ancient glory of Greece.
Although traditionally focused on ancient Greece and Rome, the study now encompasses the entire ancient Mediterranean world, thus expanding their studies to Northern Africa and parts of the Middle East.
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Later, the Antikythera mechanism, invented some time around 100 AD in ancient Greece, was the first mechanical calculator utilizing gears of various sizes and configuration to perform calculations, which tracked the metonic cycle still used in lunar-to-solar calendars, and which is consistent for calculating the dates of the Olympiads.
In ancient Greece, beginning in the early 1st millennium AD, there emerged independent city-states that evolved for the first time the notion of citizenship, becoming in the process the archetype of the free city, the polis.
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Piraeus has a long recorded history, dating to ancient Greece.
The Long Walls connecting the ancient city of Classical Athens | Athens to its port of Piraeus.
The city lost even its ancient and original name that was forgotten, named Porto Leone by the Venetians in 1317, meaning ' Lion's Port ' from the Piraeus Lion standing at the harbour's entrance, and Porto Draco by the Franks.
It was the main port for ancient Athens, before the port at Piraeus was constructed.
* The historical Long Walls linked ancient Athens to its port, Piraeus.
He was buried in Piraeus near the tomb of Themistocles, the founder of the ancient Athenian Navy.
Recently, archaeologists in the capital ’ s southern coastal suburb of Palaio Faliro have uncovered what appear to be traces of ancient Athens ’ s first port before the city ’ s naval and shipping center was moved to Piraeus.
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He assumed the title of Alfonso XII, for although no King of united Spain had borne the name " Alfonso XI ", the Spanish monarchy was regarded as continuous with the more ancient monarchy represented by the 11 kings of Asturias, León and Castile also named Alfonso.
In later Hellenistic times, she even assumed the ancient role of Eileithyia in aiding childbirth.
After Björkö came to be identified with ancient Birka, it has been assumed that the original name of Birka was simply Bierkø ( sometimes spelt Bjärkö ), an earlier form of Björkö.
Cultivation of azuki beans dates back to ancient times according to an excavation from Odong-ri, Hoeryong, North Hamgyong Province, which is assumed to be that of Mumun period ( approximately 1500-300 BCE ).
Murchison asserted in 1841 that he named his " Permian system " after the ancient kingdom of Permia, and not after the then small town of Perm, as usually assumed.
While it is commonly assumed that traditions have ancient history, many traditions have been invented on purpose, whether that be political or cultural, over short periods of time.
The stars are in fact much farther away than the distance that was generally assumed in ancient times, which is why stellar parallax is only detectable with telescopes.
Cyrus now claimed to be the legitimate successor of the ancient Babylonian kings and the avenger of Bel-Marduk, who was assumed to be wrathful at the impiety of Nabonidus in removing the images of the local gods from their ancestral shrines to his capital Babylon.
It is generally assumed, on the authority of ancient commentators that Solon also reformed the Athenian coinage.
The stars are much farther away than was generally assumed in ancient times ; and since stellar parallax is only detectable with telescopes, his speculation although accurate was unprovable at the time.
Frequently assumed to have been born in Sardis, capital of ancient Lydia, the Suda claims that Alcman was actually a Laconian from Messoa.
Based on ancient Greek historical sources, a Thracian or a Celtic association is sometimes assumed.
In ancient Athens, women had no legal personhood and were assumed to be part of the oikos headed by the male kyrios.
The modern Israeli settlement-city of Efrata in the West Bank occupies a site assumed to be near the ancient one.
The fragments confirm the ancient estimate of him as a " consumate poet " but also indicate that he was in fact a " sturdier character " than the indulgent love poet he was assumed to be by various ancient commentators.
As the reproductive process became better understood, ancient Chinese society moved towards a patriarchal system and Fu Xi assumed primary importance.
The " dragon " ( תלי tli, perhaps meaning " curled one " as a coiled serpent ) which plays such an important part in the astrology of the book, is probably an ancient Semitic figure ; at all events its name is not Arabic, as scholars have hitherto assumed, but either Aramaic or possibly a Babylonian loan-word.
Exegesis of Genesis 4 by both ancient and modern commentators have typically assumed that the motive was driven by jealousy.
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He also assumed the roles of a priest and prophet of the extremist Hauhau movement of the Pai Mārire religion, reviving ancient rites of cannibalism and propitiation of Māori gods with the human heart torn from the first slain in a battle.
" Lucas writes, " What has been assumed to have been Indian Indigo on ancient Egyptian fabrics may have been woad.
Kernev ) in modern France is assumed to owe its name to descendants originating in insular Cornwall — the medieval kingdom of Domnonea, cognate to ancient Dumnonia, has however been lost to modern departemente boundaries.
He also assumed the roles of a priest and prophet of the extremist Hauhau movement of the Pai Mārire religion, reviving ancient rites of cannibalism and propitiation of Māori gods with the human heart torn from the first slain in a battle.
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