In classical Greece he was the god of light and of music, but in popular religion he had a strong function to keep away evil.

In classical Greece, Anaxagoras asserted that a divine reason ( mind ) gave order to the seeds of the universe, and Plato extended the Greek belief of ideal forms to his metaphysical theory of forms ( ideai: ideas ).

By classical Greece and Rome, the reduction of words to single letters was still normal, but can default.

In 1788 Jean Jacques Barthelemy ( 1716 – 95 ), a highly esteemed classical scholar and Jesuit, published The Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, about a young Scythian descended from Anacharsis.

Within the later tradition of Western Civilization and classical revival the Acropolis, from at least the mid-18th century on, has often been invoked as a key symbol of the Greek legacy and of the glories of Classical Greece.

These Greek city-states reached great levels of prosperity that resulted in an unprecedented cultural boom, that of classical Greece, expressed in architecture, drama, science, mathematics and philosophy, and nurtured in Athens under a democratic government.

In classical thought, the four elements Earth, Water, Air, and Fire frequently occur ; sometimes including a fifth element or quintessence ( after " quint " meaning " fifth ") called Aether in ancient Greece and India.

In classical Greece, celery leaves were used as garlands for the dead, and the wreaths of the winners at the Isthmian Games were first made of celery before being replaced by crowns made of pine.

The Renaissance period saw renewed interest in the ruins left by the ancient cultures of Greece and Rome, and the fertile development of a new architecture based on classical principles.

The humanist tradition of the Renaissance included a revival of interest in Europe's classical past in ancient Greece and Rome.

It appears to have been heavily influenced by divinatory tarot, the four classical elements of ancient Greece, and mythologies from around the world.

Most ancient cultures have had conceptions of a flat Earth, including Greece until the classical period, the Bronze Age and Iron Age civilizations of the Near East until the Hellenistic period, India until the Gupta period ( early centuries AD ) and China until the 17th century.

** Ancient Greece, the classical civilization centered in Greece

The period known as classical antiquity began with the rise of the city-states of Ancient Greece out of the Greek Dark Ages.

During the classical period in Greece ( 6th, 5th and 4th centuries BCE ) and in Hellenistic times, natural philosophy slowly developed into an exciting and contentious field of study.

The classical hendecasyllable is a quantitative meter used in Ancient Greece in Aeolic verse and in scolia, and later by the Roman poet Catullus.

Professors at the University of Pennsylvania based their teaching in the Beaux-Arts style, rooted in the classical traditions of Greece and Rome.

Jason appeared in various literature in the classical world of Greece and Rome, including the epic poem Argonautica and tragedy, Medea.

Private or personal libraries made up of written books ( as opposed to the state or institutional records kept in archives ) appeared in classical Greece in the 5th century BC.

Private or personal libraries made up of written books ( as opposed to the state or institutional records kept in archives ) appeared in classical Greece in the 5th century BC.

In classical Greece the priests at Delphi were called Labryades ()-the men of the double axe .- The complex palace of Knossos in Crete is usually implicated, though the actual dancing-ground, depicted in frescoed patterns at Knossos, has not been found.

As a parallel with physicians of classical Greece, ancient Arabic physicians and psychologists also categorized ḥuzn as a disease.

The temple was changed to a center for the worship of Apollo during the classical period of Greece and priests were added to the temple organization — although the tradition regarding prophecy remained unchanged — and the apparently always-female priestess continued to provide the services of the oracle exclusively.

The subject of nearly all of Maillol's mature work is the female body, treated with a classical emphasis on stable forms.

The rationalist philosophers, however, with a new emphasis on Reason as a tool of the intellect, brought the classical and medieval traditions under new scrutiny, exercising a new concept of doubt, with varying outcomes.

Because less defensive emphasis was placed on the use of the forearms and more on the gloves, the classical forearms outwards, torso leaning back stance of the bare knuckle boxer was modified to a more modern stance in which the torso is tilted forward and the hands are held closer to the face.

The Mahāyānist Nāgārjuna, one of the most influential Buddhist thinkers, promoted classical Buddhist emphasis on phenomena and attacked Sarvāstivāda realism and Sautrāntika nominalism in his magnum opus, The Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way ( Mūlamadhyamakakārikā ).

In the 1970s, film culture and the changing demographics of filmgoers placed greater emphasis on gritty realism, while the pure entertainment and theatricality of classical era Hollywood musicals was seen as old-fashioned.

It also attended a change in musical style from the complex counterpoint of the baroque period, to an emphasis on clear melody, homophonic textures, short phrases, and frequent cadences: a style that would later be defined as classical.

There have, however, been some contemporary challenges to this classical interpretation, with emphasis placed on the explicit motive of cultural and linguistic homogeneity mentioned in the narrative ( v. 1, 4, 6 ).

The early part of the 18th century was still characterized by the combination of Lutheran orthodoxy and classical philology of the previous century, but eventually a larger emphasis on sciences and practically useful knowledge developed.

Later the emphasis was on classical studies, dominated by Latin and Ancient History, and, for boys with sufficient ability, Classical Greek.

While classical, gospel, and contemporary popular music comprise the majority of the choir ’ s repertoire, the choir is noted for its emphasis on preserving the heritage of the spiritual, especially in the historic practices of performance.

Decca's emergence as a major classical label may be attributed to three concurrent events: the emphasis on technical innovation ( first the development of the FFRR technique, then the early use of stereophonic recording ), the introduction of the long-playing record, and the recruitment of John Culshaw to Decca's London office.

The first is study in-depth ( iyyun ), often confined to selected legally focused tractates, with an emphasis on analytical skills and close reference to the classical commentators ; the second seeks to cover ground more speedily, to build general knowledge ( beki ' ut ) of the Talmud ; see the Talmud in modern-day Judaism.

In contrast, sadcore emphasized pain and suffering through melodic use of acoustic and electronic instrumentation in the music of bands like American Music Club and Red House Painters, while the revival of Baroque pop reacted against lo-fi and experimental music by placing an emphasis on melody and classical instrumentation, with artists like Arcade Fire, Belle & Sebastian and Rufus Wainwright.

In the Victorian period there was a great emphasis on the importance of self-improvement, and parents keen for their children to receive a decent education organised the creation of new schools with modern curricula, though often retaining a classical core.

First outlined by Mummery and Hobson in the 1889 book, ' Physiology of Industry ', underconsumption was a scathing indictment of Say's Law and classical economics ' emphasis on thrift.

Swing uses a strong rhythm section of double bass and drums as the anchor for a lead section of brass instruments such as trumpets and trombones, woodwinds including saxophones and clarinets, and sometimes stringed instruments such as violin and guitar, medium to fast tempos, and a " lilting " swing time rhythm. The name swing came from the phrase ‘ swing feel ’ where the emphasis is on the off – beat or weaker pulse in the music ( unlike classical music ).

Throughout the rest of the book he treats, and compares, both Formalist ( classical ) and Intuitionist logics with an emphasis on the former.

* Italian: Italian branch of power Metal shares several characteristics in common: melodic, often classical or progressive songwriting, heavily fantastic lyrics, high-pitched vocals and emphasis on speed.

The consensus is that Nāgārjuna defended the classical Buddhist emphasis on phenomena.

But he was also deeply rooted in the classical spirit of the Age of Enlightenment in his intellectual presuppositions, his use of philologic analysis, and his emphasis on both general and particular phenomena in history.

With psychoanalysis continuing to move away from classical Freudianism to other concerns, it may still be salutary to heed Anna Freud's warning about the potential loss of her father's ' emphasis on conflict within the individual person, the aims, ideas and ideals battling with the drives to keep the individual within a civilized community.

An improvisatory technique, which was typical of old classical Arabic singing, and which she wonderfully executed for as long as she could have ( both her regressing vocal abilities with age and the increased Westernization of Arabic music became an impediment to this art ), was to repeat a single line or stance over and over, subtly altering the emotive emphasis and intensity and exploring one or various musical modal scales ( maqām ) each time to bring her audiences into a euphoric and ecstatic state known in Arabic as " tarab " طرب.

Also, unlike modern Western classical music, Indian classical music places great emphasis on improvisation.