Herodotus identified the Achaeans of the northern Peloponnese as descendants of the earlier, Homeric Achaeans.

The Homeric picture of the Mycenaean age betrays extremely little awareness of writing, possibly reflecting the loss during the Dark Age of the earlier Linear B script.

Later Latin has-î as the ending for this case, but by comparison with Linear B and Homeric Greek and other languages it becomes clear that-osio is a far earlier form.

The stories contained in the Cypria, on the other hand, were fixed much earlier than that, and the same problems of dating oral traditions associated with the Homeric epics also apply to the Cypria.

However, the Hittite empire had already collapsed before the Trojan War, which explains their absence in the Homeric account, so this letter must refer to an earlier time.

One significant difference of modern naval battles as opposed to earlier forms of combat is the use of marines, which introduced amphibious warfare.

He seldom came out of it again, but did when challenged to single combat by the Elven king Fingolfin and earlier to investigate the first appearance of Men.

While in combat, Alita awakens memories of her earlier life on Mars.

Watching the crowds cheering him standing on the balcony of the town hall of Leyden he remarked to the burgomaster: " Now they praise me because I gained riches without the least danger ; but earlier when I risked my life in full combat they didn't even know I existed ...".

A few years earlier, in 2003, Douglas hosted a " powerful film " on child soldiers and the impact of combat on children in countries such as Sierra Leone.

The Swiss solved the pike's earlier problems and brought a renaissance to pike warfare in the 15th century, establishing strong training regimens to ensure they were masters of handling of the Spiess ( The German term for " skewer ") on maneuvers and in combat, the Swiss having also introduced marching to drums for this purpose.

Somewhat earlier in medieval China, gunpowder had been invented, and was increasingly used by the military in combat.

In it, Confederate forces, having won the Civil War years earlier, are pitted against Union forces in World-War I-era combat on the North American continent, including in the Confederate state of Sequoyah ( Oklahoma ) around the town of Beggs.

Robert's earlier participation in combat at the battles of Halidon and Neville's Cross, according to Donaldson, had made him wary of sanctioning military expeditions against the English and that any such actions by his barons were concealed from him.

Iraqi forces were battle-hardened after 8 years of war with Iran, and they were well-equipped with late model Soviet tanks and jet fighters, but the antiaircraft weapons were crippled ; in comparison, the US had no large-scale combat experience since its withdrawal from Vietnam nearly 20 years earlier, and major changes in US doctrine, equipment and technology since then had never been tested under fire.

Simplifying his earlier proposal, Guderian suggested the design of a main combat vehicle which would be developed into the Panzer III, and a breakthrough tank, the Panzer IV.

After Eärnur became King of Gondor in 2043 the Witch-king, Lord of the Nazgûl, challenged him to single combat in order to finish a disputed duel between them at the Battle of Fornost years earlier.

It deals entirely with the earlier exploits of Sun Wukong, a monkey born from a stone nourished by the Five Elements, who learns the art of the Tao, 72 polymorphic transformations, combat, and secrets of immortality, and through guile and force makes a name for himself, Qitian Dasheng (), or " Great Sage Equal to Heaven ".

Their landing was unopposed: there were no British regulars in town, and York's militia had withdrawn from further combat in return for its freedom during the American invasion three months earlier.

Gerald, Lord Peter's favourite nephew, who was first seen a decade earlier as a precocious boy playing a major role in solving " The Learned Adventure of the Dragon's Head " and appeared as an Oxford undergraduate in Gaudy Night ; is now an RAF combat pilot.

The PSO games differ from earlier Phantasy Star titles by offering a real-time – rather than turn-based – approach to combat, seamlessly integrating this with exploration and plot developments.

( In the OVA Version, Isamu escaped injury with barely a scratch ) This scene replaces the original grudge match at the climax of Episode 2 when both pilots were using their test craft in melee combat, which ended when Guld, pinned to the ground by a rampaging Isamu, uses Isamu's Gunpod ( Guld had intentionally replaced Isamu's blank ammo with live ammo in an earlier scene in the OVA ) and shoots Isamu's craft at close range, which gave him the severe injuries he was being treated for in hospital.

Later data indicated that this was the Egyptian tank battalion's first combat action, after having arrived from Egypt barely two weeks earlier.

The 82nd, having already established a combat record in World War I, had earlier been chosen to become one of the army's five new airborne divisions.

Examples of the construction and use of pontoon bridges during combat operations date back through World War II and earlier.

In early January 1942, Major General Stanley Savige, an experienced officer who had commanded the 17th Brigade in combat against the Germans in the Middle East earlier in the war, took over command of the division.

Although, among the veterans of that campaign there is a consensus that only the combat is able to adequately prepare the soldier, regardless of the quality of training received earlier.

Naming the Russian nation the primus inter pares was a total turnabout from Stalin's declaration 20 years earlier ( heralding the korenizatsiya policy ) that " the first immediate task of our Party is vigorously to combat the survivals of Great-Russian chauvinism.

Drawing on his first-hand knowledge of the lingering effects of battle-induced stress, Durning's character turns himself in to authorities, insisting that he must be prosecuted for having murdered his buddy during ferocious combat on Iwo Jima six decades earlier.

In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??

Thus the copywriter in the world of the space merchants is the person who in earlier ages might have been a lyric poet, the person `` capable of putting together words that stir and move and sing ''.

However, both the words and notes of the symphony have sources dating from earlier in Beethoven's career.

Therefore, a pair of words whose earlier forms are distinct, yet similar, as far back as they have been traced, could in theory have come from a common root in an even earlier language, making them real cognates.

The swineherd Gurth refuses to open the gates until the palmer whispers a few words in his ear, which turns Gurth as helpful as he was recalcitrant earlier.

Less likely is the commonly proposed derivation from Welsh arth " bear " + ( g ) wr " man " ( earlier * Arto-uiros in Brittonic ); there are phonological difficulties with this theory — notably that a Brittonic compound name * Arto-uiros should produce Old Welsh * Artgur and Middle / Modern Welsh * Arthwr and not Arthur ( in Welsh poetry the name is always spelled Arthur and is exclusively rhymed with words ending in-ur-never words ending in-wr-which confirms that the second element cannot be wr " man ").

Some earlier Latin poets tried to make up for this deficiency by creating new compound words, as the Greeks had done.

On August 1, 1981, at 12: 01 a. m., MTV launched with the words " Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll ," spoken by John Lack, and played over footage of the first Space Shuttle launch countdown of Columbia, which took place earlier that year, and of the launch of Apollo 11.

The word manuscript derives from the Medieval Latin manuscriptum, a word first recorded in 1594 as a Latinisation of earlier Germanic words used in the Middle Ages: compare Middle High German hantschrift ( c. 1450 ), Old Norse handrit ( bef.

The Greuthungi are first named by Ammianus Marcellinus, writing no earlier than 392 and perhaps later than 395, and basing his account of the words of a Tervingian chieftain who is attested as early as 376.

In their origins, these usages derived from pagus, " province, countryside ", cognate to Greek πάγος " rocky hill ", and, even earlier, " something stuck in the ground ", as a landmark: the Proto-Indo-European root * pag-means " fixed " and is also the source of the words page, pale ( stake ), and pole, as well as pact and peace.

Other evidence comes from experimental studies showing that some manipulations ( e. g., a distractor task, such as repeatedly subtracting a single-digit number from a larger number following learning ; cf Brown-Peterson procedure ) impair memory for the 3 to 5 most recently learned words of a list ( it is presumed, still held in short-term memory ), while leaving recall for words from earlier in the list ( it is presumed, stored in long-term memory ) unaffected ; other manipulations ( e. g., semantic similarity of the words ) affect only memory for earlier list words, but do not affect memory for the last few words in a list.