In Italian, possibly following a tradition of antiquity, the Arcipelago ( from medieval Greek * ἀρχιπέλαγος ) was the proper name for the Aegean Sea and, later, usage shifted to refer to the Aegean Islands ( since the sea is remarkable for its large number of islands ).

The possible existence of a genuine Atlantis was discussed throughout classical antiquity, but it was usually rejected and occasionally parodied by later authors.

Though female centaurs, called Kentaurides, are not mentioned in early Greek literature and art, they do appear occasionally in later antiquity.

Beekes argued that the people later known as the Lydians and Etruscans had originally lived in northwest Anatolia, with a coastline to the Sea of Marmara, whence they were driven by the Phrygians c. 1200 BC, leaving a remnant known in antiquity as the Tyrsenoi.

Devotees of Orpheus and Musaeus were probably responsible for precedence being given to their two cult heroes and maybe the Homeridae were responsible in later antiquity for promoting Homer at Hesiod's expense.

Often regarded as one of the greatest military strategists in European history, Hannibal would later be considered one of the greatest generals of antiquity, together with Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Scipio, and Pyrrhus of Epirus.

In 1985 Classical historian Georg Luck, in his Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds, theorised that the origins of the Witch-cult may have appeared in late antiquity as a faith primarily designed to worship the Horned God, stemming from the merging of Cernunnos, a horned god of the Celts, with the Greco-Roman Pan / Faunus, a combination of gods which he posits created a new deity, around which the remaining pagans, those refusing to convert to Christianity, rallied and that this deity provided the prototype for later Christian conceptions of the Devil, and his worshippers were cast by the Church as witches.

Georg Luck, repeats part of Murray's theory, stating that the Horned God may have appeared in late antiquity, stemming from the merging of Cernunnos, a horned god of the Celts, with the Greco-Roman Pan / Faunus, a combination of gods which he posits created a new deity, around which the remaining pagans, those refusing to convert to Christianity, rallied and that this deity provided the prototype for later Christian conceptions of the devil, and his worshippers were cast by the Church as witches.

Among these objects is a wide-brimmed hat, the Petasos, widely used by rural people of antiquity to protect themselves from the sun, and that in later times was adorned with a pair of small wings, sometimes the hat is not present, but may then have wings rising from the hair.

However, later in antiquity, the propositional logic developed by the Stoics was no longer understood.

However in later antiquity the first philosophy, as a more demanding discipline, was considering to come after physics and the works where it was exposed were called metaphysics.

In classical antiquity, mirrors were made of solid metal ( bronze, later silver ) and were too expensive for widespread use by common people ; they were also prone to corrosion.

The Sistine Chapel was sponsored by Sixtus IV, as was the Ponte Sisto, the Sistine Bridge – the first new bridge across the Tiber since antiquity – and the building of Via Sistina ( later named Borgo Sant ' Angelo ), a road leading from Castel Sant ' Angelo to Saint Peter.

French and Swiss Enlightenment thinkers, such as Montesquieu and later Rousseau, expanded upon and altered the ideas of what an ideal republic should be: some of their new ideas were scarcely traceable to antiquity or the Renaissance thinkers.

In later antiquity, these roads played an important part in Roman military reverses by offering avenues of invasion to the barbarians.

Debates concerning the nature, essence and the mode of existence of space date back to antiquity ; namely, to treatises like the Timaeus of Plato, or Socrates in his reflections on what the Greeks called khora ( i. e. " space "), or in the Physics of Aristotle ( Book IV, Delta ) in the definition of topos ( i. e. place ), or even in the later " geometrical conception of place " as " space qua extension " in the Discourse on Place ( Qawl fi al-Makan ) of the 11th century Arab polymath Alhazen.

In particular, many Taoist practices drew from the Warring-States-era phenomena of the wu ( connected to the " shamanism " of Southern China ) and the fangshi ( which probably derived from the " archivist-soothsayers of antiquity, one of whom supposedly was Laozi himself "), even though later Taoists insisted that this was not the case.

Being more visible, the tholoi all had been plundered either in antiquity, or in later historic times.

It originated in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later on paper.

Evidence of furniture survives from the Neolithic Period and later in antiquity in the form of paintings, such as the wall Murals discovered at Pompeii ; sculpture, and examples have been excavated in Egypt and found in tombs in Ghiordes, in modern day Turkey.

Many classic works of antiquity that would otherwise have been lost were translated into Arabic and Persian and later in turn translated into Turkish, Hebrew and Latin.

There are no later references to the Etemenanki from antiquity.

* Orichalcum – another distinct metal or alloy mentioned in texts from classical antiquity, later used to refer to brass

Most of Orff's later works – Antigonae ( 1949 ), Oedipus der Tyrann ( Oedipus the Tyrant, 1958 ), Prometheus ( 1968 ), and De temporum fine comoedia ( Play on the End of Times, 1971 ) – were based on texts or topics from antiquity.

Identification with Paphlagonians of later antiquity has been proposed, but this is uncertain.

The characterization of Homer as a blind bard goes back to some verses in the Delian Hymn to Apollo, the third of the Homeric Hymns, verses later cited to support this notion by Thucydides.

The remaining evidence for Thucydides ' life comes from rather less reliable later ancient sources.

Between the 8th and 7th centuries BC the Spartans experienced a period of lawlessness and civil strife, later testified by both Herodotus and Thucydides.

" Old Attic " is a term used for the dialect of Thucydides ( 460-400 BC ) and the dramatists of Athens ' remarkable 5th century ; " New Attic " is used for the language of later writers.

Some later ancient historians, starting with Thucydides, criticised Herodotus.

Exactly what happened is unclear ; Thucydides gives few details, although later writers added plenty of lurid insinuations.

The city was defended by the Athenian general Eucles, who sent for help from Thucydides ( at that point a general, later a famous historian ), who was stationed at Thasos with seven Athenian ships.

* Cleon: The populist leader of the pro-war faction and a frequent target in later plays, he is mentioned here in connection with four issues-1. some political or financial loss he had suffered as a result of opposition from the class of knights ( hippeis ); 2. his prosecution of Thucydides ( in which context he is named only by his deme ) 3. his imputed foreign lineage ; 4. his prosecution of the author over the previous play.

Like Herodotus and Thucydides, he probably autographed his work for the benefit of later writers.

Thucydides, who some years later wrote a history of the Peloponnesian Wars was an observer to the events he described.

No detailed record of the Lelantine War was produced by a contemporary author ( such as Thucydides for the Peloponnesian War ), as Greek historiography only developed 200 years later, starting with the works of Herodotus.

The same writer represented Theocles, or Thucles, the leader of the colony and founder of the city, as an Athenian by birth ; but Thucydides takes no notice of this, and describes the city as a purely Chalcidic colony ; and it seems certain that in later times it was generally so regarded.

Hence it was at Naxos that the Athenian fleet first touched after crossing the straits ; and at a later period the Naxians and Catanaeans are enumerated by Thucydides as the only Greek cities in Sicily which sided with the Athenians.

From the unexpected realism of his first major figure — inspired by his 1875 trip to Italy — to the unconventional memorials whose commissions he later sought, Rodin's reputation grew, such that he became the preeminent French sculptor of his time.

He established his reputation publishing as a private scholar and, on the strength and quality of his work, was appointed Professor of Latin at University College London and later, at Cambridge.

Lauded as a hero by the Neapolitan court, Nelson was later to dabble in Neapolitan politics and become the Duke of Bronté, actions for which he was criticised by his superiors and his reputation suffered.

The Order's origins in battling heterodoxy influenced its later development and reputation.

By the time of the Byzantine Iconoclasm several centuries later, Eusebius had unfairly gained the reputation of having been an Arian, and was roundly condemned as such by Patriarch Nikephoros I of Constantinople.

Frigg's death later cleared Odin's name and he regained his reputation.

Wells's literary reputation declined as he spent his later years promoting causes that were rejected by most of his contemporaries.

In later years Hoover liked to think of himself and his associates as having been " engineering doctors to sick concerns ", and so hence his reputation as the " Doctor of sick mines "

Several days later, the oafish Kurt and Ram spread a false rumor about Veronica giving oral sex to them at the same time, ruining her reputation at school.

Brown's reputation as a hit maker was confirmed later in 1966 with the release of the blues-inspired soul ballad, " It's a Man's Man's Man's World ".

Much of John's later, negative reputation was established by two chroniclers writing after the king's death, Roger of Wendover and Matthew Paris.

They accepted the need for a prince to be concerned with reputation, and even a need for cunning and deceit, but compared to Machiavelli, and like later modernist writers, they emphasized economic progress much more than the riskier ventures of war.

Acclaimed the biggest sporting figure in the world at his peak, Nurmi was averse to publicity and the media, stating later on his 75th birthday that " worldly fame and reputation are worth less than a rotten lingonberry.

The film made his reputation and nothing in his later life fully equaled its success, although he continued the development of this new genre of docufiction, e. g. with Moana ( 1926 ), set in the South Seas, and Man of Aran ( 1934 ), filmed in Ireland's Aran Islands.

In 1922, she married Edward Hilton Young, later Lord Kennet ( she becoming Lady Kennet ), and remained a doughty defender of Scott's reputation until her death, aged 69, in 1947.

The method was popular in the days of vacuum-tube radios, but later gained a bad reputation due to poorly adjusted commercial implementations.

Whether the perception is fair or not, it would later plague Barker's acceptance and reputation.

According to Wyman: " Our reputation and image as the Bad Boys came later, completely accidentally.

However, in his later years he had to pay for a locum tenens to run his medical practice while he was playing cricket and he had a reputation for treating his poorer patients without charging a fee.

The film is a box office flop, but more than twenty years later, its reputation starts to improve when it is released on video and public response is enthusiastic.

His reputation was such that a number of monks requested him to write a book to kindle their zeal ; and his letter to Joscelin, later archbishop of Bordeaux, who had asked him to decide a dispute between Bishop Isembert of Poitiers and his chapter, is evidence of the authority attributed to his judgment.

Howard's reputation survived and he later became a Scripps partner, whose name appeared in one of the Scripps subsidiary companies, Scripps-Howard.

( Called in to advise on a leaking roof at St Chad's Church Shrewsbury in 1788, he correctly warned the church was in imminent danger of collapse ; his reputation was made locally when it collapsed 3 days later, but he was not the architect for its replacement ).

One of the more drastic measures employed to accomplish the eradication of the old schools of thought was the infamous burning of books and burying of scholars incident, which almost singlehandedly gave the Qin Dynasty a bad reputation among later scholars.

Thus this report of a feud between Eadwig and Dunstan could either have been based on a true incident of a political quarrel for power between a young king and powerful church officials who wished to control the king and who later spread this legend to blacken his reputation, or it could be an urban legend ; the Chronicle also tells of Odo putting aside the King's marriage on the grounds Eadwig and his wife were " too related ".