From this action sprang the idea of somehow uniting Greek and Shakespearean drama into a new total form, capable of restoring to life the ancient moral and poetic responses.

Discoveries recently made of old Biblical manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek and other ancient writings, some by the early church fathers, in themselves called for a restudy of the Bible.

The new `` Phedre '' was done in 17th century setting, instead of ancient Greek ; ;

With the loss of the study of ancient Greek in the early medieval Latin West, Aristotle was practically unknown there from c. AD 600 to c. 1100 except through the Latin translation of the Organon made by Boethius.

The genus Amoeba and amoeboids in general both derive their names from the ancient Greek word for change.

Apollo ( Attic, Ionic, and Homeric Greek:, Apollōn ( gen .: ); Doric:, Apellōn ; Arcadocypriot:, Apeilōn ; Aeolic:, Aploun ; ) is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in ancient Greek and Roman religion, Greek and Roman mythology, and Greco – Roman Neopaganism.

In ancient times, navigation through the sea was easier than travelling across the rough terrain of the Greek mainland ( and to some extent the coastal areas of Anatolia ).

During World War I, the Armenian Genocide, the Greek genocide ( especially in Pontus ), and the Assyrian Genocide almost entirely removed the ancient communities of Armenian and Assyrian populations in Anatolia, as well as a large part of its ethnic Greek population.

The word is from the ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις ( analusis, " a breaking up ", from ana-" up, throughout " and lysis " a loosening ").

Raphael's School of Athens, depicting an array of ancient Greek philosophers engaged in discussion.

In the ancient Greek myth about the Labours of Hercules, the hero Hercules had to travel to the underworld to capture Cerberus, the three-headed guard dog, as one of his tasks.

Classical-Relating to or from ancient Roman or Greek architecture and art.

It sought to revive the ideals of ancient Greek and Roman art.

In the 6th century BC, the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras wanted to know why some musical intervals seemed more beautiful than others, and he found answers in terms of numerical ratios representing the harmonic overtone series on a string.

In ancient Greek mythology, ambrosia () is sometimes the food or drink of the Greek gods ( or demigods ), often depicted as conferring ageless immortality upon whomever consumed it.

Abydos ( Greek: Άβυδος ), an ancient city of Mysia, in Asia Minor, situated at Nara Burnu or Nagara Point on the best harbor on the Asiatic shore of the Hellespont.

It was also considered the greatest sin of the ancient Greek world.

Crucial to this definition are the ancient Greek concepts of honor ( timē ) and shame.

Even though the stone had been around centuries and was known to both the Sumerians and the Egyptians, both who used the gem for decoration and for playing important parts in their religious ceremonies, any agate of this color from Sicily, once an ancient Greek colony, is called Greek agate.

* Agis of Argos, an ancient Greek poet

With the birth of the Turkish Republic after the First World War, St. Sophia became a museum, and the ancient mosaics, which were plastered over by the Moslems, whose religion forbids pictures in holy places, have been restored.

The counterpart of Ares among the Roman gods is Mars, who as a father of the Roman people held a more important and dignified place in ancient Roman religion for his agricultural and tutelary functions.

In ancient Roman religion, an aedicula ( plural aediculae ) is a small shrine.

Unlike the Vedic religion, ancient Buddhism had strong misgivings about violent ways of punishing criminals and about war.

Anubis ( or ; ) is the Greek name for a jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion.

Māori warriors fighting the New Zealand government in Titokowaru's War in New Zealand's North Island in 1868 – 69 revived ancient rites of cannibalism as part of the radical Hauhau movement of the Pai Marire religion.

The element air also appears as a concept in the Buddhist religion which has an ancient history in China.

* John R. Hale, et al., " Questioning the Delphic Oracle: When science meets religion at this ancient Greek site, the two turn out to be on better terms than scholars had originally thought ", in Scientific American August 2003

In ancient Greek religion and myth, Demeter (; Attic Dēmētēr.

Diana was worshiped in ancient Roman religion and is revered in Roman Neopaganism and Stregheria.

In it, Hume contends that polytheism, not monotheism, was " the first and most ancient religion of mankind ".

Domitian firmly believed in the traditional Roman religion, and personally saw to it that ancient customs and morals were observed throughout his reign.

In ancient times, the trading and colonising activities of the Greek tribes from the Balkans and Asia Minor spread people of Greek culture, religion and language around the Mediterranean and Black Sea basins, establishing Greek city states in Sicily, southern Italy, northern Libya, eastern Spain, the south of France, and the Black Sea coasts.

Ancient Egyptian religion was a complex system of polytheistic beliefs and rituals which were an integral part of ancient Egyptian society.

Again in second-wave feminism in the U. S., as well as in many European and other countries, religion became the focus of some feminist analysis in Judaism, Christianity, and other religions, and some women turned to ancient goddess religions as an alternative to Abrahamic religions ( Womanspirit Rising 1979 ; Weaving the Visions 1989 ).

This group, he claimed, were the New Forest coven, and he believed them to be one of the few surviving covens of the ancient, pre-Christian Witch-Cult religion.

Her counterpart in the religion of ancient Rome was Juno.

A hero ( heroine is always used for females ) (), in Greek mythology and folklore, was originally a demigod, their cult being one of the most distinctive features of ancient Greek religion.

The " father of Wicca ", Gerald Gardner, who adopted Margaret Murray's thesis, claimed Wicca was a modern survival of an ancient pan-European pagan religion.

Modern Rabbinical Judaism is monotheistic, but its Canaanite religion antecedent in ancient Israel and Judah ( 10th to 7th centuries BC ) was henotheistic.

In ancient Dacia the cult of Zalmoxis had grown into a wide spread henotheistic religion by the seventh century BC.

* Anubis ( Ancient Greek: Ἄνουβις ) is the Egyptian name for a jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion.

Julian's personal religion was both pagan and philosophical ; he viewed the traditional myths as allegories, in which the ancient gods were aspects of a philosophical divinity.

Neusner has aimed to make Rabbinic literature useful to specialists in a variety of fields within the academic study of religion, as well as in ancient history, culture and Near and Middle Eastern Studies.