It remained, however, for Mando to teach me that Doric symbolized strength, Ionic wisdom, and Corinthian beauty, the three pillars of the ancient world.

Built upon seven hills, Istanbul, like Rome, is one of the most ancient cities in the world, filled with splendor and contrast.

There is an ancient and venerable tradition in the church ( which derives, however, from the heritage of the Greeks rather than from the Bible ) that God is completely independent of his creation and so has no need of men for accomplishing his work in the world.

Two of the seven wonders of the ancient world were located in Anatolia: The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus and the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.

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

Agate is one of the most common materials used in the art of hardstone carving, and has been recovered at a number of ancient sites, indicating its widespread use in the ancient world ; for example, archaeological recovery at the Knossos site on Crete illustrates its role in Bronze Age Minoan culture.

In many parts of the world, acropoleis became the nuclei of large cities of classical antiquity, such as ancient Rome, which in more recent times grew up on the surrounding lower ground, such as modern Rome.

The rebel, Lugalanne, has even destroyed the temple Eanna, one of the greatest temples in the ancient world, and then made advances on his sister-in-law.

According to ancient sources, ( Plutarch Theseus, Pausanias ), Amazon tombs could be found frequently throughout what was once known as the ancient Greek world.

Modern critics are more likely to find fault with the narrow definition of the citizen body, but in the ancient world the complaint if anything went in the opposite direction.

The word " Acts " denoted a recognized genre in the ancient world, " characterizing books that described great deeds of people or of cities.

Donnelly attempted to establish that all known ancient civilizations were descended from Atlantis, which he saw as a technologically sophisticated culture, saying that Atlanteans invented gunpowder and the compass thousands of years before the rest of the world invented written language.

To date, Bonn's Roman fort remains the largest fort of its type known from the ancient world, i. e. a fort built for one full-size Imperial Legion and its auxiliaries.

Vases filled with water used to start fires were known in the ancient world, and metaphorical significance was drawn ( by the early Church Fathers, for instance ) from the fact that the water remained cool even though the light passing through it would set materials on fire.

M. H. Abrams and Stephen Greenblatt assert in their introduction to Beowulf in the Norton Anthology of English Literature that, " The poet was reviving the heroic language, style, and pagan world of ancient Germanic oral poetry it is now widely believed that Beowulf is the work of a single poet who was a Christian and that his poem reflects well-established Christian tradition.

The book of Ruth portrays a perfect example of a true belief in the Creator God in that it propagates inclusion of all, even in the ancient world of the Israelites where separation is made obvious between Israelites and non-Israelites.

In 1 Kings 4: 32, 3000 proverbs and over 1000 songs are said to have come from Solomon and it is also said that people came from all over the ancient world to hear the wisdom of Solomon.

The ancient Jetavanaramaya stupa in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka is one of the largest brick structures in the world.

The Museum nevertheless preserves its universality in its collections of artefacts representing the cultures of the world, ancient and modern.

Basic combinatorial concepts and enumerative results appeared throughout the ancient world.

Classics ( sometimes encompassing Classical Studies or Classical Civilization ) is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean world ( Bronze Age ca.

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.

Jury, judge and executioner were riding the range in the form of a single unknown figure that could materialize anywhere, at any time, to dispense an ancient brand of justice the men of the new West had believed long outdated.

Many of us may even be secretly relieved at having a plausible excuse to delegate ancient civic responsibilities to a new bureaucracy of experts.

As Sandburg said at the time: `` It is as ancient as the medieval European ballads brought to the Appalachian Mountains, it is as modern as skyscrapers, the Volstead Act, and the latest oil well gusher ''.

An ancient Rolls-Royce, as shiningly impressive as the day it came off the ship, was parked at the curb.

He stared at the clerk who sat at a scarred and ancient fumed-oak desk stuffing envelopes.

Richard left America with his clothes, his biwa and his image of Acala and, on the freighter which took him to Japan, he plucked at the biwa, trying to make the sounds he wrought resemble an ancient Japanese tune he had once heard.

While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

In the video game Assassin's Creed II, Minerva appears in an ancient vault underneath the Vatican at the end of the game.

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.

A revelation of the ancient myths follows, but at the end the palace and the people disappear in a clap of thunder and Gylfi finds himself alone on the plain, having been deluded ( Section 59 ).

He places them also between the Naristi ( Varisti ), whose location at the very edge of the ancient Black Forest is well known, and the Marcomanni and Quadi.

Their raids throughout the three parts of Gaul were traumatic: Gregory of Tours ( died ca 594 ) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus ( 253 – 260 ), when the Alemanni assembled under their " king ", whom he calls Chrocus, who " by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.

The ancient sources say she poisoned Claudius on October 13, 54 with a plate of deadly mushrooms at a banquet, thus enabling Nero to quickly take the throne as emperor.

His verses have not come down to us through a manuscript tradition-generations of scribes copying an author's collected works, such as delivered intact into the modern age four entire books of Pindar's odes-but haphazardly, in quotes from ancient scholars and commentators whose own works have chanced to survive, and in the tattered remnants of papyri uncovered from an ancient rubbish pile at Oxyrhynchus and other locations in Egypt: sources that modern scholars have studied and correlated exhaustively, adding little by little to the world's store of poetic fragments.

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.

From the Medieval Arabic king lists of both African states, allegedly copied from earlier lists in ancient Near Eastern languages it appears that the state founders claimed to be deportees of the Assyrian empire who had fled from Syria and Samaria after the defeat of the Egyptian-Assyrian army at Carchemish in 605 BCE.

However, there is controversy about whether they were genuinely recorded at the time or merely ascribed to ancient rulers by posterity.

John Wesley, along with a priest from the Anglican Church and two other elders, operating under the ancient Alexandrian custom, ordained Thomas Coke a " superintendent ", although Coke embraced the title " bishop ".

Today, Methodism follows this ancient Alexandrian practice as bishops are elected from and by the order of the presbyterate: the Discipline of the Methodist Church, in ¶ 303, affirms that " ordination to this ministry is a gift from God to the Church.

* 190 BC – Apollonius of Perga, Greek mathematician, geometer and astronomer of the Alexandrian school, known by his contemporaries as " The Great Geometer ," whose treatise " Conics " is one of the greatest scientific works from the ancient world ( b. c. 262 BC )

* Apollonius of Perga, Greek mathematician, geometer and astronomer of the Alexandrian school, known by his contemporaries as " The Great Geometer ," whose treatise " Conics " is one of the greatest scientific works from the ancient world ( b. c. 262 BC )

Alexandrian scholars included him in their canonic list of iambic poets, along with Semonides and Hipponax, yet ancient commentators also numbered him with Tyrtaeus and Callinus as the possible inventor of the elegy.

θ and the use of the Doric accentuation, though it is uncertain whether these features were actually present in Alcman's original compositions or were added either by Laconian performers in the subsequent generations ( see Hinge's opinion below ) or even by Alexandrian scholars who gave the text a Doric feel using features of the contemporary, and not the ancient, Doric dialect.

The urbane Alexandrian author gives his old tale a touch of appropriate Homeric antiquity by using such an ancient epithet.

Lachmann was the first major editor to break from the Textus Receptus, seeking to restore the most ancient reading current in manuscripts of the Alexandrian text-type, using the agreement of the Western authorities ( Old Latin and Greek Western Uncials ) as the main proof of antiquity of a reading where the oldest Alexandrian authorities differ.

Moschus (), ancient Greek bucolic poet and student of the Alexandrian grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace, was born at Syracuse and flourished about 150 BC.

* Variant readings or interpretations of certain debatable passages, or possible conjectural emendations ( i. e. alterations based on an philological expert's " educated guess " of the likely form of the original Hebrew or Greek when the translators feel this is not sufficiently clear " the NRSV and NJB are loaded with conjectural emendations to remove or tone down Messianic prophecies | Messianic prophecy and to remove gender neutral language | gendered language and passages that clash with modern Western culture | Western political correctness | sensibilities ", possible translations from other ancient versions such as the Septuagint, Targumim, Peshitta and Vulgate, readings from other manuscript families, such as marking those passages missing which are present in the Byzantine text-type in a modern textual eclectic translation, or marking those passages present which are missing in the Alexandrian text-type and the modern critical text in a translation from the Textus Receptus or Byzantine text-type, etc.

The name is attested as early as the second century AD in the work of the Alexandrian geographer Claudius Ptolemy, as Δηοῦα (= Deva ), meaning ' Goddess ', indicating a divine status for the river in the beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of the area.

There are two ancient liturgical traditions from which all of the Eastern Rites ( plus the Gallican Rite in the West ) developed: the Alexandrian Rite in Egypt and the Antiochene Rite in Syria.

Old Comedy ( archaia ) is the first period of the ancient Greek comedy, according to the canonical division by the Alexandrian grammarians.

His subsequent works were dissertations on the origin of alphabetical writing ( Die Erfindung der Buch stabenschrift, 1801 ), on the antiquity of the Codex Vaticanus ( 1810 ), and on ancient mythology ( Uber den Mythos der alien Volker, 1812 ); a new interpretation of the Song of Solomon ( Des hohe Lied in einer noch unversuchten Deutung, 1813 ), to the effect that the lover represents King Hezekiah, while by his beloved is intended the remnant left in Israel after the deportation of the ten tribes ; and treatises on the indissoluble character of the matrimonial bond ( De conjugii cheistiani vinculo indissolubili commentatio exegetica, 1816 ) and on the Alexandrian version of the Pentateuch ( 1818 ).

The name Gojjam was given to the inhabitants resistance to accept he doctrine of Alexandrian Church in the past keeping their own version of the ancient testament.

Chorizontes (" separators ") was the name given to the ancient Alexandrian critics who believed the Iliad and Odyssey were by different poets.