The evolution of the Greek art seems to go parallel with the Greek philosophical conceptions, which changed from the natural-philosophy of Thales to the metaphysical theory of Pythagoras.

The earliest attested name is the Hittite Assuwa a region in central-western Anatolia which seems to be connected with the Mycenean Greek epithet a-si-wi-ja in Linear B inscriptions found at Pylos.

The current spelling, amaranth, seems to have come from folk etymology that assumed the final syllable derived from the Greek word anthos (" flower "), common in botanical names.

* Likewise the status of women seems lower in Athens than in many Greek cities.

In the 1st century BC the Greek Dioscorides seems to have recognised a link between zinc minerals and brass describing how Cadmia ( zinc oxide ) was found on the walls of furnaces used to heat either zinc ore or copper and explaining that it can then be used to make brass.

Whether these were consisted only of Goths is rather unlikely so the name " Scythians " by which the Greek sources called them ( a geographical definition ) seems more appropriate.

In Rabbinic literature the term Epikoros is used, without a specific reference to the Greek philosopher Epicurus, yet it seems apparent that the term was derived from his name.

Some Indo-Europeanists claim that Greek seems to be most closely related to Armenian ( see also Graeco-Armenian ) and the Indo-Iranian languages ( see Graeco-Aryan ) among the living Indo-European languages.

This seems to corroborate the use of naphtha as a basic ingredient of Greek fire.

Another example of the textual arguments against the Testimonium is that it uses the Greek term poietes to mean " doer " ( as part of the phrase " doer of wonderful works ") but elsewhere in his works, Josephus only uses the term poietes to mean " poet ," whereas this use of " poietes " seems consistent with the Greek of Eusebius.

A report by the Greek writer Dio Chrysostom ( c. 40-c. 120 CE ) about Homer's poetry being sung even in India seems to imply that the Iliad had been translated into Sanskrit.

While Greek astronomy — thanks to Alexander's conquests — probably influenced Indian learning, to the point of introducing trigonometry, it seems to be the case that Indian mathematics is otherwise an indigenous tradition ; in particular, there is no evidence that Euclid's Elements reached India before the 18th century.

This seems to them to be inconsistent with the way other languages are traditionally considered, where number is orthogonal to gender ( according to the critics, a Meinhof-style analysis would give Ancient Greek 9 genders ).

The origin of the Parthenon's name is from the Greek word " παρθενών " ( parthenon ), which referred to the " virgin's apartments " in a house and in the Parthenon's case seems to have been used at first only for a particular room of the temple ; it is debated which room this is and how the room acquired its name.

Against the spirit of the Greek original, he engineers events at the end ... or alter the situation to fit his expectations .” Anderson ’ s vehement reaction to the co-opting of Greek plays by Plautus seems to suggest that they are in no way like their originals were.

It seems more likely that Plautus was just experimenting putting Roman ideas in Greek forms.

He seems to have followed the same path that Horace did, though Horace is much later, in that he is putting Roman ideas in Greek forms.

It seems that in Crete there were festivals designated in a way corresponding to the later Greek types of festival names.

Finn seems to have been in much wider use in ancient times, judging from the names Fenni and Phinnoi in classical Roman and Greek works.

Themistocles seems to have realised that for the Greeks to survive the coming onslaught required there to be a Greek navy which could hope to face up to the Persian navy, and he therefore attempted to persuade the Athenians to build such a fleet.

In that sense, Tocharian ( to some extent like the Greek and the Anatolian languages ) seems to have been an isolate in the " satem " ( i. e. palatovelar to sibilant ) phonetic regions of Indo-European-speaking populations.

Hephaestus is one of the most even-tempered of the Hellenic deities ; in the narrative embedded in the Odyssey Aphrodite seems to prefer Ares, the volatile god of war, as she was attracted to his violent nature.

In the Sumerian language, the gods were referred to as dingir, whilst in the Akkadian language they were known as ilu and it seems that there was syncreticism between the gods worshipped by the two groups, adopting one another's deities.

Determinate gender, however, is not necessarily a characteristic of Etruscan deities, and Thalna is also either depicted as male, or seems to be identified as a male figure because of the placement of names around a scene.

The modern history of cargo cults seems to have begun before historical records in the countries of Melanesia, where an indigenous tradition of exchange of goods and objects of wealth was tied to a belief that the ancestors and deities had an influence over these things and would return at some time laden with these objects for the members of the tribes.

A short note in Helmold's Chronica Slavorum states that West Slavs believe in a single deity in heaven who rules over all the other deities on earth ; the name of this deity is not mentioned, but nevertheless it seems quite possible this was a reference to Perun.

Bandua or Bandi is another with numerous dedications: the name is male in most inscriptions and yet the only depiction being female, it seems the name referred to numerous deities, especially since Bandi / Bandue often carries an epithet associating the name with that of a town or other location such as Bandua Roudaeco, Etobrico or Brealiacui.

However, the common practice of the Christian Church was to replace existing pagan deities and places of worship with analogous persons and rituals of Christian content, so it seems more likely that Saint-Vitus was created to replace the original Svanto-Vit.

It seems fairly safe to assume that from the earliest time they were identified by names and since they got them they were never changed through the course of history: they were called Jupiter and Juno and these gods were the most ancient deities of every Latin town.

Compared to his predecessor Kanishka, Huvishka seems to rely less on Iranian deities ( which are much less numerous in his coinage ), and more on India ones, such as war divinities of Shivaism.

The worship of deities identified by the Romans with Mercury ( Woden ) seems to have been prominent among the northerly tribes.

Although her origins are unclear, Iusaaset seems to be attested quite early in the Egyptian pantheon, being associated with creation and the creation of the deities.

Later other goddesses also became associated with Atum and one variant even relates that he gave birth to the deities, although that variant seems to have been rejected by many cultural and religious centers.

Furthermore, the Pali Tripiṭaka, the oldest complete composition of scriptures, seems to accept as real the concepts of divine beings, the Vedic ( and other ) deities, rebirth, and heaven and hell.

`` Well '', he began, `` It seems like some people in Paris want to hear more from me than those fellers over at the conference house do.

From the time when letters began to be forged in his name ( 2 Thess 2: 2 ; 3: 17 ) it seems to have been his practice to close with a few words in his own handwriting, as a precaution against such forgeries ...

Since Magneto was the last person on Genosha, it seems that it ’ s now totally uninhabited, which is corroborated by Wiccan and Speed when they began their search for their mother, the Scarlet Witch.

By late 2005, the economy finally began what seems to be a sustained recovery.

His decision to try a different approach in his dealings with the Welsh was influenced by the events in Ireland, although Warren suggests that " it seems likely that Henry began rethinking his attitude to the Welsh soon after the débâcle of 1165 ".

Metrical evidence from the Iliad and the Odyssey seems to show that the name ( Ilion ) formerly began with a digamma: ( Wilion ).

Though his early reception in the city seems to have been lukewarm, Procopius won favor quickly by using propaganda to his advantage: he sealed off the city to outside reports and began spreading rumors that Valentinian had died ; he began minting coinage flaunting his connections to the Constantinian dynasty ; and he further exploited dynastic claims by using the widow and daughter of Constantius II to act as showpieces for his regime.

In the previous year he began making notes about his rambles, without, however, any systematic arrangement ; after his marriage he seems to have become more methodical, and to have decided to write a book descriptive of the moorland district.

The production of stick-on souvenir badges seems to have started in mainland Europe during the early 20th-century, probably in Germany shortly after the First World War when hiking became popular, and people began sewing badges of resort towns onto their backpacks and jackets.

This Phoenix however seems to be a side effect of when Emma invaded Juggernaut's mind and began feeding into Emma's fears.

His departure from West Point seems to have been precipitated by a failure in a chemistry exam where, when asked to describe silicon, he began by saying " Silicon is a gas ".

It seems that the Olmec had their roots in early farming cultures of Tabasco, which began between 5100 BCE and 4600 BCE.

Nomadic pastoralism seems to have developed as a part of the secondary products revolution proposed by Andrew Sherratt, in which early pre-pottery Neolithic cultures that had used animals as live meat (" on the hoof ") also began using animals for their secondary products, for example, milk and its associated dairy products, wool and other animal hair, hides and consequently leather, manure for fuel and fertilizer, and traction.

He began to practice Zen meditation, but it seems not to have calmed his mind.

The golden age began with the 4th dynasty, which seems to have furthered the primary role of Memphis as a royal residence where rulers received the double crown, the divine manifestation of the unification of the Two Lands.

It seems that it was on Lesbos that Aristotle and Theophrastus began their research into natural science, with Aristotle studying animals and Theophrastus studying plants.

2000 BCE is a reasonable date for the Huastec / Maya split, and the slopes of the Cuchumatanes range as a reasonable location for the speakers of proto-Maya, it seems likely that the split occurred after these proto-Maya speakers ( or a portion of them ) began to migrate north, probably along the Usumacinta River, and before the two groups resulting from the split began to move in opposite directions: the proto-Huastec speakers moving northwest ( and, soon thereafter, the proto-Chicomuceltec west into the Chiapas highlands ), and the proto-Yucatec / other Maya-speakers spreading northeast ( one branch of which became Chontal, presumed by many from its widespread loan words and hieroglyphic evidence to be the dominant language of the classic Peten Maya heartland ) ( see Fig.

It seems Earth is where life first began, a fact the Guardians did their best to hide to keep the entity safe from harm and exploitation, redirecting that danger towards themselves by informing the majority of the universe that life began on their planet of Oa ( despite the fact that the Oans were in fact born on the planet Maltus ).

Although the title " World's Greatest Athlete " seems a natural fit for these two events, its traditional association with the decathlon / heptathlon officially began with Jim Thorpe.

The first few centuries of the Third Age were relatively uneventful, but it seems that Arnor's population gradually began to dwindle even in this early period.

Some have traced the first occurrence of the manager position to as early as 1904 in Ukiah, California, however, but it seems clear that all experts in the field credit the Staunton position as the one, which began to focus the light on the fledgling profession and caught the eye of Richard S. Childs, who would become known, somewhat, as the “ father ” of the council-manager form of government and the Model City Charter.