Category: Late Roman Greece

The Amazons have become associated with various historical peoples throughout the Roman Empire period and Late Antiquity.

Late Roman World and its Historian.

She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity.

The city was without walls, protected by a light garrison of the Tenth Legion, during the Late Roman Period.

In the Late Roman army there was a unit called Batavi.

Cities of Late Antiquity underwent transformations as the urban power base shrank and was transferred to the local bishop ( see Late Roman Empire ).

* Vulgar Latin and Late Latin among the uneducated and educated populations respectively of the Roman empire and the states that followed it in the same range no later than 900 AD ; medieval Latin and Renaissance Latin among the educated populations of western, northern, central and part of eastern Europe until the rise of the national languages in that range, beginning with the first language academy in Italy in 1582 / 83 ; new Latin written only in scholarly and scientific contexts by a small minority of the educated population at scattered locations over all of Europe ; ecclesiastical Latin, in spoken and written contexts of liturgy and church administration only, over the range of the Roman Catholic Church.

Late Roman Empire ( Christian ) 1st-2nd century frescoes were found in catacombs beneath Rome and Byzantine Icons were also found in Cyprus, Crete, Ephesus, Cappadocia and Antioch.

Late Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman four-posters are square arrangements of postholes, around 2-4m square.

* Nutton V. Roman Medicine, 250 BC to AD 200, and Medicine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, in Lawrence C .( ed.

It became Christian under the Late Roman Empire, and acquired its first bishop at this time.

The Visigoths inherited from Late Antiquity a sort of feudal system in Spain, based in the south on the Roman villa system and in the north drawing on their vassals to supply troops in exchange for protection.

After the death of Epicurus, his school was headed by Hermarchus ; later many Epicurean societies flourished in the Late Hellenistic era and during the Roman era ( such as those in Antiochia, Alexandria, Rhodes and Ercolano ).

During the Late Roman period it is likely that the shore forts played some role in continental trade alongside their defensive functions.

North Sea and Channel Connectivity during the Late Iron Age and Roman Period ( 175 / 150 BC – AD 409 ).

Page from the Notitia Dignitatum, a medieval copy of a Late Roman register of military commands

In 357 AD the region was part of the Praetorian prefecture of Illyricum one of four large praetorian prefectures into which the Late Roman Empire was divided.

In it, as Isidore entered his own terse digest of Roman handbooks, miscellanies and compendia, he continued the trend towards abridgements and summaries that had characterised Roman learning in Late Antiquity.

One of the most important figures of Late Antiquity and the last Roman Emperor to speak Latin as a first language, Justinian's rule constitutes a distinct epoch in the history of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Manorialism, an essential element of feudal society, was the organizing principle of rural economy that originated in the villa system of the Late Roman Empire, was widely practised in medieval western and parts of central Europe, and was slowly replaced by the advent of a money-based market economy and new forms of agrarian contract.

Late in the Vietnam War the USAF and US Navy became concerned about its pilots ejecting over hostile territory and those pilots either being captured or killed and the losses in men and aircraft in attempts to rescue them.

Late game AI colonies tended to have a lot of defensive buildings, though, and even with a fleet with maxed out capacity of high-tech tanks would probably need multiple attempts to take a colony.

The classicism of the Carolingian renaissance was in part inspired by appreciation of Late Antique manuscripts: the Utrecht Psalter attempts to recreate such a Late Antique original, both in its handwriting and its illustrations.

Late fees charged by banks, landlords, and utilities have been heavily criticized as a penalty against the poor, and attempts have been made in some places to outlaw them completely or place caps on them.

The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος ( alphabētos ), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.

1450 BC ( Late Helladic, Late Minoan ), the Greek Mycenaean civilization spreads to Crete.

First attested in English 1664, the word " celery " derives from the French céleri, in turn from Italian seleri, the plural of selero, which comes from Late Latin selinon, the latinisation of the Greek σέλινον ( selinon ), " parsley ".

The word catholic ( derived via Late Latin catholicus, from the Greek adjective ( katholikos ), meaning " universal ") comes from the Greek phrase ( katholou ), meaning " on the whole ", " according to the whole " or " in general ", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning " about " and meaning " whole ".

By this time, the Late Egyptian word is reconstructed to have been pronounced whence comes Ancient Greek and then Late Latin.

The word " polygon " comes from Late Latin polygōnum ( a noun ), from Greek πολύγωνον ( polygōnon / polugōnon ), noun use of neuter of πολύγωνος ( polygōnos / polugōnos, the masculine adjective ), meaning " many-angled ".

The word " priest " is ultimately from Greek, via Latin presbyter, the term for " elder ", especially elders of Jewish or Christian communities in Late Antiquity.

The etymology of the word into English is from Old French Philistin, from Classical Latin Philistinus found in the writings of Josephus, from Late Greek Philistinoi ( Phylistiim in the Septuagint ) found in the writings by Philo, from Hebrew Plištim, ( e. g. 1 Samuel 17: 36 ; 2 Samuel 1: 20 ; Judges 14: 3 ; Amos 1: 8 ), " people of Plešt " (" Philistia "); cf.

Polygamy ( from πολύς γάμος polys gamos, translated literally in Late Greek as " often married ") is a marriage which includes more than two partners.

The English term patriot is first attested in the Elizabethan era, via Middle French from Late Latin ( 6th century ) patriota " countryman ", ultimately from Greek πατριώτης ( patriōtēs ) " countryman ", from πατρίς, " fatherland ".

The word " basalt " is ultimately derived from Late Latin basaltes, misspelling of L. basanites " very hard stone ," which was imported from Ancient Greek βασανίτης ( basanites ), from βάσανος ( basanos, " touchstone ") and originated in Egyptian bauhun " slate ".

The word " necromancy " is adapted from Late Latin necromantia, itself borrowed from post-Classical Greek νεκρομαντεία ( nekromanteía ), a compound of Ancient Greek νεκρός ( nekrós ), " dead body ", and μαντεία ( manteía ), " prophecy or divination "; this compound form was first used by Origen of Alexandria in the 3rd century CE.

The Latin title dux ( the etymological root of duke ), which was phonetically rendered δουξ in Greek, was a common title for imperial generals in the Late Roman Empires ( west and east ), but note it was lower in rank than Comes ( the etymological root of Count ).

The word, in the modern English language, comes from the Old English ælmesse, ælmes, from Late Latin eleemosyna, from Greek ἐλεημοσύνη eleēmosynē " pity, alms ", from ἐλεήμων eleēmōn " merciful ", from ἔλεος eleos " pity ".

First attested in English in late 14th century, the word scar derives from Old French escharre, from Late Latin eschara, which is the latinisation of the Greek ἐσχάρα ( eskhara ), meaning " hearth, fireplace ", but in medicine " scab, eschar on a wound caused by burning or otherwise ".

In human anatomy, the perineum (; Late Latin, from Greek περίνεος-perineos ) is a region of the body including the perineal () body and surrounding structures.

The English word " prophecy " ( noun ) in the sense of " function of a prophet " appeared in Europe from about 1225, from Old French profecie ( 12th century ), and from Late Latin prophetia, Greek prophetia " gift of interpreting the will of the gods ", from Greek prophetes ( see prophet ).

The word " blasphemy " came via Middle English blasfemen and Old French blasfemer and Late Latin blasphemare from Greek βλασφημέω, from βλάπτω