It is similar to the Ancient Greek letter Alpha, from which it derives.

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Following the tradition of these Ancient Greek folk etymologies, in the Doric dialect the word originally meant wall, fence from animals and later assembly within the agora.

The connection with Dorians and their initiation festival apellai is reinforced by the month Apellaios in northwest Greek calendars, but it can explain only the Doric type of the name, which is connected with the Ancient Macedonian word " pella " ( Pella ), stone.

Amphibian is derived from the Ancient Greek term ἀμφίβιος ( amphíbios ), which means " both kinds of life ", amphi meaning " of both kinds " and bio meaning " life ".

The order Anura ( from the Ancient Greek an -, without and oura, tail ) comprises the frogs and toads.

The order Gymnophiona ( from the Greek, gymnos and ophis meaning " naked serpent ") or Apoda ( from the Ancient Greek an -, without and poda, legs ) comprise the caecilians.

The Ancient Greek word for seaweed was φῦκος ( fūkos or phykos ), which could mean either the seaweed ( probably red algae ) or a red dye derived from it.

The use of the abacus in Ancient Egypt is mentioned by the Greek historian Herodotus, who writes that the Egyptians manipulated the pebbles from right to left, opposite in direction to the Greek left-to-right method.

This Greek abacus saw use in Achaemenid Persia, the Etruscan civilization, Ancient Rome and, until the French Revolution, the Western Christian world.

Anatomy ( from the Ancient Greek, anatemnein: ana, " separate, apart from ", and temnein, " to cut up, cut open ") is a branch of biology and medicine that considers the structure of living things.

The first Western literature, including the Hurrian – Hittite literature, the first Greek polis and the two main schools of Ancient Greek philosophy seem to originate in this region.

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Ancient Anatolia is subdivided by modern scholars into various regions named after the various Indo-European ( and largely Hittite, Luwian or Greek speaking ) peoples that occupied them, such as Lydia, Lycia, Caria, Mysia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, Lycaonia, Pisidia, Paphlagonia, Cilicia, and Cappadocia.

Over several centuries, numerous Ancient Greek city states were established on the coasts of Anatolia.

The name actinium originates from the Ancient Greek aktis, aktinos ( ακτίς, ακτίνος ), meaning beam or ray.

In Ancient Greek, alpha was pronounced when short and when long.

In the Attic-Ionic dialect of Ancient Greek, long alpha fronted to ( eta ).

Privative a is the Ancient Greek prefix ἀ-or ἀν-a -, an -, added to words to negate them.

An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.

The Book of Habakkuk is the eighth book of the Twelve Prophets of the Hebrew Bible, and this collection appears in all copies of texts of the Septuagint, the Ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible completed by 132 BC.

* Juvenal's Satires 1, 2, and 3 in Latin and English ( translation G. G. Ramsay ) at the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook

Beginning with the famous decipherment and translation of the Rosetta Stone by Jean-François Champollion in 1822, a number of individuals attempted to decipher the writing systems of the Ancient Near East and Aegean.

The Germanic term is a Germanic interpretation of Latin dies solis (" day of the sun "), which is a translation of the Ancient Greek heméra helíou.

* Heath, T. L. ( 1913 ) Aristarchus of Samos, the Ancient Copernicus: A history of Greek astronomy to Aristarchus together with Aristarchus ' treatise on the sizes and distances of the sun and moon, a new Greek text with translation and notes, Oxford, Clarendon Press ( PDF ).

Megaera ( Ancient Greek: Μέγαιρα, English translation: " the jealous one ") is one of the Erinyes, Eumenides or " Furies " in Greek mythology.

An Amazonomachy ( English translation: " Amazon battle "; plural, Amazonomachiai Ἀμαζονομαχίαι ( Ancient Greek ) or Amazonomachies Αμαζονομαχίες ( Modern Greek )) was a portrayal of legendary battle between Greeks and Amazons.

In Greek mythology, Panoptes ( Ancient Greek: Πανόπτης ; English translation: " all eyes ") was an epithet for both Helios and Argus.

In Greek mythology, Kratos or Cratus ( Ancient Greek: Κράτος, English translation: " strength ") was the son of Pallas and Styx, and the personification of strength and power.

In Greek mythology, the Napaeae ( Ancient Greek: ναπαῖαι, from νάπη ; English translation: " a wooded dell ") were a type of nymph that lived in wooded valleys, glens or grottoes.

In Greek mythology, Oenopion ( Ancient Greek:, Oinopion, English translation: " wine drinker ", " wine-faced "), son of hero Theseus or god Dionysus and princess Ariadne, was a legendary king of Chios, which was assigned to him by Rhadamanthys, and was said to have brought winemaking to the island.

In Greek mythology — or more particularly in Ancient Greek poetry — Pitys ( Πίτυς ; English translation: " pine ") was an Oread nymph who was pursued by Pan.

In spite of the exacting and severe routine of the Round Hill School, Bancroft contributed frequently to the North American Review and to Walsh's American Quarterly ; he also made a translation of Heeren's work on The Politics of Ancient Greece.

His chief publications are his translation of the History of Herodotus ( in collaboration with Sir Henry Rawlinson and Sir John Gardiner Wilkinson ), 1858 – 60 ; The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World, 1862 – 67 ; The Sixth Great Oriental Monarchy ( Parthian ), 1873 ; The Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy ( Sassanian ), 1875 ; Manual of Ancient History, 1869 ; Historical Illustrations of the Old Testament, 1871 ; The Origin of Nations, 1877 ; History of Ancient Egypt, 1881 ; Egypt and Babylon, 1885 ; History of Phoenicia, 1889 ; Parthia, 1893 ; Memoir of Major-General Sir HC Rawlinson, 1898.

* Georgios Tornikes, ' An unpublished funeral oration on Anna Comnena ', English translation by Robert Browning, in Aristotle Transformed: The Ancient Commentators and Their Influence, ed.

His publications include: Introduction to Greek Epigraphy ( 1887 ); Ancient Athens ( 1902 ); Handbook of Greek Sculpture ( 1905 ); Six Greek Sculptors ( 1910 ); " Poet and Artist in Greece: With Illustrations " ( 1933 ; Keiji Kokubu's Japanese translation available, Sogensha Press, 1944 ).

trans., Edinburgh, 1883, 1891 ; 5th German edition, 1899 ; first published in 1878 as Geschichte Israels ; English translation Prolegomena to the History of Ancient Israel, Forgotten Books, 2008, ISBN 978-1-60620-205-0.

Geomancy, from Ancient Greek geōmanteía translates literally to " foresight by earth "; it is a translation of the Arabic term ‛ ilm al-raml, or the " science of the sand ".

Caodaiists often use the term Đức Cao Đài ( Venerable Cao Đài ) as the abbreviated name for God, the creator of the universe, whose full title is Cao Đài Tiên Ông Đại Bồ Tát Ma-ha-tát ( translation: Cao Đài Ancient Sage Great Bodhisattva Mahasattva ).

* Ancient history sourcebook: The basic text from Schoff's 1912 translation.

* The Mediterranean in the Ancient World ( UK ) and Memories of the Mediterranean ( USA ): ( 2001 ) English translation of Les mémoires de la Méditerranée by Siân Reynolds

For instance, in his translation of Torquato Tasso's " Aminta ", published in 1580, Zlatarić's purist tendencies led to mistakes: the hero's name Aminta becomes in Croatian Ljubmir ( Lover ) because Zlatarić wrongly assumed that the name " Aminta " stems from Latin amare (" to love "), while in fact it is from Ancient Greek ( amýnō, " to defend ").