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.

200 AD ) was a Peripatetic philosopher and the most celebrated of the Ancient Greek commentators on the writings of Aristotle.

As early as 1819, in his famous speech “ On Ancient and Modern Liberty ,” the political philosopher Benjamin Constant, a proponent of constitutional monarchy and representative democracy, criticized Rousseau, or rather his more radical followers ( specifically the Abbé de Mably ), for allegedly believing that " everything should give way to collective will, and that all restrictions on individual rights would be amply compensated by participation in social power .”

In a prominent example from Ancient Greece, philosopher Plato, when asked by a friend for a book to understand Athenian society, referred him to the plays of Aristophanes.

Chrysippus of Soli ( Ancient Greek:, ; c. 279 BC – c. 206 BC ) was a Greek Stoic philosopher.

The Ancient Greek natural philosopher Archimedes in his essay The Sand Reckoner, estimated the diameter of the cosmos to be the equivalent in stadia of what we call two light years.

Ancient commentators mention an association between Milo and the philosopher Pythagoras, who lived at or near Croton for many years.

Aenesidemus ( Ancient Greek: Αἰνησίδημος, Ainêsidemos ) was a Greek sceptical philosopher, born in Knossos on the island of Crete.

The Ancient Greek philosopher Plato believed that to release another person from ignorance despite their initial resistance is a great and noble thing.

Cebes of Thebes ( c. 430 – 350 BCE ) was an Ancient Greek philosopher from Thebes remembered as a disciple of Socrates.

The Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle ( 384 – 322 BC ), in the Nicomachean Ethics, noted such " market behaviour ", and said that the increased value of a commodity was relative to the buyer's demand for the commodity.

The agency's motto is " λόγων απορρήτων εκφοράν μη ποιού " ( translated roughly as " do not discuss confidential affairs "), a quote of the Ancient Greek philosopher Periandros.

As a translator she produced Xenophon's Memoirs of Socrates, with the Defense of Socrates Before His Judges in 1762, a work by the Ancient Greek writer and soldier Xenophon concerning the philosopher Socrates.

* Philo the Dialectician ( c. 300 BC ), Ancient Greek philosopher

The best known of this name is the Ancient Greek philosopher Socrates.

: According to Aulus Gellius, the Ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, statesman, and strategist, Archytas, ( 428 – 347 BC ) was reputed to have designed and built the first artificial, self-propelled flying device, a bird-shaped model propelled by a jet of what was probably steam, said to have actually flown some 200 metres.

On Length and Shortness of Life ( or On Longevity and Shortness of Life ; Ancient Greek: Περὶ μακροβιότητος καὶ βραχυβιότητος, Latin: De longitudine et brevitate vitae ) is a text by the Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle and one of the Parva Naturalia.

The TARDIS crew are reunited as guests aboard the ship and it soon becomes apparent that there are four distinct human cultures represented on the vessel by a small group of humans – Ancient Greeks, the leader of whom is the philosopher Bigon ; Chinese Mandarins and their leader Lin Futu ; Princess Villagra and representatives of the Maya peoples ; and Kurkutji and his tribesmen, of the very ancient Australian Aboriginal culture.

The first recorded messages in bottles were released around 310 BC by the Ancient Greek philosopher Theophrastus, as part of an experiment to show that the Mediterranean Sea was formed by the inflowing Atlantic Ocean.

* Terminalia held in honor of Terminus ( Ancient Rome )

Within Ancient Hinduism, women have been held in equal honor as men.

Ancient Romans such as Pliny ( N. H. 5. 10 ) thought that the river near Timbuktu was part of the Nile River, a belief also held by Ibn Battuta, while early European explorers thought that it flowed west and joined the Senegal River.

The 1905 mass initiation ritual held by the Ancient Order of Druids at Stonehenge.

* September – The first known Druid revival ceremony is held by John Toland at Primrose Hill, in London, at the Autumnal Equinox, to found the Mother Grove, what is later to become the Ancient Order of Druids ( AOD ).

* 566 BC The first known Panathenaic Games of Ancient Greece are held in Athens.

* Ancient Olympic Games, ancient multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece between 776 BC and 393 AD

The Ancient Olympic Games, first held in 776 BC, was the precursor to the Modern Olympic Games, although its first edition only featured a footrace and the number of sporting competitions expanded at later editions.

Early churches congregated in special rooms of well-to-do individuals set aside for that purpose, and a number of early churches built round the edges of Ancient Rome were ascribed to patrons who held the property in custody for the Church: see titulus.

His first title was in the discus throw, an event originating from the Ancient Olympics, but never before held at an international event.

The Pythian Games ( Delphic Games ) were one of the four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece, a forerunner of the modern Olympic Games, held every four years at the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi.

Before 2011 it held the same position in the administrative hierarchy, according to Law 2539 of 1997, the Kapodistrias Plan, except that Ithomi was an independent municipality and Ancient Messene was a local division ( topiko diamerisma ) within it.

The synods of the Ancient ( North ) African church were held, with but few exceptions ( e. g. Hippo, 393 ; Milevum, 402 ) at Carthage.

* July -- Colonial Encampment and Muster -- July — held by the Nathan Hale Ancient Fife & Drums at the Hale Homestead.

After being elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1944, Syme was appointed Camden Professor of Ancient History at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1949, a position which he held until his retirement in 1970.

A good example is Butser Ancient Farm in the English county of Hampshire which is a working replica of an Iron Age farmstead where long-term experiments in prehistoric agriculture, animal husbandry and manufacturing are held to test ideas posited by archaeologists.

Ancient sources indicate that panel painting ( rather than wall painting ), i. e. painting on wood or other mobile surfaces was held in high regard.

Captain Melas proposed the gatherings should repeat every four years, in the same way Olympic Games were held in Ancient Greece.

To a larger extent, the same can said of all the Ancient Iranian peoples, as second only to perhaps the bow, horses were held in reverence and importance in these societies as their preferred and mastered medium of warfare, due to an intrinsic link throughout history with the domestication and evolution of the horse.

Ancient tradition held that the walls were built by the Cyclops because only giants of superhuman strength could have lifted the enormous stones.

The Nemean Games () were one of the four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece, and were held at Nemea every two years ( or every third ).

With the Isthmian Games, the Nemean Games were held both the year before and the year after the Ancient Olympic Games and the Pythian Games in the third year of the Olympiad cycle.

The Isthmian Games or Isthmia ( ancient Greek Ἴσθμια ) were one of the Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece, and were named after the isthmus of Corinth, where they were held.

in Ancient Greece at the Ancient Olympic Games, and was also held at the other Panhellenic Games.