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 classical hendecasyllable is a quantitative meter used in Ancient Greece in Aeolic verse and in scolia, and later by the Roman poet Catullus.

In 2002, J. C. C. Mays pointed out that " Coleridge's claim to be a great poet lies in the continued pursuit of the consequences of ' The Ancient Mariner ,' ' Christabel ' and ' Kubla Khan ' on several levels.

Ancient scholars, such as Servius, conjectured that the Aristaeus episode replaced a long section in praise of Virgil's friend, the poet Gallus, who was disgraced by Augustus and committed suicide in 26 BC.

* 650s BC: The Spartan Creed by Ancient Greek poet Tyrtaeus

* Tyrtaeus — Ancient Greek poet, general and musician

* Sappho of Lesbos, Ancient Greek poet

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ( originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere ) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797 – 98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads.

On the other hand, vates was used in Latin to denote a poet with clairvoyance powers and according to the Ancient Greek writers Strabo, Diodorus Siculus, and Poseidonius, the vates ( ουατεις ) were also one of three classes of Celtic priesthood, the other two being the druids and the bards.

* Byzantine poet Musaeus also wrote a poem ; Aldus Manutius made it one of his first publications ( c. 1493 ) after he set up his famous printing press in Venice ( his humanistic aim was to make Ancient Greek Literature available to scholars ).

Alcman ( also Alkman ;, gen .: Ἀλκμᾶνος ; 7th century BC ) was an Ancient Greek choral lyric poet from Sparta.

Ibycus () ( floruit: 2nd half of 6th century BC ) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet, a citizen of Rhegium in Magna Graecia, probably active at Samos during the reign of the tyrant Polycrates and numbered by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria in the canonical list of nine lyric poets.

522 – 443 BC ), was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes.

Hipponax (), of Ephesus and later Clazomenae, was an Ancient Greek iambic poet who composed verses depicting the vulgar side of life in Ionian society in the sixth century BC.

In 1700 English poet John Dryden published his translations of myths by Ovid, Homer, and Boccaccio in the volume Fables, Ancient and Modern.

Dane, in an article characterized as " polemics without rigor " claimed that the appearance of the theme in Ancient Greek poetry, a tradition without known connection to the Germanic, invalidated the notion of " an autonomous theme in the baggage of an oral poet.

The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge lived here for three years from 1797 while he wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part of Christabel, Frost at Midnight and Kubla Khan.

This is valuable for its notices of contemporary authors such as Ben Jonson, whom he praises as the greatest English poet ; this manuscript was reprinted in Joseph Haslewood's Ancient Critical Essays ( vol.

The ideal was not one of slavish imitation, but of a poet so well-versed in the entire corpus of Ancient literature ( du Bellay uses the metaphor of " digestion ") that he would be able to convert it into an entirely new and rich poetic language in the vernacular.

Corinna or Korinna () was an Ancient Greek poet, traditionally attributed to the 6th century BC.

Posidippus of Pella (, Poseidippos, c. 310 BC – 240 BC ) was an Ancient Greek epigrammatic poet.

The wooded bluffs above Minehead feature as the Hermit's abode " in that wood which slopes down to the sea ", in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Sotades (; 3rd century BC ) was an Ancient Greek poet.

Her hypothesis about prehistory also relies strongly on sources such as the Gnostic Gospels and on the history portrayed by the Ancient Greek poet Hesiod.

The Ars amatoria () is an instructional book series elegy in three books by Ancient Roman poet Ovid.

His wife, Comedy ( presumably the personification of the author's occupation ), takes him to court because she believes that the young poet has betrayed her by cavorting with the young wines ( Curiously, one of the young wines in the play is Mendaios, the personification of a very popular type of Ancient Greek wine, and Comedy's counterpart in the suit .).