Thus, from the human body, the usual form assigned to the Deity, forasmuch as it is written that God created man in his own image, issue the two supporters, Nous and Logos, symbols of the inner sense and the quickening understanding, as typified by the serpents, for the same reason that had induced the old Greeks to assign this reptile for an attribute to Pallas.

The ancient Greeks and Romans created maps, beginning at latest with Anaximander in the 6th century BC.

The Greeks and Romans introduced the origins of health and life insurance c. 600 BCE when they created guilds called " benevolent societies " which cared for the families of deceased members, as well as paying funeral expenses of members.

Nietzsche believed that the ancient Greeks created tragedy as a result of their pessimism.

The Seleucid empire's geographic span, from the Aegean Sea to what is now Afghanistan and Pakistan, created a melting pot of various peoples, such as Greeks, Armenians, Persians, Medes, Assyrians, and Jews.

It was created by Austrian artist Hans Deutsch, inspired by " the kind of chalice which the Greeks and Romans put on their altars.

When Philip created the league of the Greeks on the pretext of unifying Greece against Persia, the Spartans chose not to join — they had no interest in joining a pan-Greek expedition if it was not under Spartan leadership.

‘ Your gods are just plain wood: it is here now but it may rot into oblivion tomorrow ; your gods neither eat, nor drink, nor talk and are made by human hand from wood ; whereas there is only one God — He is worshiped by Greeks and He created heaven and earth ; and your gods?

The modern Greek state was created in 1832, when the Greeks liberated a part of their historic homelands, Peloponnese, from the Ottoman Empire.

The Wax Encaustic Technique was described by the Romans, even though created by the Greeks.

His great skill seems to have consisted in delivering grand show speeches ; and Plato has him arrogantly declaring that he would travel to Olympia, and there deliver before the assembled Greeks an oration on any subject that might be proposed to him ; and Philostratus in fact speaks of several such orations delivered at Olympia, and which created great sensation.

Both the Greeks and Romans created palisades to protect their military camps.

Heroic hexameters were used by Homer, whose phrases and Ionian vocabulary became the mainstay of Tyrtaeus's verse, even though that was composed for Doric-speaking Spartan audiences —"... a measure of the extent to which the Ionian epics had by now created among the Greeks a cultural unity which transcended dialect and ethnic rivalry ".

The League of Corinth, also sometimes referred to as Hellenic League ( original name: Hellenes-' The Greeks ') was a federation of Greek states created by Philip II of Macedon during the winter of 338 BC / 337 BC after the Battle of Chaeronea, to facilitate his use of military forces in his war against Persia.

In their pursuit of order and proportion, the Greeks created an ideal of beauty that strongly influenced Western art.

The relief image was created by sculptor Dionysios Gerolymatos and refers to the struggle of Greeks from the ancient times up until 1940-41.

Creation in the " agon " model takes the following storyline: ( 1 ) God as the divine warrior battles the monsters of chaos, who include Sea, Death, Tannin and Leviathan ; ( 2 ) The world of nature joins in the battle and the chaos-monsters are defeated ; ( 3 ) God is enthroned on a divine mountain, surrounded by lesser deities ; ( 4 ) He speaks, and nature brings forth the created world, or for the Greeks, the cosmos.

Like the Ancient Greeks, the Maya created clay slips from a mixture of clays and minerals.

After the Fourth Crusade in 1204, Italian and French knights ( known collectively by the Greeks as Franks ) occupied the Peloponnese and created the Principality of Achaea.

Mardonius created a fortified encampment on the north bank of the Asopus river in Boeotia, and waited for the Greeks.

The Greeks created a wide variety of doughs, loaf shapes, and styles of serving bread with other foods.

Some Slovenians historians said the Aromanian population, also pejoratively called as Tzintars by Greeks, the original population of the Balkans, created the Cașcaval.

These policies, better economic options elsewhere, presence of a larger Greek community in Greece, and fear and pressure created by the leaving of the city Greeks of Istanbul, resulted in an exodus of the Greek population from the isle.

In chapter 2, she describes man's gradual domination of women, starting with the statue of a female Great Goddess found in Susa, and eventually the opinion of ancient Greeks like Pythagoras who wrote, " There is a good principle that created order, light and man and a bad principle that created chaos, darkness and woman.

Under its supervision, the Greeks had adopted the triangular infantry division as their main formation, but more importantly, the overhaul of the mobilization system allowed the country to field and equip a far greater number of troops than it had in 1897: while foreign observers estimated a mobilized force of approximately 50, 000 men, the Greek Army fielded 125, 000, with another 140, 000 in the National Guard and reserves.

Not only did the Italians fail to conquer Greece, but under the supervision of Greece's dictator, Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas, the Greeks successfully counterattacked into Albania, from November 14.

Under its supervision, the Greeks had adopted the triangular infantry division as their main formation, but more importantly, the overhaul of the mobilization system allowed the country to field and equip a far greater number of troops than it had in 1897: while foreign observers estimated a mobilized force of approximately 50, 000 men, the Army eventually fielded 125, 000, with another 140, 000 in the National Guard and reserves.

He earned his Ph. D in Moscow under the supervision of anthropologist F. G. Debets in 1961 with a dissertation on The Origin of the Greeks, a work based on anthropometric studies of a sample of present-day Greek people.

The Greeks developed the classical orders of architecture, which are most easily distinguished by the form of the column and its various elements.

Ibrahim initially refused to comply with his father's evacuation orders, but gave way shortly after the French troops landed in Navarino Bay at the end of August, to a jubilant reception by the Greeks.

The remaining Ottoman army of about 200, 000 was located in Macedonia, pitted against the Serbian ( 234, 000 Serbs and 48, 000 Bulgarians under the Serbians orders ) and Greek ( 115, 000 men ) armies, and divided into the Vardar and Macedonian Ottoman armies with independent static guards around the fortress cities of Ioannina ( against the Greeks in Epirus ) and Shkodër ( against the Montenegrins in north Albania ).

Two further, specifically Roman orders of architecture have their characteristic capitals, the sturdy and primitive Tuscan capitals, typically used in military buildings, similar to Greek Doric, but with fewer small moldings in its profile, and the invented Composite capitals not even mentioned by Vitruvius, which combined Ionic volutes and Corinthian acanthus capitals, in an order that was otherwise quite similar in proportions to the Corinthian, itself an order that Romans employed much more often than Greeks.

The Greeks said that they had been given orders to kill the inhabitants of the Turkish villages before the Turkish forces arrived.

The Greek classical orders are all proportioned rather than dimensioned or measured modules and this is because the earliest modules were not based on body parts and their spans ( fingers, palms, hands, feet, remen, cubits, ells, yards, paces and fathoms, which became standardized for bricks and boards before the time of the Greeks ) but rather column diameters and the widths of arcades and fenestrations.

For the Greeks, Apollo was all the Gods in one and through the centuries he acquired different functions which could originate from different gods.

He is pictured as a terrible god, less trusted by the Greeks than other gods.

However, the Greeks thought of the two qualities as complementary: the two gods are brothers, and when Apollo at winter left for Hyperborea, he would leave the Delphic oracle to Dionysus.

When Troy was sacked by the Greeks, Aeneas, after being commanded by the gods to flee, gathered a group, collectively known as the Aeneads, who then traveled to Italy and became progenitors of Romans.

Although the Greeks and Romans typically scorned Egypt's animal-headed gods as bizarre and primitive ( Anubis was known to be mockingly called " Barker " by the Greeks ), Anubis was sometimes associated with Sirius in the heavens, and Cerberus in Hades.

Different cultures through history have depicted blindness in a variety of ways ; among the Greeks, for example, it was a punishment from the gods, for which the afflicted individual was often granted compensation in the form of artistic genius.

He refused the request of Alexandrian Greeks to dedicate a temple to his divinity, saying that only gods may choose new gods.

The story of Prometheus ' sacrifice-trick in Hesiod's Theogony relates how Prometheus tricked Zeus into choosing the bones and fat of the first sacrificial animal rather than the meat to justify why, after a sacrifice, the Greeks offered the bones wrapped in fat to the gods while keeping the meat for themselves.

He regularly admitted women and slaves into his school and was one of the first Greeks to break from the god-fearing and god-worshipping tradition common at the time, even while affirming that religious activities are useful as a way to contemplate the gods and to use them as an example of the pleasant life.

Therefore, it is now generally agreed that the Greeks did not generally think of hubris as a religious matter, still less that it was normally punished by the gods.

# the Discourse to the Greeks, a discussion with Greek philosophers on the character of their gods ;

He declared and taught that the Egyptians and Africans entertained erroneous sentiments, in representing the Divinity under the likeness of wild beasts and cattle of the field ; that the Greeks also were in error in making images of their gods after the human form.

The Greeks believed that only the beloved of the gods could exist there.

* epiphany " appearing ": The Greek word epiphaneia was often used by Greeks to describe the glorious manifestation of the gods, and by the Romans as a title for the Emperor.

Several sophists also questioned received wisdom about the gods and the Greek culture, which they believed was taken for granted by Greeks of their time, making them among the first agnostics.

The decree concludes with the instruction that a copy was to be placed in every temple, inscribed in the " language of the gods " ( hieroglyphs ), the " language of documents " ( demotic ), and the " language of the Greeks " as used by the Ptolemaic government.

There is, however, no belief in a general resurrection in ancient Greek religion, as the Greeks held that not even the gods were able to recreate flesh that had been lost to decay, fire or consumption.

Ancient Greeks employed Interpretatio Graeca whereby the gods of other religions were equated with those of their own pantheon.

Later the Greeks believed that there could live in human form only the heroes, and the beloved of the gods.