Later the Greeks knew the original meaning of the relevant song " paean " ( παιάν ).

The Greeks knew the Dead Sea as " Lake Asphaltites ", due to the naturally surfacing asphalt.

* Eridanos ( mythology ) ( or Eridanus ), a river in Greek mythology, somewhere in Central Europe, which was territory that Ancient Greeks knew only vaguely

The Ancient Greeks already knew that pieces of amber could attract lightweight particles after being rubbed.

Some think the myth even indicates that the ancient Greeks knew about the liver ’ s remarkable capacity for self-repair.

R. A. Young wrote: " Wiberg suggests that the early Greeks knew of the circulation, and quotes a passage from one of the Hippocratic writings which would bear that interpretation.

While some cultures considered the knowledge of the dead to be unlimited, ancient Greeks and Romans believed that individual shades knew only certain things.

Evans also asks what happened after the episode at the pyre and suggests that " neither the Greeks nor the Babylonians knew what really happened to Croesus.

Protrepticus ( Exhortation to the Greeks ) ( c. 190 ) IV-" Another new deity was added to the number with great religious pomp in Egypt, and was near being so in Greece by the king of the Romans, who deified Antinous 130CE, whom he loved as Zeus loved Ganymede, and whose beauty was of a very rare order: for lust is not easily restrained, destitute as it is of fear ; and men now observe the sacred nights of Antinous, the shameful character of which the lover who spent them with him knew well.

Greeks of the Classical age knew of several poems about the war between the gods and many of the Titans.

While both the ancient Greeks and Romans knew of algae, and the ancient Chinese even cultivated certain varieties as food, the scientific study of algae began in the late 18th century with the description and naming of Fucus maximus ( now Ecklonia maxima ) in 1757 by Pehr Osbeck.

Although ( internally ) the country had been referred to as Iran throughout much of its history, many countries including the English-speaking world, knew the country as Persia ; a legacy of the Greeks who referred to the entire region after the province of Pars ( present-day Fārs ).

Greeks of Alexander's day knew nothing of China, or any other lands east of India.

The Ottoman army that laid siege to the city knew nothing of the transfer of power, and a number of Venetian soldiers were killed by Ottoman troops, believing them to be Greeks.

According to R. A. Young, " Wiberg suggests that the early Greeks knew of the circulation, and quotes a passage from one of the Hippocratic writings which would bear that interpretation.

The members of the leading faction in Tarentum, the democrats under Philocharis or Ainesias, were against Rome, because they knew that if the Romans entered Taranto the Greeks would lose their independence.

" Nor knew the Greeks, save in the laughing page, The philosophic emblem of our age ."...

It was the " Great Mother ", Cybele, as the Greeks and Romans knew her, who was originally worshiped in the mountains of Phrygia, where she was known as " Mountain Mother ".

He manifests that " When, in our civilized Europe, we would find a trace of the native beauty of man, we must go seek it in the nations where economic prejudices have not yet uprooted the hatred of work ... The Greeks in their era of greatness had only contempt for work: their slaves alone were permitted to labor: the free man knew only exercises for the body and mind ... The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.

In “ Hamlet ’ s Mill ” it is claimed that the ancient Greeks knew of three successive destructions that correlate to three ages and that since the beginning of history the vernal point has moved through Taurus, Aries and Pisces.

The consciousness of freedom first awoke among the Greeks, and they were accordingly free ; but, like the Romans, they only knew that Some, and not all men as such, are free ....

Arrian felt compelled to describe the sight hunt and sighthounds because the Ancient Greeks only knew the scent hunt.

He also used He Chengtian's interpolation method for approximating irrational number with fraction in his astronomy and mathematical works, he obtained as a good fraction approximate for pi ; Yoshio Mikami commented that neither the Greeks, nor the Hindus nor Arabs knew about this fraction approximation to pi, not until the Dutch mathematician Adrian Anthoniszoom rediscovered it in 1585, " the Chinese had therefore been possessed of this the most extraordinary of all fractional values over a whole millennium earlier than Europe " Along with his son, Zu Geng, Zu Chongzhi used the Cavalieri Method to find an accurate solution for calculating the volume of the sphere.

Documents “ written on papyrus text detail how surgeons, even in that primitive age performed reconstructions on lips, noses, and ears using skin grafts cut from folds from the forehead or cheek .” As techniques began developing the ancient Greeks and Romans began writing down and collecting everything they knew involving these procedures.

The earliest known arch bridges were built by the Greeks, and include the Arkadiko Bridge.

Starting with the pre colonial African empires which lead to the Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans who all built colonies in antiquity.

Electrum coins were not standardized in weight and are considered by opponents as badges, medals or ceremonial objects issued by priests, rather than coins ( actually the oldest of them have been discovered not in Lydia, but in an ancient Greek temple of Ephesos, a city colony built by the ancient Greeks in what is now Turkey ).

For Pasiphaë, as Greek mythologers interpreted it, Daedalus also built a wooden cow so she could mate with the bull, for the Greeks imagined the Minoan bull of the sun to be an actual, earthly bull, Daedalus was so envious of his nephew's accomplishments that he took an opportunity.

The Greeks believed that slave labour was used, but modern discoveries made at nearby worker's camps associated with construction at Giza suggest it was built instead by tens of thousands of skilled workers.

Aqueducts were built by the Greeks and Ancient Romans, while the history of China shows they built irrigation and flood control works.

Modern engineering as it is understood today took form during the scientific revolution, though much of the mathematics and science was built on the work of the Greeks, Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Chinese, Indians and Muslims.

Unlike the ancient Minoan civilization, the Mycenaean Greeks emphasized the need for fortifications alongside natural defenses of mountainous terrain, such as the massive Cyclopean walls built at Mycenae during the last half of the 2nd millennium BC.

Remains of the royal palace built by Omri and Ahab during the Israelite period were discovered along with buildings constructed by the Babylonian, Greeks and Romans.

* The Greek theatre, whose cavea is one of the largest ever built by the ancient Greeks: it has 67 rows, divided into nine sections with eight aisles.

Although the citadel was built by Greeks, the name is not thought to be Greek, but is rather one of the many pre-Greek place names inherited by the immigrant Hellenes.

Though the Macedonians did not consider Philip a god, he did receive other forms of recognition by the Greeks, such as at Eresos ( altar to Zeus Philippeios ), Ephesos ( his statue was placed in the temple of Artemis ), and Olympia, where the Philippeion was built.

Under the leadership of Epeios, the Greeks built the wooden horse in three days.

While questioning Sinon, the Trojan priest Laocoön guesses the plot and warns the Trojans, in Virgil's famous line " Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes " ( I fear Greeks even those bearing gifts ), which became known as ' beware of Greeks bearing gifts ," Danaos being the ones who built the Trojan Horse.

Finally he tells them that the Greeks have fled and they built the Trojan Horse to honor Athena.

When the Trojans attacked the wall newly built by the Greeks, Sarpedon led his men ( who also included Glaucus and Asteropaios ) to the forefront of the battle and caused Ajax and Teucer to shift their attention from Hector's attack to that of Sarpedon's forces.

Pelasgus built the citadel Larissa of Argos on the Erasinus river, whence the name Pelasgic Argos ( of the Peloponnesus ), but later resettled inland, built Parrhasia and named the region or caused it to be named Pelasgia, to be renamed Arcadia with the coming of the Greeks.

The temple was constructed of marble and was built by King Croesus of Lydia to replace an older site destroyed during a flood, and it honoured a local goddess, conflated by the Greeks with Artemis, their goddess of the hunt, the wild, and childbirth.

He called this new city Weh Antiok Khusrau or literally, “ better than Antioch Khosrau built this .” Local inhabitants of the area called the new city Rumagan, meaning “ town of the Greeks ” and Arabs called the city al-Rumiyya.

) built by Greeks in Diaspora, was heavily influenced by the western European architecture.

The Egyptians built their pyramids, the civilizations of Central America had their step pyramids, the Persians their palaces, the Greeks their temples, and the Romans their public works and wonders ( See Roman Architecture ).

These people could be linked to the Saephe ( Saefs ) or Ophis (" People of the Serpents ") and the Dragani (" People of the Dragons "), who came to those lands and built the territorial entity the Greeks termed Ophiussa.