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

* 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 ....

The Greeks knew Baskinta and built in it fantastic palaces of which enormous stones, pillars stands, and underground passages still exist.

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 Greeks will use one large loaf for the Liturgy of Preparation, with a large round seal on it inscribed not only with the square seal mentioned above ( from which the Lamb will be taken ), but also markings indicating where the portions for the Theotokos, the Ranks, the Living and Dead will be removed ( see Proskomedie, below ).

Greek dominance on the Aegean Sea made it impossible for the Ottomans to transfer the planned troops from the Middle East to the Thracian ( against the Bulgarian ) and to the Macedonian ( against the Greeks and Serbians ) fronts.

The population estimates on the Greeks during the 4th century BC, is approximately 3. 5 million on the Greek peninsula and 4 to 6. 5 million in the rest of the entire Mediterranean Basin, including all colonies such as those in Magna Graecia, Asia Minor and the shores of the Black Sea.

The seafaring Phoenicians, Greeks and Carthaginians successively settled along the Mediterranean Sea near Tartessos, modern day Cádiz.

The Greeks expanded throughout the Black Sea and south through the Red Sea.

Instead, the Ottoman Navy spent the first two months of the war in operations against the Bulgarians in the Black Sea, giving the Greeks valuable time to complete their preparations and allowing them to consolidate their control of the Aegean.

In 600 BC, Ionian Greeks from Phocaea founded the colony of Massalia ( present-day Marseille ) on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, making it the oldest city of France.

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.

The sea's ancient Greek name Propontis derives from pro ( before ) and pont-( sea ), deriving from the fact that the Greeks sailed through it to reach the Black Sea.

As the knowledge of world geography of the Greeks broadened, the term came to be more restricted in its application: Thrace designated the lands bordered by the Danube on the north, by the Euxine Sea ( Black Sea ) on the east, by northern Macedonia in the south and by the Illyrian lands ( i. e. Illyria ) to the west.

Though the battle had no clear winner, Carthage managed to expand its sphere of influence at the expense of the Greeks, and Etruria saw itself relegated to the northern Tyrrhenian Sea with full ownership of Corsica.

Greek colonies and communities have been historically established in most corners of the Mediterranean, but Greeks have always been centered around the Aegean Sea, where the Greek language has been spoken since antiquity.

1 Samuel 13: 5 mentions chariots of the Philistines, who are sometimes identified with the Sea Peoples or early Greeks.

Some scholars believe that Oceanus originally represented all bodies of salt water, including the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, the two largest bodies known to the ancient Greeks.

Pinnes, the son of Agron and Agron's first wife Triteuta, officially succeeds his father as king, but the kingdom is effectively ruled by Agron's second wife, Queen Teuta ( Tefta ), who expels the Greeks from the Illyrian coast and then launches Illyrian pirate ships into the Ionian Sea, preying on Roman shipping.

Though the battle had no clear winner, Carthage managed to expand its sphere of influence at the expense of the Greeks, and Etruria saw itself relegated to the northern Tyrrhenian Sea with full ownership of Corsica.

The Carthaginians are inclined to come to terms with Pyrrhus, but he demands that Carthage abandon all of Sicily and make the Libyan Sea the boundary between Carthage and the Greeks.

It was a solid and clever plan but, after their commanders had been taken prisoners, the Greeks managed to force their way to the Black Sea.

The name was applied to the coastal region in antiquity by the Greeks who colonized the area, and derived from the Greek name of the Black Sea: Πόντος Εύξεινος Pontos Euxeinos (" Hospitable Sea "), or simply Pontos.

According to Herodotus the Greeks of the Hellespont and the Black Sea tell that Zalmoxis was a slave on Samos of Pythagoras, son of Mnesarchos.

The Greeks elected new officers and set out to march northwards to the Black Sea through Kurdistan and Armenia.

The central factor which precipitated the intervention of the three Great Powers in the Greek conflict were the Russian Empire's ambitions to expand in the Black Sea region at the expense of the Ottoman Empire and Russian emotional support for the fellow-Orthodox Christian Greeks, who had rebelled against their Ottoman overlords in 1821.