The ancient Greeks used baskets of stones, large sacks filled with sand, and wooden logs filled with lead, which, according to Apollonius Rhodius and Stephen of Byzantium, were formed of stone ; and Athenaeus states that they were sometimes made of wood.

The ancient Greeks and Romans wore amethyst and made drinking vessels of it in the belief that it would prevent intoxication.

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 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.

The traditional classification in the West, which goes back to the Ancient Greeks, begins with a distinction between precious and semi-precious stones ; similar distinctions are made in other cultures.

During the early years of his reign a group of Bavarian Regents ruled in his name, and made themselves very unpopular by trying to impose German ideas of rigid hierarchical government on the Greeks, while keeping most significant state offices away from them.

His sandals, called pédila by the Greeks and talaria by the Romans were made of palm and myrtle branches, but were described as beautiful, golden and immortal, made a sublime art, able to take the roads with the speed of wind.

Herodotus of Halicarnassus says of the Phocaeans that " it was they who made the Greeks acquainted with ...

Rousseau had no recollection of learning to read, but he remembered how when he was 5 or 6 his father encouraged his love of reading: Not long afterward, Rousseau abandoned his taste for escapist stories in favor of the antiquity of Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, which he would read to his father while he made watches.

Some ancient Greeks believed that souls were made to drink from the river before being reincarnated, so they would not remember their past lives.

For the classical Greeks, Leto is scarcely to be conceived apart from being pregnant and finding a place to be delivered of Apollo and Artemis, for Hera being jealous, made it so all lands shunned her.

:" a company of Greeks, often of ten or more persons, stepped forth to the open place, took each other by the hand, made a round circle, and now stepped backward, now forward, sometimes went around, singing in Greek the while, sometimes stamped strongly on the ground with their feet.

The Decree of Diopithes made the introduction of and belief in foreign Gods a criminal offence and only Greeks were allowed to worship in Athenian temples and festivals as foreigners were considered impure.

Further embroidery in the monkish Gesta made of Trebeta the son of Ninus, a " King of Assyria " imagined by the ancient Greeks, by a wife prior to his marriage to the equally non-historical Queen Semiramis.

Major analyses of pre-Socratic thought have been made by Gregory Vlastos, Jonathan Barnes, and Friedrich Nietzsche in his Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks.

Much of Christian life was contemptuously left alone and a race of Greeks was attracted to Constantinople which has all along made up, in some degree, the deficiencies of Turkish Islam in the element of mind!

‘ 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?

This included the hugely advantageous military advances the Greeks had made ( most notably by Dionysus of Syracuse ), as well as all the scientific, mathematical, political and artistic developments.

The spoons of the Greeks and Romans were chiefly made of bronze and silver and the handle usually takes the form of a spike or pointed stem.

The Macedonian Ptolemies maintain their authority over their territories with a small mercenary army made up of Macedonians and Greeks.

The first record of her name appears in the poems of Homer, but scholars assume that such myths invented or received by the Mycenaean Greeks made their way to Homer.

The Catalan Company was an army of light infantry under the leadership of Roger de Flor that was made up of Aragonese and Catalan mercenaries, known as Almogavars ; Roger led the Company to Constantinople to help the Greeks against the Turks.

The ancient Greeks also made important discoveries in the medical field.

The motives of this assault against Sosthenes ( an assault made by the Greeks according to Acts 18: 17 ) are not recorded.

The Greeks had a similar unit of the same value.

The Babylonians had a similar underworld called Aralu, and the Greeks had one known as Hades.

The Greeks related Thoth to their god Hermes due to his similar attributes and functions.

The ancient Greeks reported similar figures on ancient Egyptian chronology.

Many ancient cultures such as Vedic, Native American civilizations share similar views on omnipresent nature ; the ancient Greeks and Rome did not worship an omnipresent being.

Non-Western moral and religious philosophies, such as Confucianism, also incorporate ideas that may appear similar to those developed by the ancient Greeks.

Identity of names was not a guarantee of a similar cultus ; the Greeks themselves were well aware that the Artemis worshipped at Sparta, the virgin huntress, was a very different deity from the Artemis who was a many-breasted fertility goddess at Ephesus.

" They called ancient Greece by the name " Yūnān " ( Ionia ) and ancient Greeks " Yūnānī " ( similar with Hebrew " Yavan " for the country and " Yevanim " for the people ).

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.

This was similar to the range of the Zygii in Greek documents ( not to be confused with Roman documents, where the name is transferred to mean the Circassians, who the Greeks called a number of different names ).

However, the name Illyrians seems to be the name of a specific Illyrian tribe, which was the first to come in contact with the ancient Greeks during the Bronze Age, causing the name Illyrians to be applied to all people of similar language and customs.

The ancient Greeks ' concept of a " personal daemon " was similar to the modern concept of a " guardian angel "— eudaemonia is the state of being helped or protected by a kindly spirit.

The Etruscans of the Italian peninsula, whose civilization existed from 1200 BC to 550 BC, also practiced spodomancy in a fashion similar to the Greeks.

On Rhodes, Telchines were the name given to similar chthonic men, nine in number, remembered by Greeks as dangerous Underworld smiths and magicians, and multiplied into an entire autochthonous race that had reared Poseidon but had been supplanted by Apollo in his Helios role.

In a similar vein the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 attempted to steer Greek public opinion not only by propaganda but also by inventing new words and slogans such as palaiokommatismos ( old-partyism ), Ellas Ellinon Christianon ( Greece of Christian Greeks ), and Ethnosotirios Epanastasis ( nation-saving revolution, meaning coup d ' état ).

The FreeBSD web site has noted Evi Nemeth's 1988 remarks about cultural-historical daemons in the Unix System Administration Handbook: " The ancient Greeks ' concept of a ' personal daemon ' was similar to the modern concept of a ' guardian angel ' ... As a rule, UNIX systems seem to be infested with both daemons and demons.

His rule extended as far as Afyon, in central Anatolia. At the end of the 12th century the area was occupied by a nomadic tribe that had come from across the Caucasus mountains. The tribe was called by the ancient Greeks the " Wind people " ( Ανέμου γένος ) after whom the city was named. The exact reasons behind this name are lost in time. The most probable explanation however, is that they worshiped a god of wind, perhaps similar to the Greek Aeolus, as their main deity.

This formula cannot be proven without using such infinitesimal arguments – unlike the 2-dimensional formulae for polyhedral area, though similar to the area of the circle – and hence admitted less rigorous proofs before the advent of calculus, with the ancient Greeks using the method of exhaustion.

It shows similar frequencies among Albanians and Greeks at around 20 % of the male population, but is much less common in Serbia and Bosnia.

The tunic was also worn by the ancient and Byzantine Greeks and is very similar to the chiton, which looked like a jacket.

The Greeks invented a piece of furniture very similar to the guéridon.

This battle has been called " the Battle of Thermopylae of the West ", because the use of terrain was similar to the maneuver that the Persians used to eventually defeat the Greeks.