* One of the impieties of Tantalus, according to Pindar, was that he offered to his guests the ambrosia of the Deathless Ones, a theft akin to that of Prometheus, Karl Kerenyi noted ( in Heroes of the Greeks ).

This transformation is often associated with the appearance of the full moon, as popularly noted by the medieval chronicler Gervase of Tilbury, and perhaps in earlier times among the ancient Greeks through the writings of Petronius.

Reflecting in 2011 on the sustained topicality of Yes, Minister / Prime Minister, Jonathan Lynn noted that, since the opening of the stage show in Chichester, " all we've added is a couple of jokes about hacking and an extra joke about the Greeks at the time to a debt crisis.

They noted that at Buto there was also a sanctuary of Horus ( associated by the ancient Greeks with Apollo ) and of Bastet ( associated with Artemis ).

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.

George W. Rendel of the British Foreign Office, among other diplomats, noted the massacres and deportations of Greeks during the post-Armistice period.

For the Greeks, as Sir Kenneth Clark noted, clinging drapery followed the planes and contours of the bodily form ,, emphasizing its twist and stretch: " floating drapery makes visible the line of movement through which it has just passed .... Drapery, by suggesting lines of force, indicates for each action a past and a possible future.

Pseudo-Aristotle noted differences between Greeks and the people of the north, believing that Greek superiority was visible in their medium skin tone, as opposed to pale northerners and dark southerners and Africans.

The route from the Varangians to the Greeks was first mentioned in the Primary Chronicle, but its effects were reported much earlier, in the early ninth century when the Byzantines noted newcomers in their regions, the Varangians.

A letter to Doctor Who Magazine noted that in the Torchwood episode " Greeks Bearing Gifts ", an alien calling itself " Mary " bore a strong resemblance to Destrii ; the magazine's editors concurred.

The Ancient Greeks were noted for several forms of tactical deception.

The Greeks, deployed on Cyrus's right and outnumbered, charged the left flank of Artaxerxes ' army, which broke ranks and fled before they came within arrowshot.

There had already been a less formally instituted cardinal committee concerned with propaganda fide since the time of Pope Gregory XIII ( 1572 – 1585 ), who were especially charged with promoting the union with Rome of the long-established eastern Christian communities: Slavs, Greeks, Syrians, Egyptians, and Abyssinians.

At about, the veterans of the " Ten Thousand " ( under the Spartiate Herippidas ) and the Asian Greeks charged the troops opposite them at the run.

An example of this is the Battle of Gaugamela, where, after maneuvering to the right to prevent a double envelopment from the Persian army and making Darius command his cavalry on his left flank to check the oblique movement of the Greeks by attacking their cavalry, Companion cavalry charged the weakened enemy center where Darius was posted and were followed by the hypaspists and the phalanx proper.

Fosite has been suggested to be a loan of Greek Poseidon into pre-Proto-Germanic, perhaps via Greeks purchasing amber ( Pytheas is known to have visited the area of Heligoland in search of amber ).

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

Avram Davidson proposed the theory that Hyperborea was derived from a logical ( though erroneous ) explanation by the Greeks for the insects, which apparently originated in a warm climate, found embedded inside the amber arriving in their cities from cold northern countries.

Unaware of the explanation offered by modern science ( i. e. that these insects had lived in times when the climate of northern Europe was much warmer, their bodies preserved unchanged in the amber ) the Greeks came up with the idea that the coldness of northern countries was due to the cold breath of Boreas, the North Wind.

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

Just as in the arts the Greeks sought some reality behind appearances, so in mathematics they sought permanent principles which could be applied wherever the conditions were the same.

The Greeks believed amethyst gems could prevent intoxication, while medieval European soldiers wore amethyst amulets as protection in battle in the belief that amethysts heal people and keep them cool-headed.

When Alexander was trying to show that he is divine so that the Greeks and Macedonians would perform proskynesis to him, Anaxarchus said that Alexander could " more justly be considered a god than Dionysus or Heracles " ( Arrian, 104 )

The Battle of Marathon was a watershed in the Greco-Persian wars, showing the Greeks that the Persians could be beaten ; the eventual Greek triumph in these wars can be seen to begin at Marathon.

Bulgaria thought it could occupy the larger part of Aegean Macedonia and the important port city of Salonika before the Greeks could get there.

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.

However, by all accounts Hector was the best warrior the Trojans and all their allies could field, and his fighting prowess was admired by Greeks and his own people alike.

Thus, the whole war could be decided by a single field battle ; victory was enforced by ransoming the fallen back to the defeated, called the " Custom of the Greeks ".

Government documents and newspapers were consequently published in Katharevousa ( purified ) Greek, a form which few ordinary Greeks could read.

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

The Greeks could learn from the Egypt of the Pharaos that some risks could be suffered when medium and executives occur in personal union, concentrating too much power in one hand.

Themistocles seems to have realised that for the Greeks to survive the coming onslaught required there to be a Greek navy which could hope to face up to the Persian navy, and he therefore attempted to persuade the Athenians to build such a fleet.

However, once there, they were warned by Alexander I of Macedon that the vale could be bypassed by several other passes, and that the army of Xerxes was overwhelmingly large, and the Greeks retreated.

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

First mentioned by the ancient Greeks, it became the most important imaginary animal of the Middle Ages and Renaissance when it was commonly described as an extremely wild woodland creature, a symbol of purity and grace, which could only be captured by a virgin.

However, Philip II of Macedon ( father of Alexander the Great ), the major Greek leader of the time, was busy fighting further east, so the Neapolitans could not look to the Greeks for assistance.

However, once there, they were warned by Alexander I of Macedon that the vale could be bypassed through the pass by the modern village of Sarantaporo, and that the army of Xerxes was overwhelming, the Greeks retreated.

The Greeks could not find constructions for three problems:

Artemis was enraged with a sacrilegious act of the Greeks, and only the sacrifice of Agamemnon's daughter, Iphigenia, could appease her.

The Greeks captured the Trojan seer, Helenus, and forced him to tell them under what conditions could they take Troy.

Eventually, the prosperity of this trade would attract more powerful regional neighbours, such as Ancient Egypt, Assyria, the Babylonians, Persians, Ancient Greeks and Romans, who would control the Canaanites politically, levying tribute, taxes and tariffs.

Before this, however, the ancient Greeks knew from magnetic interactions that " opposites attract " and " likes repel ".