From this action sprang the idea of somehow uniting Greek and Shakespearean drama into a new total form, capable of restoring to life the ancient moral and poetic responses.

Discoveries recently made of old Biblical manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek and other ancient writings, some by the early church fathers, in themselves called for a restudy of the Bible.

The new `` Phedre '' was done in 17th century setting, instead of ancient Greek ; ;

With the loss of the study of ancient Greek in the early medieval Latin West, Aristotle was practically unknown there from c. AD 600 to c. 1100 except through the Latin translation of the Organon made by Boethius.

The genus Amoeba and amoeboids in general both derive their names from the ancient Greek word for change.

Apollo ( Attic, Ionic, and Homeric Greek:, Apollōn ( gen .: ); Doric:, Apellōn ; Arcadocypriot:, Apeilōn ; Aeolic:, Aploun ; ) is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in ancient Greek and Roman religion, Greek and Roman mythology, and Greco – Roman Neopaganism.

In ancient times, navigation through the sea was easier than travelling across the rough terrain of the Greek mainland ( and to some extent the coastal areas of Anatolia ).

During World War I, the Armenian Genocide, the Greek genocide ( especially in Pontus ), and the Assyrian Genocide almost entirely removed the ancient communities of Armenian and Assyrian populations in Anatolia, as well as a large part of its ethnic Greek population.

The word is from the ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις ( analusis, " a breaking up ", from ana-" up, throughout " and lysis " a loosening ").

Raphael's School of Athens, depicting an array of ancient Greek philosophers engaged in discussion.

In the ancient Greek myth about the Labours of Hercules, the hero Hercules had to travel to the underworld to capture Cerberus, the three-headed guard dog, as one of his tasks.

Classical-Relating to or from ancient Roman or Greek architecture and art.

It sought to revive the ideals of ancient Greek and Roman art.

In the 6th century BC, the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras wanted to know why some musical intervals seemed more beautiful than others, and he found answers in terms of numerical ratios representing the harmonic overtone series on a string.

In ancient Greek mythology, ambrosia () is sometimes the food or drink of the Greek gods ( or demigods ), often depicted as conferring ageless immortality upon whomever consumed it.

Abydos ( Greek: Άβυδος ), an ancient city of Mysia, in Asia Minor, situated at Nara Burnu or Nagara Point on the best harbor on the Asiatic shore of the Hellespont.

It was also considered the greatest sin of the ancient Greek world.

Crucial to this definition are the ancient Greek concepts of honor ( timē ) and shame.

Even though the stone had been around centuries and was known to both the Sumerians and the Egyptians, both who used the gem for decoration and for playing important parts in their religious ceremonies, any agate of this color from Sicily, once an ancient Greek colony, is called Greek agate.

* Agis of Argos, an ancient Greek poet

Inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus ( 251 – 183 BC ), specifically Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus and Mostellaria, the musical tells the bawdy story of a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door.

The Greco-Persian wars are also described in less detail by a number of other ancient historians including Plutarch, Ctesias of Cnidus, and are alluded by other authors, such as the playwright Aeschylus.

The ancient Greek playwright that best embodies Old Comedy is Aristophanes.

In pursuit of the retrieval of this question, Heidegger spent considerable time reflecting on ancient Greek thought, in particular on Plato, Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Anaximander, as well as on the tragic playwright Sophocles.

The Greco-Persian wars are also described in less detail by a number of other ancient historians including Plutarch, Ctesias of Cnidus, and are alluded by other authors, such as the playwright Aeschylus.

Athenagoras of Athens, Cicero, and other ancient writers cite that it was for this crime ( among others ) that Diagoras received the death penalty ; the tragic playwright Aeschylus was allegedly tried for revealing secrets of the Mysteries in some of his plays, but was acquitted.

The city forms the setting of The Persians ( 472 BCE ), an Athenian tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus that is the oldest surviving play in the history of theatre.

The Bacchae (, Bakchai ; also known as The Bacchantes ) is an ancient Greek tragedy by the Athenian playwright Euripides, during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedonia.

The playwright David Edgar described the Monday Club in an academic essay as " proselytis the ancient and venerable conservative traditions of paternalism, imperialism and racism.

It is generally agreed that the word was coined in ancient Greece by the playwright, Aeschylus, or whoever else wrote Prometheus Bound.

Alexander Dow ( 1735 / 6 – 1779 ), a Scottish orientalist and playwright, wrote the tragedy Sethona, set in ancient Egypt.

The Persians (, Persai ) is an Athenian tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus.

The Greco-Persian wars are also described in less detail by a number of other ancient historians including Plutarch, Ctesias of Cnidus, and are referred to by other authors, such as the playwright Aeschylus.

The ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus ( 525 BC – 456 BC ) noted that ashes falling from a fireplace could be divined for portents.

It tells of the author's astonishment at reading the works of the ancient Greek poet Homer as freely translated by the Elizabethan playwright George Chapman.

The main evidence we have for the significance of the decree is Aristophanes, an ancient playwright and satirist of the time.

For example, an 1893 publication describes ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes as having been " the high-priest of comedy "

Alcestis (, Alkēstis ) is an Athenian tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides.

The Epigoni (, Epigonoi, " progeny ") is an ancient Greek tragedy written by the Greek playwright Sophocles in the 5th century BC and based on Greek mythology.

Cynegeirus or Cynaegeirus (, ?- 490 BC ) was an ancient Greek hero of Athens and brother of the playwright Aeschylus.

For example, in the play The Wasps by Aristophanes the first parabasis is about Aristophanes ' career as a playwright to date, while the second parabasis is shorter, and contains a string of in-jokes about local characters who would be well known to the ancient Athenian audience ( e. g. the politician Cleon ).