The ancient Greeks recorded several catastrophic inundations by huge waves.

There is an ancient and venerable tradition in the church ( which derives, however, from the heritage of the Greeks rather than from the Bible ) that God is completely independent of his creation and so has no need of men for accomplishing his work in the world.

Formulas for the surface areas of simple shapes were computed by the ancient Greeks, but computing the surface area of a more complicated shape usually requires multivariable calculus.

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.

The category of acts constituting hubris for the ancient Greeks apparently broadened from the original specific reference to mutilation of a corpse, or a humiliation of a defeated foe, or irreverent, " outrageous treatment ", in general.

Many ancient cultures, including the ancient Egyptians and ancient Greeks, used specially selected mold and plant materials and extracts to treat infections.

Herodotus ( Histories iv. 189 ) thought he had identified the source of the ægis in Libya, which was always a distant territory of ancient magic for the Greeks:

* or Areian: the designation of an inhabitant of Aria ( a region in the eastern part of the Persian empire ; today's Herat ), used by the ancient and medieval Greeks ( as Ἄρ ( ε ) ιοι / Ar ( e ) ioi ) and Romans ( as Arii ).

In other words, it is quite possible that actual existence may be ... an efficient cause of observable effects ...." He then launches into a history of attempts to conceptualize the inconceivable from the ancient Greeks to the present.

The name comes from Greek Bosporos ( Βόσπορος ), which the ancient Greeks analysed as bous ' ox ' + poros ' means of passing a river, ford, ferry ', thus meaning ' ox-ford ', which is a reference to Io ( mythology ) from Greek mythology who was transformed into a cow and condemned to wander the earth until she crossed the Bosphorus where she met Prometheus.

These have been used by the Arabs and Greeks since ancient times as trading vessels.

The birth hour of boxing as a sport may be its acceptance by the ancient Greeks as an Olympic game as early as 688 BC.

Manek states that Sungazing is the key to his health, citing the Jainist Tirthankara Mahavira, ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Native Americans as his inspiration.

The ancient Greeks kept cumin at the dining table in its own container ( much as pepper is frequently kept today ), and this practice continues in Morocco.

The ancient Greeks used two words for air: aer meant the dim lower atmosphere, and aether meant the bright upper atmosphere above the clouds.

It has been used by various theologians and philosophers over the centuries, from the ancient Greeks Plato and Aristotle to the medievals ( e. g., St. Thomas Aquinas ) and beyond.

A chthonian symbol among the ancient Greeks, celery was said to have sprouted from the blood of Kadmilos, father of the Cabeiri, chthonian divinities celebrated in Samothrace, Lemnos and Thebes.

Indeed, the ancient Greeks attributed the lack of large mammals such as bears, wolves, jackals, and poisonous snakes, to the labour of Hercules ( who took a live Cretan bull to the Peloponnese ).

Apart from terrestrial mammals, the seas around Crete are rich in large marine mammals, a fact unknown to most Greeks, although reported since ancient times.

From the viewpoint of the ancient Greeks, a person's public life was not separated from their private life, and Greeks did not distinguish between the two worlds according to the modern western conception.

The Roman author Vitruvius, relying on the writings ( now lost ) of Greek authors, tells us that the ancient Greeks believed that their Doric order developed from techniques for building in wood in which the earlier smoothed tree trunk was replaced by a stone cylinder.

* The Bürgerfest is celebrated on the first weekend of July, when the palace gardens with their ancient walls are transformed into a medieval camp.

Beltane was an ancient Gaelic festival celebrated in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man.

While there were a number of other ancient games celebrated in Greece during this time period, including the Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian Games, Coubertin idealised the Olympic Games as the ultimate ancient athletic competition.

This is an ancient British midwinter celebration that occurs every year in Padstow and was originally part of the pagan heritage of midwinter celebrations that were regularly celebrated all over Cornwall where people would guise dance and disguise themselves by blackening up their faces or wearing masks.

In ancient Greece Hermes was the god of trade ( commerce ) and weights and measures, for Romans Mercurius also god of merchants, whose festival was celebrated by traders on the 25th day of the fifth month.

It was well-known throughout the Mediterranean area in the ancient age, and an important cult was celebrated in it.

In regard of Cassiope, the only other city of ancient importance, its name is still preserved by the village of Cassiopi, and there are some rude remains of building on the site ; but the temple of Zeus Cassius for which it was celebrated has totally disappeared.

Christians of these traditions may be surprised to learn of the significance assigned to the holiday by others, and in fact in many evangelical churches in the United States, secular Mother's Day is more celebrated than the ancient and biblical feast of Pentecost.

It celebrated the liberation struggle of Black America alongside that of ancient Israel from Pharaoh, and was the first Haggadah to go beyond the original Biblical story.

Of all the mysteries celebrated in ancient times, these were held to be the ones of greatest importance.

Lovecraft's celebrated short story, The Call of Cthulhu ( 1928 ), the titular entity emerges from the vast and ancient alien city of R ' lyeh, which is described in terms of " non-Euclidean geometry " and contains angles which are " all wrong " ( appearing acute but behaving as if obtuse, for example ) and planes which could be horizontal or slanted depending on how the observer looks at them.

The celebrated ancient Indian epic, Mahabharata, can also be related to tragedy in some ways.

Gu Kaizhi is a celebrated painter of ancient China born in Wuxi.

Although the ancient Roman holiday of " Floralia ", celebrated by the set of games and theatrical presentations known as the " Ludi Florales ," began in April, it was really an ancient May Day celebration.

This war is celebrated in ancient story as the War of the Epigoni.

He was celebrated by ancient authors for his malicious wit ( especially for his attacks on some contemporary sculptors, Bupalus and Athenis ), and he was reputed to be physically deformed ( a reputation that might have been inspired by the nature of his poetry ).

Devoted to Demeter and Persephone, these initiation ceremonies were the most sacred and ancient of all the religious rites celebrated in Greece.

He was celebrated throughout the ancient Greek and Roman worlds as one of the greatest men of history.

Hymen was celebrated in the ancient marriage song of unknown origin ( called a Hymenaios ) Hymen o Hymenae, Hymen delivered by G. Valerius Catullus.

Althaea is especially celebrated in ancient story about the fate of her son Meleager ; they became the cause of each other ’ s deaths.

In ancient Latvia, Ziemassvētki ( Winter holiday ) was a festival, celebrated on 25 December, which was one of the two most important holidays, the other being Jāņi.