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To the ancient Greeks, the constellation Lyra was formed from the harp of Orpheus, with Vega as its handle.
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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.
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In ancient times, the constellation was considered an asterism within Centaurus, and was considered to have been an arbitrary animal, killed, or about to be killed, on behalf of, or for, Centaurus.
Although Sagitta is an ancient constellation, it has no star brighter than 3rd magnitude and has the third-smallest area of all constellations ( only Equuleus and Crux are smaller ).
Although the ancient Vedas of India specified how the ecliptic was to be divided into twenty-eight nakshatra, Indian constellation patterns were ultimately borrowed from Greek ones sometime after Alexander's conquests in Asia in the 4th century BC.
In ancient times the name of the constellation was Helike, (" turning "), because it turns around the Pole.
The constellation was represented as a vulture in ancient Egypt, and as an eagle or vulture in ancient India.
* Morning star has also been used to describe the star Sirius, which appears in the sky, just before sunrise, at a time known in the ancient world as the Dog Days, due to Sirius ' appellation as the " Dog Star " in the constellation of Canis Major.
By consequence, the constellation is no longer visible from subtropical northern latitudes, as it was in the time of the ancient Greeks.
The anthropomorphisation of Dike as an ever-young woman dwelling in the cities of men was so ancient and strong that in the 3rd century BCE Aratus in Phaenomena 96 asserted that she was born a mortal and that, though Zeus placed her on earth to keep mankind just, he quickly learned this was impossible and placed her next to him on Olympus, as the Greek astronomical / astrological constellation The Maiden.
Similar words occur in most Polynesian languages, deriving from Proto-Polynesian * mataliki, meaning minute, small, and the use of the term for the Pleiades constellation is also ancient and has been reconstructed to Eastern Oceanic.
It was also visible to the ancient Romans and Greeks, who regarded it to be part of the constellation Centaurus.
Although Beta Crucis, " Becrux ", is at roughly − 60 ° declination, and therefore not visible north of 30 °, in the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans it was visible north of 40 ° due to the precession of equinoxes, and these civilizations regarded it as part of the constellation Centaurus.
Centred on a region of the sky without apparently bright stars, Lacerta was not regarded as a constellation by ancient astronomers.
As a consequence, the constellation is no longer visible from subtropical northern latitudes, as it was in the time of the ancient Greeks.
The star pattern of the constellation Draco fits with fair precision to the Serpent Mound, with the ancient Pole Star, Thuban ( α Draconis ), at its geographical center within the first of seven coils from the head.
The name Zosma means girdle in ancient Greek, referring to the star's location in its constellation, on the hip of the lion.
The Argo Navis constellation is an ancient constellation that is not recognised by the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ).
Not only is the Capricorn overshadowing, but also an image of the sun or moon, two ancient planets, which were necessary to show the full power of a constellation, is seen behind the sign.
They are used in ancient Mesopotamian astrology from an era which pre-dates the known use of the zodiac ( using reference to constellation positions which shows correspondence with those later attributed to zodiac degrees ).
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The gravel was the bed of an ancient river, buckled in some prehistoric upheaval of earth.
As a boy in a local school he was shy and solitary, absorbed in his fondness for nature and his visions of Sweden's ancient glory.
The obvious natural fact to ancient thinkers was the diurnal rotation of the heavens.
Only what else was she singing but the old Song of Songs, that most ancient of tunes that nature plays with such unfailing response upon young nerves??
Even D. A. Wasson, who compared The Emancipation Of Massachusetts to the lifting of a fog from ancient landscapes, was also forced to admit the methodological deficiencies of the author.
One part of her audience was totally engaged, the connoisseur witnessing a peculiarly fine performance of some ancient classic, the other part, the guest of the connoisseur, attentive as one who must take an intelligent interest in that which he does not fully understand.
The John Harvey arrived in Bari, a port on the Adriatic, on November 28th, making for Porto Nuovo, which, as the name indicates, was the ancient city's new and modern harbor.
Some time later the missing part of the relic was found and the complete inscription, together with other new evidence, fully corroborated the ancient priest's information.
Dr. Hilprecht was uncertain as to the language used by the ancient priest in his dream.
That the dream was a reality on the infinite progressions of universal, gradient frequencies, across which the modern professor and the priest of ancient Nippur met??
The site of the oblong piazza is Domitian's ancient stadium, which was probably used for horse and chariot races.
An ancient Rolls-Royce, as shiningly impressive as the day it came off the ship, was parked at the curb.
Nellie Harris wasn't old, she was ancient -- a tiny shriveled woman with a face like a tan prune.
The new `` Phedre '' was done in 17th century setting, instead of ancient Greek ; ;
A tribe in ancient India believed the earth was a huge tea tray resting on the backs of three giant elephants, which in turn stood on the shell of a great tortoise.
She had come to make her peace with the past, and of that past this ancient of the earth was only a kind of shadow.
They lay months away from the nearest Earth star by jump drive, and no one knew what they were good for, although it was felt that they would probably be good for something if it could only be discovered -- much like the continent of Antarctica in ancient history.
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 normal method of calculation in ancient Rome, as in Greece, was by moving counters on a smooth table.
The ancient history of Asia Minor is very important for the history of the Western civilization because it was the region where the mythic way of thought changed gradually to the rational way of thought.
The term allocutio was used by the ancient Romans for the speech made by a commander to his troops, either before a battle or during it, to animate and encourage them.
In ancient times, the sea was the birthplace of two ancient civilizations – the Minoans of Crete and the Mycenean Civilization of the Peloponnese.
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 ).
Byzantine control was challenged by Arab raids starting in the 7th century ( see Byzantine – Arab Wars ), but in the 9th and 10th century a resurgent Byzantine Empire regained its lost territories and even expanded beyond its traditional borders, into Armenia and Syria ( ancient Aram ).
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