Unlike some of his forefathers in Greek philosophy ( i. e. Plato and the other metaphysicians ), Epictetus focuses his attention on how to practically apply oneself on a philosophical level.

Unlike Cyrillic numerals, which inherited their numeric value from the corresponding Greek letter ( see Greek numerals ), Glagolitic letters were assigned values based on their native alphabetic order.

Unlike their father, Hesiod was averse to sea travel but he once crossed the narrow strait between the Greek mainland and Euboea to participate in funeral celebrations for one Athamas of Chalcis, where he won a tripod in a singing competition.

Unlike the Greek libraries, readers had direct access to the scrolls, which were kept on shelves built into the walls of a large room.

Unlike the positivists, he did not claim that metaphysical statements must be meaningless ; he also claimed that a statement which was " metaphysical " and unfalsifiable in one century ( like the ancient Greek philosophy about atoms ) could, in another century, be developed into falsifiable theories that have the metaphysical views as a consequence, and thus become scientific.

Unlike the Greek tradition of Cronus and Zeus, the usurpation of Saturn as king of the gods by Jupiter was not viewed by the Latins as violent or hostile ; Saturn continued to be revered in his temple at the foot of the Capitol Hill, which maintained the alternative name Saturnius into the time of Varro.

Unlike the serifed counterpart, the Sans families do not have full Greek or Cyrillic characters.

Unlike a typeface, irregularity in the characters ' size, style and colors adds meaning to the Greek translation " beautiful letters ".

Unlike the Sephardic Jews, they did not speak Ladino, but the Yevanic Greek dialect and Greek.

Unlike the Septuagint, large-scale deviations in sense between the Greek of Aquila and Theodotion and what we now know as the Masoretic text are minimal.

Unlike the stone columns that are characteristic of other Greek architecture, the Minoan column was constructed from the trunk of a cypress tree, common to the Mediterranean.

Unlike the Greek sphinx which was a woman, the Egyptian sphinx is typically shown as a man ( an androsphinx ).

Unlike many other Roman goddesses and gods, she does not have a Greek counterpart.

Unlike Greek mythology, for example, at least a few people have believed in it, without interruption, from the distant past up to and including the present time.

Unlike the later imperial fora in Rome — which were self-consciously modeled on the ancient Greek plateia ( πλατεῖα ) public plaza or town square — the Roman Forum developed gradually, organically and piecemeal over many centuries.

Unlike Greek gods, the Devas ( Hindu gods ) never feared the Manavas ( humans ) would overthrow them.

Unlike the other Greek letters, this letter did not take its name from the Phoenician letter from which it was derived ; it was given a new name on the pattern of beta, eta and theta.

Unlike many of the other omelette styles provided here, the Greek omeleta is more often used to showcase leftovers or fresh ingredients rather than emphasize the eggs.

Unlike standardized systems of Romanization of Greek, as used internationally for purposes such as rendering Greek proper names or place names, or for bibliographic purposes, the term Greeklish mainly refers to informal, ad-hoc practices of writing Greek text in environments where the use of the Greek alphabet is technically impossible or cumbersome, especially in electronic media.

Unlike Aristophanes, Plautus avoided current politics ( in the narrow sense of the term ) in his comedies.

Unlike most such sports rivalries, it appeared to have developed almost spontaneously, although this was not exactly the case.

Unlike most incarnations of Miss Marple, this one smoked cigarettes.

Unlike pure metals, most alloys do not have a single melting point, but a melting range in which the material is a mixture of solid and liquid phases.

Unlike most theropods, Albertosaurus and other tyrannosaurids were heterodont, with teeth of different forms depending on their position in the mouth.

Unlike most of the early LAN systems, AppleTalk was not built using the archetypal Xerox XNS system.

Unlike most Common-law jurisdictions, the majority of civil law jurisdictions have specialized courts or sections to deal with administrative cases which, as a rule, will apply procedural rules specifically designed for such cases and different from that applied in private-law proceedings, such as contract or tort claims.

Unlike the NES or Sega Master System, there were few add-on peripherals for the 7800, though its backwards compatibility feature allowed it to be compatible with most Atari 2600 peripherals.

Unlike the communist parties in most other East European states, the BCP ( changing its name to Bulgarian Socialist Party ) retained majority power after the transition in Bulgaria by winning the first free national elections in June 1990.

Unlike most cranes, it has a relatively large head and a proportionately thin neck.

Unlike Zealous, these British ships suffered relatively severe damage in the engagement ; Goliath lost most of its rigging, suffered damage to all three masts and received over 60 casualties.

Unlike other C-suite positions, which tend to be defined according to commonly designated responsibilities across most companies, the COO job tends to be defined in relation to the specific CEO with whom he / she works, given the close working relationship of these two individuals.

Unlike in most other role-playing games, eventual triumph of the players is not assumed.

Unlike its predecessor games, CoC assumed that most investigators would not survive, alive or sane, and that the only safe way to deal with the vast majority of nasty things described in the rule books was to run away.

Unlike feces, urine doesn't attract disease-spreading flies ( such as house flies or blow flies ), and it doesn't contain the most hardy of pathogens, such as parasitic worm eggs.

Unlike Inter-city, it stops at most or all stations between cities.

Unlike most sports, men and women compete and are ranked together.

Unlike other college football divisions and most other sports — collegiateor professional — the Football Bowl Subdivision, formerly known as Division I-A college football, does not employ a playoff system to determine a champion.

Unlike most ( private ) corporate bodies, creatures of statute cannot expand their business interests into other diverse areas.

Unlike the modern historian, most chroniclers tended to take their information as they found it, and made little attempt to separate fact from legend.

Unlike many other succulents, the stem is the only part of most cacti where this vital process takes place.

Unlike most amnesiacs, Leonard retains his identity and the memories of events that occurred before the injury, but loses all ability to form new memories.

Unlike most other DOS systems, it was integrated into the disk drives, not loaded into the computer's own memory.

Unlike most social canids ( but similar to African wild dogs ), dholes let their pups eat first at a kill.

Unlike the violone, however, the fingerboard of the double bass is unfretted, and the double bass has fewer strings ( the violone, like most viols, generally had six strings, although some specimens had five or four ).

Unlike most other external DOS commands, it has not been transformed into a native Win32 program.