Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - Origins
The Greeks are believed to have migrated southward into the Balkan peninsula in several waves beginning in the late 3rd millennium BC, th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - Society
The distinguishing features of ancient Greek society were the division between free and slave, the differing roles of men and women, the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Rise Of Hellas
In the 8th century BC Greece began to emerge from the Dark Ages which followed the fall of the Mycenaean civilization. Literacy had been ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece is the term used to describe the Greek-speaking world in ancient times. It refers not only to the geographical peninsula o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Syncretism: Encyclopedia - Syncretism
Syncretism is the attempt to reconcile disparate, even opposing, beliefs and to meld practices of various schools of thought. It is espec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Boeotia: Encyclopedia - Boeotia
Boeotia or Beotia (World Book «bee OH shuh») (Greek Βοιωτια; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was the central are...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argos: Encyclopedia - Argos
Argos (Greek: Άργος, Árgos) is a city in Greece in the Peloponnesus near Nafplio, which was its historic harbor, named for Nauplius...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abydos, Hellespont: Encyclopedia - Abydos, Hellespont
Abydos, an ancient city of Mysia, in Asia Minor, situated at Nagara Point on the Hellespont, which is here scarcely a mile broad. It prob...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Boule: Encyclopedia - Boule
In the cities (Gr. πολις, pl. πολεως) of ancient Greece, the boulé was a council of citizens appointed to run daily affairs o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abydos Hellespont: Encyclopedia - Abydos Hellespont
Abydos, an ancient city of Mysia, in Asia Minor, situated at Nagara Point on the Hellespont, which is here scarcely a mile broad. It prob...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atlas Architecture: Encyclopedia - Atlas Architecture
Atlas architecture - Origin. Atlantes originated in ancient Greece and the term is the Latin plural of the word Atlas - the Titan who w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arion: Encyclopedia - Arion
Arion was a legendary poet and citharode in ancient Greece (originally of Lesbos) who lived in the court of Periander, tyrant of Corinth,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chorea Dance: Encyclopedia - Chorea Dance
Chorea (choreia, khoreia, χορεία) is a circle dance (χορεύω σε κύκλο) accompanied by singing (see chorus, khoros), kno...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Western Philosophy: Encyclopedia - Western Philosophy
Western philosophy is a line of related philosophical thinking, beginning in Ancient Greece, and including the predominant philosophical ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dodona: Encyclopedia - Dodona
At Dodona (ancient Greek: Δοδώνη, modern Dodoni) in Epirus, northwestern Greece, was a prehistoric oracle devoted to the Greek god,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gymnast: Encyclopedia - Gymnast
Gymnasts are people who participate in the sports of either artistic gymnastics or rhythmic gymnastics. See gymnasium (ancient Greece) fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rhetoric: Encyclopedia - Rhetoric
Rhetoric (from Greek ρήτωρ, rhêtôr, "orator") is one of the three original liberal arts or trivium (the other members are dialecti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sports Medicine: Encyclopedia - Sports Medicine
Sports medicine or sport medicine is an interdisciplinary subspecialty of medicine which deals with the treatment and preventive care of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Creativity: Encyclopedia - Creativity
Creativity is a human mental phenomenon based around the deployment of mental skills and/or conceptual tools, which, in turn, originate a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zefyri: Encyclopedia - Zefyri
Zefyri or Zefiri, (Greek, Modern: Ζεφύρι, Ancient/Katharevousa: -on), older forms Zefyrion, Zefirio or Zefirion, is a suburb in the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesop's Fables: Encyclopedia - Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables or Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop (circa 620 BC – 560 BC), a slave and story-teller living ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Athens: Encyclopedia - History Of Athens
The history of Athens is the longest of any city in Europe: Athens has been continuously inhabited for at least 3,000 years. It was the b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gymnasium Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Gymnasium Ancient Greece - Organisation Of Ancient Greek Gymnasia
Gymnasium ancient Greece - Terminology. The gymnasium formed a public institution as - a private school where boys received training in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gymnasium Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Gymnasium Ancient Greece - Development And Legacy
Gymnasium ancient Greece - Historical development. The gymnasium of the Greeks did not long remain an institution exclusively devoted t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gymnasium Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Gymnasium Ancient Greece - Etymology Of Gymnasium
The word gymnasium, originally spelled gymnazein, is Greek for place to be naked and derives from the Greek word for naked: gymnos. Histo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lyceum: Encyclopedia Ii - Lyceum - Lyceums In Today's Education
The term lyceum is still used in some (mostly European) countries when referring to a type of school. Lyceum - Greece & Cyprus. The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lyceum: Encyclopedia Ii - Lyceum - Ancient Greek Lyceum Word Origins
The Lyceum (Λύκειον, Lykeion) was a gymnasium in ancient Athens, most famous for its association with Aristotle. The Lyceum is the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lyceum: Encyclopedia Ii - Lyceum - Lyceums In Today's Education
The term lyceum is still used in some (mostly European) countries when referring to a type of school. Lyceum - Greece & Cyprus. The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lyceum: Encyclopedia Ii - Lyceum - Lyceums Of The Russian Empire
In imperial Russia, a Lyceum was one of the following high educational facilities: Demidov Lyceum of Law in Yaroslavl (1801), Alexander L...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lyceum: Encyclopedia Ii - Lyceum - Ancient Greek Lyceum Word Origins
The Lyceum (Λύκειον, Lykeion) was a gymnasium in ancient Athens, most famous for its association with Aristotle. The Lyceum is the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Syncretism: Encyclopedia Ii - Syncretism - Origin Of The Word
The word Syncretism is first attested in English in 1618 and is derived from modern Latin syncretismus, drawing on Greek συγκρητι...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Syncretism: Encyclopedia Ii - Syncretism - Syncretism In Ancient Greece
Syncretism was an essential feature of Greek paganism. Hellenistic culture in the age that followed Alexander the Great was itself syncre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Syncretism: Encyclopedia Ii - Syncretism - Syncretism In Christianity
Nascent Christianity appears to have incorporated many European Pagan cultural elements, "baptizing" or "Christianizing" them to conform ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arvanites: Encyclopedia Ii - Arvanites - Arvanitic Culture And History
The Arvanites, like the Vlachs in Greece, have gradually developed a Greek national consciousness and identify themselves as Greeks. Some...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Syncretism: Encyclopedia Ii - Syncretism - Syncretism In Rome
The Romans, identifying themselves as common heirs to a very similar civilization, identified Greek deities with similar figures in the E...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Syncretism: Encyclopedia Ii - Syncretism - Modern Syncretic Religions
Recently developed religious systems that exhibit marked syncretism include the New World religions Candomblé, Vodun, and Santería, whi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Syncretism: Encyclopedia Ii - Syncretism - Social And Political Roles
Overt syncretism in folk belief is a sign of cultural acceptance of an alien or previous tradition, but the "other" cult may survive or i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lyceum: Encyclopedia Ii - Lyceum - Lyceums Of The Russian Empire
In Imperial Russia, a Lyceum was one of the following high educational facilities: Demidov Lyceum of Law in Yaroslavl (1801), Alexander L...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Democracy: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Democracy - Origins
History of democracy - Prehistoric democracies. The earliest forms of democracy may have originated in the bands and tribes of prehisto...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Democracy: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Democracy - Rise Of Democracy In Modern National Governments
History of democracy - Pre-Eighteenth century milestones. Renaissance humanism was a cultural movement in Europe beginning in central I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pederasty In Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Pederasty In Ancient Greece - History
The ancient Greeks of the pederastic city-states were the first to describe, study, systematize, and establish pederasty as an institutio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Greece - Sports
Greek culture was and is more than cerebral. The Panhellenic Games and especially the Olympic Games originated in Greece in ancient times...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arvanites: Encyclopedia Ii - Arvanites - Studies And Books For Arvanites
Arvanites - Kostas Biris. Biris was a folklorist and an architect. His book "Arvanites, the Dorians of modern Hellenism, history of Arv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arvanites: Encyclopedia Ii - Arvanites - Famous Arvanites
Sample of Arvanitika arvanitika http://www.arvasynel.gr/arvanitikoi_dialogoi.html Eni te tzem Arberiste. Flet fare arbëriste ? Flas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arvanites: Encyclopedia Ii - Arvanites - Demographics And Language
Arvanites are predominantly Greek Orthodox in religious adherence. Their language, Arvanitika, shares a common origin with standard Alban...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Athena Parthenos: Encyclopedia Ii - Athena Parthenos - Replicating The Ancient Masterpiece
LeQuire, a Nashville native, was awarded the commission to produce the Parthenon's centerpiece. His work was modeled on descriptions give...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Harpy: Encyclopedia Ii - Harpy - Theories Of Origin
R.D. Barnett suggests in "Ancient Oriental Influences on Archaic Greece" — an essay in The Aegean and the Near East, Saul S. Weinberg, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Olympic Games: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Olympic Games - History
The Games were held in Olympia, Greece, a sanctuary site for the Greek gods near the towns of Elis and Pisatis (both in Elis on the penin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Team Handball: Encyclopedia Ii - Team Handball - History
Team handball has origins reaching as far back as the antiquity: urania in ancient Greece, harpaston in ancient Rome, fangballspiel in me...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Team Handball: Encyclopedia Ii - Team Handball - History
Team handball has origins reaching as far back as the antiquity: urania in ancient Greece, harpaston in ancient Rome, fangballspiel in me...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Origins Of Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Origins Of Chess - Origins Of Chess Pieces
Origins of chess - Chess-like pieces. Ever since the earliest times, and especially with regards to the most ancient of preliterate soc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hegemony: Encyclopedia Ii - Hegemony - Hegemonies In History
The word "hegemon" originated in ancient Greece, and derives from the word hegeisthai (meaning "to lead"). An early example of hegemony d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hegemony: Encyclopedia Ii - Hegemony - Hegemonies In History
The word "hegemon" originated in ancient Greece, and derives from the word hegeisthai (meaning "to lead"). An early example of hegemony d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metrology: Encyclopedia Ii - Metrology - Historical Development
Metrology was originally a study of historical measurement examining ancient, beginning of history documents from Assyria, Egypt, Greece ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Athens: Encyclopedia Ii - Athens - History
Main article: History of Athens Athens was the leading city in Greece during the greatest period of Greek civilization during the 1st mil...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Music Of Mesopotamia: Encyclopedia Ii - Music Of Mesopotamia - Instrumentation
Instruments which originated in Ancient Mesopotamia include the bow harp, lyre or lute, and the reed pipe. These instruments spread north...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesop's Fables: Encyclopedia Ii - Aesop's Fables - Origins
According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the fables were invented by a slave named Aesop who lived in Ancient Greece during the 6th ce...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Olympic Games: Encyclopedia Ii - Olympic Games - Ancient Olympics
The origin of the ancient Olympic Games has been lost, although there are many legends surrounding its origins. One of these legends asso...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Basileus: Encyclopedia Ii - Basileus - Byzantines
At the time of the Byzantine Empire, "basileus" assumed the meaning of "emperor" and was used by the Byzantine Emperors from the reign of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Oven: Encyclopedia Ii - Oven - Front-loaded Bread Ovens
Culinary historians credit the Greeks for developing bread baking into an art. Proper front-loaded bread ovens originated in Ancient Gree...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Western Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Western Culture - Foundations
The origins of Western Culture are often cited as ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and Catholic and Protestant Christianity, and as such...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brandy: Encyclopedia Ii - Brandy - History
The origins of brandy are unclear, and tied to the development of distillation. Concentrated alcoholic beverages were known in ancient Gr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Andrea Mantegna: Encyclopedia Ii - Andrea Mantegna - Biography
Mantegna was born in Isola di Cartura, near Vicenza in the Republic of Venice, second son of a poor woodcutter, Biagio. At the age of ten...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Theosophy - A Brief History Of Theosophy
Theosophists trace the origin of Theosophy to the universal striving for divinity that existed in all ancient cultures. It is found in an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Theosophy - A Brief History Of Theosophy
Theosophists trace the origin of Theosophy to the universal striving for divinity that existed in all ancient cultures. It is found in an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Greek: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Greek - Origins
There are several theories about the origins of the Greek language. One theory suggests that it originated with a migration of proto-Gree...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Basileus: Encyclopedia Ii - Basileus - Ancient Greece
The first written instance of this word is found on the baked clay tablets discovered in excavations of Mycenaean palaces originally dest...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lute: Encyclopedia Ii - Lute - History And Evolution Of The Lute
Plucked chordophones were in use in Greece at the time of Alexander the Great; nevertheless, the European lute may be derived from the Ba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tragedy: Encyclopedia Ii - Tragedy - Origin Of Western Tragedy
The origins of tragedy in the West are obscure, but it is certainly derived from the poetic and religious traditions of ancient Greece. I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spartan Ii: Encyclopedia Ii - Spartan Ii - History
The SPARTAN II project was originally modeled after the original Spartans of ancient Greece's Sparta. Sparta was a military-oriented coun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lute: Encyclopedia Ii - Lute - History And Evolution Of The Lute
Plucked chordophones were in use in Greece at the time of Alexander the Great; nevertheless, the European lute may be derived from the Ba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Scuba Diving: Encyclopedia Ii - Scuba Diving - History Of Diving
Men and women have practiced breath-hold diving for centuries. Indirect evidence comes from ancient artifacts of undersea origin found on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Scuba Diving: Encyclopedia Ii - Scuba Diving - History Of Diving
Men and women have practiced breath-hold diving for centuries. Indirect evidence comes from ancient artifacts of undersea origin found on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - Europe - History
Europe has a long history of cultural and economic achievement, starting as far back as the Palaeolithic, although this is true for the r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Classical Element: Encyclopedia Ii - Classical Element - Classical Elements In Greece
The Greek classical elements are Fire, Earth, Air, and Water (Latin derivatives are pyro, terra, aero, and aqua). They represent in Greek...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pandeism: Encyclopedia Ii - Pandeism - Use Of The Term By Godfrey Higgins
Pandeism (or a Pandæan religion) was originally used by Godfrey Higgins, a historian of religions, [1] to describe a religious society t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Poet Laureate: Encyclopedia Ii - Poet Laureate - Origin Of The Term
The laurel, in ancient Greece, was sacred to Apollo, and as such was used to form a crown or wreath of honour for poets and heroes; and t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Turnip Brassica Rapa: Encyclopedia Ii - Turnip Brassica Rapa - Origin
The exact place where turnips were domesticated is unknown, but Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Mediterranean region are candidates. Turni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thracian Chersonese: Encyclopedia Ii - Thracian Chersonese - History
The Thracian Chersonese was originally inhabited by Thracians. Settlers from Ancient Greece, mainly of Ionian and Aeolian stock, founded ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aesop's Fables: Encyclopedia Ii - Aesop's Fables - Aesop
Main article: Aesop Aesop (from the Greek Aisopos), famous for his fables, was arguably a slave of African descent who had lived from ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Salt: Encyclopedia Ii - Salt - History
The first registers of salt use were at 4000 B.C. in Egypt, Greece and Rome. Salt was very valuable and used to conserve foods. In Ancien...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pornography: Encyclopedia Ii - Pornography - Terminology
In its original meaning, pornography was literally "writing about prostitutes", from the classical Greek roots πορνη and γραφε�...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Salt: Encyclopedia Ii - Salt - History
The fist registers of salt use were at 4000 B.C. in Egypt, Greece and Rome. Salt was very valuable and used to conserve foods. In Ancient...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Currency: Encyclopedia Ii - Currency - History
Currency - Early Currency. The origin of currency is the creation of a circulating medium of exchange based on a store of value. Curren...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Currency: Encyclopedia Ii - Currency - Local Currencies
In economics, a local currency is a currency not backed by a national government, and intended to trade only in a small area. Advocates s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Words Meaning Outsider Foreigner Or "not One Of Us": Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Words Meaning Outsider Foreigner Or "not One Of Us" - Lists By Originator
List of words meaning outsider foreigner or "not one of us" - List by nation ethnicity or religion. Alaska: Cheechako Ancien...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Amphictyony: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Amphictyony
Amphictyony In ancient Greece, a league connected with maintaining a temple or shrine. There were a number of these, but by far the mo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Delphi: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Delphi
Delphi (Greek) One of the most sacred spots of ancient Greece, renowned as the seat of the most famous of the ancient Greek oracles, o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ogygia: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ogygia
Ogygia An island inhabited by the nymph Calypso, far from Greece to the west, on which Odysseus was shipwrecked. Despite her promise o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nuns: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Nuns
Nuns Women of any age vowed to a celibate and meditative life. Nuns have existed in organized communities in all parts of the world, a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - Spartan And Theban Dominance
The end of the Peloponnesian War left Sparta the master of Greece, but the narrow outlook of the Spartan warrior elite did not suit them ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Rise Of Macedon
The Kingdom of Macedon was formed in the 7th century BC out of northern Greek tribes. They played little part in Greek politics before th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - Social And Political Conflict
The Greek cities were originally monarchies, although many of them were very small and the term "King" (basileus) for their rulers is mis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Conquests Of Alexander
Philip was succeeded by his 20-year-old son Alexander, who immediately set out to carry out his father's plans. He travelled to Corinth w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Dominance Of Athens
The Persian Wars ushered in a century of Athenian dominance of Greek affairs. Athens was the unchallenged master of the sea, and also the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Persian Wars
In Ionia (the modern Aegean coast of Turkey) the Greek cities, which included great centres such as Miletus and Halicarnassus, were unabl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Peloponnesian War
In 431 BC war broke out again between Athens and Sparta and its allies. The immediate cause was a dispute between Corinth and one of its ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Peloponnesian War
In 431 BC war broke out again between Athens and Sparta and its allies. The immediate cause was a dispute between Corinth and one of its ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Persian Wars
In Ionia (the modern Aegean coast of Turkey) the Greek cities, which included great centres such as Miletus and Halicarnassus, were unabl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Peloponnesian War
In 431 BC war broke out again between Athens and Sparta and its allies. The proximate cause was a dispute between Corinth and one of its ...   » Read the article