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Aegean civilization is the general term for the prehistoric civilizations in Greece and the Aegean. It was formerly called "Mycenaean" because its existence was first brought to popular notice by Heinrich Schliemann's excavations at Mycenae starting in 1876. However, subsequent discoveries have made it clear that Mycenae was not the chief center of Aegean civilization in its earlier stages (or perhaps at any period), and accordingly it is more usual now to use the more general geographical title. Aegean civilization - Di ...

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• Aegean civilization - Distinctive features
• Aegean civilization - Indigenous script
• Aegean civilization - Art
• Aegean civilization - Architecture
• Aegean civilization - History of Aegean Civilization
• Aegean civilization - Origin and continuity
• Aegean civilization - Chronology.
• Aegean civilization - Annals
• Aegean civilization - Political Organization
• Aegean civilization - Religion
• Aegean civilization - Social Organization
• Aegean civilization - Commerce
• Aegean civilization - Treatment of the Dead
• Aegean civilization - Artistic Production
• Aegean civilization - Evidence of Aegean civilization
• Aegean civilization - The discovery of Aegean civiliation
• Aegean civilization - External link

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Ancient Greek refers to the stage in the history of the Greek language corresponding to Classical Antiquity, which normally applies to two periods of Greek history: Archaic and Classical Greece. The Ancient era of Greek history normally includes also the Hellenistic (post-Classic) age; however, that period formally composes its own stage in the Greek Language known as Hellenistic Greek. For information on the Greek language prior to the creation of the Greek alphabet, see articles Mycenaean Greek and Proto-Greek. ...

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• Ancient Greek - Dialects of Ancient Greek
• Ancient Greek - Sound changes
• Ancient Greek - Sounds
• Ancient Greek - Vowels
• Ancient Greek - Consonants
• Ancient Greek - Consonant classes
• Ancient Greek - Consonant contractions
• Ancient Greek - Compensatory lengthening
• Ancient Greek - Augment
• Ancient Greek - Reduplication
• Ancient Greek - Grammatical forms
• Ancient Greek - Nouns
• Ancient Greek - Alpha Declension
• Ancient Greek - Omicron Declension
• Ancient Greek - The Article
• Ancient Greek - Numerals
• Ancient Greek - Verbs
• Ancient Greek - Principal parts
• Ancient Greek - Present tense
• Ancient Greek - Contracted verbs
• Ancient Greek - Future tense
• Ancient Greek - Aorist tense
• Ancient Greek - Perfect tense
• Ancient Greek - Deponents semi-deponents
• Ancient Greek - Sample paradigms
• Ancient Greek - Subordination rules and verbs meaning

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Carme (IPA: /ˈkɑrmi/, kar'-mee, Greek Κάρμη) is one of Jupiter's moons. It was discovered by Seth Barnes Nicholson at Mount Wilson Observatory in California in July 1938. It is named after the mythological Carme, mother by Zeus of Britomartis, a Cretan goddess. Carme did not receive its present name until 1975; before then, it was simply known as Jupiter XI. It was sometimes called "Pan". Note ...

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243 Ida is a Main belt asteroid that was imaged by the Galileo probe on August 28, 1993. It was the first binary asteroid to be discovered. 243 Ida - Discovery and name. Ida was discovered by Johann Palisa on September 29, 1884 in Vienna. It is named after Ida, a Cretan nymph in Greek mythology who lived on a mountain that bore her name (see Mount Ida, Crete). 243 Ida - Moon. Ida has a small moon, Dactyl, which was discovered by Galileo mission member Ann Harch, wh ...

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• 243 Ida - Discovery and name
• 243 Ida - Moon
• 243 Ida - Physical characteristics
• 243 Ida - Ida
• 243 Ida - Dactyl

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Caerdroia: Literal translation from the Welsh language means "Castle of Turns". It is also thought to be a reference to Troy - since Caerdroia is also the modern Welsh word for that famous ancient city. In medieval times Caerdroia was a turf labyrinth usually in the seven fold Cretan Labyrinth design. They were created by shepherds on hilltops and were apparently the setting for ritual dances the nature of which have been lost. However, at the centre of each Caerdroia was a small hillock - in Welsh, "twmpath." A gathering for f ...

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• Caerdroia - Mythical link

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Delphi (Greek Δελφοί - Delphoi; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is an archaeological site and a modern town in Greece. In ancient times it was the site of the Delphic Sibyl, dedicated to the god Apollo. Delphi was revered throughout the Greek world as the site of the ομφαλός (omphalos) stone, the centre of the universe. In the inner εστία (hestia), or hearth, of the Temple of Delphic Apollo (Απόλλων Δελφίνιος - Apollon Delphinios), an άσβεστος φλό ...

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• Delphi - Location
• Delphi - Apollo
• Delphi - Oracle
• Delphi - Footnote
• Delphi - Treasuries
• Delphi - Tholos
• Delphi - Modern Delphi
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Carme was the mother, by Zeus, of Britomartis, a Cretan goddess. Other related archivesBritomartis, Cretan, Zeus

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Z is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet. In almost all forms of Commonwealth English, the letter is named zed, reflecting its derivation from the Greek zeta (see below). Other European languages use a similar form, e.g. the French zède, Spanish and Italian zeta, and Dutch zet. The American English form zee derives from an English late 17th-century dialectal form, now obsolete in England (although it allows the letter to rhyme with "V" in the "Alphabet song" nurser ...

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• Z - Codes for computing
• Z - Meanings for Z
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In Greek mythology, Britomartis ("sweet maid", "good maiden", "sweet virgin") was a nymph (an Oread) also known as Aphaea and Diktynna. Britomartis was worshipped as the Minoan goddess of mountains and hunting. She was also associated with Potnia and Artemis. Britomartis - Biography. Britomartis was a daughter of Carme, the daughter of Euboulos, by Zeus. She was pursued by Minos and threw herself into nets to escape him. Artemis made her a goddess (here named Diktynna), patron of mountains, shores, nets and ...

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• Britomartis - Biography
• Britomartis - As Diktynna
• Britomartis - As Aphaea
• Britomartis - As Britomart

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The Korybantes, called the Kurbantes in Phrygia, were the crested dancers who worshipped the Phrygian goddess Cybele with drumming and dancing. The Kuretes were the nine dancers who venerate Rhea, the Cretan counterpart of Cybele. These male dancers in armor, kept time to a drum and the rhythmic stamping of their feet. Dance, according to Greek thought, was one of the civilizing activities, like wine-making or music. The dance in armor (the "pyrrhic dance" or pyrriche) was a male coming-of-age initiation ri ...

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Apollo (Greek: Απόλλων, Apóllōn; Απελλων) is a god in Greek and Roman mythology, the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin of Artemis (goddess of the hunt), one of the most important and many-sided of the Olympian divinities. In later times he became in part confused or equated with Helios, god of the sun, and his sister similarly equated with Selene, goddess of the moon in religious contexts. But Apollo and Helios/Sol remained quite separate beings in literary/mythological texts. In Etruscan mythology, he was know ...

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• Apollo - Appellations
• Apollo - Birth
• Apollo - Youth
• Apollo - Apollo and Admetus
• Apollo - Apollo During the Trojan War
• Apollo - Niobe
• Apollo - Apollo's romantic life and children
• Apollo - Heterosexual relationships
• Apollo - Homosexual relationships
• Apollo - Apollo and the Birth of Hermes
• Apollo - Other stories
• Apollo - Musical contests
• Apollo - Miscellaneous
• Apollo - Spoken-word myths - audio files
• Apollo - Apollo in popular culture

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If we define "liar" to mean that every statement made by a liar is false (so that Epimenides' statement amounts to "Anything said by a Cretan is false"), then the statement "All Cretans are liars," if uttered by the Cretan Epimenides, cannot be consistently true. (And, as will be noted below, according to one interpretation it also cannot be consistently false, either.) The conjunction of "Epimenides said all Cretans are liars" and "Epimenides is a Cretan" would, if true, imply that a Cretan has truthfully asserted that no Cretan has ...

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Epimenides paradox, Epimenides paradox - Logical analysis, Epimenides paradox - History, Epimenides paradox - Sources

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The Ancient Greek verbal system is extremely archaic, maintaining nearly all the complexities of Proto-Indo-European. It includes a distinction between a thematic (/oː/) class, with a "thematic" vowel /o/ or /e/ before the endings, and an athematic (/mi/) class, with endings added directly to the root. (Unlike in Sanskrit, nearly all athematic roots end in a vowel. The only exceptions are /es-/ "be" and /oid-/,/eid-/,/id-/ "know".) The endings are also distinguished as primary (us ...

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Ancient Greek, Ancient Greek - Dialects of Ancient Greek, Ancient Greek - Sound changes, Ancient Greek - Sounds, Ancient Greek - Vowels, Ancient Greek - Consonants, Ancient Greek - Consonant classes, Ancient Greek - Consonant contractions, Ancient Greek - Compensatory lengthening, Ancient Greek - Augment, Ancient Greek - Reduplication, Ancient Greek - Grammatical forms, Ancient Greek - Nouns, Ancient Greek - Alpha Declension, Ancient Greek - Omicron Declension, Ancient Greek - The Article, Ancient Greek - Numerals, Ancient Greek - Verbs, Ancient Greek - Principal parts, Ancient Greek - Present tense, Ancient Greek - Contracted verbs, Ancient Greek - Future tense, Ancient Greek - Aorist tense, Ancient Greek - Perfect tense, Ancient Greek - Deponents semi-deponents, Ancient Greek - Sample paradigms, Ancient Greek - Subordination rules and verbs meaning

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The new airport is equipped with two robotic systems (robots "Hercules" and "Ulysses") capable of handling suspect devices, designed to protect the lives of individuals as well as airport spaces, by safely identifying and removing explosives. Hercules was donated by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to the airport. It is a system worth approximately €170,000, manufactured by Soukos Robots ABEE. Hercules is capable of the safe collection and transportation of explosives for disposal. It is equipped with a spherical shaped ...

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Eleftherios Venizelos Airport, Eleftherios Venizelos Airport - Robotic security, Eleftherios Venizelos Airport - Airlines

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Apollo is considered to have dominion over plague, beauty, light, healing, colonists, medicine, archery, poetry, prophecy, dance, reason, intellectualism, Shamans, and as the patron defender of herds and flocks. Apollo had a famous oracle in Delphi and other notable ones in Clarus and Branchidae. Apollo is known as the leader of the Muses ("musagetes") and director of their choir. His attributes include: swans, wolves, dolphins, bows and arrows, a laurel crown, the cithara (or lyre) and plectrum. The sacrificial tripod is anoth ...

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Apollo, Apollo - Worship, Apollo - Etymology of the name, Apollo - Apollo in art, Apollo - Appellations, Apollo - Birth, Apollo - Youth, Apollo - Apollo and Admetus, Apollo - Apollo during the Trojan War, Apollo - Niobe, Apollo - Apollo's romantic life and children, Apollo - Heterosexual relationships, Apollo - Homosexual relationships, Apollo - Apollo and the Birth of Hermes, Apollo - Other stories, Apollo - Musical contests, Apollo - Miscellaneous, Apollo - Spoken-word myths - audio files, Apollo - Apollo in popular culture

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The problem of the paradox is that it seems to show that our most cherished common beliefs about truth and falsity actually lead to a contradiction. Sentences can be constructed that cannot consistently be assigned a truth value even though they are completely in accord with grammar and semantic rules. Consider the simplest version of the paradox, the sentence This statement is false. If we suppose that the statement is true, everything asserted in it must be true. However, because the statement asserts that it is itself false, ...

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Liar paradox, Liar paradox - The words of Eubulides of Miletus, Liar paradox - The Epimenides paradox, Liar paradox - A discussion of the liar paradox, Liar paradox - Gödel's theorem

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Golden mean philosophy - Crete. The earliest representation of this idea in culture is probably in the mythological Cretan tale of Daedalus and Icarus. Daedalus, a famous artist of his time, built feathered wings for himself and his son so that they might escape the clutches of King Minos. Daedalus warns his son to "fly the middle course", between the sea spray and the sun's heat. Icarus did not heed his father; he flew up and up until the sun melted the wax of his wings, and ...

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Golden mean philosophy, Golden mean philosophy - History of the golden mean in philosophy, Golden mean philosophy - Crete, Golden mean philosophy - Delphi, Golden mean philosophy - Pythagoreans, Golden mean philosophy - Socrates, Golden mean philosophy - Plato, Golden mean philosophy - Aristotle, Golden mean philosophy - Quotations, Golden mean philosophy - Miscellanea, Golden mean philosophy - Bibliography

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The controversy whether or not ancient Macedonia should be considered a Hellenic state is addressed variously: based on ancient sources, and on linguistic evidence. Neither approach is conclusive, Herodotus seems to assert that the Macedonian aristocracy was of Achaean origin while Macedonian people were of Dorian stock. Linguistics seems to point inconclusively to either Macedonian as an archaic form of Greek, Macedonian as part of a Graeco-Macedonian subfamily of Indo-European, or Macedonian as an in ...

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Macedon, Macedon - Early history, Macedon - Expansion, Macedon - Decline, Macedon - Calendar, Macedon - Language, Macedon - Hellenic controversy, Macedon - Herodotus, Macedon - Linguistics

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Laconophilia began as a current of thought and feeling in Athens, after the Persian Wars. Some, like Cimon son of Miltiades, believed that Athens should ally with Sparta against the Persian Empire. Cimon persuaded the Athenians to send soldiers to aid Sparta, when the Helots revolted and fortified Mount Ithome. The Spartan sent the Athenians home again with thanks, lest the democratic Athenian ideas ...

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Laconophile, Laconophile - Athens, Laconophile - Philosophers, Laconophile - Mueller and the Dorians, Laconophile - Contrary views, Laconophile - Related Topics, Laconophile - Related Works

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History of corsets - Straight-front or S-curve corsets. The straight-front corset, also known as the swan-bill corset and the s-curve corset, was worn from the 1800s to the 1910s. It was a type of corset worn from the start of the nineteenth century until around 1907.  Its name is derived from the very rigid, straight busk that was used down the center of the front. It was the most complex shape of corset ever made, with high-quality corsets consisting of up to 48 intricately curv ...

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History of corsets, History of corsets - Overview, History of corsets - Before 1460, History of corsets - Before 1500, History of corsets - Pair of stays, History of corsets - French Revolutionary 1789, History of corsets - 1900 edwardian corset, History of corsets - 1500s-1700s, History of corsets - Iron corsets, History of corsets - Stays, History of corsets - Victorian corsets, History of corsets - Nursing corsets, History of corsets - Maternity corsets, History of corsets - Edwardian corsets, History of corsets - Straight-front or S-curve corsets, History of corsets - 1900s, History of corsets - Pipe-shape corsets

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