There is a tradition of music notation older than the Greek system. A corpus of music fragments recorded on cuneiform tablets goes back to about 2000 BC...
Agriculture was the foundation of the Ancient Greek economy. Nearly 80% of the population was involved in this activity.
The Mediterranean climate is characterized by 2 seasons: the 1st dry and hot, from April to September (river beds tend to dry up); the 2nd is humid, and is marked by often violent rain storms brought in by west winds, with mild, frost-free temperatures.. As such in the mountains winters can be rigorous and snowy. Attica, Cyclades, the south of Peloponnese, and Crete are more dry than the rest of Greece..
During the early part of Greek history, as shown in the Odyssey, Greek agriculture - and diet - was based on cereals (sitos, though usually translated as wheat, could in fact designate any type of cereal grain). In reality, 90% of cereal production was barley.. Even if the ancients were aware of the better nutritional value of wheat, the growing of barley was less demanding and more productive. Attempts have been made to calculate Attican grain production in the period, but results have not been conclusive. It did not take long for demand to outpace production capabilities, as arable land was limited. The "tightness" of the land (στενοχωρία / stenokhôría) also explains Greek colonization, and the importance Anatolian cleruchies would have for the Athenian empire in controlling grain provision..Barleywine is a beer style of strong ale originating in England where the Phaeacians kept barleywine in silver and golden kraters....
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The olive wreath also known as kotinos ( κότινος), was the prize for the winner at the ancient Olympic Games. It was an olive branch, of the wild- olive tree that grew at Olympia,intertwined to form a circle or a horse-shoe... According to Pausanias it was introduced by Heracles as a prize for the running race winner to honour his father Zeus.. In the ancient Olympic Games there were no gold, silver, or bronze medals.. There was only one winner per event, crowned with an olive wreath made of wild-olive leaves from a sacred tree near the temple of Zeus at Olympia. Olive wreaths were given out during the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens in honor of the ancient tradition, because the games were being held in Greece..
"Good heavens! Mardonius, what kind of men are these against whom you have brought us to fight? Men who do not compete for possessions, but for virtue"..
The victorious athletes were honoured, feted, and praised.. Their deeds were heralded and chronicled so that future generations could appreciate their accomplishments.. In fact, the names of the Olympic winners formed the chronology basis of the ancient world, as arranged by Timaeus in his work, The Histories...
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The Odyssey (Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second oldest extant work of Western literature, the Iliad being the oldest. It is believed to have been composed near the end of the 8th century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek coastal region of Anatolia..
The poem mainly centers on the Greek hero Odysseus (known as Ulysses in Roman myths) and his journey home after the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus 10 years to reach Ithaca after the 10-year Trojan War.. In his absence, it is assumed he has died, and his wife Penelope and son Telemachus must deal with a group of unruly suitors, the Mnesteres (Greek: Μνηστῆρες) or Proci, who compete for Penelope's hand in marriage...
Odysseus’ name means “trouble” in Greek, referring to both the giving and receiving of trouble—as is often the case in his wanderings. An early example of this is the boar hunt that gave Odysseus the scar by which Eurycleia recognizes him; Odysseus is injured by the boar and responds by killing it. Odysseus' heroic trait is his mētis, or "cunning intelligence": he is often described as the "Peer of Zeus in Counsel." This intelligence is most often manifested by his use of disguise and deceptive speech. His disguises take forms both physical (altering his appearance) and verbal, such as telling the Cyclops Polyphemus that his name is Οὖτις, "Nobody", then escaping after blinding Polyphemus. When asked by other Cyclopes why he is screaming, Polyphemus replies that "Nobody" is hurting him, so the others assume that, "If alone as you are [Polyphemus] none uses violence on you, why, there is no avoiding the sickness sent by great Zeus; so you had better pray to your father, the lord Poseidon".. The most evident flaw that Odysseus sports is that of his arrogance and his pride, or hubris. As he sails away from the island of the Cyclopes, he shouts his name and boasts that nobody can defeat the "Great Odysseus"..The Cyclops then throws the top half of a mountain at him and prays to his father, Poseidon, saying that Odysseus has blinded him. This enrages Poseidon, causing the god to thwart Odysseus' homecoming for a very long time...
In 2008, scientists Marcelo O. Magnasco and Constantino Baikouzis at Rockefeller University used clues in the text and astronomical data to attempt to pinpoint the time of Odysseus's return from his journey after the Trojan War..The first clue is Odysseus' sighting of Venus just before dawn as he arrives on Ithaca. The second is a new moon on the night before the massacre of the Suitors. The final clue is a total eclipse, falling over Ithaca around noon, when Penelope's Suitors sit down for their noon meal...
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Io (Greek: Ἰώ ) was, in Greek mythology, a priestess of Hera in Argos, a nymph who was seduced by Zeus, who changed her into a heifer to escape detection... His wife Hera sent ever-watchful Argus Panoptes, with 100 eyes, to watch her, but Hermes was sent to distract the guardian and slay him.. Heifer Io was loosed to roam the world, stung by a maddening gadfly sent by Hera, and wandered to Egypt, thus placing her descendant Belus in Egypt; his sons Cadmus (Cadmus was also named as a son of Belus' brother Agenor) and Danaus would then "return" to mainland Greece..Gestation is the carrying of an embryo or fetus..Ancient sky goddesses who held the title "Queen of Heaven" included Isis, Astarte, Ishtar, and Inanna.. (The title was later applied to the Virgin Mary, along with various other features and attributes of ancient pagan goddesses)...
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A phallus is a penis, especially when erect, a penis-shaped object, or a mimetic image of an erect penis.. Any object that symbolically resembles a penis may also be referred to as a phallus; however, such objects are more often referred to as being phallic (as in "phallic symbol")..In traditional Greek mythology, Hermes, god of boundaries and exchange (popularly the messenger god) is considered to be a phallic deity by association with representations of him on herms (pillars) featuring a phallus.. There is no scholarly consensus on this depiction and it would be speculation to consider Hermes a type of fertility god. Pan, son of Hermes, was often depicted as having an exaggerated erect phallus...
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Linea nigra is due to increased melanocyte-stimulating hormone made by the placenta, which also causes melasma And Darkened nipples.. Fair-skinned women show this phenomenon less often than women with darker pigmentation...
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You're a Sap, Mr. Jap is a 1942 1-reel animated cartoon short subject released by Paramount Pictures..It was the 1st cartoon featuring Popeye the Sailor in a series produced by Famous Studios, which took over the Popeye theatrical franchise from the Fleischer Studios.. It is one of the best-known WW II propaganda cartoons.. It is also one of the few Popeye cartoons not to have Bluto, Olive Oyl, or Wimpy...
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Listen to me, Lucy Moran, you just listen. When the Tacoma Sperm Bank was looking for donors, naturally I applied.. It's my civic duty and I like whales.. A routine physical examination revealed that I'm sterile.. Sure I thought it meant that I didn't have to take a bath, but the doctors told me the truth.. They told me I can't have babies. So what I wanna know now is why are you having one and how...
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The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
His 1st official transplantation of a monkey gland into a human took place on June 12, 1920.. Thin slices (a few millimetres wide) of testicles from chimpanzees and baboons were implanted inside the patient's scrotum, the thinness O-f the tissue samples allowing the foreign tissue to fuse with the human tissue eventually.. By 1923, 700 of the world's leading surgeons at the International Congress of Surgeons in London, England, applauded the success of Voronoff's Work in the "rejuvenation" of old men...
GREY-STOKE - Opening Scene ...The Legend of Tar-zan ..Stoke-on-Trent (often abbreviated to Stoke), also called The Potteries, is a city in Staffordshire, England, which forms a linear conurbation stretching for 12 miles (19 km), with an area of 36 square miles (93 km2)...
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The Trojan Horse is a tale from the Trojan War about the subterfuge that the Greeks used to enter the city of Troy and end the conflict. In the canonical version, after a fruitless 10-year siege, the Greeks constructed a huge wooden horse, and hid a select force of men inside.. The Greeks pretended to sail away, and the Trojans pulled the horse into their city as a victory trophy.. That night the Greek force crept out of the horse and opened the gates for the rest of the Greek army, which had sailed back under cover of night. The Greeks entered and destroyed the city of Troy, decisively ending the war..The main ancient source for the story is the Aeneid of Virgil, a Latin epic poem from the time of Augustus...
It has also been suggested that the Trojan Horse actually represents an earthquake that occurred between the wars that could have weakened Troy's walls and left them open for attack.. The deity Poseidon had a triple function as a god of the sea, of horses, and of EarthQuakers.. Structural damage on Troy VI – its location being the same as that represented in Homer's Iliad and the artifacts found there suggesting it was a place of great trade and power – shows signs that there was indeed an EQ... Generally, though, Troy VIIa is believed to be Homer's Troy..30 soldiers hid in the Trojan horse's belly and 2 spies in its mouth.. Other sources give different numbers: The Bibliotheca 50; Tzetzes 23; and Quintus Smyrnaeus gives the names of 30, but says there were more..In late tradition the number was standardized at 40..There are 3 known surviving classical depictions of the Trojan horse..
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The earliest is on a fibula brooch dated about 700 BC. The other two are on relief pithos vases from the adjoining Grecian islands Mykonos and Tinos, both usually dated between 675 and 650 BC, the one from Mykonos being known as the Mykonos Vase..For, from his home beneath Parnassus, Phocian Epeus, aided by the craft of Pallas, framed a horse to bear within its womb an armed host, and sent it within the battlements, fraught with death; whence in days to come men shall tell of 'the wooden horse,' with its hidden load of warriors...
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The Sacred Band (Ancient Greek: Ἱερὸς Λόχος, Hieròs Lókhos) was a troop of picked soldiers, consisting of 150 pairs of male lovers which formed the elite force of the Theban army in the 4th century BC.. It is said to have been organised by the Theban commander Gorgidas in 378 BC and to have played a crucial role in the Battle of Leuctra.. It was annihilated by Philip II of Macedon in the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC...
The earliest surviving record of the Sacred Band by name was in 324 BC; in the oration Against Demosthenes by the Athenian logographer Dinarchus.. He mentions the Sacred Band as being led by the general Pelopidas and, alongside Epaminondas who commanded the army of Thebes (Boeotia), were responsible for the defeat of the Spartans at the decisive Battle of Leuctra (371 BC)...
The exact date of the Sacred Band's creation and whether it was created before or after the Symposium of Plato (c. 424–347 BC) and the similarly titled Symposium by his rival Xenophon (c. 430–354 BC), has also long been debated.. The generally accepted date of the Sacred Band's creation is between 379 to 378 BC.[10] Prior to this, there were references to elite Theban forces also numbering 300.. Herodotus (c.484–425 BC) and Thucydides (c. 460–395 BC) both record an elite force of 300 Thebans allied with the Persians who were annihilated by Athenians in the Battle of Plataea (479 BC)...
Philip II of Macedon (Greek: Φίλιππος Β' ὁ Μακεδών – φίλος phílos, "friend" + ἵππος híppos, "horse" - Philippos ; 382–336 BCE was king (basileus) of Macedon from 359 BCE until his assassination in 336 BCE.. He was the father of Alexander the Great and Philip III..Philip was the youngest son of the king Amyntas III and Eurydice I. In his youth, 368 – 365 BCE) Philip was held as a hostage in Thebes, which was the leading city of Greece during the Theban hegemony..While a captive there, Philip received a military and diplomatic education from Epaminondas, became eromenos of Pelopidas, and lived with Pammenes, who was an enthusiastic advocate of the Sacred Band of Thebes..On November 8, 1977, Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos found, among other royal tombs, an unopened tomb at Vergina in the Greek regional unit of Imathia.. The finds from this tomb were later included in the travelling exhibit The Search for Alexander displayed at four cities in the United States from 1980 to 1982.. It is generally accepted that the site at Vergina was the burial site of the kings of Macedon, including Philip, but the debate about the unopened tomb is ongoing among archaeologists...
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Biochips1 + Blade Runner - TEARS IN RAIN - thematically enfolding the philosophy of religion and moral implications of human mastery of genetic engineering in the context of classical Greek drama and hubris..also hybris, from ancient Greek ὕβρις, means extreme pride or arrogance.. Hubris often indicates a loss of contact with reality and an overestimation of one's own competence, accomplishments or capabilities, especially when the person exhibiting it is in a position of power.. Hubris is usually associated with the "simple-minded"...
Olympias (Greek: Ὀλυμπιάς,, c. 375–316 BC) was a Greek princess of Epirus, daughter of king Neoptolemus I of Epirus, the 4th wife of the king of Macedonia, Philip II, and mother of Alexander the Great.. She was a devout member of the orgiastic snake-worshiping cult of Dionysus, and it is suggested by the 1st century AD biographer, Plutarch, that she may have slept with snakes..Victory disease denotes when in military history, because of complacency or arrogance Brought on by a victory or series of victories, an engagement ends disastrously for a commander and his forces...
The name Olympias was the 3rd of 4 names by which she was known, taking it probably as a recognition of Philip's victory in the Olympic Games of 356 BC, which coincided with Alexander's birth.. She was finally named Stratonice, which was probably an epithet attached to Olympias following her victory over Eurydice in 317 BC...In ancient Greek, hubris referred to actions that shamed and humiliated the victim for the pleasure or gratification of the abuser..As for the pleasure in hubris, its cause is this: men think that by ill-treating others they make their own superiority the greater..Though "victory disease" does not inevitably foretell defeat, it often precedes it... The term is also applied O-utside the military world...
In 356 BC, Philip's race horse won in the O-lympic Games; for this victory his wife, who was known then as Myrtale, received the name Olympias.. In the summer of the same year, Olympias gave birth to her first child Alexander.. In ancient Greece people believed that the birth of a great man was accompanied by portents.. As Plutarch describes, the night before the consummation of their marriage Olympias dreamed that a thunderbolt fell upon her womb and a great fire was kindled, its flames dispersed all about and then were extinguished.. After the marriage Philip dreamed that he put a seal upon his wife's womb, the device of which was the figure of a lion.. Aristander's interpretation was that Olympias was pregnant of a son whose nature would be bold and lion-like.. Philip and Olympias also had a daughter, Cleopatra...
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The EPA (environmental protection agency) and OSHA took air samples in the days following September 11th, they reported that they found no excessive levels of asbestos contrary to other findings....
With the anniversary of September 11th literally just around the corner, unanswered questions still remain for families who lost loved ones during the tragic event, as well as from families...
In 2008 the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review a series of lower court rulings that restrict the United States Navy's use of sonar in submarine detection training exercises off...
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