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    civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin. It is the period during which...
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  • history books of India. In Europe, interest in the remains of Greco-Roman civilisation and the rediscovery of classical culture began in the Late Middle...
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    Ancient Rome (redirect from Ancient Roman)
    their similar cultures and societies are known as the Greco-Roman world. Ancient Roman civilisation has contributed to modern language, religion, society...
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    occupied by Roman forces. Nearly all of the territory held by Carthage fell into Roman hands. Ancient Egypt was a long-lived civilisation geographically...
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    civilization, broadly defined, is formed by the combined foundations of Greco-Roman civilization and Western Christianity. While Western culture is a broad...
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    Aquiline nose (redirect from Roman nose)
    An aquiline nose (also called a Roman nose) is a human nose with a prominent bridge, giving it the appearance of being curved or slightly bent. The word...
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    origins in Judaism – the ethnic religion of the Jewish people – and Greco-Roman philosophy. Christianity emerged as a sect within Judaism and inherited...
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    Carthage Greco-Roman world Hellenism (Academia) Hellenism (neoclassicism) Hellenistic fortifications Hellenistic glass Humanism La Tène culture Pre-Roman Iron...
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    the north wind, the Roman writers Aulus Gellius and Pliny the Elder both took Boreas as a northeast wind, equivalent to the Roman god Aquilo or Septentrio...
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    other civilisations, a process which continues to this day. The city of Rome was the civitas (reflected in the etymology of the word "civilisation") and...
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    Greece was a key eastern province of the Roman Empire, as the Roman culture had long been in fact Greco-Roman. The Greek language served as a lingua franca...
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    Classics (redirect from Roman studies)
    Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics also includes Greco-Roman philosophy, history...
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    Berlin (Berlin, Germany) Byzantine culture was initially the same as Late Greco-Roman, but over the following millennium of the empire's existence, it slowly...
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    the earliest in Europe, is the Perachora wheel (3rd century BC). In Greco-Roman Egypt, the construction of the first hydraulic machine automata by Ctesibius...
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    7. 13 ff (trans. Rand & Stewart) (Roman philosophy C6th AD) Suidas s.v. Hydran temnein (trans. Suda On Line) (Greco-Byzantine Lexicon C10th AD) Suidas...
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    and India and gained a monopoly of Indian Ocean trade, it entered the Greco-Roman cultural sphere. Greek became the official and literary language of the...
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    Foucault regarded sex throughout the Greco-Roman world as governed by restraint and the art of managing sexual pleasure. Roman society was patriarchal (see paterfamilias)...
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    as the town Koloe described in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, a Greco-Roman document dated to the end of the first century AD. The settlement thrived...
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    The Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922 was fought between Greece and the Turkish National Movement during the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath...
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    Etruscan architecture is not generally considered as part of the body of Greco-Roman classical architecture. Etruscan art was produced by the Etruscan civilization...
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    Heliocles I (category Greco-Bactrian kings)
    Heliocles I (Ancient Greek: Ἡλιοκλῆς, romanized: Helioklēs; reigned 145–120 BC) was a Greco-Bactrian king, brother and successor of Eucratides the Great...
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    dance, also known as the Manipuri Raas Leela (Meitei: ꯖꯒꯣꯏ ꯔꯥꯁ/ꯔꯥꯁ ꯖꯒꯣꯏ, romanized: Jagoi Raas/Raas Jagoi), is a jagoi and is one of the major Indian classical...
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    Gauls (section Roman wars)
    sacrificed humans, and some Greco-Roman sources claim the Gauls sacrificed criminals by burning them in a wicker man. The Romans said the Gauls held ceremonies...
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    century BC – AD 147) and Ancient Rome (753 BC – AD 476). In the classical Greco-Roman tradition, the ideal mode of language was published and preserved in...
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    Velificatio (category Ancient Roman art)
    Publishers, 2004), pp. 294–295. Konidaris, Dimitrios (2020-06-12). Chinese Civilisation and Its Aegean Affinities (in Greek). ISBN 978-618-84901-1-6. Tanabe...
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    This is a list of the pre-Roman people of the Iberian Peninsula (the Roman Hispania, i.e., modern Portugal, Spain and Andorra). Some closely fit the concept...
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    thematic. The chronological areas are the following: Archaic, Pharaonic, Greco-Roman, Coptic, Medieval, Islamic, modern and contemporary. The thematic areas...
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    Villa of the Mysteries (category Greco-Roman mysteries)
    initiation of a bride into a Greco-Roman mystery cult. These are now among the best known of the relatively rare survivals of Ancient Roman painting from the 1st...
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    impact of Greco-Indian Culture on Western Civilisation Some new hypotheses on the Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms by Antoine Simonin Greco-Bactrian...
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    considered Western—the roots of which some historians have traced to the Greco-Roman world and Christianity. In the Global North–South schism, the West is...
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