Classical antiquity (redirect from History of the Greco-Roman World) 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... 39 KB (4,770 words) - 09:17, 10 April 2024 |
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... 34 KB (4,037 words) - 14:24, 24 February 2024 |
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... 185 KB (20,939 words) - 01:38, 22 April 2024 |
Ancient history (section Andean civilisations) occupied by Roman forces. Nearly all of the territory held by Carthage fell into Roman hands. Ancient Egypt was a long-lived civilisation geographically... 76 KB (9,428 words) - 15:03, 25 April 2024 |
Western culture (redirect from Western civilisation) civilization, broadly defined, is formed by the combined foundations of Greco-Roman civilization and Western Christianity. While Western culture is a broad... 131 KB (14,156 words) - 18:02, 24 April 2024 |
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... 15 KB (1,651 words) - 11:55, 5 March 2024 |
Cradle of civilization (redirect from Cradle of Civilisation) origins in Judaism – the ethnic religion of the Jewish people – and Greco-Roman philosophy. Christianity emerged as a sect within Judaism and inherited... 120 KB (13,489 words) - 07:59, 25 April 2024 |
Hellenistic period (redirect from Hellenistic civilisation) Carthage Greco-Roman world Hellenism (Academia) Hellenism (neoclassicism) Hellenistic fortifications Hellenistic glass Humanism La Tène culture Pre-Roman Iron... 149 KB (18,873 words) - 22:42, 24 April 2024 |
Boreas (god) (section Outside Greco-Roman culture) 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... 25 KB (2,116 words) - 00:20, 9 April 2024 |
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... 60 KB (6,670 words) - 02:48, 19 April 2024 |
Ancient Greece (redirect from Hellenic civilisation) 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... 79 KB (9,310 words) - 19:42, 10 February 2024 |
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... 48 KB (5,644 words) - 22:46, 13 April 2024 |
Byzantine Empire (redirect from Eastern Roman Empire) 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... 180 KB (19,852 words) - 11:51, 25 April 2024 |
Hydraulics (section Greco-Roman world) 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... 23 KB (2,548 words) - 19:01, 30 January 2024 |
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... 19 KB (2,196 words) - 13:02, 20 April 2024 |
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... 71 KB (8,401 words) - 08:11, 22 April 2024 |
Sexuality in ancient Rome (redirect from Roman sex) 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)... 265 KB (34,866 words) - 20:24, 5 April 2024 |
Etruscan civilization (redirect from Etruscan civilisation) Etruscan architecture is not generally considered as part of the body of Greco-Roman classical architecture. Etruscan art was produced by the Etruscan civilization... 100 KB (10,734 words) - 21:18, 5 April 2024 |
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... 4 KB (344 words) - 12:56, 30 September 2023 |
Classicism in Meitei culture (redirect from Classicism in Meetei civilisation) 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... 62 KB (5,931 words) - 21:25, 8 March 2024 |
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... 63 KB (7,037 words) - 05:04, 18 March 2024 |
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... 9 KB (1,109 words) - 01:54, 2 April 2024 |
thematic. The chronological areas are the following: Archaic, Pharaonic, Greco-Roman, Coptic, Medieval, Islamic, modern and contemporary. The thematic areas... 5 KB (367 words) - 09:12, 25 April 2024 |
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... 23 KB (2,829 words) - 02:10, 21 April 2024 |
Indo-Greek Kingdom (redirect from Greco-Indian) impact of Greco-Indian Culture on Western Civilisation Some new hypotheses on the Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms by Antoine Simonin Greco-Bactrian... 219 KB (25,945 words) - 00:36, 6 April 2024 |