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    The Greco-Roman civilization (/ˌɡriːkoʊˈroʊmən, ˌɡrɛkoʊ-/; also Greco-Roman culture or Greco-Latin culture; spelled Graeco-Roman in the Commonwealth),...
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    Magic in the Greco-Roman world—that is, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and the other cultures with which they interacted, especially ancient Egypt—comprises...
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    Greco-Roman (American English), Graeco-Roman (British English), classic wrestling (Euro English) is a style of wrestling that is practiced worldwide. Greco-Roman...
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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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  • World or Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman wrestling. Greco-Roman wrestling competition was held at the first modern Olympics in 1896. The Greco-Roman...
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    Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Temin, Peter. The Roman Market Economy. Princeton: Princeton...
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    sacred mysteries or simply mysteries, were religious schools of the Greco-Roman world for which participation was reserved to initiates (mystai). The main...
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  • The World/American Greco-Roman Heavyweight Championship and the World/European Greco-Roman Heavyweight Championship was a Greco-Roman professional wrestling...
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  • "Greco-Roman Wrestling World Cup Budapest 2006" (PDF). FILA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 April 2006. Retrieved 21 May 2020. "Greco-Roman World...
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  • Greco-Roman religion may refer to: Ancient Greek religion Hellenistic religion Mystery religions, initiatory cults of the Greco-Roman world Interpretatio...
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    of water-power in many parts of the Roman Empire. The earliest turbine mill was found in Chemtou and Testour, Roman North Africa, dating to the late 3rd...
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    ISBN 978-0719049767. Dickie, M. W. (2003). Magic and Magicians in the Greco-Roman World. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1134533367. Flint, V. I. J. (1991). The...
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    in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kingdom (c. 2686 – c. 2181 BCE)...
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    BC) Diodorus Siculus (c. 90-30 BC) Alexander Polyhistor (1st century BC) Roman Empire period Periplus of the Erythraean Sea Strabo (63 BC – AD 24) Pomponius...
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  • In the Greco-Roman world, the grammarian (Latin: grammaticus) was responsible for the second stage in the traditional education system, after a boy had...
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    leader Pericles in order to rebuild the Acropolis at the conclusion of the Greco-Persian Wars. These propylaea were built wide enough to allow chariots through...
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    century and is one of the best preserved ancient theaters of the Greco-Roman world. With a diameter of 96 metres (315 ft), the theatre provided seating...
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    known as Greco-Roman mythology or Greek and Roman mythology, is the collective body and study of myths from the ancient Greeks and ancient Romans. Mythology...
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    olympic victors. The olive branch was one of the attributes of Eirene on Roman Imperial coins. For example, the reverse of a tetradrachm of Vespasian from...
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  • the Greco-Roman world, there were stringent laws against adultery, but these applied to sexual intercourse with a married woman. In the early Roman Law...
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    introduced among Roman deities by the Sabines at the times of Titus Tatius. Copernicus describing the Sun mythologically, drawing from Greco-Roman examples:...
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    2004.45.8.8. Dickie, Matthew W. (2001). Magic and Magicians in the Greco-Roman World. London: Routledge. Gosden, Chris (2020). Magic: A History: From Alchemy...
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    possess Etruscan sceptres of gold, elaborately and minutely ornamented. The Roman sceptre probably derived from the Etruscan. Under the Republic, an ivory...
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  • Greco-Roman World Teams. Johnson later served as the head Greco-Roman coach for the Sunkist Kids Wrestling Club and was a coach for the US Greco-Roman 2012 Olympic...
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  • Kamal Ameer Bey (born January 3, 1998) is an American Greco-Roman wrestler. Bey attended Oak Park and River Forest High School in Oak Park, Illinois until...
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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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    1093/cq/51.2.477. Dickie, Matthew (2003). Magic and Magicians in the Greco-Roman World. Routledge. pp. 138–142. Hutton, Ronald (2017). The Witch: A History...
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    Engineering in the Ancient World (Revised ed.), University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-22782-4 Oleson, John Peter (1984), Greek and Roman Mechanical Water-Lifting...
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    oldest and most important instruments.[citation needed] The Greeks and Romans advanced water clock design to include the inflow clepsydra with an early...
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  • as long as 35 miles (56 km), would have been impossible. During the Greco-Roman era, those who performed geographical work could be divided into four...
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