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Hace 3 días · Magna Graecia was the name given by the Romans to the Greek-speaking coastal areas of Southern Italy in the present-day Italian regions of Calabria, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania and Sicily; these regions were extensively populated by Greek settlers starting from the 8th century BC.. The settlements in this region, founded initially by their metropoleis (mother cities), eventually evolved into ...
Hace 3 días · Zeus ( / zjuːs / or / zuːs /, Ancient Greek: Ζεύς) [a] is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus. His name is cognate with the first syllable of his Roman equivalent Jupiter.
Hace 2 días · Greek has been spoken in the Balkan peninsula since around the 3rd millennium BC, or possibly earlier. The earliest written evidence is a Linear B clay tablet found in Messenia that dates to between 1450 and 1350 BC, making Greek the world's oldest recorded living language. Among the Indo-European languages, its date of earliest written attestation is matched only by the now-extinct Anatolian ...
Hace 2 días · From his accession Alexander had set his mind on the Persian expedition.He had grown up to the idea. Moreover, he needed the wealth of Persia if he was to maintain the army built by Philip and pay off the 500 talents he owed. The exploits of the Ten Thousand, Greek soldiers of fortune, and of Agesilaus of Sparta, in successfully campaigning in Persian territory had revealed the vulnerability ...
Hace 4 días · Several scientific words also can be traced back to hodos, such as anode and cathode, the positive and negative electrodes of a diode, and hodoscope, an instrument that traces the paths of ionising particles. But the word Exodus only comes into the English language in the 17th century with the translations of the Bible.
Hace 5 días · Academy, in ancient Greece, the academy, or college, of philosophy in Athens where Plato used to teach.
Hace 5 días · Elgin Marbles, collection of ancient Greek sculptures and architectural details in the British Museum, London, where they are now called the Parthenon Sculptures. The objects were removed from the Parthenon at Athens and from other ancient buildings and shipped to England by arrangement of Thomas
