Antiquity

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Antiquity
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I.E. vs. E.G.

When do you use the common abbreviations i.e., and when do you use e.g., and what do they mean?

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Major Gods and Goddesses of the World

Gods and Goddesses from mythology all over the world. Mythology about the major gods and goddesses.

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Which Greek Goddess Are You?

Which Greek Goddess Are You? Take this quiz to determine if you're a goddess of love or war or something

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Fall of Rome

Reasons for the Fall of Rome or the decline of the Roman Empire and reasons for dating the end of the Roman Empire.

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Latin Translation

Latin translation is a skill that takes years to develop and there is not an easy way to shortcut it, but these suggestions may be of some help.

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Roman and Greek Gods

Roman and Greek names for the Olympians and the minor gods and goddesses.

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Which Greek Hero Are You?

Which Greek Hero Are You? Take this quiz to determine which Greek hero you really are. You may discover

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Ancient Mesopotamian Religion

The beginning of religion and the development of gods and goddesses in ancient Mesopotamian

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Ancient Maps

Ancient Maps. Historic ancient maps and classical atlas.

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Apollo

Apollo was a Greek god of prophecy, music, healing, and later, the sun.

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Fast Facts About Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is the land between the Tigris River and the Euphrates River. Here are some fast facts about ancient Mesopotamia.

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Achilles

Achilles - Greatest Greek hero of the Trojan War

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Etymology - Greek and Latin Roots and Etymology - Prefixes and Affixes

Greek and Latin Roots and Etymology. A few tables to help make sense of compound words by looking at the etymology, Greek and Latin roots and the prefixes and affixes.

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Myths and Legends

Introduction to Greek Mythology. Myths and legends.

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Hebrew and Biblical Names

Hebrew Names - Hebrew and Biblical Names - Meanings and Significance

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Ten Plagues

About the ten plagues in Egypt.

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10 Plagues of Egypt

List of the ten plagues of Egypt.

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Attila the Hun

Attila the Hun was a fierce warrior and king of the horse-riding Huns who harassed the Roman Empire during the fifth century.

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Greek Heroes

Here are the major heroes of Greek legend. Two of them (Odysseus and Achilles) are from the Trojan War. The others were involved in adventures.

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Battle of Thermopylae

Date and very brief description of the Persian War Battle of Thermopylae at which the Spartans, under Leonidas, fought bravely to their death.

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The Trojan War

The major events in the Trojan War. What happened during the Trojan War and the Iliad of Homer, from the theft by Paris of Helen of Troy.

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Leonidas

Leonidas was a king of Sparta who led a suicide mission against the Persians at Thermopylae during the Persian Wars.

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12 Olympians

The 12 Olympian gods and goddesses of Greek mythology were Demeter, Hermes, Hades, Hestia, Hera, Artemis, Aphrodite, Athena, Apollo, Ares, Zeus, Dionysus, and Poseidon.

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War Gods and Goddesses - War Gods and Goddesses from the World's Mythology

A list of war gods and goddesses from the mythology of the world.

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Moon Gods

An alphabetical list of deities or personifications of the moon.

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Ancient Near East Maps

Maps of the Ancient Near East and maps of the ancient Middle East.

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Athena - Greek Goddess Athena

Athena was the Greek goddess of wisdom also known as Pallas Athena. In ancient Rome, Athena was known as the Roman goddess Minerva.

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Sword of Damocles

The Sword of Damocles was described by Cicero in his Tusculan Disputations.

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Roman Empire Maps

Maps of the Roman Empire.

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Poseidon

Poseidon is a Greek god of the sea.

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Biblical Maps

Online maps of the ancient lands of the Bible.

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Norse Gods and Goddesses

Short notes on individual Norse gods and goddesses in Norse mythology.

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Cardinal Latin Numbers

Latin cardinal numbers

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Dionysus

Dionysus is the Greek god of wine and ecstacy.

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Spartacus

Spartacus - The Slave Revolt of Spartacus the Gladiator. The revolt of Spartacus put a strain on Rome and built up the legend of the slave revolt leader and gladiator Spartacus

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7 Hills of Rome

Monuments of the seven hills of Ancient Rome.

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Titans

The Titans of Greek mythology were the twelve children of Gaia and Uranus.

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Ancient History Timeline

Time line of major events in the ancient history of the world. Most dates and events on the ancient history timeline are of political importance.

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The Archangels

The names of the seven archangels vary somewhat.

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Ares God of War

Ares was a Greek god of war and homicide.

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ASCII Greek Letters

Here are the ASCII codes for the upper and lower case letters of the Greek alphabet so you can insert them in HTML documents.

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Cleopatra

Queen Cleopatra of Egypt, Cleopatra VII, the historical queen and last pharaoh of Egypt. The story of Queen Cleopatra has been retold in countless stories, plays, and movies.

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Plato

What you should know about the Greek philosopher Plato.

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Fertile Crescent

The Fertile Crescent is a name for a relatively fertile arc-shaped area by the Mediterranean which covers Biblical lands, the Tigris and Euphrates, and the Nile Valley.

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Olympic Games

Profile of the ancient Olympic games. The Olympic games were religious events honoring Zeus at Olympia, which, over time, became more strictly athletic competitions.

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12 Tribes

What are the 12 tribes of Israel?

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Zeus - Greek God Zeus

Zeus is the name of the Greek king of the Gods, the equivalent of the Roman god Jupiter. Zeus is a sky god.

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Phoenix

The phoenix was an Egyptian bird. The story of the phoenix is that it died and was reborn.

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Greek Muses

The nine muses (Calliope, Urania, Euterpe, Thalia, Inspiration, Melpomene, Erato, Mnemosyne, Clio, Terpsichore, and Polymnia), their provinces and attributes.

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Mt. Vesuvius

Mt. Vesuvius is a volcano in Campania, near Naples, Italy, whose eruption in A.D. 79 destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum.

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Why Study Latin?

Why Your Kids Should Learn Latin. If you want the best for your kids, if you want them to do well on their SATs and if you want them to understand English grammar, teach them Latin.

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Sun Gods and Sun Goddesses

An index of the sun gods from various ancient religions.

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Happy Birthday - Latin

In Latin, words that mean may it be a happy birthday would convey the message of Happy Birthday.

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Worst Roman Emperors

My list of the worst Roman emperors.

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Cleopatra Study Guide

Cleopatra Study Guide.

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Greek and Latin Quotations With Translations

Greek and Latin Quotations for various occasions with translations

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Maps of Ancient Egypt

Maps of Ancient Egypt.

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Nebuchadnezzar

Nebuchadnezzar restored old religious monuments and improved canals as other Babylonian kings did, but Nebuchadnezzar is best known for his Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.

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Caesar Study Guide

Important facts about Julius Caesar

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Ancient Warriors

List of the greatest warriors in the ancient world.

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Hadrian's Wall

Hadrian's Wall was built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian to keep the 'barbarian' Picts from Scotland out of Roman Britain.

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Aphrodite

Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty. Aphrodite was known Venus in Rome was a major goddess in ancient Greek mythology and in the Roman Vergil's Aeneid.

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Pictures of Cleopatra

Pictures of Cleopatra, including modern representations as well as ancient official carved images of Cleopatra.

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Roman Gods and Goddesses

Roman Gods and Goddesses. Table of the Roman Equivalents of Greek Gods.

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Cleopatra Queen of Egypt

The name Cleopatra Queen of Egypt has often been used to mean a seductive beautiful woman, but Cleopatra may not have been beautiful at all.

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Who's Who in Greek Legend?

A list of who's who in Greek mythology and legend.

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Prometheus

Introduction to Greek Mythology. The importance of Prometheus the fire-bringer and benefactor of mankind.

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Philosophers Timeline

Timeline of Greek and Roman Philosophers.

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Hades

Hades is the Greek god of the Underworld.

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Latin Verb Tenses

Latin tenses for Latin verbs in the Indicative.

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Alexander Study Guide

13 Facts About Alexander the Great

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Ancient Greek Geography

Basic information on the geography of ancient Greece.

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The Goddess Venus

Aspects of the goddess of love, the goddess Venus, the Roman Aphrodite.

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Gladiator Weapons

What armor and weapons the gladiators used for fighting.

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Maps of China

Maps of ancient China.

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Hermes

Information on the Greek god Hermes, the messenger god.

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Persian Empire Maps

Maps of the ancient Persian Empire.

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Rosetta Stone

The key to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphs was the Rosetta Stone.

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Four Humors

The Hippocratic corpus made an advance on earlier medicine although its methods may now seem barbaric

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Meaning of Biblical Names

The meaning of some popular Jewish and Biblical names.

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Latin Pronunciation

Ideas about Latin pronunciation. Latin vowel debate. Vox Latina and Wheelock as sources for Latin pronunciation. What do we know about Latin pronunciation?

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Roman Empire Timeline

A timeline of the major events in the period of the Roman Empire.

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Gods Place Index

List of ancient gods and goddesses by Culture.

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Tale of Troy or Iliad

How crafty Odysseus won the Trojan War for the Greeks by the ruse of a Trojan Horse.

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Near East - Geography, Maps and Information on the Ancient Near East

Maps of the Ancient Near East Near East Maps Index Maps of the Chinese Empire | Indus Valley Maps Also

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English to Latin Phrases

These are some short English phrases in Latin translations.

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Democracy Then and Now

Aristotle doesn't think democracy is the best form of government because it is rule by and for the needy.

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Cronos

Cronos was a Greek god, or rather the Titan father of the Olympian gods and goddesses.

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Greek Mythology

An introduction to Greek mythology, the specific Greek Myths, Greek gods and goddesses, and the fascinating legends. Greek Mythology remains a part of western culture.

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Creation Myths

Information on the ancient Greek mythological conceptions of the creation of the world and people or gods in it.

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Demeter

Demeter Greek Goddess

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Greek Mythology for Today

Roman and Greek mythology in modern daily life. Myth today.

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Perseus

Perseus was a Greek hero known for the slaying of the Gorgon Medusa, whose head with its snaky locks, turned men to stone.

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Roman Gods - Gregory Flood's Roman Gods and Goddesses - Roman Gods and Roman Goddesses

Roman Gods and Roman Goddesses - compiled by Gregory Flood.

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Greece vs. Rome

Some basic comparisons between ancient Rome and ancient Greece, more specifically, ancient Athens.

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Latin Verbs 1st Conjugation - How to Conjugate Latin Verbs of the 1st Conjugation

Latin 1st Conjugation.: latin verb tenses conjugation verbs latin verbs declension nouns irregular verbs

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Aeneid Translation

An index to the 12 books of a public domain Aeneid Translation, translated by Dryden from the Latin of the Aeneid, by Vergil (Virgil).

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Norse Creation Myth

What the ancient Norse wrote about the Creation of the world in their mythology.

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Who Was Hercules?

Hercules stories. Basic facts about the Greek hero Hercules sometimes known as Herakles.

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