Antiquity
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Antiquity
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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? Take this quiz to determine if you're a goddess of love or war or something
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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 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 names for the Olympians and the minor gods and goddesses.
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Which Greek Hero Are You? Take this quiz to determine which Greek hero you really are. You may discover
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The beginning of religion and the development of gods and goddesses in ancient Mesopotamian
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Mesopotamia is the land between the Tigris River and the Euphrates River. Here are some fast facts about ancient Mesopotamia.
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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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Hebrew Names - Hebrew and Biblical Names - Meanings and Significance
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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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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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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 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 was a king of Sparta who led a suicide mission against the Persians at Thermopylae during the Persian Wars.
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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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Maps of the Ancient Near East and maps of the ancient Middle East.
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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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The Sword of Damocles was described by Cicero in his Tusculan Disputations.
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Short notes on individual Norse gods and goddesses in Norse mythology.
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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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The Titans of Greek mythology were the twelve children of Gaia and Uranus.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The phoenix was an Egyptian bird. The story of the phoenix is that it died and was reborn.
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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 is a volcano in Campania, near Naples, Italy, whose eruption in A.D. 79 destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum.
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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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An index of the sun gods from various ancient religions.
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In Latin, words that mean may it be a happy birthday would convey the message of Happy Birthday.
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Greek and Latin Quotations With Translations
Greek and Latin Quotations for various occasions with translations
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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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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 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, including modern representations as well as ancient official carved images of Cleopatra.
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Roman Gods and Goddesses. Table of the Roman Equivalents of Greek Gods.
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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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Introduction to Greek Mythology. The importance of Prometheus the fire-bringer and benefactor of mankind.
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Aspects of the goddess of love, the goddess Venus, the Roman Aphrodite.
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The key to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphs was the Rosetta Stone.
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The Hippocratic corpus made an advance on earlier medicine although its methods may now seem barbaric
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The meaning of some popular Jewish and Biblical names.
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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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A timeline of the major events in the period of the Roman Empire.
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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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These are some short English phrases in Latin translations.
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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 was a Greek god, or rather the Titan father of the Olympian gods and goddesses.
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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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Information on the ancient Greek mythological conceptions of the creation of the world and people or gods in it.
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Roman and Greek mythology in modern daily life. Myth today.
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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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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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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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What the ancient Norse wrote about the Creation of the world in their mythology.
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Hercules stories. Basic facts about the Greek hero Hercules sometimes known as Herakles.
