Icarus was the boy in the ancient Greek myth whose father crafted him wings of wax.
The rediscovery of ancient Greek philosophy has in turn sparked the Golden Age of many other societies.
He was a practitioner of Stoicism, an ancient Greek religion that he helped bring to Rome.
Metrosexuals aren't exactly new--think of all those ancient Greek discus throwers wearing togas.
As a result, Cythera displays hearty remnants of its cultural bouillabaisse, with Venetian, Ottoman, British and Ancient Greek influences coexisting on the island.
In voting to kill a tradition that was at the center of the ancient Greek Olympics from the eighth century B.
The first important thing about the Parthenon is that, unlike most ancient Greek monuments, it survived more or less intact into modern times.
Those in the West looked to the ancient Greek and Roman philosophers and historians, at least as far as the elite were concerned.
According to an ancient Greek legend, the first saw was made by a boy named Perdix, who was nephew of the famous inventor Daedalus.
He had many friends and vivid passions: for music, sailing and chess, for ancient Greek and Greece, for composing Latin verse and raising orchids.
Heraclitus, ancient Greek poet and philosopher, viewed reality as dynamic: when we dip our foot into a river, the river itself changes to some degree.
The basic urn shape relates to that of an Ancient Greek amphora bulbous, with shoulders and a flaring neck, double-handled, and characteristically raised on a foot.
Our was not a rising up of the downtrodden or the debtor class as so many of the ancient Greek and Roman revolutions had been.
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In ancient Greek the word psyche meant both soul and butterfly.
Hard to believe now, but in the early 1960s, most U.S. public schools still taught Latin, trigonometry, calculus, ancient Greek and Roman history, philosophy and civics.
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His declaration that "upon this rock I will build my church" famously played on the way Peter's name echoed the Ancient Greek word for rock, "petra".
Working through his development company, Oliaros (the ancient Greek name for Antiparos), the 40-year-old entrepreneur has hit upon an innovative approach for reviving Greek real estate.
One such example is Dr. Ludwig Oechslin, who not only holds degrees in archaeology and ancient Greek, but also holds doctorates in philosophy, theoretical physics and astronomy.
There's a legend about an ancient Greek wrestler named Milo, who trained by lifting a calf every morning, from its infancy until it was a full-grown cow.
In the ancient Greek play Lysistrata women stage a sex strike to force the men to bring their sons and husbands home and end the nearly 30-year Peloponnesian War.
Fast forward a few thousand years and according to the ancient Greek legend, Jason took the mythological Golden Fleece from King Aietes in Colchis, which is now part of Georgia.
In ancient Greek mythology, the Sirens were beautiful sea-maidens, known for chanting sweet melodies to lure hapless sailors into dangerous waters, only to face their demise amongst the jagged rocks.
Since Brooks apparently finds thumos so utterly indispensable, one might think he would scour the literature seeking to offer an up-to-date, scientifically-credible version of this illuminating morsel of ancient Greek psychological theory.
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Even more strangely, in a very compelling section on learning, Brooks has high-school Harry develop a fascination with the impressive explanatory power of thumos, the ancient Greek notion of, among other things, status motivation.
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Within 20 minutes lay several sandy beaches on the Ionian Sea, there are two 18-hole golf courses nearby, and the region is teeming with historic sighs, from ancient Greek ruins to Neolithic cave dwellings.
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Later that week, we drove north along the famed Pacific Coast Highway to the Getty Villa in Malibu, an offshoot of the Getty Center in Los Angeles that houses ancient Greek and Roman art.
His examples are drawn from a wide array of sources: Albanian, ancient Hebrew, film dubbing and graphic novels, legal documents (huge amounts of translation required) and the Septuagint, the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible.
Jung was held with a number of migrants from Africa and Asia who had also been rounded up as part of the police's anti-immigration operation Xenios Zeus - named, strangely, after the ancient Greek god of hospitality.
They might be bigger, glitzier and certainly a lot more commercialized, but in spirit at least the modern day Olympics -- inaugurated in 1896 -- have remained remarkably true to the ancient Greek Games on which they were modeled.
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