Various ancient Greek calendars began in most states of ancient Greece between autumn and winter except for the Attic calendar, which began in summer....
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sometimes called the Greek calendar because of Athens's cultural importance, but it is only one of many ancient Greek calendars. Although relatively abundant...
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(Anno Graecorum).[citation needed] Ancient Greek calendars Attic calendar Hatzopoulos, Miltiades B. (2020). Ancient Macedonia. Walter de Gruyter GmbH &...
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The ancient Olympic Games (Ancient Greek: τὰ Ὀλύμπια, ta Olympia) were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states and were...
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The history of calendars covers practices with ancient roots as people created and used various methods to keep track of days and larger divisions of...
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Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th...
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This is a list of calendars. Included are historical calendars as well as proposed ones. Historical calendars are often grouped into larger categories...
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Greece. Essentially an ancient Greek people, they gradually expanded from their homeland along the Haliacmon valley on the northern edge of the Greek...
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festivals. Ancient Rome portal List of calendars Julian, Alexandrian, Byzantine, & Gregorian calendars Fasti, menologia rustica, & the Calendar of 354 List...
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The ancient Egyptian calendar – a civil calendar – was a solar calendar with a 365-day year. The year consisted of three seasons of 120 days each, plus...
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(260 US gal) of wine. Ancient Greeks called the cultivated vine hemeris (Greek: ἡμερίς), after their adjective for "tame" (Greek: ἥμερος), differentiating...
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Attic calendar, also known as the Ancient Greek calendar or the Olympiad era. July – The first recorded Olympic Games are held in Olympia, Greece. "History...
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The history of ancient Greek coinage can be divided (along with most other Greek art forms) into four periods: the Archaic, the Classical, the Hellenistic...
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This played an integral role in the lives of ancient Greeks. There are some fragments of actual Greek musical notation, many literary references, depictions...
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ancient cultures has been questioned as anachronistic. The ancient Greeks did not have a word for 'religion' in the modern sense. Likewise, no Greek writer...
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Ancient Greek in classical antiquity, before the development of the common Koine Greek of the Hellenistic period, was divided into several varieties. Most...
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durability, comprises a large part of the archaeological record of ancient Greece, and since there is so much of it (over 100,000 painted vases are recorded...
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Ancient Greek units of measurement varied according to location and epoch. Systems of ancient weights and measures evolved as needs changed; Solon and...
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Olympiad (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
(Greek: Ὀλυμπιάς, Olympiás) is a period of four years, particularly those associated with the ancient and modern Olympic Games. Although the ancient Olympics...
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History of erotic depictions (redirect from Ancient Greek erotic art)
Greek art often portrays sexual activity, but it is impossible to distinguish between what to them was illegal or immoral since the ancient Greeks did...
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ancient Greece is the main surviving type of fine ancient Greek art as, with the exception of painted ancient Greek pottery, almost no ancient Greek painting...
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and topical guide to ancient Greece: Ancient Greece – Towns of ancient Greece List of ancient Greek cities Regions of ancient Greece Peloponnese Achaea...
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many other divine and semi-divine figures from ancient Greek mythology and ancient Greek religion. The Greeks created images of their deities for many purposes...
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Thout (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
also known as Thoth (Greek: Θωθ, Thōth) and Tut (Arabic: توت), is the first month of the ancient Egyptian and Coptic calendars. It lies between 11 September...
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the Hellenistic period they gave rise to the ancient Roman calendar and to various Hindu calendars. Calendars in antiquity were lunisolar, depending on the...
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Prostitution was a common aspect of ancient Greece. In the more important cities, and particularly the many ports, it employed a significant number of...
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regional calendars, the most studied and known Hindu calendars are the Shalivahana Shaka (Based on the King Shalivahana, also the Indian national calendar) found...
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in Mesopotamian Calendars of the First Millenium BC". In Steele, John M. (ed.). Calendars and Years: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient Near East. Oxbow...
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marginalized by the use of Attic Greek by the Macedonian aristocracy, the Ancient Greek dialect that became the basis of Koine Greek, the lingua franca of the...
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Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greeks, or Hellenes, whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and...
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