• 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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    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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