Travel in classical antiquity over long distances was a specialised undertaking. Most travel was done in the interest of warfare, diplomacy, general state...
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chronicles the career of a fictional agens in the late 4th century. Travel in Classical antiquity ODB, "Agentes in rebus" (A. Kazhdan), pp. 36–37. Theophanes...
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Late antiquity is sometimes defined as spanning from the end of classical antiquity to the local start of the Middle Ages, from around the late 3rd century...
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often remained close, and took specific forms during the period of classical antiquity. Generally, colonies founded by the ancient Phoenicians, Carthage...
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Ancient Greece (redirect from Government in Greek Antiquity)
from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity (c. 600 AD), that comprised a loose collection of culturally and...
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Travel books have been written since Classical times. Note: Listed by year of publication of the majority of the writer's notable works. Wenamun, Egyptian...
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of Classical Antiquities (1898), Abolla A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), Ephestris A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890)...
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Gellius, later Renaissance scholars who wrote in Latin used classicus in reference to writers of classical antiquity; however, this meaning only gradually developed...
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Ancient Africa (redirect from African Antiquity)
of the Mediterranean Iron Age and classical antiquity. Sub-Saharan Africa developed more or less independently in those times.[citation needed] After...
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Byzantium (redirect from Classical constantinople)
Βυζάντιον) was an ancient Greek city in classical antiquity that became known as Constantinople in late antiquity and Istanbul today. The Greek name Byzantion...
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Bettany Hughes (category Historians of antiquity)
specialising in classical history. Her published books cover classical antiquity and myth, and the history of Istanbul. She is active in efforts to encourage...
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Ancient Rome (redirect from Roman Antiquity)
Ancient Rome portal Outline of classical studies Outline of ancient Rome Timeline of Roman history Regions in Greco-Roman antiquity List of ancient Romans List...
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history in the territory of modern Saudi Arabia begins in classical antiquity. By the 6th and 7th centuries there was a considerable Jewish population in Hejaz...
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Roman Empire (redirect from Literacy and education in the Roman Empire)
culture". In contrast to the unity of Classical Latin, the literary esthetic of late antiquity has a tessellated quality. A continuing interest in the religious...
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Sporades (redirect from Classical sporades)
"sporadic"). From Classical Antiquity the name has referred to the Aegean island groups outside the central archipelago of the Cyclades. In modern geographical...
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The development of classical mechanics involved substantial change in the methods and philosophy of physics. The qualifier classical distinguishes this...
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Future (section In physics)
forces such as gravity. In classical physics the future is just a half of the timeline, which is the same for all observers. In special relativity the...
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Modern influence of Ancient Greece (category Classical antiquity)
and its core culture, in comparison to other ancient societies of similar settings. Classics is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics...
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History of the Balkans (redirect from The Balkans in classical antiquity)
known as the Greek Dark Ages or the Geometric Period, the classical Greek culture developed in the southern Balkan peninsula, the Aegean islands and the...
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Dark Ages (historiography) (redirect from Dark Ages in history)
originated in the 1330s with the Italian scholar Petrarch, who regarded the post-Roman centuries as "dark" compared to the "light" of classical antiquity. The...
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Delphi (redirect from Delphi in Late Antiquity)
Their studies were published in 1769 under the title Ionian Antiquities, followed by a collection of inscriptions, and two travel books, one about Asia Minor...
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Empusa (category Monsters in Greek mythology)
female being in Greek mythology, said to possess a single leg of copper, commanded by Hecate, whose precise nature is obscure. In Late Antiquity, the empousae...
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Renaissance (redirect from Navigation in the Renaissance)
revive and surpass the ideas and achievements of classical antiquity. Associated with great social change in most fields and disciplines, including art, architecture...
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describes have been studied as separate fields since antiquity. For example, there were many advances in the field of optics centuries before light was understood...
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Crypteia (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from June 2024)
Studies in Classical Antiquity. 1: 1–11. doi:10.2307/25010562. JSTOR 25010562 – via JSTOR. Ducat, Jean (2006). Spartan Education: Youth and Society in the...
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Air or Wind is one of the four classical elements along with water, earth and fire in ancient Greek philosophy and in Western alchemy. According to Plato...
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Languages of India (redirect from Classical language in India)
assumptions of different scholars, claiming high antiquity of the languages. So, inscriptions are studied more in depth for understanding the chronology of the...
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Pausanias (geographer) (category Ancient Greek travel writers)
Pausanias: Travel and Memory in Roman Greece. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-534683-1. Arafat, K. W. (1992). "Pausanias' Attitude to Antiquities". The...
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Tolkien and the classical world have been linked by scholars, and by Tolkien himself. The suggested influences include the pervasive classical themes of divine...
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Description of Greece (category Phoenicia in ancient sources)
Inscriptions". Classical Antiquity. 3 (1): 40–56. doi:10.2307/25010806. JSTOR 25010806. Elsner, John (1992). "Pausanias: a Greek pilgrim in the Roman world"...
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