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    The gymnasium (Greek: γυμνάσιον, translit. gymnásion) in Ancient Greece functioned as a training facility for competitors in public games. It was also...
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    exercise and sports. The word is derived from the ancient Greek term "gymnasion". They are commonly found in athletic and fitness centres, and as activity...
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    right to the dromoi, an area dubbed the gymnasion by the archaeologists for convenience. Both sides were the gymnasion, a name which was sometimes applied...
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    the bouleuterion, whereas the palaestra, the workshop of Pheidias, the gymnasion, and the Leonidaion lie to the west. Olympia was also known for the gigantic...
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  • separate organization, the "Gymnasion Club", and started holding yearly sports competitions. In 1898, Orpheus and Gymnasion merged again to form Panionios...
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    municipality has an area of 340.442 km2, the municipal unit 160.604 km2. Stadion Gymnasion Abaton Odeon Roman baths Statuette of Asclepius List of ancient Greek...
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    Upper Gymnasion...
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    arete included physical training, for which the Greeks developed the gymnasion; mental training, which included oratory, rhetoric, and basic sciences;...
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    Hestiatorion ("Gymnasion")...
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    Pancyprian Gymnasium (Greek: Παγκύπριον Γυμνάσιον, romanized: Pankýprion Gymnásion), is the oldest still operational high school in Cyprus, founded in 1812...
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    (1904) Peace on Earth (1904) Dawn (1905) Icarus (1906) Moon Night (1906) Gymnasion (ca. 1912) Feeling of Dependence (1920) Tobias and the Angel (1921) Youth...
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    Greek cultural institutions. These new buildings included a prytaneion, gymnasion, theater, hippodrome, as well as the massive Temple of Artemis still visible...
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    Basketball: Chalkida BC, Chalkida, Greek A2 League, Kymis BC, Kymi The upper gymnasion of ancient Eretria Depiction of Negroponte (Chalcis) by Giacomo Franco...
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    discoveries. Under his leadership the Lower Agora, the House of Attalos, the Gymnasion, and the Sanctuary of Demeter were brought to light. The excavations were...
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    Europa in the Western Archaeological Zone of Kos town Ruins of the Ancient Gymnasion View of the Asclepeion View of the ancient Odeon Richard Talbert, ed....
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    Maximus says that when the young men of Alexandria took refuge in the gymnasion, Ptolemy VIII set the building on fire. It is probably in this period...
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  • Greek: γυμνασίαρχος, gymnasiarchos), which derives from Greek γυμνάσιον (gymnasion, gymnasium) + ἄρχειν, archein, to lead, was the name of an official of...
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    depictions of nude chariot racers. The word gymnasium (Latin; from Greek gymnasion, being derived from Greek gymnos, meaning "naked" or "nude"), originally...
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    Greece and Rome, a public place devoted to athletes training, called gymnasion (plural: gymnasia) for Greeks and palaestra (plural: palaestrae) for Romans...
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    Ruins of the Ancient Gymnasion...
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    prevented him from getting up and leaving the changing room of the Lykeion Gymnasion. Because he had stayed, a philosophical conversation then ensued with...
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    century. The term was derived from the classical Greek word γυμνάσιον (gymnasion), which was originally applied to an exercising ground in ancient Athens...
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    bishop of Chios in 1646 writes to the director of the Catholic Greek Gymnasion of Rome asking the latter to accept Paulos Omeros, a 12-year-old boy from...
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    Valtadoreion Gymnasion...
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    up to 600-700 people. Other significant structures include the agora, gymnasion and the Roman baths. The 100 m long Nysa Bridge, a tunnel-like substructure...
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    schools were erected, like the Evangelical School and the Philological Gymnasion. On the other hand, the local leadership of the Church was suspicious...
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  • ""Threskeutika", Textbook of Religion, for the 3rd year of Greek high school ("Gymnasion"), chapter 30 (b), circa 2007. In Greek language". Archived from the original...
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    Christoforos. He became a teacher at his old high school, Pythagoreion Gymnasion, on Samos. In 1905, he spent a year studying theology and English at the...
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    and others. His schooling ended after he finished the first grade of gymnasion (first year of lower secondary education). Notis became a disc jockey...
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    structures than have been recovered to this point, including a palaestra and a gymnasion. The first known temple at the sanctuary — dating to the late 6th century...
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