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Theophrastus's Enquiry into Plants or Historia Plantarum (Ancient Greek: Περὶ φυτῶν ἱστορία, Peri phyton historia) was, along with his mentor Aristotle's History of Animals, Pliny the Elder's Natural History and Dioscorides's De materia medica, one of the most important books of natural history written in ancient times, and like them it was influential in the Renaissance.
Theophrastus (/ ˌ θ iː. ə ˈ f r æ s t ə s /; Ancient Greek: Θεόφραστος, romanized: Theophrastos, lit. 'godly phrased'; c. 371 – c. 287 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and naturalist. A native of Eresos in Lesbos, he was Aristotle's close colleague and successor as head of the Lyceum, the Peripatetic school of philosophy ...
Plato in his book The Republic (375 BC) divided governments into five basic types (four being existing forms and one being Plato's ideal form, which exists "only in speech"). Greek fire: Greek fire was an incendiary weapon used by the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire that was first developed c. 672.
The baths in this region are clearly Greek, as they were brought over by new Greek inhabitants. Most baths follow the design of the hip baths in the tholos , but the first one discovered in Sicily resembled the bath at Olympia, where the hip baths were in a rectangular shaped room.
The preferred flowers include roses, hyacinths, honeysuckle, violets, and lilies. [5] Other flowers such as tulips, larkspur, and marigolds [citation needed] were also selected for their shape, color, and form. Wealth and power led the Romans and Greeks to the greater luxury in the use of flowers which, like the Egyptian, were used in religious ...
A typical stall shower with height-adjustable nozzle and folding doors A combination shower and bathtub, with movable screen. A shower is a place in which a person bathes under a spray of typically warm or hot water. Indoors, there is a drain in the floor. Most showers are set up to have adjustable temperature, spray pressure and showerhead ...
Hellenic historiography (or Greek historiography) involves efforts made by Greeks to track and record historical events. By the 5th century BC, it became an integral part of ancient Greek literature and held a prestigious place in later Roman historiography and Byzantine literature .
Rhodanthe's name means "rose flower", a composite word made up by the Greek words ῥόδον meaning "rose", [3] and ἄνθος meaning "flower, blossom". [4] Rhodon is the origin the English word rose, and seems to have been borrowed into the Greek language from the East. [5]