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The breed originating in Laconia, a region of Ancient Greece, famous for its city state, Sparta. Laconians were famed throughout the ancient world for their hunting skill and swiftness, [1] and were widely depicted in classical sculptures, mosaics, gravestones and drinking cups.
There are illustrations of dogs on the walls of tombs dating back to the Bronze Age, as well as statues, children's toys, and ceramics depicting dogs. Hunting dogs are commonly portrayed. [2] One of the prehistoric paintings estimated to be 9,000 years old found at the Bhimbetka rock shelters in India depict a dog held on a leash by a man. [3]
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In 413/2, the ordinary ephor Endios is thus described by Thucydides as wielding a lot of influence within the college, even though the eponymous was Onomantios. [32] As the eponymous ephors were used as dates, a list compiling their names existed in Sparta, and is mentioned by Polybius.
Delta Drawing Learning Program, later retitled Delta Drawing Today, is a turtle graphics drawing program developed by Computer Access Corporation, [1] and published by Spinnaker Software in 1983. Delta Drawing was intended for children age 4 to 14. It features a functional programming language for executing scripted drawing and painting ...
For most of its history, the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta in the Peloponnese was ruled by kings. Sparta was unusual among the Greek city-states in that it maintained its kingship past the Archaic age. It was even more unusual in that it had two kings simultaneously, who were called the archagetai, [1] [n 1] coming from two separate lines.
Hellenistic art is the art of the Hellenistic period generally taken to begin with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and end with the conquest of the Greek world by the Romans, a process well underway by 146 BC, when the Greek mainland was taken, and essentially ending in 30 BC with the conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt following the Battle of Actium.
An extinct Late Pleistocene wolf may have been the ancestor of the dog. [5] [1] [6] The dog is a wolf-like canid. [7] [8] [9] The genetic divergence between the dog's ancestor and modern wolves occurred between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago, just before or during the Last Glacial Maximum [2] [1] (20,000–27,000 years ago). This timespan ...