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Ancient Greek literature is literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire. The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period, are the two epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, set in an idealized archaic past today identified as ...
Ἀεὶ κολοιὸς παρὰ κολοιῷ ἱζάνει. "A jackdaw is always found near a jackdaw". Ἀεὶ κολοιὸς παρὰ κολοιῷ ἱζάνει. Aeì koloiòs parà koloiôi hizánei. "A jackdaw is always found near a jackdaw". Similar to English "birds of a feather flock together." Papyrus, dated 75–125 A.D ...
Uranus. v. t. e. In ancient Greek religion, Ananke ( / əˈnæŋkiː /; Ancient Greek: Ἀνάγκη ), from the common noun ἀνάγκη ("force, constraint, necessity"), is the Orphic personification of inevitability, compulsion and necessity. She is customarily depicted as holding a spindle. One of the Greek primordial deities, the births ...
History of fishing. Fishing is a prehistoric practice dating back at least 70,000 years. Since the 16th century, fishing vessels have been able to cross oceans in pursuit of fish, and since the 19th century it has been possible to use larger vessels and in some cases process the fish on board.
Uranus. v. t. e. In Greek mythology, Aether, Æther, Aither, or Ether ( / ˈiːθər /; Ancient Greek: Αἰθήρ (Brightness) [ 1] pronounced [ai̯tʰɛ̌ːr]) is the personification of the bright upper sky. According to Hesiod, he was the son of Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night), and the brother of Hemera (Day). [ 2] In Orphic cosmogony ...
Greek literature ( Greek: Ελληνική Λογοτεχνία) dates back from the ancient Greek literature, beginning in 800 BC, to the modern Greek literature of today. Ancient Greek literature was written in an Ancient Greek dialect, literature ranges from the oldest surviving written works until works from approximately the fifth century AD.
In Greek mythology, Proteus ( / ˈproʊtiəs, ˈproʊt.juːs / PROH-tee-əs, PROHT-yooss; [ 1] Ancient Greek: Πρωτεύς, romanized : Prōteús) is an early prophetic sea god or god of rivers and oceanic bodies of water, one of several deities whom Homer calls the "Old Man of the Sea" ( hálios gérôn ). [ 2] Some who ascribe a specific ...
Eileithyia or Ilithyia ( / ɪlɪˈθaɪ.ə /; [ 1] Greek: Εἰλείθυια; Ἐλεύθυια ( Eleuthyia) in Crete, also Ἐλευθία ( Eleuthia) or Ἐλυσία ( Elysia) in Laconia and Messene, and Ἐλευθώ ( Eleuthō) in literature) [ 2] was the Greek goddess of childbirth and midwifery, [ 3] and the daughter of Zeus and Hera ...