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  2. List of time periods - Wikipedia

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    List of timelines around the world. Logarithmic timeline shows all history on one page in ten lines. Orders of magnitude (time) Periodization for a discussion of the tendency to try to fit history into non-overlapping periods. Time. Planck Time

  3. List of anthologies of Greek epigrams - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known dateable anthology of epigrams is the Attic Epigrams collected by Philochorus in the late fourth century BC. This, and the second-century collection of Theban epigrams collected by Aristodemus of Thebes , were collected on a geographical basis, and were perhaps largely or entirely made up of epigrams found in local ...

  4. Epigram - Wikipedia

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    Robert Hayman's 1628 book Quodlibets devotes much of its text to epigrams.. An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, sometimes surprising or satirical statement. The word derives from the Greek ἐπίγραμμα (epígramma, "inscription", from ἐπιγράφειν [epigráphein], "to write on, to inscribe"). [1]

  5. Epigrams (Homer) - Wikipedia

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    Epigrams III, XIII and XVII are included in the Contest of Homer and Hesiod and epigram I is included in some manuscripts of the Homeric Hymns. [5] The Epigrams were included in the editio princeps of Homer’s works printed by Demetrius Chalchondyles in 1488 .

  6. Timelines of world history - Wikipedia

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    These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history

  7. Timeline of ancient history - Wikipedia

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    The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...

  8. Anthology of Planudes - Wikipedia

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    The Anthology of Planudes, c. 1300. The Anthology of Planudes (also called Planudean Anthology, in Latin Anthologia Planudea or sometimes in Greek Ἀνθολογία διαφόρων ἐπιγραμμάτων ("Anthology of various epigrams"), from the first line of the manuscript), is an anthology of Greek epigrams and poems compiled by Maximus Planudes, a Byzantine grammarian and theologian ...

  9. Template:World timeline - Wikipedia

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    Template: World timeline. ... Print/export Download as PDF ... Template documentation. The Template shows the Timeline of the Six Craddles of Civilizations.