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A polemarch (/ ˈ p ɒ l ə ˌ m ɑːr k /, from Ancient Greek: πολέμαρχος, polemarchos) was a senior military title in various ancient Greek city states . The title is derived from the words polemos (war) and archon (ruler, leader) and translates as "warleader" or "warlord".
Göbekli Tepe (Turkish: [ɟœbecˈli teˈpe], [2] ' Potbelly Hill '; [3] Kurdish: Girê Mirazan or Xerabreşkê, 'Wish Hill' [4]) is a Neolithic archaeological site in Upper Mesopotamia (al-Jazira) in modern-day Turkey. The settlement was inhabited from around 9500 BCE to at least 8000 BCE, [5] during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
Attica (Greek: Αττική, Ancient Greek Attikḗ or Attikī́, Ancient Greek: [atːikɛ̌ː] or Modern:), or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the entire Athens metropolitan area, which consists of the city of Athens, the capital of Greece and the core city of the metropolitan area, as well as its surrounding suburban cities and towns.
Hints about Thursday's NYT 'Connections' categories—and the answers. ‘Connections’ Hints and Answers for NYT's Tricky Word-Grouping Game on Thursday, August 31 Skip to main content
[3] Plutarch, in his work: Moralia. Greek and Roman Parallel Stories mentions that Callimachus was pierced with so many spears that, even when he was dead, he continued to be in an upright posture. [4] There was a custom at Athens that the father of the man who had the most valorous death in a battle should pronounce the funerary oration in public.
An acrostic puzzle published in State Magazine in 1986. An acrostic is a type of word puzzle, related somewhat to crossword puzzles, that uses an acrostic form. It typically consists of two parts. The first part is a set of lettered clues, each of which has numbered blanks representing the letters of the answer.
Map of ancient Attica divided into its thirty trittyes.Those belonging to the same phyle are numbered and coloured accordingly.. The trittyes (/ ˈ t r ɪ t i. iː z /; Ancient Greek: τριττύες trittúes), singular trittys (/ ˈ t r ɪ t ɪ s /; τριττύς trittús) were part of the organizational structure that divided the population in ancient Attica, and is commonly thought to ...
The statue depicts Nike (Victory), in the form of a draped woman with wings [2] [3] running right, on top of an inscribed Ionic column. Its height is 4.68 metres and was made of Parian [4] or Pentelic marble. Some parts of the statue such as the head, the hands and more were never recovered after the damage.