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"Prisencolinensinainciusol" has been described as varying music genres including Europop, house music, disco, hip hop and funk. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Celentano, however, did not have these styles in mind when writing the song. [ 4 ]
Episkyros, or episcyrus (Ancient Greek: επίσκυρος, epískyros, lit. ' upon the skyros '; also eπίκοινος, epíkoinos, lit. ' upon the public ') [2] [3] was an Ancient Greek ball game. The game was typically played between two teams of 12 to 14 players each, being highly teamwork-oriented. [4]
The gender of the Greek word limos can be either masculine or feminine. [4] The same gender uncertainty applied also to the personification, which could be considered as either a man or a woman. At Byzantium there was a statue of Limos as a man, while there was a painting of Limos as a woman at Sparta. [5]
The English noun gymnast, first recorded in 1594, [5] is formed from the Greek γυμναστής (gymnastēs), [6] but in Greek this word means "trainer" not "athlete". The palaestra was the part of the gymnasium devoted to wrestling, boxing, and ball games. From the word "gymnasion" came also the term "gymnastics".
In Greek mythology, Perseus (US: / ˈ p ɜː r. s i. ə s /, UK: / ˈ p ɜː. sj uː s /; Greek: Περσεύς, translit. Perseús) is the legendary founder of the Perseid dynasty.He was, alongside Cadmus and Bellerophon, the greatest Greek hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles. [1]
Hospitium ([hɔs̠ˈpɪt̪iʊ̃]; Greek: ξενία, xenia, προξενία) is the ancient Greco-Roman concept of hospitality as a divine right of the guest and a divine duty of the host. Similar or broadly equivalent customs were and are also known in other cultures, though not always by that name.
In this limited sense, "history" begins with the early historiography of Classical Antiquity, in about the 5th century BCE, with Herodotus, the father of history. Holography: The word holography comes from the Greek words ὅλος (holos; "whole") and γραφή (graphē; "writing" or "drawing").
There are related mythological figures named Porus or Poros (Ancient Greek: Πόρος, lit. 'Resource', 'Plenty') in Greek classical literature. In Plato's Symposium, Porus was the personification of resourcefulness or expediency. [1] He was seduced by Penia (poverty) while drunk on more than his fill of nectar at Aphrodite's birthday.