400 résultats pour "greeks"

• Roman Art and Architecture - History.

  Racecourses or circuses were also built in many cities for holding chariot races and horse races. Rome’s circus-shaped Piazza Navona occupies the site of one that wasbuilt during the reign ( AD 81-96) of the emperor Domitian. The largest circus in Rome, the Circus Maximus, held about 200,000 spectators. E Public Baths Large cities and small towns alike also had public baths ( thermae ); under the Republic they were generally made up of a suite of dressing rooms and bathing chambers with hot- ,...

• Orthodox Church.

  formally defined by an ecumenical council, as it was in Catholicism, some Orthodox theologians have taught that the act of becoming a monk or the service of burial canalso be sacraments. The sacramental practice of the Orthodox differs in many details from Western customs. Baptism is administered by immersing the child or adult three times under thewater, each time in the name of one of the persons of the Trinity. It is followed immediately by anointment with chrism, a sacred perfumed oil that r...

• Albania - country.

  Joining the international community in its concern over the degradation of the environment, Albania is party to international agreements concerning biodiversity, climatechange, and wetlands. III THE PEOPLE OF ALBANIA In 2008 Albania’s population estimate was 3,619,778, resulting in an average density of 132 persons per sq km (342 per sq mi). More and more people have left ruralareas for urban ones, particularly in the northern districts, such that in 2005 some 45 percent of the population live...

• Chemistry - chemistry.

  parts of oxygen by weight, which is a ratio of about 1 to 8, regardless of whether the water came from the Mississippi River or the ice of Antarctica. In other words, acompound has a definite, invariable composition, always containing the same elements in the same proportions by weight; this is the law of definite proportions. Many elements combine in more than one ratio, giving different compounds. In addition to forming water, hydrogen and oxygen also form hydrogen peroxide.Hydrogen peroxide h...

• Middle East - Geography.

  though overall they have improved considerably since the 1970s. This variation reflects the different levels of wealth and development in countries of the Middle East. Inthe highly developed country of Israel the infant mortality rate was 8 deaths per 1000 live births in 1997. By comparison, the rate per 1000 live births was 71 in less-developed Egypt and 75 in Yemen. A Ethnic Groups and Languages Arabs make up the majority of the people of the Middle East, accounting for almost the entire popu...

• Epimetheus (Afterthought) Greek Brother of Prometheus, a Titan.

• Ottoman Empire .

  fleets at Suez, Egypt; though the Portuguese were not expelled, Selim did manage to prevent the establishment of a total Portuguese monopoly over the spice trade. Selim I died in 1520 after having spent most of his short reign on matters pertaining to the east. His son and successor Süleyman I (reigned 1520-1566) again turnedthe attention of the Ottomans to the west. In August 1521 Süleyman, later known as Süleyman the Magnificent, opened the road to Hungary by capturing Belgrade, aHungarian str...

• Ottoman Empire - History.

  fleets at Suez, Egypt; though the Portuguese were not expelled, Selim did manage to prevent the establishment of a total Portuguese monopoly over the spice trade. Selim I died in 1520 after having spent most of his short reign on matters pertaining to the east. His son and successor Süleyman I (reigned 1520-1566) again turnedthe attention of the Ottomans to the west. In August 1521 Süleyman, later known as Süleyman the Magnificent, opened the road to Hungary by capturing Belgrade, aHungarian str...

• Lebanon (country) - country.

  during the civil war. Within the country, thousands of Shia Muslim refugees fled fighting in southern Lebanon in the 1990s and moved into shantytowns in Beirut’ssouthern suburbs. Lebanon’s major cities were greatly affected by the civil war. Beirut has gradually regained most of its prewar population and remains the country’s largest city. Tripoli,the northern port, is the second largest city. Jūniyah, north of Beirut, was developed as a wartime port and subsequently had a population boom. Za ḩl...

• Erebus (Darkness) Greek The personification of darkness.

• Pyrrha Greek Daughter of Epimetheus; wife of Deucalion.

• Lityerses Greek Son of King Midas of Phrygia.

• Iolaus Greek The son of Iphicles (halfbrother of Heracles).

• Eos (Dawn) Greek The goddess of dawn.

• Mesopotamia - history.

  AssyriaAssyria flourished in the region the ancient Greeks called Mesopotamia. An Assyrian king established what was probably the firstcentrally organized empire in the Middle East, between 1813 and 1780 bc. In defending their territory from nomadic invasions,Assyrians gained a reputation in the ancient Middle East for being relentless and ruthless warriors.© Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Beginning about 1350 BC, Assyria, a north Mesopotamian kingdom, began to assert itself. Assyr...

• Iole Greek Daughter of Eurytus, king of Oechalia.

• Maenads Greek The crazed women who followed the god Dionysus.

• Sarpedon Greek A son of Zeus and Laodemia or Europa.

• Odysseus Greek Son of Laertes, king of Ithaca, and Anticlea.

• Nausicaa Greek Daughter of Alcinous, king of the Phaecians.

• Patroclus Greek The close friend of the hero Achilles.

• Oenone Greek A Nymph, daughter of the river god Cebren.

• Phrixus Greek Son of Athamas and Nephele; brother of Helle.

• Myrtilus Greek Son of the god Hermes and a mortal woman.

• Thanatos (Death) Greek The personification of death (Mors in Latin).

• Lethe (Forgetfulness, Oblivion) Greek One of the rivers of Hades.

• Pelops Greek Son of Dione and Tantalus; brother of Niobe.

• Mnemosyne (Memory) Greek A Titan, daughter of Gaia and Uranus; with Zeus, mother of the Muses.

• Creusa (1) (Glauca) Greek Daughter of King Creon of Corinth.

• Pallas Athene Greek One of the many names of the goddess Athene.

• Nephele Greek Wife of Athamas; mother of Phrixus, Leucon, and Helle.

• Phoenix Greek Son of Agenor brother of Cadmus, Cilix, and Europa.

• Zephyrus (West Wind) Greek The personification of the West Wind.

• Hygeia (Hygieia; Health) Greek Goddess of physical and mental health.

• Menelaus Greek King of Sparta; brother of Agamemnon; husband of Helen.

• Proteus Greek A minor but ancient sea god who served Poseidon.

• Oracle Greek The spokesperson of the ruling deity of a shrine.

• Meleager Greek Son of King Oeneus of Calydon, and of Althea.

• Orion Greek Best known as a mighty hunter and as a constellation of stars.

• Sisyphus Greek Son of Aeolus; brother of Athamas; husband of Merope.

• Phrygia Greek An ancient region of central Asia Minor (now central Turkey).

• Silenus (Selini) Greek Son of Hermes or of Pan; tutor of Dionysus.

• Nereus (Old Man of the Sea) Greek A sea god depicted as a very old man.

• Polyphemus Greek The savage, one-eyed giant of Homer's Odyssey.

• Laelaps (Lelaps, Lalaps) Greek A hound that could catch whatever he chased.

• Phoebe (Bright) Greek A Titan, one of the daughters of Uranus and Gaia.

• Lapiths (plural: Lapithae) Greek Mythical people of Thessaly, in north-central Greece.

• Panacea (Panaceia; All-healing) Greek A daughter of the god of medicine, Asclepius.

• Phaeton Greek Son of Helios, the sun god, and the Nymph Clymene.

• Paris Greek Son of Priam, the king of Troy, and of Hecuba.