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2 unusual facts about Classical antiquity


The Boy Who Cried Wolf

The story dates from Classical times but, since it was recorded only in Greek and not translated into Latin until the 15th century, it only began to gain currency after it appeared in Heinrich Steinhowel's collection of the fables and so spread through the rest of Europe.

Venezuela Heroica

As regards the development of time, the events are often magnified through comparison with specific facts from the past, from antiquity or the Middle Ages, and this contributes to give a greater dimension.


Ancient Greek novel

Five ancient Greek novels survive complete from antiquity: Chariton's Callirhoe (mid-1st century), Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon (early-2nd century), Longus' Daphnis and Chloe (2nd century), Xenophon of Ephesus' Ephesian Tale (late-2nd century), and Heliodorus of Emesa's Aethiopica (third century).

Armazi

The name first appears in the early medieval Georgian annals though it is clearly much older and reflected in the Classical name Armastica or Harmozica of Strabo, Pliny, Ptolemy and Dio Cassius.

Barbier-Mueller Museum

Its collection contains over 7,000 pieces and includes works of art from Tribal and Classical antiquity as well as sculptures, fabrics and ornaments from "primitive" civilizations around the world.

Damião de Góis

A humanist and an open mind, Góis followed courses at the Universities of Padua and Leuven, wrote on various topics, like the condition of the Sami people (Lapps), and translated some classic works – among them, Cicero’s Cato maior de senectute – into Portuguese.

European folklore

The culture of Classical Antiquity, including mythology, Hellenistic religion and magical or cultic practice was very influential on the formative stage of Christianity, and can be found as a substrate in the traditions of all territories formerly colonized by the Roman Empire, and by extension in those territories reached by Christianization during the Middle Ages.

Fayez Barakat

Specialising in classical antiquities, Near Eastern, Biblical, Chinese, Pre-Columbian, Byzantine, Asian, African and primitive arts, the business expanded from a small shop in the Jerusalem Souq into a dealership with global reach, and a presence in most of the world's major art-buying centres.

France–Greece relations

Relations stretch back to Classical Antiquity, when Ancient Greek colonies were established in pre-Roman Gaul, the most important of which being Massilia (Greek: Μασσαλία, Frence: Marseilles), located in southeastern France (which today is the country's oldest city, as well as the second largest, by population).

Gavin Douglas

Douglas's most important literary achievement is the Eneados, a Scots translation of Virgil's Aeneid, completed in 1513, and the first full translation of a major poem from classical antiquity into any modern Germanic language.

Matter of England

The term Matter of England was coined in reference to the earlier Three Matters as termed by the French author Jean Bodel; the Matter of Britain (concerning King Arthur and his knights), of France (concerning Charlemagne and his paladins) and of Rome (retelling of tales from Greco-Roman antiquity).

Musica poetica

Gallus Dressler (1563) suggested to liken the structure of a musical composition with that of a speech, as outlined in Classical sources, dividing it into such sections as exordium, medium and finis (literally, "beginning", "middle" and "end").

Rana Prasad Sharma

Pandit Rana Prasad Sharma (25 February 1908 – 27 October 1987 in Patna, Bihar, India) is known for his book Pauranik Kosh, a dictionary of classical and mythological references.

Renaissance tragedy

Renaissance tragedy revived the classical Greek tragedy fusing Elizabethan drama and storyline complexities with a more morbid ending (in which the protagonist usually dies, compared to Greek tragedy in which they live).

Skulpturensammlung

The collection of the Dresden Skulpturensammlung ranges in age more than five millennia, from classical antiquity to the art of the Renaissance, Baroque, and Expressionism until the 21st century.

Temple of Isthmia

the site of the temple was then rebuilt upon, resulting in a larger temple constructed directly on top of the Archaic in the Classical period, which was also destroyed by fire, this time in 390 BC.

Toothpick

There are delicate, artistic examples made of silver in antiquity, as well as from mastic wood with the Romans.


see also

Correction

Corrector, a political/administrative office in classical Antiquity and some religions

Dirty Hands

(Illyria was an actual country of classical antiquity, whose territory included modern Albania and surroundings.)

Italian Neoclassical and 19th-century art

It places emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry and the regularity of parts as they are demonstrated in the architecture of Classical antiquity and in particular, the architecture of Ancient Rome, of which many examples remained.

Pelagos

The name Pelagos (meaning "sea") dates from classical antiquity, and refers to an oak forest on the road from Mantineia to Tegea.

Sicilian Questions

As usual in medieval Arabic treatises, and how could it be otherwise, if we take into account the rich and highly educated of Ibn Sabin, in the Sicilian Questions the author quotes from other writers, especially those in the classical antiquity, among them are, for example, Plato's Phaedrus and especially those belonging to the logic of Aristotle, as the most relevant.