Sentences with phrase «ancient greeks knew»

The ancient Greeks knew the importance of the sacrum bone and that's why they called it sacrum which means sacred.

The ancient Greeks knew that there are an infinite number of Pythagorean triples — whole numbers that can form the sides of a right triangle.

Pi, for example, is computable; even the ancient Greeks knew simple algorithms that can churn out pi to any number of decimal places.)

Ancient Greeks knew democracy could be snuffed out by rich and powerful aristoi backed by demagogues ruling the people in their own name.

However, most historians typically trace its healing abilities back to Hippocrates, the ancient Greek known as the «father of medicine,» who described the plant as his «medicine chest» because of the wide array of health concerns it seemed to cure.

Not exact matches

A programming prodigy and classics geek (he is known to quote the Iliad in ancient Greek), he is also a canny businessman who foresaw the enormous potential of his work before anyone else.

Hey Zeus (someone about whom schoolchildren today no nothing because, y» know dude, ancient Greeks were misogynists)... I don't claim Bush or the statist NCLB legislation which he passed to please Laura, or the Iraq war, which he caused to please Poppy, or his Prescription Drug Bennie which he passed to buy senior votes.

It is no more ridiculous than it would be to claim that the ancient Greeks had a word for the internet.

Now, I'm sure some might play with semantics here, and I don't know ancient Greek, but I find it hard to see how this view is «listening to the Prophets.»

Thus, Hartshorne is quite wrong in saying that, «Only the ancient Jews and some of the ancient Greeks were nearly free from this flight from what, for all we really know, is the human condition» (ARP 32).

You are actualy no different than an ancient Greek or Roman, who lived thewir lives according to what THEIR «gods» wants.

even the ancient Greeks and Egyptians KNEW the nworld was round.

We are no longer fighting the ancient battle of Hebrew linear vs. Greek cyclical time.

Abinadi, Odds are that you are a Mormon because your parents were Mormons and you were taught as a child that it was the correct religion by adult authority figures and most people you knew held the same beliefs, just as ancient Greek children were taught that the source lightening was Zeus hurling bolts of lightning from Mt. Olympus.

In large measure the Jewish element in it was explained away and its primitive flavor neutralized, for it was now no longer a Hebrew book, but a Greek thesaurus of most ancient oracles.

Or the ancient Greek (Septuagint) version: «Have leisure and know that I am God.»

My question is simple: How do you know that the Bible (in any form) was divinely (or Holy Spirit) inspired; and not just a collection of ancient Jewish scripture and Christian Greek scriptures?

My main point is this: I used to be Evangelical for 20 + years and deep into it (went to seminary, know Koine Greek and some ancient Hebrew).

A wide array of modern minds have thought the same: Hegel lamented that philosophy is no longer «practiced as a private art, as it was by the Greeks,» Heidegger called for a return to the Greek grammar of being, and Kant claimed that «the ancient Greek philosophers remained more faithful to the Idea of the philosopher than their modern counterparts have done.»

I know both Modern Greek and Modern Hebrew beter than their Ancient counterparts.

the earth was determined to be round by the ancient greeks, they even know approximately how big it was.

stayed with the Roman / Greek stuff, you were no different from any ancient civilization and thus would not have risen as the superpower.

The modern life history of Georgia begins with two early Georgian kingdoms of late antiquity, known to ancient Greeks as Iberia in the east and Colchis in the west, around the shores of the Black Sea.

This then goes into a lot of theory about trigonometry and the limits of the tools, but eventually the ancient greek consensus was that, no, it couldn't be done under the stipulated conditions.

Known as Sporting Club, US Phocéenne, and Football Club de Marseille in the first five years after its founding, the club adopted the name Olympique de Marseille in 1899, in honor of the anniversary of Marseille's founding by Greeks from Phocaea some 25 centuries earlier, with the name Olympique, coming from ancient Olympic Games and the colours (reversed flag of Greece) chosen to represent the club.

Humans knew the earth was round since Ancient Greek times.

This was known as a «whitening of New England,» as churches, commercial buildings, and dwellings reflected the white marble facades of ancient Greek temples.

He is known at the Capitol for his histrionic flair: he once dressed as the ancient Greek figure Diogenes in an apparent search for an honest man, and smoked a joint in the building to make a point about marijuana laws.

The ancient Greeks discovered that musical harmony seems to be rooted in mathematics, and today we know that many cultures worldwide use mathematically neat chords.

It is the best - known remaining building of Ancient Greece, and has been praised as the finest achievement of Greek architecture.

The locations of current Indo - European languages are well known, and the geographic origin of older, extinct languages — such as Ancient Greek or Sanskrit — can be inferred from the historical record.

The oldest known memory aid is the method of loci, invented by the ancient Greeks at least 2000 years ago.

«Since the time of the ancient Greeks, people have wondered how geckos are able to stick to walls — even Archimedes is known to have pondered this problem,» said Alex Greaney, co-author and an assistant professor of engineering at OSU.

But of course Claudius is also the first name of Claudius Ptolemy, the ancient Greek astronomer who is thought of as the, you know, the great — well, when we think of the old geocentric worldview we think of Ptolemy, right?

Who knew that the ancient Chinese had their own set of ancient elements — not the Greeks» air, earth, water and fire, but rather wood, fire, water, soil and metal?

Next, they need to do a side - by - side comparison with narratives from similar times that are known to be based on reality, such as the ancient Greek histories.»

As Dr. Warner explains, we know since the famous bath - tub experiment by the ancient Greek scientist Archimedes, water levels will not rise when ice in water melts.

Rhodiola rosea is also known as «the golden root» and was used by the ancient Greeks as a healthy - supporting tonic.

Did you know that olive oil used to be called «liquid gold» by ancient Greek poet Homer?

Check out the Ancient Grain Greek Salad and let me know what you think!

It may be interesting to know that sulphuration of wine is not a modern invention but in fact one of the oldest preservation methods known to men and was rountinely practiced by the ancient Greeks and Romans (besides sulphur they also added resins for that purpuse — hence the famous retsina).

This villain's identity, if I revealed it, would give away one of Wonder Woman's chief twists; it's enough to know that, like all the film's heavies, he may or may not be the 20th - century incarnation of Ares, the ancient Greek god of war.

Did you know that most of the names of characters and magical creatures in the Harry Potter series have roots in classical mythology and Latin and / or Ancient Greek?

As far back as the ancient Greeks, we knew that character is everything.

Think of the Greeks and what they had written on the ancient sanctuary of the Oracle of Delphi: «Know thyself.»»

The title, like the entire series arc, arrived in a flash, which is strange because Themis is a Greek Titaness from ancient mythology and yet somehow, I knew about her.

The passage Grece sent was from a book that Darwin did not know, and, given that Grece's translation was pretty incomprehensible and that he was reading the words out of context, it was difficult for him to tell whether it really was an ancient Greek version of natural selection, as Grece claimed.

Maltese dogs are well known even in the ancient times, where the Greeks erected tombs for their Maltese dogs.

The Maltese, at one time known as «Ye Ancient Dogge of Malta,» the Maltese Terrier, the Maltese Spaniel, the Maltese Dog, the Maltese Lion Dog, the Ancient Dogge of Malta, the Melita Dog (taken from the Greek word meli, meaning honey), the Melitaie Dog, the Melitae Dog, the Roman Ladies» Dog, the Shock Dog and the Bichon Maltaise, has been an aristocrat of the canine world for more than twenty centuries.

The ancient Greeks, knowing of the existence of the Arctic (even if they hadn't se...