Sentences with phrase «into ancient greek»

The Medieval city itself really is a must see and is a real insight into ancient Greek history.

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In new book «The Obstacle Is the Way,» an exploration of ancient Greek Stoicism put into practice by leaders ranging from Marcus Aurelius to Steve Jobs, writer Ryan Holiday says that anyone can take advantage of Coach Saban's process.
In addition to sorting existing items into these three menus, the company is creating two new salads for each category, including an ancient grain Greek (plant - based), avocado cobb with chicken (protein - rich), and blueberry and white balsamic (nutrient - packed).
In the future, ancestors of the ancient Trojans have devoted themselves to gene manipulation and have implanted the DNA that controls fiscal irresponsibility and bouzouki music into modern Greeks.
Therefore a reasonable person rightly grasp that Zeus was just a figment of the ancient Greeks imagination, a way to salve their conscience as to how they perceived the «world» came into existence.
Any study of ancient hsitory and linking it in with all the Old Testament biblical journeys into Egypty, including JC's family pilgrimige, plus coming out of and being exiled back to Mesopotaia, with a little Persian, Greek, Roman, etc. influences along the way should make that clear.
Ancient Islamic culture of the golden age of the Abbasids attained a high level of development before it fell into a period of decline similar to the decline of the Greek, Chinese, and Persian cultures.
Some of these principles are particularly relevant to the translation of the Bible of ancient Hebrew and Greek into other languages.39 In a linguistically pluralistic country like India, various principles play vital role in different translations.
Further Voobus points out that it was neither the Greek Old Testament which became scriptural authority for Hellenistic Christianity nor the Hebrew original text which was translated into Syriac but the scriptures of the Palestinian synagogue, namely, the ancient Palestinian Targumim which came to be used among the Jewish Christians.
He offered a forceful «Christian» view of man, comparing this view with others that fail to take into account all the facts of human existence — Greek classical views in the ancient world, and naturalism in the modern world.
John Gay in his Beggar's Opera notes that «A covetous fellow, like a jackdaw, steals what he was never made to enjoy, for the sake of hiding it» Ancient Greek authors tell how a jackdaw, being a social creature, may be caught with a dish of oil which it falls into while looking at its own reflection.
Ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Hebrews all codified the right to asylum into their laws, and these laws were appropriated into the Christian church in Medieval England.
This popular notion is the ancient Greek idea that in the moment of inspiration the human personality was put into a kind of cold storage; or, to use the Greeks» own example, the person became as a flute, passively ready to play whatever was breathed into it.
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).
future civilizations will study our society after it crumbles, and our policy shaping, thought controlling religious views will be lumped into the same category as the ancient greek myths, norse gods, and native american shamanism.
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.
Despite that rather melodramatic beginning, marathon running developed into a comparatively low - risk event, or at least it was until England's Chris Stewart, the third - place finisher in both the 1976 and»77 New York Marathons, turned the ancient Greek legend on its head and began running relief supplies across sniper - infested battle lines and into the broken heart of Croatia and Bosnia - Herzegovinia.
I'm sure the ancient Greek parents flew into panic when their teenagers showed more bare shoulder under their togas than they liked.
Radiocarbon dating shows that the mummies span 1300 years of ancient Egyptian history, during many of the foreign conquests and then Egypt's incorporation into first the Greek and then the Roman empires.
The ancient Greeks wove byssal threads into fabrics because they combined a satiny texture with strength and durability.
The ancient Greeks looked into the night and saw that some of the brightest stars were moving on a regular basis.
The Scythians» exploits struck fear into the hearts of the ancient Greeks and Persians.
«Al - safinah» in Arabic means «the ship,» referring to the ancient Greek constellation Argo Navis (named for the Argonauts» ship and now split into three modern constellations).
The early tetrapods (from the Ancient Greek word meaning «four - footed») were the first vertebrates to tread terra firma, developing lungs to capture atmospheric oxygen and turning fins into legs, but with a life cycle that was still closely tied to aquatic environments.
Two and a half millennia ago, the ancient Greek philosopher Democritus imagined slicing bread into ever - smaller pieces, down to irreducible specks, and the concept of the atom was born.
In fact, Hannam said, many societies have banned or limited the carving up of human corpses, from the ancient Greeks and Romans to early Europeans (that's why Galen was stuck dissecting animals and peering into gladiator wounds).
Until recently, she directed the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, Calif. «We read these ancient texts, and the ancient Greeks, the Romans, the Chinese — they were all wondering how we humans fit into the universe.»
Let this bar romance you as it echoes an element of the ancient Greeks» concept of Eros: the creative impulse of ever - unfolding nature, igniting the Light of coming into being and bringing order to all things in the cosmos.
Apples eventually became a staple food across the Mediterranean region and were incorporated into religious lore by the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Hebrews.
Incorporating face mists into your skincare routine may feel like a 21st - century trend, but the practice actually dates back to 1700 B.C. Ancient Greeks indulged in balneotherapy, or soaking in therapeutic mineral waters.
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The history of ancient Greek coinage can be divided (along with most other Greek art forms) into four periods, the Archaic, the Classical, the Hellenistic
Rather than idle away precious hours on trivial stories or randomly chosen nonfiction, reading, writing, and listening instruction would be built into the study of ancient civilizations in first grade, for example, Greek mythology in second, or the human body in third.
Then journey into the paranormal with Kristine Grayson's, well, irresistible start to an irresistible series of what happens when the Ancient Greek Fates start messing with modern romance, and Terry Spear's tale of just how hot a vampire huntress can be on her path to true love.
He travels extensively with his family and has always been into photography, archeology, collecting ancient Greek and Roman coins, red wine, and tending his fruit trees, vegetable garden, and bird feeders in the back yard.
Researchers of such things point to ancient Greek lore: Zeus» wife Hera magicked a servant named Galinthias into a...
Titan Quest borrows the epic hero's journey and many fable elements from the ancient Greek cookbook and puts you into the maelstrom of an heroic quest.
Originally written and performed in Athens in 507 B.C. and winner of Best New Dramedy at the 508 B.C. Dionysia Festival, the chaotic Okhlos will have modern gamers stepping into the sandals of ancient Greek philosophers to lead angry mobs of irate citizens and bring down the oppressive god of mythological Greece.
How are the status and meaning of an artwork — whether an Ancient Greek statue, a digital photograph, or a painting by an itinerant portraitist — altered through the creation of facsimiles, through exhibition, or through the conversion of the object into image or code?
Soaring high into the urban landscape, the multi-story mural from the Spanish duo features their signature remix of ancient Greek and Roman sculptures with their love for graffiti.
Mark Wallinger goes into analysis, the ancient Greeks expose themselves and Shia LaBeouf gets stuck in an Oxford lift — all in your weekly art dispatch
And they breathe bracing life into the Getty Villa: When you leave the modern show, the ancient Greek and Roman collections suddenly look a bit different.»
The word is drawn from the Ancient Greek word πλάσσω which means «to shape» and is used to refer to the interweaving of opposites or the process of moulding a dualistic object into unity through the power of the imagination.
Originally referring to the ecstatic verses created by ancient Greek followers of Dionysus, the term, for him, stands for what the wall texts call «the primacy of the artist's expressive power over the subject» — that is, the nominal subject that triggered the improvisatory process of picture - making loses its original meaning by being translated into this new state of being, since any painting is both abstract and a fiction.
Standing like Egyptian goddesses, or Ancient Greek priestesses, The Warriors are imposing their rhythmic march into a scenery that can be a playground, a street or an arena.
More than four metres tall, it draws on the ancient Greek sculpture Moscophoros and Domanović's recent research into evolutionary biology.
Over four metres tall, it draws on both Domanović's recent research into molecular biology and the ancient Greek sculpture «Moscophoros» — a statue of a man carrying a sacrificial calf on his shoulders.
And it is ether that plays a central role here: from the ancient greek αἰθήρ, which flowed into Latin as aether, synonymous with quintessential (from medieval Latin quinta essentia in turn a variation of the the greek pémpton Stoicheion, fifth element), was an element which was added to the four that were already known, that is, fire, water, earth and air.
In a news release, Jones» wife, Gene Jones, compared this effort to the ancient Greeks and Romans incorporating art into their stadiums.
Not to say plug into the hottest health trends: Plum is infusing some of its products with Greek yogurt (more protein than regular yogurt) and ancient grains like quinoa (fewer food allergy issues and easier to digest).
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