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- Ancient Olympic Games (9077 bytes)
10: ...[[Pythia]] – the [[oracle]] of [[Delphi]] – to try and save his people from war in the [[9...
12: ...urse later resulted in the fall of the house of [[Atreus]] and the suffering of [[Oedipus]].
21: ...s used the Olympiads to count years, much as we today use [[Anno Domini|AD]] and BC. Thus, by that chr...
37: ...[[394|AD 394]] the Olympic Games - one of the foundations of Greek religion, with their polytheistic o...
45: ...]] (regulated full-contact fighting, similar to today's [[mixed martial arts]]), [[chariot racing]], s... - Zeus (17267 bytes)
2: '''Zeus''' (descendant of [[Cronus]]is the leader of the gods and [[go...
6: ...do-European religion]], also continued as [[Rig-Veda|Vedic]] '''[[Dyaus Pita]]r''' (cf. [[Jupiter (god...
33: .... With the [[Kouretes]], a band of ecstatic armed dancers, he presided over the rigorous military-athl...
42: ...ro or an underground Zeus. Thus the shrine at Lebadaea in [[Boeotia]] might belong to the hero [[Troph...
50: ...]], but the goddess [[Dione (mythology)|Dione]] — whose name is a feminine form of "Zeus". Her s... - Hermes (10248 bytes)
3: ... ''hermaion''. An interpreter who bridges the boundaries with strangers is a ''hermeneus.'' Hermes giv...
6: As the related word Herma ?a boundary stone, crossing point? would suggest, Hermes is...
13: ...nglish ''Wednesday'' from ''Wodnes d槧' 'Woden's day'.
21: As a crosser of boundaries, ''Hermēs Psychopompos''' ("conductor of...
26: .... The ''hermai'' were used to mark roads and boundaries. In [[Athens, Greece|Athens]], they were pla... - Mycenaean Greece (6175 bytes)
10: ...entry passage lined with stone. They often buried daggers or some other form of military equipment wit...
12: ...ntered what historians see as a [[Greek dark ages|dark age]]. During this period Greece experienced de...
16: The [[pottery]] is characterised by dark paintings on a light background.
17: ... Mycenean decorated pottery on the Greek mainland date to the beginning of the Late [[Bronze Age]] (La...
20: Table 1 provides the approximate dates of the [[Late Helladic]] phases (LH) on the Gr... - Aegean civilization (41260 bytes)
37: ...o far to prove that the civilization continued fundamentally and essentially the same throughout.
39: It is supported by less abundant remains of other arts. That of painting in fres...
43: ...riod at [[Phaestus]], and possibly at [[Hagia Triada]].
49: ... remains with known Egyptian remains which can be dated to Dynasties.
51: ... early Minoan vases and others found in Egypt and dated to the 1st Dynasty [[4000BC]].
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