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- Anna Comnena (3243 bytes)
3: ...hn and give the crown to Anna's husband. Still undeterred, she entered into a conspiracy in [[1118]] t...
5: ...Her models are [[Thucydides]], [[Polybius]] and [[Xenophon]], and her style exhibits the striving after [[At...
7: ...]] novel ''[[Anna of Byzantium]]'' by [[Tracy Barrett]].
11: ...-Alexiad.html The Alexiad]'', translated by Elizabeth A. Dawes in 1928 - Greek language (35285 bytes)
13: ...#953;κά, [[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]] {{IPA|/ɛˌliniˈka/}} – ...
23: ...eek is traditionally written in the [[Greek alphabet]].
25: ...placed prior to the creation of the [[Greek alphabet]] are not listed in this article. For more inform...
32: ...bably created by modifying the [[Phoenician alphabet]] in c. [[1000 BC]] and, with minor modifications...
38: ...s: ''anthropology'', ''photography'', ''isomer'', etc. and form, with [[Latin language|Latin]] words, ... - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
2: ...Graecia|Great Greece]]), and the scattered Greek settlements on the coasts of what are now [[Albania]]...
14: [[Image:vcycladic.jpg|thumb|left|Marble statuette from the Cycladic islands, 3000 BC]]
17: ...urvived, notably [[Herodotus]], [[Thucydides]], [[Xenophon]], [[Demosthenes]], [[Plato]] and [[Aristotle]], ...
20: ...eeks adapted the [[Phoenicia|Phoenician]] [[alphabet]] to Greek and from about [[800 BC|800 BC]] a wri...
22: [[Image:athenssunset.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Acropolis, Athens|Acropolis]... - Biography (6028 bytes)
1: ...erent textures of personality including intimate details of experiences. A biography is more than a l...
8: ... [[kings]], [[tribes]], [[patriarchs]] and [[prophets]]. ...
12: ...' by [[Plutarch]] and ''Lives of Caesars'' by [[Suetonius]]. During the reign of the [[Roman Empire]]...
18: ...lesser people of society like [[artist]]s and [[poet]]s.
22: ...erestingly enough, Dryden's work delved in great detail about Plutarch's popularization of the word ''... - List of people by name: X (1295 bytes)
11: *[[Xenophon]], ([[431 BC|431]]- c. [[360 BC]]), [[Athens|Athe...
15: *[[Ettore Ximenes|Ximenes, Ettore]], ([[1855]]-[[1919]]), Italian painter
21: *[[Xu Zhi Mo]], melancholic poet of early [[20th century]] [[China]] - Aelianus Tacticus (2273 bytes)
1: ...no domini|A.D.]], resident at [[Rome]]. He is sometimes confused with the Roman writer [[Claudius Ael...
3: ...nd tactics. Moreover, his works, with those of [[Xenophon]], [[Polybius]], [[Aeneas]] and [[Arrian]], were ... - Aeneas Tacticus (752 bytes)
1: ...e Arcadian general [[Aeneas of Stymphalus]], whom Xenophon (''Hellenica'', vii. 3) mentions as fighting at t... - Socrates (7975 bytes)
2: ...{polytonic|Σωκράτης}} Sōkrᴦamp;#275;s) was a Greek (...
5: ...ner accustomed to wilder horses might be more competent than one not. Socrates enjoyed going to [[Symp...
7: ..., given his father's occupation as an artisan; in Xenophon's ''Symposium'', Socrates explicitly states that ...
9: ...ee leading public figures to try Socrates for impiety and for corrupting the youth of Athens. Accordin...
11: ...auty, and virtue; finding that they knew nothing yet believed they knew much led Socrates to the concl... - Ancient Olympic Games (9077 bytes)
2: The '''Ancient Olympic Games''' were an athletic and religious celebration held in the [[Greece|...
10: ...ople from war in the [[9th century BC]]. The prophetess advised him to organise games in honour of the...
19: ...anctuary of Zeus in Olympia housed a [[1 E1 m|12 metre]]s high [[Statue of Zeus at Olympia|statue in i...
23: ...about [[1 E2 m|190 metre]]s, measured after the feet of Hercules.
25: ...ames, using the term ''Olympiad'' for the period between two Games. - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
73: *[[Anaximenes of Miletus]]{{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
102: *[[David Malet Armstrong]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}} - History of the Kurds (8244 bytes)
3: ... Carduchi, who opposed the [[Anabasis (Xenophon)|retreat of the Ten Thousand]] through the mountains i...
17: ...ors. He also resettled the rich pastoral country between [[Erzerum]] and [[Erivan]], which had lain wa...
21: ...neers of both races had co-existed fairly well together. Both suffered from Turkey, both dreaded Russi...
25: ...me in the 1920s. A short-lived [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]-sponsored Kurdish [[republic]] in [[Mahabad]], ... - Persian Empire (26229 bytes)
10: ...Image:iran-bracelet.jpg|thumb|230px|Persian bracelet c. 500 BC.]]
13: ... BC. His son Teispes led the nomadic Persians to settle in southern Iran around 650 BC, establishing t...
15: ...us was killed during a battle against the [[Massagetae]] or [[Sakas]].
19: ...cal cultures to survive, following the precedent set by Cyrus the Great. This was not only good for th...
21: ...le between good and evil gods and a final battle yet to come. Zoroastrianism and its mystic leaders, c... - Greco-Persian Wars (5983 bytes)
1: ...or '''Persian Wars''' were a series of conflicts between the [[ancient Greece|Greek]] world and the [[...
5: ...esponse in the form of an invasion. The Greek fleet was crushed at the [[Battle of Lade]] in [[494 BC...
7: .... The islands of the [[Cyclades]] surrendered, Eretria was captured, and the expedition landed in [[A...
9: ...them. Following the defeat, Xerxes and his fleet retired to Asia, where a heavy rebellion had started ...
11: ...[Leotychides]] destroyed the remaining Persian fleet in the [[battle of Mycale]]. - Cappadocia (7924 bytes)
8: ==Etymology==
12: ...th the biblical figure [[Meshech]], son of [[Japheth]], "and the Mosocheni were founded by Mosoch; no...
14: ... came to be restricted to the inland province (sometimes called Great Cappadocia), which alone will be...
40: * [http://www.stromboli.net/perm/turkey/index-en.html Volcanoes and morpholog... - Achaemenid dynasty (14622 bytes)
5: ...pendence from Persia. After the practice of [[Manetho]], [[History of Ancient Egypt|Egyptian]] histor...
15: ...s. ''Bardiya''; Cambyses' brother whom he had secretly had assassinated in 525, before starting out fo...
19: ... Battle of [[Marathon]] in 490, he was forced to retract the limits of the empire to Asia Minor.
30: ...a 2,500-kilometer highway, the most impressive stretch being the royal road from [[Susa]] to [[Sardis]...
42: ...tween areas, in effect mixing disparate groups together and diluting any nationalism they may otherwis... - History of political science (4644 bytes)
3: ...], and other fields concerned with [[normative]] determinations of what ought to be and with [[deducti...
5: ...Homer]], [[Hesiod]], [[Thucydides]], [[Plato]], [[Xenophon]], and [[Euripides]]. Later, Plato analyzed polit...
7: ...nted toward understanding history, understanding methods of governing, and describing the operation of...
9: ...political questions surrounding the relationship between [[church]] and state were clarified and conte...
13: ...er pushed the study of politics beyond normative determinations. - Nineveh (10193 bytes)
3: ...gris]], along which it stretched for some 50 kilometres (30 miles), having an average breadth of 20 km...
5: ...ccupying a central position on the great highway between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, thus ...
8: ...he [[8th century BC]], it was already an ancient settlement. Later monarchs whose inscriptions have ap...
10: ...t 1,800 acres (7 km²), and 15 great gates penetrated its walls. An elaborate system of 18 canals ...
13: ...the Medes and Babylonians dividing its provinces between them.
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