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- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
5: ...[[Greece|Greek]] [[history|historians]] such as [[Strabo]] and [[Diodorus Siculus]], but otherwise there i...
19: The Greek geographer [[Strabo]], who described the gardens in the first century...
52: [[nl:Hangende tuinen van Babylon]] - Cartography (10500 bytes)
11: ...others (most of whom would not be known today had Strabo not mentioned them). [[Thales]] of Miletus (c. [[...
17: *Some stars can only be seen from certain parts of the earth.
25: ...]. This would, in turn, eventually lead to [[the Enlightenment]] a concern for scientific accuracy and... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
3: ... civilization|Hellenistic]] world — second only to [[Rome]] in size and wealth throughout much o...
23: ...e silt thrown out by Nile mouths. An Egyptian townlet, Rhacotis, already stood on the shore and was a...
27: ...age]]; and for some centuries more it was second only to [[Rome]]. Nominally a free Greek city, Alexa...
29: It was not only a center of [[Hellenism]], but was also the grea...
44: ...s, the Soma and Museum, fallen to ruin. On the mainland, life seems to have centred in the vicinity of... - Egyptian pyramids (20601 bytes)
11: ...Egyptian pyramids were built as "tombs and tombs only" as Egyptologists believe it would be necessary ...
35: ...r as little more than mounds of rubble, they are only now being properly identified and studied by arc...
41: ...he current archaelogicical consensus is that not only was it completed, but that it was originally abo...
55: Of the three, only Khafre's pyramid retains part of its original po...
57: ... [[Seven Wonders of the World]]. Today it is the only one of the ancient Wonders still in existence. - Agatharchides (3646 bytes)
1: ... known as the author of a number of works, which only survive in quotation.
3: As Stanley M. Burstein notes, the "evidence for Agatharchi...
9: ...d directly or indirectly by [[Diodorus Siculus]], Strabo, [[Pliny the Elder]], [[Aelian]] and other author...
13: *Stanley M. Burstein, translator and editor. ''Works Iss... - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
4: ..., [[356 BC]]–[[June 10]], [[323 BC]]), commonly known in the West as '''Alexander the Great''' o...
23: ...he coast held no major ports, so Alexander moved inland. At Pisidian [[Termessus]] Alexander humbled b...
29: ...ign (although he allowed those that wished to re-enlist as mercenaries in his imperial army). His thre...
60: ...from India, in which his men clamor for him to openly kiss the young man. "Bagoas [...] sat down close...
87: ...ezzar II|Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon]]. He was only 33 years old. Various theories have been propose... - Anacharsis (4399 bytes)
6: ...enians took to him as a natural philosopher, not unlike the way the French took to [[Benjamin Franklin...
22: [[Strabo]] makes him the (probably legendary) inventor of ... - Ptolemy XII of Egypt (2928 bytes)
1: ...er) - which he was by the way, as we learn from [[Strabo]]'s writing (Strab. XVII, 1, 11). During his reig... - Pytheas (6447 bytes)
4: ... by later authors. Among them, [[Polybius]] and [[Strabo]] accused Pytheas of documenting a fictitious jou...
8: ...kade, he may have stuck close to land and sailed only at night. It is also possible he took advantage ...
12: ... made a drink out of [[cereal|grain]] and honey. Unlike the people from southern Europe, they had [[ba...
14: ...her north the congealed sea began, he claimed. As Strabo says (as quoted in Chevallier 1984):
25: ...accounts of his voyage are primarily contained in Strabo, [[Diodorus Siculus|Diodorus of Sicily]] and [[Pl... - Silk Road (23757 bytes)
5: These exchanges were critical not only for the development and flowering of the great c...
18: [[Lapis lazuli]] was being traded from its only known source in the ancient world – [[Bada...
32: ...ctually cultivated silk (which would almost certainly have come from China) that was discovered or a t...
40: ...eus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Strab.+11.11.1 Strabo XI.XI.I]).
45: ... in the possession of the [[Dayuan]] (named "Heavenly horses"), which were of capital importance in fi... - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
8: ...aedrus]]''. His ideas are therefore known to us only indirectly, through Plato and a few other writer...
10: ...ant. Though the early dialogues are concerned mainly with methods of acquiring knowledge and most of ...
12: ...texts used by his students, and were almost certainly revised repeatedly over the course of years. As ...
23: .... At the end of the century, however, [[Anicius Manlius Severinus Bo봨ius|Boethius]] undertook to tra...
45: [[Plutarch]] wrote that Aristotle not only imparted to Alexander a knowledge of ethics and ... - Zeus (17267 bytes)
37: ...an flesh was said to turn into a wolf, and could only regain human form if he did not eat again of hum...
42: ...believe [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] or [[Strabo]]. The hero [[Amphiaraus]] was honored as ''Zeus ...
83: ...era discovered the deception, she cursed Echo to only speak the words of others (hence our modern word... - Pompey (25785 bytes)
8: ...ry camps, involved in army and political affairs. Strabo had fought first with [[Marius]], then with [[Sul...
10: ... her husband to marry his young ally. Pompey was only happy to divorce Antistia, a provincial ''matron...
12: ...ng him of the same senario that Pompey had faced only two years prior.
17: ...ity population would starve and riots would certainly ensue. Pompey dealt with the resistance with a h...
22: .... It is significant that the war was finally won only when rivals murdered Sertorius, not because neit... - Caesar Augustus (50559 bytes)
10: ...edonia]] before dying when Octavian was a boy of only 4 years old in [[58 BC]]. More importantly, his ...
25: ...us Antonius]], essentially ignored Octavian. Not only did he disregard Caesar’s will, but made n...
38: ...tradition through the use of military force. The only limit on their powers was the five year time lim...
40: ...all, some 300 Senators were proscribed, but most only faced confiscation of property. Members of the T...
87: ...d virtuous Roman wife" Octavia in the same year. Unlike Caesar before him, who propped Cleopatra up po... - Germanic tribes (16394 bytes)
14: ...than today) deteriorated considerably, which not only dramatically changed the flora, but forced peopl...
20: The details of the expansion are known only generally, but it is clear that the forebears of...
75: ...ity was hinted at by the early Greek geographer [[Strabo]] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc...
85: ...ographers (Tacitus, [[Pliny]], [[Ptolemy]], and [[Strabo]]) mentioned in the first two centuries AD the na...
90: ... German people, or ''[[Volk]],'' was expressed openly in print by [[19th century]] [[Ethnic nationalis... - History of the Kurds (8244 bytes)
5: ... Gardu or [[Kardu]], the precise term quoted by [[Strabo]] to explain the name of the Cardaces. These Guti...
7: ...ever quarter they may have sprung, belonged certainly to the Aryan family.
15: ... and Kurdish chieftainhips were established, not only to the east and west of the Kurdistan mountains,... - Babylon (9716 bytes)
16: ... underwent a constant state of revolt, which was only suppressed by the complete destruction of the ca...
51: ... Clitarchus (ap. Diod. Sic. ii. 7), 365 stades; [[Strabo]] (xvi. 1. 5) makes it 385 stades. But even the e... - Celtic mythology (25486 bytes)
12: ...spect testified in Gaul the greater part crop up only once. This has led some scholars to conclude tha...
129: ...tic peoples built no [[temple]]s, and worshipped only outside in groves of trees. Archaeology has long...
137: There are only very few recorded archaeological discoveries whi...
145: ...istletoe (a [[parasite|parasitic]] herb that commonly grows on oak trees); perhaps they used the latte...
149: [[Strabo]] calls them vates, from a Celtic word meaning "i... - Viking (18085 bytes)
52: ...to clear the islands and [[Scotland|Scottish]] mainland of Vikings. Numbers of them fled to [[Iceland]...
64: ...to territories under North Germanic dominance, mainly the [[Danelaw]], [[Scotland]], the [[Isle of Man...
66: ...land]], the [[Faroe Islands]], [[Iceland]], [[Greenland]], and even a short expedition to [[Newfoundla...
68: ...n only for the later part of the Viking Age, and only after the end of the Viking Age did the separate...
87: ...eded to give the Swedes the courage to retake [[Finland]], which had been lost in [[1809]] during the ... - Troy (22846 bytes)
24: ...e 3000 years ago, were some 5 kilometers further inland, pouring into a bay that has since been filled...
30: ...iad and other classical sources, notably [[Strabo|Strabo's]] ''Geographia''. Their conclusion was that th...
54: ...d around [[1300 BC]], probably by an earthquake. Only a single arrowhead was found in this layer, and ...
60: ...d, two in the fort and one in the city. However, only small portions of the city have been excavated, ...
103: ...nized the Greek mainland and [[Crete]], and were only beginning to make forays into Anatolia, establis...
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