Icarus was the boy in the ancient Greek myth whose father crafted him wings of wax.
In voting to kill a tradition that was at the center of the ancient Greek Olympics from the eighth century B.
Those in the West looked to the ancient Greek and Roman philosophers and historians, at least as far as the elite were concerned.
Our was not a rising up of the downtrodden or the debtor class as so many of the ancient Greek and Roman revolutions had been.
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His declaration that "upon this rock I will build my church" famously played on the way Peter's name echoed the Ancient Greek word for rock, "petra".
Working through his development company, Oliaros (the ancient Greek name for Antiparos), the 40-year-old entrepreneur has hit upon an innovative approach for reviving Greek real estate.
In the ancient Greek play Lysistrata women stage a sex strike to force the men to bring their sons and husbands home and end the nearly 30-year Peloponnesian War.
Fast forward a few thousand years and according to the ancient Greek legend, Jason took the mythological Golden Fleece from King Aietes in Colchis, which is now part of Georgia.
Even more strangely, in a very compelling section on learning, Brooks has high-school Harry develop a fascination with the impressive explanatory power of thumos, the ancient Greek notion of, among other things, status motivation.
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His examples are drawn from a wide array of sources: Albanian, ancient Hebrew, film dubbing and graphic novels, legal documents (huge amounts of translation required) and the Septuagint, the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible.
They might be bigger, glitzier and certainly a lot more commercialized, but in spirit at least the modern day Olympics -- inaugurated in 1896 -- have remained remarkably true to the ancient Greek Games on which they were modeled.
For the 100m or so people whom the organisers said voted by Saturday night, and for the many who watch a global broadcast of the results, the benefit presumably matched that of the ancient Greek travellers: the fun of it all.
Rosewood lent itself admirably to carving African figures, too, as shown by a delicately modeled German figure of a "Black Female Nude" (1600-10) that suggests an African-inspired trope on the ancient Greek and Roman sculptures of "Crouching Aphrodite, " versions of which had been engraved by the early 16th century.
In the second century BCE the ancient Jews were overrun by the Assyrians, a Greek proxy in the ancient Middle East.
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The rediscovery of ancient Greek philosophy has in turn sparked the Golden Age of many other societies.
If the ancient Greeks referred to the Macedonians as barbarians only because of political conflict, then why other Greek tribes are not called barbarian or non-Greek by the ancient Greeks.
In ancient Greek the word psyche meant both soul and butterfly.
Thomas Nagel, a distinguished American philosopher, once remarked that to say now that consciousness is a physical state of the brain is to be in the position of an ancient Greek who proclaims that matter is energy: what he says is true, but there is no understanding of how it can be true, no framework into which to fit the discovery.
Olympia was sacred to Zeus, head of the pantheon of Greek Gods and Goddesses, and the ancient Games were essentially a religious festival in his honor.
At the request of the provost he taught a class in ancient Greek literature in translation, sympathizing with students who found Thucydides impenetrable: The Modern Library edition has one map of the entire Hellenic world, with 180 labels on it.
Durang flings all kinds of references into his word processor: Angelina Jolie, Snow White, Maggie Smith, global warming, Norma Desmond, William Penn, "Peter Pan, " the HBO show "Entourage, " Lindsay Lohan, ancient Greek drama, voodoo and, as the title suggests, a big dollop of Anton Chekhov.
According to an ancient Greek legend, the first saw was made by a boy named Perdix, who was nephew of the famous inventor Daedalus.
In ancient Greek mythology, the Sirens were beautiful sea-maidens, known for chanting sweet melodies to lure hapless sailors into dangerous waters, only to face their demise amongst the jagged rocks.
Alexandros Mantis, a Greek expert on the ancient Acropolis temples, also points out that the frieze, which ran around the exterior of the Parthenon, is arranged in London around the interior of a gallery, which is architecturally and aesthetically wrong.
As a result, Cythera displays hearty remnants of its cultural bouillabaisse, with Venetian, Ottoman, British and Ancient Greek influences coexisting on the island.
The first important thing about the Parthenon is that, unlike most ancient Greek monuments, it survived more or less intact into modern times.
Highlights of its vast collection are the ancient Egyptian mummies, its Roman and Greek antiquities, the Rosetta Stone and the Anglo-Saxon treasures of Sutton Hoo.
Influenced by indigenous craft, the embroidery of Venetian courtiers who ruled the country beginning in 1489, and ancient Greek and Byzantine geometric patterns, Lefkara lace is made by hand in designs combining four basic elements: the hemstitch, cut work, satin stitch fillings and needlepoint edgings.
Herodotus, the Greek historian, reported that the ancient Persians always made important decisions twice first when they were drunk, and then again when they were sober.
Later that week, we drove north along the famed Pacific Coast Highway to the Getty Villa in Malibu, an offshoot of the Getty Center in Los Angeles that houses ancient Greek and Roman art.
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