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Hace 1 día · Both ancient and modern writers have used the Battle of Thermopylae as a flagship example of the power of an army defending its native soil. The performance of the Greek defenders is also used as an example of the advantages of training, equipment, and use of terrain as force multipliers .
- 21–23 July, 20 August or 8–10 September 480 BC
- Persian victory
Hace 1 día · Heraclitus ( / ˌhɛrəˈklaɪtəs /; Greek: Ἡράκλειτος Herákleitos; fl. c. 500 BC) was an ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire. He exerts a wide influence on Western philosophy, including the works of Plato and Aristotle. Little is known of Heraclitus's life.
Hace 1 día · And the primary mechanism of accommodation is language,: 6 which mediates between reality and abstraction, which allows disputes of all kinds to be resolved and the gospel to be transmitted: in his New Testament, Erasmus notably translated the Greek logos in John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word" more like "In the beginning was Speech: using Latin sermo (discourse, conversation, language ...
Hace 1 día · It's revealed that he was once an incarnation of the Egyptian god Horus, but Greek belief in him as a separate entity had turned Harpocrates into a minor Greek-Egyptian hybrid deity. Hebe/Juventas – The goddess of youth who is the daughter of Zeus and Hera and wife of Heracles. Hebe is amongst the minor gods who allied themselves with the Titans.
Hace 1 día · Jonah and the Whale (1621) by Pieter Lastman Jonah Preaching to the Ninevites (1866) by Gustave Doré, in La Grande Bible de Tours. Jonah is the central character in the Book of Jonah, in which God commands him to go to the city of Nineveh to prophesy against it "for their great wickedness is come up before me," but Jonah instead attempts to flee from "the presence of the Lord" by going to ...
Hace 1 día · Etymology The current name for Bethlehem in local languages is Bayt Laḥm ⓘ in Arabic, literally meaning "house of meat", and Bet Leḥem in Hebrew, literally "house of bread" or "house of food." The city was called in Ancient Greek: Βηθλεέμ Greek pronunciation: [bɛːtʰle.ém] and in Latin: Bethleem. Amarna letter EA290 makes reference to a town bīt-ninurta which has been read as ...
Hace 1 día · The Greek pankratiast caused his own death during the Olympic finals. Held by his unidentified opponent in a stranglehold and unable to free himself, Arrhichion kicked his opponent, causing him so much pain from a foot/ankle injury that the opponent made the sign of defeat to the umpires, but at the same time broke Arrhichion's neck.
