Herodotus (/ h ə ˈ r ɒ d ə t ə s / hə-ROD-ə-təs; Ancient Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, romanized: Hēródotos; c. 484 – c. 425 BC) was an ancient Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria ().He is known for having written the Histories – a detailed account of the ...

Etymology. Labyrinth is a word of pre-Greek origin whose derivation and meaning are uncertain. Maximillian Mayer suggested as early as 1892 that labyrinthos might derive from labrys, a Lydian word for "double-bladed axe". Arthur Evans, who excavated the palace of Knossos in Crete early in the 20th century, suggested that the palace was the original labyrinth, and since the double …

Cyrene (/ s aɪ ˈ r iː n i / sy-REE-nee) or Kyrene (/ k aɪ ˈ r iː n i / ky-REE-nee; Ancient Greek: Κυρήνη, romanized: Kyrḗnē, Standard Arabic: شحات, romanized: Shaḥāt), was an ancient Greek and later Roman city near present-day Shahhat, Libya.It was the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities, known as the pentapoleis, in the region.It gave eastern Libya the ...

Ancient Egyptian technology describes devices and technologies invented or used in Ancient Egypt.The Egyptians invented and used many simple machines, such as the ramp and the lever, to aid construction processes.They used rope trusses to stiffen the beam of ships. Egyptian paper, made from papyrus, and pottery were mass-produced and exported throughout the …

Formal theory. Formally, a string is a finite, ordered sequence of characters such as letters, digits or spaces. The empty string is the special case where the sequence has length zero, so there are no symbols in the string.

In social science and politics, power is the social production of an effect that determines the capacities, actions, beliefs, or conduct of actors. Power does not exclusively refer to the threat or use of force by one actor against another, but may also be exerted through diffuse means (such as institutions).Power may also take structural forms, as it orders actors in relation to one …

Ethnography begins in classical antiquity; after early authors like Anaximander and Hecataeus of Miletus, Herodotus laid the foundation of both historiography and ethnography of the ancient world c. 480 BC.The Greeks had developed a concept of their own "ethnicity", which they grouped under the name of Hellenes.Herodotus (8.144.2) gave a famous account of what defined …

Droit du seigneur ('right of the lord'), also known as ius primae noctis ('right of the first night'), was a supposed legal right in medieval Europe, allowing feudal lords to have sexual relations with subordinate women, in particular, on the wedding nights of the women.. A majority of historians have concluded that the idea is a myth and that all references to it are from later periods.

La batalla de Platea (en griego moderno Μάχη των Πλαταιών/Machē tōn Plataiōn, [6] en persa جنگ پلاته) fue la última batalla terrestre de la segunda guerra médica.Se libró en el 479 a. C. cerca de la ciudad griega de Platea, en Beocia, y en ella se enfrentaron una alianza de ciudades-estado de la antigua Grecia, la liga panhelénica, compuesta por Esparta, Atenas ...

The Nekromanteion (Greek: Νεκρομαντεῖον) was an ancient Greek temple of necromancy devoted to Hades and Persephone.According to tradition, it was located on the banks of the Acheron river in Epirus, near the ancient city of Ephyra.This site was believed by devotees to be the door to Hades, the realm of the dead.The site is at the meeting point of the Acheron, …