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Scythia
Scythia , ancient region of Eurasia, extending from the Danube on the west to the borders of China on the east. The Scythians flourished from the 8th to the 4th cent. BC They spoke an Indo-Iranian language but had no system of writing. They were nomadic conquerors and skilled horsemen. They seem t... Read more
Pontus
Pontus ancient country, NE Asia Minor (now Turkey), on the Black Sea coast. On its inland side were Cappadocia and W Armenia. It was not significantly penetrated by Persian or Hellenic civilization. In the 4th cent. BC, Pontus was taken over by a Persian family, profiting by the breakup of the empi... Read more
cuneiform
cuneiform [Lat.,=wedge-shaped], system of writing developed before the last centuries of the 4th millennium BC in the lower Tigris and Euphrates valley, probably by the Sumerians. The characters consist of arrangements of wedgelike strokes generally impressed with a stylus on wet clay tablets, wh... Read more
Cephisodotus
Cephisodotus , Gr. Kephisodotos, fl. 4th cent. BC, two Greek sculptors. The elder, the master and probably the father or the brother of Praxiteles, is noted for the statue Irene and Plutus [Peace and Wealth]. The original was erected on the Areopagus at Athens c.372 BC to celebrate the victory o... Read more
Anatolian languages
Anatolian languages , subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see The Indo-European Family of Languages , table); the term "Anatolian languages" is also used to refer to all languages, Indo-European and non-Indo-European, that were spoken in Anatolia in ancient times. The progress m... Read more
Samnites
Samnites , people of ancient Italy. Their country was Samnium . The Samnites were Oscan-speaking and therefore should be included among the Sabelli. The Tabula Agnonensis, a bronze tablet that carries an inscription engraved in the full Oscan alphabet, is an important record of the language. The ... Read more
Sanskrit
Sanskrit , language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Indo-Iranian ). Sanskrit was the classical standard language of ancient India, and some of the oldest surviving Indo-European documents are written in Sanskrit; however, Hitt... Read more
Palestrina
Palestrina , town (1991 pop. 15,802), in Latium, central Italy. It is an agricultural market. It is located on the site of Praeneste, a town founded by c.800 BC and later destroyed (and rebuilt) by the Romans in the 1st cent. BC Of note are the ruins of a temple of Fortuna (8th cent. BC), celebrated... Read more
Germans
Germans great ethnic complex of ancient Europe, a basic stock in the composition of the modern peoples of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, N Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, N and central France, Lowland Scotland, and England. From archaeology it is clear... Read more
Achaean League
Achaean League , confederation of cities on the Gulf of Corinth. The First Achaean League, about which little is known, was formed presumably before the 5th cent. BC and lasted through the 4th cent. BC Its purpose was mutual protection against pirates. The Achaeans remained aloof from the wars in Gr... Read more

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Germans
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Their rise to significance (4th cent. BC) in the history of Europe began...them in Norway and Jutland in the 4th cent. BC, their real appearance in history...Commentaries tell little. As the centuries passed the Germans became increasingly...
Seven Wonders of the ancient World
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...World Designated in the 2nd century bc by the Greek poet, Antipatus...Egyptian Pyramids From c. 2700 bc Hanging Gardens of Babylon 6th century bc Temple of Artemis (Diana...now, Bodrum) Asia Minor 4th century bc Colossus of Rhodes...
Anatolian languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...texts owes much to 20th-century scholarship. These Anatolian...about the 2d millennium BC and gradually became extinct during the first few centuries AD They include Cuneiform...early in the 2d millennium BC The oldest surviving written...the 15th or 14th cent. BC, are among the ...
Ionia
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...in Greece in the 11th and 10th centuries bc . Miletus and Ephesus became the...conquered by the Persians in the 6th century bc , then fell under Athenian domination...Persians regained control in the 4th century bc . After the conquests of Alexander...
Scythia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...flourished from the 8th to the 4th cent. BC They spoke an Indo-Iranian...They invaded (7th cent. BC) upper Mesopotamia and...Balkan Peninsula, and a century later the mysterious campaign...I against them (c.512 BC) may have checked their...
Greek Drama
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...maturity in the 5th and 4th centuries BC was in fact Athenian drama...specialists, and in the 5th century individual actors seem...decline of tragedy in the 4th century they became more...name include, in the 4th century, Polus, said...
textiles
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...fabrics dating from 5000 BC have been discovered in...woven in India since 3000 BC, and silk has been woven in China since at least 1000 BC About the 4th cent. AD, Constantinople...imported from China. A century later silk culture spread...
cuneiform
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...writing developed before the last centuries of the 4th millennium BC in the lower Tigris and Euphrates...Persian conquest of Babylonia (539 BC), and after a brief renaissance...Achaemenids (mid-6th cent. BC-4th cent. BC), whose greatest monument...
biography
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Persian rock faces (c.520 BC). All these records proclaimed...the Dialogues of Plato (4th cent. BC) and the Gospels of the...himself in his Confessions (4th cent.), comparing his...and debunk. Twentieth-century biographers often sought...
Thebes
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...during the Persian Wars , and during the 5th century bc was continually in conflict with Athens...peak of its power under Epaminondas in the 4th century bc , defeating the Spartans at Leuctra in 371 bc, and invading the Peloponnese. In 336 bc...

Dictionary entries related to "4th century BC"

Confucianism
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Fu Tzu) ( c. 551–479 BC) in the 6th century BC and developed by Mencius ( Meng-tzu) ( c. 371– c. 289 BC) in the 4th century BC, one of the two major Chinese ideologies. The basic...
Athens
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...successfully challenged by SOLON in 594 BC. Tyranny was established by PISISTRATUS...DEMOCRACY on to a firm footing. In 490 BC and 480–479 the city...walls. It recovered remarkably in the 4th century BC and led the resistance to PHILIP II...
Morocco
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...an expanding source of revenue. History By the 5th century BC PHOENICIANS had stations on the Moroccan coast, when...of Mauritania was formed in northern Morocco in the 4th century BC; the Romans made it the province of Mauritania Tingitana...
Leochares
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...Athenian) sculptor active in the mid-4th century bc. He is recorded in several ancient sources but is an elusive figure. In about 350 bc he is thought to have worked with Scopas...finest Greek sculptures to survive from the 4th century.
Scopas of Paros
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...most celebrated Greek sculptors, active in the mid-4th century bc. He is recorded as working on the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus...as the leading Greek sculptor of the mid- to late 4th century bc, his work heralding the emotionalism of Hellenistic...
Georgia
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...distinctive state since the 4th century BC. In the 3rd century AD it became part...The 12th and 13th centuries saw territorial expansion...some two and a half centuries of partition, the...Throughout the 19th century, Tzarist Russia continued...
Teuton
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Teuton a member of a people who lived in Jutland in the 4th century bc and fought the Romans in France in the 2nd century bc ; from the mid 19th century, the term was used generally to denote Germanic-speaking races and peoples.
encaustic painting
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...have been Pausias in the 4th century bc , and the most remarkable...Faiyum , dating from the early centuries ad . Pliny (in the 1st century ad ) describes two methods...painting technique in the early centuries of the Christian era but...
Lysippus
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...Sicyon, near Corinth, active in the middle and later 4th century bc. He was one of the most famous of Greek sculptors...career (he worked from perhaps as early as c. 360 bc to as late as c. 305 bc and Pliny said he made 1,500 works—...
Achaean League
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...region of Achaea in north-east Greece. In the 4th century BC an alliance was forged which was dissolved in 338 BC. It was refounded in 280 BC, under the leadership of Aratus of Sicyon. It...

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Praxiteles & Co un-Ltd: the Louvre's ambitious exhibition on the great 4th-century BC sculptor has suffered from Greek cultural blackmail.(EXHIBITIONS)(Brief biography)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 6/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...spirit of 4th-century BC Athens seems absent in...wrote in the 1st century BC that 'Praxiteles is known...Peloponnesian war (431-404 BC), a hiatus of a generation...324. At the end of the 4th century the subtlety and refinement...For the five following centuries, ...
4TH CENTURY BC ARTIFACTS FOUND IN RUSSIA
News Wire article from: United Press International; 8/19/2004; 269 words ; United Press International 08-19-2004 4th century BC artifacts found in Russia ORENBURG, Russia, Aug 19...Archaeologists have found household items and weapons from the 4th century BC in the southern Siberian region of Orenburg, the Interfax...
Growing old beautifully.(Pazyryk rug found in 1949 in Siberia and dates from 5th or 4th century B.C.)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 12/19/1998; 606 words ; ...easily get it wrong by a century or two, which for a carpet...survives. Early this century a number of old carpets...dated to the 13th or 14th century were found in mosques...was dated to the 5th or 4th century BC. Subsequent excavations...
Theme & variation: the autumn fair in Hamburg: as well as outstanding 20th-century German art, the 10th Fine Art Fair in Hamburg offers fine antiquities, decorative arts and photography, together with a musical exhibition.(Hamburg, Germany)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 9/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...Kunsthandel, who specialise in 20th-century works on paper, will also be exhibiting...showing antiquities, including a 4th-century BC statuette of Pan, and Georgia Chrischialles offers 11th-century Indonesian gold jewellery. There...
WAR ON TERROR: 21st century conflict - US to unleash Stealth bombers and robots
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/7/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...and space-age hi-tech at the same time, the 21st century's first war, if it comes, will match all the wilder...military theorists have stayed the course. Sun Tzu, in the 4th century BC, reminded his readers that winning 100 victories in...
The Study of the Ancient Near East in the 21st Century: The William Foxwell Albright Centennial Conference
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 6/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Nagada I Egypt (4th millennium BC) with various artifacts...through the 16th century BC, or even into the 15th century with the campaigns...continue with the next century. Yet, he sets forth...Judah in the 8th-7th Centuries B.C.E." has...
Early pioneers of decorated glass ; It is easy to appreciate the attraction of early English drinking glasses to the collector. Although glass and wine were available as early as the third millennium BC, the two were not united earlier than the first century BC, when the knowledge of blowing glass had advanced enough to create drinking glasses.
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK); 12/10/2008; 700+ words ; ...as early as the third millennium BC, the two were not united earlier than the first century BC, when the knowledge of blowing glass...there is a goblet dating from the 4th century AD in Worthing Museum, but it was...
THE PAST IS NOW
Newspaper article from: Monterey County Weekly; 2/9/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...that, as he sees it, were first established in the 4th century BC by the Greek sculptor Polykleitos, and later codified...Virtue," painted in 1993, depicts a tale told in the 4th centrury BC by Xenophon, in which the mythic hero is tempted by...
A selection of 2003 museum acquisitions.
Magazine article from: Apollo; 12/1/2003; 700+ words ; ...Crete, second half of 7th century BC. Bronze, ht 48.9 and...Greek, mid-7th century BC. Bronze, ht 23 cm [ILLUSTRATION...Bronze Age, c. 1700-1500 BC. Gold, c. 11.2-14...Achaemenid, late 5th- early 4th century BC. Gold, diam...
The nervous system in antiquity.(History of Medicine)(Report)
Magazine article from: South African Medical Journal; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...had its heyday in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC (the Alexandrian School...by Galen in the 2nd century AD, neurophysiology...Corpus (mainly 5th and 4th centuries BC) presented divergent...the soul. During the 4th century BC, the Stoics, Epicurians...