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	Anaximander Anaximander , c.611-c.547 BC, Greek philosopher, b. Miletus; pupil of Thales . He made the first attempt to offer a detailed explanation of all aspects of nature. Anaximander argued that since there are so many different sorts of things, they must all have originated from something less... Read more
	Greek mythology Greek Mythology The mythology of the ancient Greeks included a dazzling array of deities, demigods,monsters, and heroes. These figures inhabited a realm that stretched beyond the Greek landscape to the palaces of the gods on snow-capped Mount Olympus, as well as to the... Read more
	Isadora Duncan Isadora Duncan , 1878-1927, American dancer, b. San Francisco. She had little success in the United States when she first created dances based on Greek classical art. But in Budapest (1903), Berlin (1904), and later in London and New York City (1908), she triumphed. An innovator, pioneer, and... Read more
	Aristophanes Aristophanes , c.448 BC-c.388 BC, Greek playwright, Athenian comic poet, greatest of the ancient writers of comedy . His plays, the only full extant samples of the Greek Old Comedy, mix political, social, and literary satire. The direct attack on persons, the severity of invective, and the... Read more
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	Neapolis Neapolis [Gr.,=new city], name of many cities in ancient Greek and Roman times. The most important is the modern Naples , Italy.... Read more
	Livius Andronicus Livius Andronicus , fl. 3d cent. BC, Roman poet, a Greek, b. Tarentum (Taranto). He was captured and made a slave at the fall of Tarentum and was freed by his master, a Livian noble, hence his name. Later he became a teacher and an actor. He introduced Greek literature into Rome, translating the ... Read more
	ancient Greek literature ancient Greek literature the writings of the ancient Greeks. The Greek Isles are recognized as the birthplace of Western intellectual life. Early Writings The earliest extant European literary works are the Iliad and the Odyssey, both written in ancient Greek probably before 700 BC, and... Read more
	Beauty beauty In Greek mythology, Paris was called to judge who of three goddesses, Aphrodite, Hera, and Pallas Athene, was the fairest. Eris, the goddess of discord, started the trouble when she appeared at a wedding, and threw a golden apple inscribed ‘For the Fairest’. The result was a... Read more
	army army large armed land force, under regular military control, organization, and discipline. Ancient Armies Although armies existed in ancient Egypt, China, India, and Assyria, Greece was the first country known for a disciplined military land force. The Greeks made military service obligatory for... Read more