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  • marginalized by the use of Attic Greek by the Macedonian aristocracy, the Ancient Greek dialect that became the basis of Koine Greek, the lingua franca of the...
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    onomastic terminology, personal names of men are called andronyms (from Ancient Greek ἀνήρ / man, and ὄνομα / name), while personal names of women are called...
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    pseudonym (/ˈsjuːdənɪm/; from Ancient Greek ψευδώνυμος (pseudṓnumos) 'lit. falsely named') or alias (/ˈeɪli.əs/) is a fictitious name that a person assumes for...
    56 KB (6,436 words) - 02:19, 16 March 2024
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    Helios (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Helios (/ˈhiːliəs, -ɒs/; Ancient Greek: Ἥλιος pronounced [hɛ̌ːlios], lit. 'Sun'; Homeric Greek: Ἠέλιος) is the...
    307 KB (33,993 words) - 04:24, 10 April 2024
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    Education in Greece is centralized and governed by the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs (Greek: Υπουργείο Παιδείας και Θρησκευμάτων, Υ.ΠΑΙ.Θ...
    205 KB (13,391 words) - 12:18, 29 March 2024
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    Cleopatra (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    rulers to speak the native language, Late Egyptian, is why Ancient Greek (i.e. Koine Greek) was used along with Late Egyptian on official court documents...
    216 KB (24,524 words) - 17:32, 19 April 2024
  • Public speaking (category CS1 errors: generic name)
    also studied in Ancient Greece and Rome, where it was analyzed by prominent thinkers as a central part of rhetoric. The Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle...
    44 KB (5,184 words) - 19:27, 13 April 2024
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    Egyptologist, stated that "by the almost unanimous testimony of ancient Greek historians, they Ancient Egyptians belonged to the African race, which settled in...
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  • Mongols into the 17th century, clan names were not linked with the personal name in a family name system. Clan name is still important among the Buryats...
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    Hephaestion (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    Hephaestion (Ancient Greek: Ἡφαιστίων Hephaistíon; c. 356 BC  –  October 324 BC), son of Amyntor, was an ancient Macedonian nobleman of probable "Attic...
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  • *Kóryos (category Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from August 2023)
    *kóryos' (here attached to the suffix -nos 'master of'), is also attested: Ancient Greek koíranos 'army-leader', Old Norse Herjan (< PGmc *harjanaz 'army-leader')...
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    Neith (category Articles containing Ancient Egyptian-language text)
    Neith /ˈniː.ɪθ/ (Koinē Greek: Νηΐθ, a borrowing of the Demotic form Ancient Egyptian: nt, likely originally to have been nrt "she is the terrifying one";...
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  • Atheism in ancient Greece)
    skepticism and secularism against religion in Europe.[page needed] In early ancient Greek, the adjective átheos (ἄθεος, from the privative ἀ- + θεός "god") meant...
    106 KB (12,959 words) - 14:33, 17 April 2024
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    achievements of ancient civilizations. In 1888 Max Müller, who had himself inaugurated the racial interpretations of the Rigveda, denounced talk of an "Aryan...
    87 KB (9,964 words) - 14:40, 22 April 2024
  • Ancient Agean civilization)
    Minoan), the Greek Mycenaean civilization spreads to Crete, probably by military conquest. The earlier Aegean farming populations of Neolithic Greece brought...
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