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19 hours ago · Hera was the tutelary goddess of Argos and it is possible that she had Mycenean origin. [1] Martin P. Nilsson suggested that Hera is mainly the "Argeiē" (Ἀργείη), a name given by Homer [50] which describes her not as Greek, but as an Argive goddess. She is the protector of the citadel. [51]
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19 hours ago · The ancient Greek astronomers named the planets they could see with the naked eye after some of their gods and goddesses. They named the planets Hermes, Aphrodite, Ares, Zeus, and Cronus. Then the Romans began calling the planets by their Roman equivalent names of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, and those are the names we still use ...
19 hours ago · ʿAštart of Afqa, who possessed erotic traits, was a goddess of the planet Venus as the Evening Star which brought together the sexes. This goddess later identified in Graeco-Roman times with the Greek goddess Aphrodite Urania (lit. ' the Celestial Aphrodite ').
19 hours ago · 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 ancient and modern Western philosophy, including through the works of Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, and Heidegger.
19 hours ago · Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq, Syria, and the Mediterranean Sea (and Cyprus) to the south; and the Aegean Sea, Greece, and Bulgaria to the west.
19 hours ago · The Caryatid porch of the Erechtheion in Athens. Greek temples ( Ancient Greek: ναός, romanized : naós, lit. 'dwelling', semantically distinct from Latin templum, "temple") were structures built to house deity statues within Greek sanctuaries in ancient Greek religion. The temple interiors did not serve as meeting places, since the ...
19 hours ago · The Qedarites ( Ancient North Arabian: 𐪄𐪕𐪇, romanized: qdr) were an ancient tribal confederation of Arabia centred in their capital Dumat al-jandal in the Al-Jawf Province. Attested from the 9th century BC, the Qedarites formed a powerful polity which expanded its territory throughout the 9th to 7th centuries BC to cover a large area ...
