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2 days ago · Today, the individual Indo-European languages with the most native speakers are English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, French and German each with over 100 million native speakers; many others are small and in danger of extinction. In total, 46% of the world's population (3.2 billion people) speaks an Indo-European ...
- Indo-European (Disambiguation)
Indo-European is a major language family of Europe, parts of...
- Indo-Iranian
Chart classifying Indo-Iranian languages within the...
- Proto-Indo-European Language
Modern Greek and Tsakonian are the only surviving varieties...
- Italic
Italic; Latino-Sabine, Italic–Venetic: Ethnicity: Originally...
- Language Family
Estimates of the number of language families in the world...
- Ancient Belgian
Ancient Belgian is a hypothetical extinct Indo-European...
- Proto-Indo-European Homeland
The Proto-Indo-European homeland was the prehistoric...
- Dacian
Dacian (/ ˈ d eɪ ʃ ə n /) is an extinct language generally...
- Cimmerian
The "mare-milkers" (Ancient Greek: ιππημολγοι, romanized:...
- Elymian
Elymian is the extinct language of the ancient Elymian...
- Indo-European (Disambiguation)
1 day ago · It lasted from c. 1200 BC – c. 600 AD and can be subdivided into the following periods: Greek Dark Ages (or Iron Age, Homeric Age), 1100–800 BC. Archaic period, 800–490 BC. Classical period, 490–323 BC. Hellenistic period, 323–146 BC. Roman Greece, covering the period of the Roman conquest of Greece from 146 BC – 324 AD.
2 days ago · Greek (Modern Greek: Ελληνική, romanized: Elliniká, pronounced; Ancient Greek: Ἑλληνική, romanized: Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
- 13.5 million (2012)
Mar 29, 2024 · The island was the birthplace of the ancient Greek poet Sappho, who lived around the 6th century BC. Sappho was known for her lyrical poems, many of which have been interpreted as expressing love and desire for other women. The etymology of the word “lesbian” is therefore commonly attributed to Sappho herself.
Mar 22, 2024 · World History Encyclopedia - Bellerophon (Mar. 22, 2024) Bellerophon with his horse Pegasus, stone bas-relief; in the Palazzo Spada, Rome. Bellerophon, hero in Greek legend. In the Iliad he was the son of Glaucus, who was the son of Sisyphus of Ephyre (traditionally Corinth). The wife of King Proetus of Argos—named Anteia (in Homer’s ...
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Apr 8, 2024 · Nike. Nike, sculpture from a bronze vessel, probably made in a Greek city of southern Italy, c. 490 bce; in the British Museum, London. (more) As an attribute of both Athena, the goddess of wisdom, and the chief god, Zeus, Nike was represented in art as a small figure carried in the hand by those divinities. Athena Nike was always wingless.
Apr 1, 2024 · Pappus’s Synagoge first became widely known among European mathematicians after 1588, when a posthumous Latin translation by Federico Commandino was printed in Italy. For more than a century afterward, Pappus’s accounts of geometric principles and methods stimulated new mathematical research, and his influence is conspicuous in the work of René Descartes (1596–1650), Pierre de Fermat ...