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Archimedes Home Page

Archimedes Home Page Welcome to the Archimedes Home Page. Here, you will find a wealth of information about one of the greatest mathematicians, physicists, engineers, and inventors of all time. Archimedes, born in 287 BC in the city of Syracuse in Sicily, made significant contributions to various fields, including mathematics, physics, and engine...

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THE GREEK, INDIAN, & CHINESE ELEMENTS

The four classical elements were independently proposed by early Presocratic philosophers: water (Thales), air (Anaximenes), earth (Xenophanes), and fire (Heraclitus)....

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Daily Life Ancient Greece

We don't have a lot of information about everyday life in ancient Greece, because the routines and activities of ordinary people weren't written down. However, the objects that people used everday and representations of people in art, especially paintings on vases, give us a glimpse into what life was like in the ancient Greek world. Where did the ...

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The New, Consolidated DRJCLASSICS.COM website

The Survey of Audio-Visual Resources for Classics: Roman, Latin, Greek history, mythology, art, archaeology, philosophy, religion, culture, language and literature on cd video slides maps posters more....

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Hypatia - Great Woman Mathematician

Hypatia of Alexandria was a renowned mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who lived in the late 4th and early 5th centuries AD. She is considered one of the first notable female mathematicians in history and made significant contributions to the field during her lifetime. As the daughter of Theon, a mathematician and astronomer in Alexandria...

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Religion and Death

The ancient Greeks were a deeply religious people. They worshipped many gods whom they believed appeared in human form and yet were endowed with superhuman strength and ageless beauty. The Iliad and the Odyssey, our earliest surviving examples of Greek literature, record men's interactions with various gods and goddesses whose characters and appear...

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Greek Family

Most Greeks, like most other people throughout history, lived in families with a mother and a father and their children. Usually men got married when they were about twenty-five or thirty years old (as they do today), but women got married much younger, between twelve and sixteen years old....

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The Ancient Greek World.

Virtual gallery at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Also explore the other classical galleries in the Worlds Intertwined exhibit. [University of Pennsylvania]...

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Greek Vase Styles

The Greeks had around 20 different vase styles, each with its own function; each perfectly formed for its purpose, and with most of them exquisitely decorated. On its own, each and every kitchen, storage, funerary, cosmetic or wine vase was a unique work of art that must have embellished the everyday lives of the ordinary people of ancient Greece. ...

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The Greek Alphabet

The Greek alphabet came from the Phonecians around the year 900 B.C. When the Phonecians invented the alphabet there were 600 symbols. Those symbols took up too much room on the papyrus, so they narrowed it down to 22 symbols. The Greeks borrowed some of the symbols and then they made up some of their own. But the Phonecians, like other cultures, u...

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