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31Boeotia — Boeotia, Beotia, or Bœotia (Greek: Βοιωτία English IPAEng|biːˈoʊʃiə), formerly Cadmeis, was a region of ancient Greece, north of the eastern part of the Gulf of Corinth. It was bounded on the south by Megaris and the Kithairon mountain range that …
32Epimenides — of Knossos (Crete) (Greek: polytonic|Ἐπιμενίδης ) was a semi mythical 6th century BC Greek seer and philosopher poet, who is said to have fallen asleep for fifty seven years in a Cretan cave sacred to Zeus, after which he reportedly awoke with… …
33Lost work — A lost work is a document or literary work produced some time in the past of which no surviving copies are known to exist. Works may be lost to history either through the destruction of the original manuscript, or through the non survival of any… …
34Foie gras — Pâté de foie gras redirects here. For the story by Isaac Asimov, see Pâté de Foie Gras (short story). Fat liver redirects here. For the medical condition, see Fatty liver. Foie gras with mustard seeds and green onions in duck jus …
35Deipnosophistae — Frontispiece to the 1657 edition of the Deipnosophists, edited by Isaac Casaubon, in Greek and Latin The Deipnosophistae (deipnon, dinner , and sophistai, professors ; original Greek title Δειπνοσοφισταί, Deipnosophistai, English Deipnosophists)… …
36Aeolic Greek — For the architectural style, see Aeolic order. Distribution of Greek dialects in the classical period.[1] Western group …
37The Acharnians — The tipsy god: sculpture by Michelangelo. The Dramatis Personae in ancient comedy depends on interpretation of textual evidence.[1] This list is based on Alan Sommerstein s translation.[2] …
38Hegemon of Thasos — ( el. ήγεμών ό Θάσος) was a Greek writer of the Old Comedy. Hardly anything is known of him, except that he flourished during the Peloponnesian War. According to Aristotle ( Poetics , ii. 5) he was the inventor of a kind of parody; by slightly… …
39On Famous Women — (Latin: De mulieribus claris ) is one of two such collections of biographies of famous people written by Giovanni Boccaccio, the Florentine author from Certaldo. The other work of his is De Casibus Virorum Illustrium , a collection of 56… …
40Athenian pederasty — entailed a formal bond between an adult man and an adolescent boy outside his immediate family, consisting of loving and often sexual relations. As an erotic and educational custom it was initially employed by the upper class as a means of… …
