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1Cyrus the Great — King of Āryāvarta[1][2], King of Persia, King of Anshan, King of Media, King of Babylon, King of Sumer and Akkad, King of the four corners of the World[ …
2Alexander the Great — This article is about the ancient king of Macedon. For other uses, see Alexander the Great (disambiguation). Alexander the Great Basileus of Macedon …
3Egypt in the Western imagination — has loomed large from the very first written texts in the Greek and Hebrew traditions. Egypt was already immemorially ancient to outsiders, and the idea of Egypt as a figment of the Western imagination has continued to be at least as influential… …
4Britomartis — For the butterfly genus, see Britomartis (butterfly). Dicte redirects here. For the fairy longhorn moth genus, see Dicte (moth). Britomartis (Βριτόμαρτις), was the Minoan goddess of mountains and hunting. She is among the Minoan goddess …
5Sorrento — Infobox CityIT img coa = Sorrento Stemma.png image caption=Vesuvius overlooking Sorrento and the Bay of Naples. official name = Comune di Sorrento name = Sorrento region = Campania province = Naples (NA) elevation m = 50 area total km2 = 9… …
6Poggio Bracciolini — Giovanni Francesco Poggio Bracciolini † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Giovanni Francesco Poggio Bracciolini An Italian humanist and historian; born at Terranuova, near Arezzo, in 1380; died at Florence, 10 Oct., 1459. He studied at Florence …
7Dionysus — Bacchus redirects here. For other uses, see Bacchus (disambiguation). This article is about the Greco Roman deity. For other uses of the names Dionysus and Dionysos , see Dionysos (disambiguation). For other uses of the theophoric name Dionysius …
8Charon's obol — Charon and Psyche (1883), a pre Raphaelite interpretation of the myth by John Roddam Spencer Stanhope Charon s obol is an allusive term for the coin placed in or on the mouth[1] of a dead person before burial. According to …
9Makedon (mythology) — For the Greek municipality see Makednos (municipality). Makedon, also Macedon or Makednos (Greek: Μακεδών), was the eponymous mythological ancestor of the ancient Macedonians according to various ancient Greek fragmentary narratives. In most… …
10Homer — This article is about the Greek poet Homer and the works attributed to him. For other meanings, see Homer (disambiguation). Homeric redirects here. For other uses, see Homeric (disambiguation). See also: English translations of Homer …
