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• Perseus Digital Library
  ...and memories of early America. Contains perhaps the largest collection of ancient Greek texts that is to be found anywhere.
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• Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
  ...s of ancient [[Greece]] and [[Rome]]. The dictionary covers key aspects of ancient Greek and Roman life and [[literature]], such as [[science]], social struct
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• Ancient
  [[File:lighterstill.jpg]][[File:Ancient-egypt-map.jpg|right|frame]] '''Ancient''' [[history]] is the [[study]] of the [[written]] [[past]] from the beginn
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• Auctoritas
  ...use in English was restricted to discussions of the political [[history of Rome]], the beginning of [[phenomenology|phenomenological]] philosophy in the tw In [[Ancient Rome]], ''Auctoritas'' referred to the general level of prestige a person had in
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• Amphitheater
  ...rising tiers of seats ranged about an open [[space]] and used in ancient [[Rome]] especially for contests and [[spectacle]]s ...wn as [[natural]] amphitheatres. Special [[events]] and games were held in ancient [[Roman]] amphitheatres, such as the gladiator [[games]].
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• Dictionary of World Mythology
  ...''A Dictionary of World Mythology'' presents the powerful gods of Greece, Rome, and Scandinavia, the more mystical deities of Buddhist and Hindu India, an
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• Magistrate
  A '''magistrate''' is a [[judicial]] officer; in ancient [[Rome]], the [[word]] magistratus denoted one of the highest government officers ...nd [[executive]] [[power]], together constituting one [[jurisdiction]]. In Rome itself, the highest magistrates were members of the so-called [https://en.w
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• Augur
  The derivation of the word ''augur'' is uncertain; [[ancient]] authors believed that it contained the words ''avi'' and ''gero''—Latin ...an official diviner of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome ancient Rome]
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• Latin
  ...red with mostly [[analytic]] languages such as English, which has lost the ancient noun-case system inherited from [[Proto-Indo-European]] except in pronouns,
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• Orgy
  *1 : [[secret]] ceremonial [[rites]] held in [[honor]] of an ancient [[Greek]] or [[Roman]] [[deity]] and usually characterized by [[ecstatic]] In ancient [[Greek]] [[religion]], an orgy (όργιον) was a [[secret]] nighttime [
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• Temple
  ...a often capitalized : either of two [[successive]] national sanctuaries in ancient [[Jerusalem]] ...set of [[meanings]] [[associated]] with the [[religion]] of the ancient [[Rome]], has now become quite widely used to describe a house of [[worship]] for
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• Suburb
  ...to live on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Hills_of_Rome hills of Rome], while [[poorer]] citizens lived at lower elevations – hence "below the
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• Classics
  ...uring the time known as [[classical antiquity]], roughly spanning from the Ancient Greek [[Bronze Age]] in 1000 [[BCE]] to the [[Dark Ages]] circa [[Common Er ...eastern Mediterranean—the ancient [[Persian Empire]] and the [[kingdoms of ancient India]]—are termed [[Orientalists]].
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• Letter
  ...ist from the [[time]] of ancient India, ancient Egypt and Sumer, through [[Rome]], [[Greek|Greece]] and China, up to the present day. Letters make up sever
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• Candidate
  ...idus white; from the white toga worn by candidates for office in ancient [[Rome]]
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• Auspice
  In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Rome ancient Roman religion], the auspices provided divine [[signs]] to be [[interpreted ...one which is connected with the founding of [[Rome]]. Once the founders of Rome, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus Romulus] and [https://en.wikipedia.
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• Incubation
  ...n [[techniques]], but they sometimes incorporate elements reflecting these ancient [[beliefs]].
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• Accountability
  ...that first developed in Ancient Israel, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, and later, Rome. # Walzer, Michael (1994). "The Legal Codes of Ancient Israel". In Ian Shapiro. the Rule of Law. NY: New York University Press. pp
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• Occident
  ...[[civilizations]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Near_East ancient Near East]; later, they grew to the north and west to include Western Europ ...i/Islamic_Golden_Age Islamic Golden Age]. The Arab importation of both the Ancient and new technology from the Middle East and the [[Orient]] to Renaissance E
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• Doll
  ...iki/Ancient_Greece Greece] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Rome]. The use of dolls as toys was documented in Greece around 100 AD. They hav
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