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It is easy to trace philosophical thought from Ancient Greece to Rome, to medieval Muslims, to the European Renaissance, to the modern day.ancient Greece = the Greek culture that provided much of the foundation of Western Civilization (from about 750 to 146 BC)
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Ah, everything was better in ancient Greece!† (source)
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We also find the belief, both in Ancient Greece and in other parts of the world, that people could learn their fate from some form of oracle.† (source)
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They date back to ancient Greece.† (source)
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It was a painting of a young man and woman in ancient Greek attire, both brandishing swords.† (source)
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But it was the ancient Greek stories written centuries before that Marcus loved most, especially the tales of the great heroes like Odysseus and Hercules.† (source)
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, is the most gloriously expressive since the ancient Greek?† (source)
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The rhetoricians of ancient Greece were the first teachers in the history of the Western world.† (source)
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But what if you were hurled into a time warp and came face to face with the ancient Greeks.† (source)
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Many of the ancient Greek gods, who most people believe were mythological, were actually the children of the humans and Loric, mainly because it was much more common then for us to be on this planet and we were helping them develop civilizations.† (source)
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The long lines of his body, running from his ankles to the flat hips, to the angle of the waist, to the straight shoulders, looked like a statue of ancient Greece, sharing that statue's meaning, but stylized to a longer, lighter, more active form and a gaunter strength, suggesting more restless an energy-the body, not of a chariot driver, but of a builder of airplanes.† (source)
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Dimensions in Mathematics was not strictly a textbook but rather a 1,200-page brick about the history of mathematics from the ancient Greeks to modern-day attempts to understand spherical astronomy.† (source)
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He took it from her fingers and opened it, reading, as she had, the single word of Ancient Greek scrawled in elaborate script across the top of the page.† (source)
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Modern cryptologists used segmented ciphers all the time, although the security scheme had been invented in ancient Greece.† (source)
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We do not meet for games of strength[1] or skill, for the recitation of histories, tragedies, and odes, like the ancient Greeks; for parliaments of love and poesy, like the Troubadours;[2] nor for the advancement of science, like our co-temporaries in the British and European capitals.† (source)
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Deo was behaving like one of those arrogant ancient Greek heroes who, victorious in a battle, succumbs to hubris, claims he's mastered fate, doesn't fear Ata's retaliation, and for his stupid boast gets visited by Nemesis.† (source)
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