Sierra Leone is a constitutional republic with a directly elected president and a unicameral legislature. The current system of national government in Sierra Leone, established under the 1991 Constitu ...
Archaeological finds show that Sierra Leone has been inhabited continuously for at least 2,500 years, populated by successive cultures of peoples who migrated from other parts of Africa. The people ad ...
His name Eudoxus means "honored" or "of good repute" (in Greek ε?δοξο?, from eu "good" and doxa "opinion, belief, fame"). It is analogous to the Latin name Benedictus.Eudoxus's father Aeschines ...
Motivation for writing Herodotus seems to have traveled extensively around the ancient world, conducting interviews and collecting stories for his book. At the beginning of The Histories, Herodotus se ...
Some have credited Hecataeus with a work entitled Περ?οδο? γ?? (Periodos ges, "Travels round the Earth" or "World Survey"), written in two books. Each book is organized in the manner of a p ...
Anaximander (610–546 BC) is credited with introducing this Babylonian instrument to the Greeks. Oenopides used the phrase drawn gnomon-wise to describe a line drawn perpendicular to another. Later, t ...
According to Simplicius, Anaximander already speculated on the plurality of worlds, similar to atomists Leucippus and Democritus, and later philosopher Epicurus. These thinkers supposed that worlds ap ...
Anaximander, son of Praxiades, was born in the third year of the Olympiad (610 BC). According to Apollodorus of Athens, Greek grammarian of the 2nd century BC, he was sixty-four years old during the s ...
In the long sojourn of philosophy there has existed hardly a philosopher or historian of philosophy who did not mention Thales and try to characterize him in some way. He is generally recognized as ha ...
The current historical consensus is that Thales was born in the city of Miletus around the mid 620s BC. Miletus was an ancient Greek Ionian city on the western coast of Asia Minor (in what is today Ay ...
Throughout the centuries, Greeks and Greek speakers have been known by a number of names, including:Hellenes Homer refers to the "Hellenes" (/?h?li?nz/) as a relatively small tribe settled in Thess ...
The Odyssey began ten years after the end of the tenth-year Trojan War (the subject of the Iliad), and Odysseus has still not returned home from the war. Odysseus' son Telemachus is about 20 years old ...
Despite Mycenae and Troy being maritime powers, the Iliad features no sea battles. So, the Trojan shipwright (of the ship that transported Helen to Troy), Phereclus, fights afoot, as an infantryman. T ...
Note: Book numbers are in parentheses and come before the synopsis of the book.(1) After an invocation to the Muses, the story launches in medias res (in the middle of things) towards the end of the T ...
re-Hellenistic Classical GreeceReconstruction of Hecataeus' mapHomerAnaximanderHecataeus of MiletusMassaliote Periplus (?)Scylax of Caryanda (6th century BC)HerodotusHellenistic periodPytheas (died c. ...
