Founding mythMain article: Founding of RomeAccording to legend, Rome was founded in 753 BC by Romulus and Remus, who were raised by a she-wolf.According to the founding myth of Rome, the city was foun ...
Yasna or Jasna (Avestan for 'oblation' or 'worship', similar to sanskrit Yajna) is the name of the primary liturgical collection of texts of the Avesta as well as the name of the principal Zoroastrian ...
Avestan /??v?st?n/, formerly also known as "Zend" or "Old Bactrian", is an East Iranian language known only from its use as the language of Zoroastrian scripture, i.e. the Avesta, from which it de ...
Greek is spoken by about 13 million people, mainly in Greece, Albania and Cyprus, but also worldwide by the large Greek diaspora. There are traditional Greek-speaking settlements and regions in the ne ...
Papyrus /p??pa?r?s/ is a thin paper-like material made from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge that was once abundant in the Sudd of Southern Sudan along with the Nile ...
Cuneiform script is one of the earliest known systems of writing, distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt reed for a stylus. The name cuneiform itself simply ...
The Arabic name ?????? al-?Irāq has been in use since before the 6th century. There are several suggested origins for the name. One dates to the Sumerian city of Uruk (Biblical Hebrew Erech) a ...
The regional toponym Mesopotamia comes from the ancient Greek root words μ?σο? (meso) "middle" and ποταμ?? (potamia) "river" and literally means "(Land) between rivers". It is used through ...
Ancient Greece Poets (by date of birth) Homer, born near or before the beginning of the centuryHesiod, born near or before the beginning of the century in BoeotiaArchilochus of Paros (born c. 700)Alcm ...
The Vedic period (or Vedic age)(ca.1750-500 BCE) was a period in Indian history during which the Indo-Aryans settled into northern India, bringing with them their specific religious traditions. During ...
An epic (from the Ancient Greek adjective ?πικ?? (epikos), from ?πο? (epos) "word, story, poem") is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of he ...
Literacy is the ability to read and write. The inability to do so is called illiteracy or analphabetism. Visual literacy also includes the ability to understand visual forms of communication such as b ...
Literary theory in a strict sense is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature. However, literary scholarship since the 19th century often includes— ...
