Questions tagged [greek]
Questions related to the history of the language or culture of Greece.
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Was Alexander the Great Greek or Macedonian?
This question has been confusing me for a while. Was Alexander the Great Greek or Macedonian?
He was born in Pella, Macedonia, but is he considered Greek? Did nationality and ethnicity mean different ...
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What words were obliterated from the Great Colonnade at Palmyra?
One of the columns at the Great Colonnade at Palmyra features a dedicatory inscription to Zenobia and Odaenathus. It is bilingual, recording the same text in Greek and Palmyrenean:
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When was "diablo" first used to refer to the Devil?
I'd curious to know how and when the word diablo came to mean the Devil.
In Luc Ferry's A Brief History of Thought, he states:
The devil is rather one who, spiritually speaking, does everything in ...
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Did Greeks and Romans tolerate those who only worshipped some of their gods?
Did Greeks and Romans worship all their gods, or was it permissible to worship some of them only (e.g., only in Diana, Jupiter, Apollo, Mercury, etc.)?
{It seems it was permissible to worship some of ...
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