Samian
111Yorkhill — is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated north of the River Clyde in the West End of the city. It is known for its famous hospitals; the Royal Hospital for Sick Children and the Queen Mother s Maternity Hospital.The ancient… …
112Risinghurst — is a quiet outlying residential area of Oxford, England, situated just outside the Eastern Bypass road which forms part of the Oxford ring road. It is around a mile from the centre of Headington and convert|3|mi|km from Oxford city centre. It is… …
113Rhoecus — (or Rhœcus, Rhoikos) was a Samian sculptor of the 6th century BCE. He and his son Theodorus were especially noted for their work in bronze. Herodotus says that Rhoecus built the temple of Hera at Samos, which was destroyed by fire c. 530 BCE. In… …
114Pjetër Bogdani — (ca. 1630 1689), known in Italian as Pietro Bogdano , is the most original writer of early literature in Albania. He is author of the Cuneus Prophetarum ( The Band of the Prophets ), 1685, the first prose work of substance written originally in… …
115Thrasyllus — was an Athenian strategos (general) and statesman who rose to prominence in the later years of the Peloponnesian War. First appearing in Athenian politics in 410 BC, in the wake of the Athenian coup of 411 BC, he played a role in organizing… …
116Dalry, North Ayrshire — Coordinates: 55°42′40″N 4°43′23″W / 55.711°N 4.723°W / 55.711; 4.723 …
117Barbotine — is a technique of pottery decoration involving the application of a slip to the pot, not in an even layer but in the form of thick incrustations in patches or trails. In certain types of pottery the barbotine decoration may form a picture or a… …
118Ceramic art — Etruscan: Diomedes and Polyxena, from the Etruscan amphora of the Pontic group, ca. 540–530 BC. From Vulci …
119Ancient Macedonian calendar — The Ancient Macedonian calendar is a lunisolar calendar that was in use in ancient Macedon in the 1st millennium BC. It consisted of 12 synodic lunar months (i.e. 354 days per year), which needed intercalary months to stay in step with the… …
120Pericles' Funeral Oration — is a famous speech from Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War . [Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War , 2.34 2.46. ] The speech was delivered by Pericles, an eminent Athenian politician, at the end of the first year of the… …
