The ancient Persian and Greek cultures did not exist in isolation. There was cross-fertilization. The present article describes several aspects of Persia's influence on Greece.Architecture
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Ariaramnes (Old Persian: Ariyâramna): name of the great-grandfather of the Persian king Darius I the Great. He must have ruled in the first quarter of the sixth century BCE.Ariaramnes is mentioned in the prologue of the Behistun Inscription, in which its…
Aristaenetus: Late Roman or Early Byzantine author of a collection of fictional, literary love letters.Biographical information
Byzantine portrait, first half of…
Aristophanes (c.445-c.380): Athenian poet, author of many comedies, of which eleven survive.
Aristophanes
The comedies of the Athenian playwright Aristophanes are a…
Aristotle (384-322): greatest philosopher of Antiquity, teacher of Alexander the Great.
Aristotle
Plato's most famous student was Aristotle of Stagira, the son of…
Alexander's teacher Aristotle of Stagira wrote a short treatise On the cosmos, to Alexander. It was a brief treatise on several sciences, such as physics, meteorology, geography, theology. For more than a century, scholars have considered On the cosmos as…
Among the many gems that can be found in the Corpus Aristotelicum (the collected works of Aristotle of Stagira) is one little gem that was probably not written by the great philosopher himself: the Constitution of the Athenians. As is…
Among the many gems that can be found in the Corpus Aristotelicum (the collected works of Aristotle of Stagira) is one little gem that was probably not written by the great philosopher himself: the Constitution of the Athenians. As is…