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• the catastrophe was the final resolution of Ancient Greek tragedies, in which one or more main characters usually died?
• the Delphic Hymns, written in stone between 138 and 128 BC in Ancient Greece, are the earliest surviving unambiguous notated music in the western world?
• the cabriole leg (pictured) is a furniture style occurring in ancient China and Greece that re-emerged in Europe around 1700?
• the Berlin Foundry Cup (pictured), an ancient Greek drinking cup by the Foundry Painter, depicts the operations of a bronze sculpture workshop?
• the Battle of Lechaeum was the first battle in ancient Greek history in which heavy infantry, or hoplites, were defeated by spear throwers, or peltasts?
• the Eurymedon vase has been cited as evidence of Ancient Greek sexual mores?
• the Gortyn code is the largest surviving piece of ancient Greek epigraphy?
• the sole surviving portion of the work of 4th-century musical writer Alypius is the chief source of modern knowledge of Greek musical notation?
• through Greek trading colonies like Al Mina on the Syrian coast the Phoenician alphabet was transmitted to ancient Greece in the 8th century BCE?
• the Sicilian cart is a colorful folk art form based on a cart design adopted from the ancient Greeks?
• the Ravi River was known as Paruṣṇī or Irāvatī to Indians in the Vedic period and as Hydraotes to the Ancient Greeks?
• the lyre arm design (pictured) has endured from prehistory and Ancient Greece through the American Federal Period?
• the barrel vault (pictured) was developed chiefly by the ancient Greeks and Romans, but endured to be a mainstay of medieval and even modern architecture?
• the nipples of the Ancient Greek statue Victorious Youth (pictured) were cast in copper to contrast with the bronze of the torso?
• Leslie Buck designed the Grecian-themed Anthora coffee cup, a cultural icon of New York City, to appeal to the city's Greek American restaurant owners?
• St Mary the Virgin Church (pictured) in Brighton, England, stands on the site of a former church—designed as a replica of the Greek Temple of Nemesis—which collapsed in 1876?
• double flowers were first documented as a floral abnormality in ancient Greece and are found in many common flower varieties including impatiens (example pictured), carnations, camellias and roses?
• climacteric years, occuring septennially, were considered critical and dangerous moments in an Ancient Greek's life?
• chryselephantine sculptures (fragments pictured) were monumental statues made of gold and ivory that depicted the gods in Ancient Greek temples?
• L'Année philologique (The Year in Philology) annually gathers scholarly work related to ancient Greece and Rome from approximately 2,000 sources?
• in ancient Greece, small bowls, such as pateras, were used for libations?
• the ancient Greek city of Cyme in Asia Minor was the largest and most important of the twelve cities of the Aeolians?
• the ancient Greek city of Psophis was said to have been ravaged by the Erymanthian Boar?
• the Greeks introduced wine to Romania around 3,000 years ago?
• more is known about Neaira, a hetaera who lived during the 4th century BC in ancient Greece, than any other prostitute in classical antiquity?
• in musique mesurée Renaissance composers attempted to bring back the musical traditions of Ancient Greece through the use of ancient meters and musical modes?
• ancient Greek klismos chairs became fashionable again in the late 18th century?

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