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Glossaries
of Interest to Theosophists
Glossary
of
the
Ancient Greek World
Antiokhia: Ancient city founded near the banks of the
Apollon: God of beauty, virtue, fine arts, music and soothsaying (prophecy)
Akhaeos: General of the Seleucid king Seleucos III, who lived in the second half of the 3rd
century B.C.
Apameia: Ancient city founded in the Hellenistic period
near Dinar in Afyon.
Antonius: Famous lover of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra
who committed suicide by a snake bite in 30 B.C. and who ruled
(Augustus).
Arch: An
opening with a semi-round slope on top built for a gate or a passage.
Architrave:
The horizontal beam, plain or with fasciae, placed on top of the columns.
Byzantine
Period: The period between the years A.D. 395-1453.
century.
Caria: In antiquity the name
of the region in Western Asia Minor, which encompasses the Köyceğiz
and the Dalaman (
Classical
Period: The period which refers to the golden age of art in 480-330 B.C.
Cibyra Conventus: In the ancient period the regional judicial center also
called Cibyratica, which comprised some of the cities
of the
Common
Coinage: Coinage struck together by ancient cities that had commercial treaties
among each other and which was valid in these cities.
Cicero:
Famous Roman orator and statesman who was consul in A.D. 63
Commodus: Roman Emperor in A.D. 180-192.
Cavea: Rows of seats for spectators in theaters.
Caracalla: Roman Emperor in A.D. 211-217.
Constantinus: Roman Emperor in A.D. 306-337.
Domitian: Roman Emperor in A.D. 81-91.
Mycenaean
pottery, it is located in the borders of the administrative district (borough)
of Selçuk. The cities of Lycos in particular were
exporting their textile products to the ancient world through the
Geison: Hellenic name of Cornice.
Ganymedes: In mythology, the
chief god Zeus disguised as an eagleabducted the
handsome youth Ganymedes, who was considered the most
beautiful of the mortals. In Olympos
(the highest
Gladiator:
Warriors who had to fight with wild beasts or humans in the arenas in the Roman
Period.
Gymnasium:
Schools where athletic and
educational activities took place in the ancient period.
Hippodamian Plan: A grid-shaped city plan system, which laid
out roads and streets intersecting each other in opposite directions. It was
developed in the Hellenistic Period by architect Hippodamus.
Hoyuk: An artificial mound created by the accumulation
of building levels as a result of the settlement of people in the same place
for thousands of years.
Hellenistic
Period: Period beginning with the Macedonian King Alexander the Great in 330 B.C.
and continuing till the
Hadrian:
Roman Emperor in A.D. 117-138.
products of earth, the revival and the greening of
nature, fertility, abundance and fruitfulness, sea and the underworld and
sorcery.
Laodike: The queen who was the wife of Seleucid king
Antiochus II.
Labienus: The general who waged war against the Romans
with the Parthian Kingdom, and destroyed Mylasa, Laodikeia and Kolossai and was
later killed by the Romans in
Lydia: Famous
state and region in antiquity, which was founded within the borders of the Manisa and Usak provinces with
its capital
Miletos: One of the most important Ionic cities in the
ancient period founded in the Söke-Balat borders.
Minotauros: In mythology the bull that lived in the
labyrinth in
Narthex: The
name of court in Byzantine churches
Niche: Small
recess.
Nero: Roman
Emperor in A.D. 54-68.
Nymphaeum: Monumental fountain building.
Nysa: An ancient city founded in Sultanhisar
in the Hellenistic Period.
Odeon: A
school for musical performances.
Pergamon: One of the most important cities in
Phrygia
Region: In the ancient period the region, which
comprised of the Lycos (Çürüksu) Plain, and the
vicinity of Afyon and
antiquity was the westernmost border of the Phrygian
Region.
Ptolemaids: The kingdom founded in
Proconsul:
The governor appointed by the
Roman Period:
The era that comprises the years between 30 B.C.-A.D.395.
Saint Epaphra: The saint from Colossai
(Honaz) who read the letters of
them to convert to Christianity.
Salbakos: The name of Babadağ
in the ancient period. This range of mountains is the border between
Sardes: The capital of the
Seleucids: The kingdom founded in the borders of Syria, Iraq,
Strabon: The famous traveler and author of 1st century
B.C.
Tumulus: A
monumental tomb built by heaping an artificial mound of stone or earth on top
of a tomb chamber.
Tripolis: An ancient city within the borders of today’s Yenicekent. It is in the ancient region of
Theseus: According to mythology the Athenian hero who is
a semi god.
Vault: A
covering system made by consecutive semi-round/circular arches.
Vespasian: Roman Emperor in A.D. 69-79.
Vitruvius: The 1st century B.C. author of an architecture
book.
Zeus: In mythology the god of gods, the head god, sky god.
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