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Q: Greek or Roman equivalent of Bible

Lance PollardWondering if there are any documents that document the Greek or Roman mythologies in a way similar to the bible, in that it acts as a comprehensive resource for all the knowledge about it. Maybe Metamorphosis is an example, I am not sure. Also, I am not talking about the Greek form of the Bible. ...

 
1:12 AM
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Q: Religious Scripts from Middle Ages

Lance PollardWondering what sorts of middle-ages religious scripts exist today, on perhaps archive.org. Don't really know what to look for, and am explicitly not looking for anything literature related like Beowulf or Dante's Inferno. I am more looking for things that could be considered similar to the Bible,...

 
 
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6:42 AM
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Q: Original Akkadian/Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh

Lance PollardWondering if such a resource exists of the original Akkadian or Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh in PDF or text form. I found audio recordings of some of the transliterated text here (from here), but I haven't found a full Akkadian or Sumerian version of the text online (either with or without translit...

 
 
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2:00 PM
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Q: Violent speech in documentary De Nuremberg à Nuremberg

SebIn F. Rossif's documentary De Nuremberg à Nuremberg at some point you can hear a pretty violent and agressive speech (in this excerpt here: dailymotion.com/video/x5ae04t it begins at 25:19 and ends up at 25:44) from which I could hardly understand things like: wir holen den Teufel aus der Höl...

 
 
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3:34 PM
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Q: What does "setting up a trophy" mean in ancient Greece 5 c. B.C.?

LocalFluffI'm reading Tucydides' The Peloponnesian War and time and a gain armies are said to "set up a trophy" on a site. What does that mean? What was concretely done at the site where a trophy was set up? Was it a religious event, did it have any legal or military significance? They don't seem to always...

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Q: what were language book in history?? especially conversational book

sun(sorry for my english. my motherlanguage is not english) I am finding out about language book anyone know about it? such as... italy-latin conversational book in italy... or ancient english-french learning book.... For emample in korea, during Joseon dynasty, there was mongolian-korean convers...

 
 
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8:15 PM
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Q: How could the American Civil War be won by the Confederacy?

Robert TausigThe early Confederacy (The 7 founding states) attacked Fort Sumter in April 1861, starting the American Civil War. The Confederacy knew this would lead to war with the Union, yet they seemed to be confident in their odds of succeeding. Shortly after the start of war, 4 other States joined the Co...

 
 
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11:07 PM
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Q: Why did the maize-based society that Spain found in the Central Valley of Mexico not dominate over Europe?

No need· Was there something in the Mesoamerican cultures that put obstacles to growth and development? · Did American crops such as maize, cacao beans, and tobacco, compete unfavorably with European wheat? · What did wheat have that American, African, and Asian crops lacked? Why did wheat beco...

 

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