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The King's Peace (387 BC) was a peace treaty guaranteed by the Persian King Artaxerxes II that ended the Corinthian War in ancient Greece. The treaty is also known as the Peace of Antalcidas, after Antalcidas, the Spartan diplomat who traveled to Susa to negotiate the terms of the treaty with the king of Achaemenid Persia. The treaty was more ...
According to estimates reported by the U.S. State Department in 2006, there were perhaps as many as 2,000 followers of the ancient Greek religion out of a total Greek population of 11 million, [52] but Hellenism's leaders place that figure at 100,000. [53]
The title 'League of Corinth' was invented by modern historians because the first council of the League took place in Corinth, albeit the Greek word synedrion is better translated as congress or conference rather than league. The adjective Hellenic derives from Hellenikos meaning "pertaining to Greece and Greeks".
Tablet of the first known treaty in history, Treaty of Kadesh, at the Istanbul Archaeology Museum.. The following is a list of ancient peace treaties: . The Treaty of Kadesh (1259 BC) - peace treaty made between Ancient Egyptians, under Rameses II and the Hittites, under Ḫattušili III, concluded several years after the Battle of Kadesh (1274 BC) in which Rameses II fought with Muwatalli II.
The Mandsaur stone inscription of Yashodharman-Vishnuvardhana, is a Sanskrit inscription in the Gupta script dated to about 532 CE, on a slate stone measuring about 2 feet broad, 1.5 feet high and 2.5 inches thick found in the Malwa region of India, now a large part of the southwestern Madhya Pradesh. [1]
Mandsaur is identified with the city of Daśapura, which is attested in various ancient and medieval texts and inscriptions. According to the 12th-century Jain work called the Pariśiṣṭaparvan, the name Daśapura was given to the city by a group of merchants visiting the royal fortress of a king named Udayana and his ten sons. [2]: 68–9
Alternative suggestions (e.g. by De Saussure) connect *dhu̯es-"smoke, spirit", attested in Baltic and Germanic words for "spook" and ultimately cognate with Latin fumus "smoke." The earliest attested form of the word is the Mycenaean Greek te-o [10] (plural te-o-i [11]), written in Linear B syllabic script.
A temenos (Greek: τέμενος; plural: τεμένη, temenē) [1] is a piece of land cut off and assigned as an official domain, especially to kings and chiefs, or a piece of land marked off from common uses and dedicated to a god, such as a sanctuary, holy grove, or holy precinct. [2] [3] A temenos enclosed a sacred space called a hieron ...