Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Definitions


*Genealogy:
Genealogy is the study of the history of families, especially through studying historical documents to discover the relationships between particular people and their families

*Archaic age: Archaic age
name given to one of the five periods of the Greek era (defined on the basis of pottery styles). It begins c.620 BC and ends in 480.

*Classical period:
Broadly the period from the Persian Wars through to the unification of Greece under Philip II and the world empire of Alexander the Great (i.e. the 5th and 4th centuries bc).


*Eros:
Greek Mythology. The god of love, son of Aphrodite.*Cosmogony

*Theogony:
An account of the origin and genealogy of the gods.


Reference) Google.ca, Answers.com

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