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Herodotus used a Greek form Palaistínē (Παλαιστίνη) to describe a district of Syria between Phoenicia and Egypt; classical reference works and regional histories identify his usage as the earliest cle...
The label “Palestine” was not invented out of thin air by Rome, but the Roman rebranding of Judaea as Syria Palaestina in the 2nd century CE was a pivotal moment that transformed an older geographic t...
Herodotus does use a Greek word that scholars and later writers identify with “Palestine” (Palaistinê) and applies it to a district between Phoenicia and Egypt; his passages mention “Syrians of Palest...
Herodotus (5th century BCE) uses a Greek word Palaistinê and describes a district "between Phoenicia and Egypt," which later writers and modern summaries treat as an early use of the name "Palestine" ...
The short answer: there is no credible scientific evidence that the mythic, humanlike “giants”—people 20 feet tall or more—ever roamed Earth; tall figures in folklore, religious texts, and some extrao...
The name “Palestine” has ancient literary roots — Herodotus used Palaistine in the 5th century BCE to describe a district of Syria (earliest incontrovertible attestation) . The term functioned for mil...
Classical Greek sources use the toponym Παλαιστῑ́νη (Palaistínē) and adjectival forms derived from it (e.g., Palaistinós) to designate a coastal and inland district of Syria between Phoenicia and Egyp...
Herodotus did write about the Levant/Syria‑Palestine region in The Histories, naming territories and peoples within Greater Syria and describing events and geography that include what later authors ca...
Herodotus names and describes several coastal places now identified as Gaza, Ashkelon and Tyre (often under Greek forms like Cadytis or Jenysus), situating them in a coastal district he calls “Palesti...
Ancient Egyptian inscriptions record a people or group written as P-r-s-t (commonly vocalized Peleset) in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age, and Assyrian cuneiform records later use forms like Pa...
Evidence for Greek travel to Palestine during Herodotus’s lifetime (mid-5th century BCE) is indirect and mixed: classical texts like Herodotus describe the Levant and suggest Greek knowledge or contac...
The Roman emperor Hadrian or Roman authorities after the Bar Kokhba revolt reorganized the province of Judaea and used forms of the name Palaestina in the 2nd century CE, a change that has been read b...
Candaulism is a sexual practice or fantasy in which one person—historically described as a man—exposes a partner (or images of them) to others for erotic, often voyeuristic, pleasure; major dictionari...
Ancient Greek historians learned about Palestine from a mix of direct observation, earlier Greek writings, Mediterranean trade contacts and a small number of surviving geographic and ethnographic acco...