From Livius.org:
The first to describe proskynesis ("kissing towards") was the Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus:
"When the Persians meet one another in the roads, you can see whether
The "Ottonian Renaissance," the "Visigoth Renaissance," the "Carolingian Renaissance" -- everything can't be a Renaissance, you know. You've got to have at least something to Naissance first.
"[Nabis, tyrant of Sparta] next had constructed a kind of machine, if machine it may be called, which was the figure of a woman, clothed in costly garments, and made to resemble with extraordinary fidelity the wife of Nabis." So far so good!!
