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Biography Base Letter A (909 words) |
 | Abaris - (8th century BC), priest of Apollo |
| Afranius, Lucius - Roman comic poet, flourished about 94 BC |
| Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius - (63 BC-12 BC) Roman statesman and general |
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Table of Contents and Excerpt, Black and Green, Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia (3885 words) |
| By soon after 1000 BC it is likely that their language, Aramaic, was widely used as an everyday vernacular in both Assyria and Babylonia as well as over most of Syria and Palestine (where Hebrew also was still spoken). |
| In this way, there was throughout Mesopotamian history a constant interference with the settled, traditional civilisation of the great ancient cities by a variety of groups moving into the area from the mountain fastnesses to the east or the rolling plains to the north-west. |
| The kings of this Old Babylonian Period (or First Dynasty of Babylon), including Hammurabi (reigned 1848-1806 BC according to the now preferred chronology), sometimes made their official pronouncements bilingually in Akkadian and Sumerian, but as a living language and culture Sumerian was by now obsolescent. |
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