Hippocrates himself actually postulated this idea in nearly 400 B.C.

“波克拉底本人实际上前400年就提出了这个想法。”

Stoicism was founded in Ancient Greece by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC, but was practised by the likes of Epictetus, Cato, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius.

斯多葛学派于前3世纪早期由西提乌姆的泽诺创立，但埃皮克泰德、卡托、塞内卡和马库斯·奥雷利乌斯等人都信奉斯多葛学派。

As long ago as 500 A.D., Persians used windmills for grinding grain and pumping water.

早500年，波斯人就利用风车来研磨谷物以及抽水。

Now you'll often see BCE (Before the Common Era) and CE (Common Era).

现大家经常能看到BCE(前)和CE(前)。

In 537 BC, some 300 years before the first emperor unified China.

前 537 年，大约秦始皇统一中国的三百年前。

That eventually happened and in 612 BCE, the city of Nineveh was finally conquered, and the neo-Assyrian Empire had come to its end.

终发生了这件事，前612年，尼尼微城终于被征服了，新亚述帝国已经走到了尽头。

Both were destroyed by the volcanic burst of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79.

它们都79年的维苏威火山大爆发中被毁。

In the 6th century in Athens, Greece, amazing artistic theaters and temples were built.

6世纪，雅典建造了令人惊叹的艺术剧院和庙宇。

He was probably stationed in this provincial trading port, founded in 46 B.C. as a colony for veterans of the Roman army.

他可能驻扎这个省的贸易港口，这是前46年被建立的，是罗马军队老兵的殖民地。

Opposition research is as old as politics itself—Cicero's orations against Catiline, a dodgy candidate for the Roman consulship in 63BC, were notably well-informed.

其早可追溯到时西塞罗与喀提林一场人尽皆知的辩论，喀提林是前63年罗马执政官的竞选者，巧舌如簧。

The old Olympic games began around the year 776 B.C. in Greece.

以前的奥运会前776年的举行。

Caesar had spent a lot of time in Egypt, where 365-day calendars were all the rage, so in 46 BC, he flushed Rome’s lunar calendar down the aqueduct and installed a solar calendar.

Caesar曾埃及待了一段很长的时间，而那时的埃及盛行365天为一年的历法，所以，前46年，他废除了罗马的阴历，改用了阳历。

Encyclopedia Britannica says it was a Roman town and military camp in the first century.

大英百科全书说它一世纪是一个罗马城镇和军事营地。

It isn't known when people first started to observe the skies, but at around 650 BC, the Babylonians produced the first short-range weather forecasts, based on their observations of clouds and other phenomena.

人类第一次开始观测天空已不可知，但是大概前650年，巴比伦人创造了第一个短期天气预报系统，基于他们对于云彩和其他现象的观察。

The festival dates from the Tang Dynasty around 618 A.D. CARL AZUZ: Back in the day and by that we mean the 1950's, many people used to have milk delivered to their homes.

这个节日可以追溯到大约618年的唐朝。CARL AZUZ: 那个时代，我们指的是20世纪50年代，许多人过去常常把牛奶送到家里。

Events around the year 3100 B.C. resulted in the unification of ancient Egypt.

大约前3100年的一些事件促使了埃及的统一。

According to the primary chronicle, which is a fancy term for " We're not totally biased, we promise this happened." The city was captured by the Ruhr Kidd dynasty in 882, from the Khazars, formally being annexed into the Kievan Rus.

编年史这个高级术语的核心要义为“我们完全没有偏见，我们保证这曾发生过。”据其记载，882年，鲁尔基德王朝从哈扎尔人手里夺取了这座城市，将其正式并入基辅罗斯。

Michael in the 8th century A.D. A local bishop built a place of prayer there.

8世纪，一位当地的主教那里建立了一个祈祷的地方。

There is the partially intact ruins of a Roman theatre dating back to 15 BC.

这里有部分保存完好的罗马剧场遗迹，其历史可以追溯至前15年。

Want to see a 3rd century BC army of more than 8000 men ?

想一睹前3世纪多达8000多人的军队吗？