A hierarchy is an arrangement of items that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another. Hierarchy is an important concept in a wide variety of fields, such as arc
The mediaeval scala naturae as a staircase, implying the possibility of progress: Ramon Llull's Ladder of Ascent and Descent of the Mind, 1305
Matryoshka dolls, also known as nesting dolls or Russian dolls. Each doll is encompassed inside another until the smallest one is reached. This is the concept of nesting. When the concept is applied to sets, the resulting ordering is a nested hierarchy.
Career-oriented purposes can be diagrammed using a hierarchy describing how less important actions support a larger goal.
Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Gre
Hierarchy
…A hierarchy (from Ancient Greek ἱεραρχία (hierarkhía) 'rule of a high priest', from ἱεράρχης (hierárkhēs) 'president of sacred rites') is an arrangement of items (objects, names…
An inscription about the construction of the statue of Athena Parthenos in the Parthenon, 440/439 BC
Ostracon bearing the name of Cimon, Stoa of Attalos