| Picture a cross between Machu Picchu and greek acropolis, all tumbled down. |
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| I highly recommend their banana bread, served with greek yoghurt, a sliced banana and sunflower seeds. |
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| For months, in response to the Greek crisis, the eurozone's leaders have been kicking the tin can down the road. |
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| The Greek, Roman, and Egyptian pantheons can be easier to mix than, say, Egyptian and Norse. |
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| There are sections devoted to the Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic languages, to warfare, the arts and law. |
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| For example, he tells of art experts who examine a purported 6th century B.C. Greek kouros statue and instinctively know it's a fake. |
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| The modillion was a bracket, a horizontal version of the ancones which supported the cornice of the Greek doorway cornice. |
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| We saw ancient Greek temples, Roman amphitheatres and walled medieval cities. |
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| Sepia comes from the Greek word for the rich reddish-brown pigment obtained from a fluid that is secreted by the cuttlefish from their ink sac. |
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| Iphigenia was sacrificed to the goddess Artemis by Agamemnon so that the Greek fleet could sail away to Troy. |
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| The Erotokritos, one of the epic works of Greek literature is told and re-told in much of Cretan music. |
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| The Greek media reacted with relief and amazement at their sprinters' announcements. |
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| The book has been translated into English, French, German, Japanese, Korean and Greek. |
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| In the small, slave-owning and warlike Greek republics, all free men had a say in government. |
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| Picture brawny, ripped men, scantily costumed as Indian warriors, Greek gods, and Olympic athletes. |
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| Both men and women wore sard, and numerous examples of Greek and Etruscan jewelry include stunning specimens of ornately carved sard. |
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| In the following years he worked on mathematical topics, in particular trying to solve the classical Greek problem of squaring the circle. |
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| My father was not a man to underrate the bearing of Latin satirists or Greek dramatists on the attainment of an aristocratic position. |
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| As soon as he became emperor, Henry VI demanded that Byzantium yield to him all the Greek lands that had been conquered by the Normans. |
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| In the centre, the Persians forced the Greeks back, but were then probably taken in both flanks when the victorious Greek wings wheeled inwards. |
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| Nightlife is non-existent, but it's a great spot to relax, and absorb equal amounts of Greek sunlight and fresh Aegean air. |
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| According to Greek myth, a nubile young wood nymph named Echo spied young Narcissus walking in the woods. |
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| It looks like the Greek twins and Tassie besties Thalia and Bianca have some competition. |
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| This is a scientific term derived by making an English plural from octopod, which is the bare stem of the Greek word, not its singular. |
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| One example is the accompanying contemporary, or pop music, with Greek tragedies or Shakespearean plays. |
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| The best dishes we sampled were meatballs similar to Greek keftedes, full of garlic and spices, in a thin but tasty tomato-based sauce. |
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| Today began well with Greek yoghurt and strawberry conserve on almond muesli and became even more lovely as the day went on. |
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| Step inside the restaurant and you'll be transported to a Greek taverna, as the wonderful aroma of Mediterranean cooking fills the air. |
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| For example, if an American marries a Greek, the American also gets a Greek citizenship. |
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| We couldn't have a Greek meal without tasting some baklava, so we ordered one portion to share. |
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| No Greek police officer has served a custodial sentence for crimes committed while serving. |
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| Through most schools of Greek philosophy, this term was used to designate a rational, intelligent and thus vivifying principle of the universe. |
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| The example of Greek democracy seemed so much better in theory than in practice. |
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| In Pausanias's time the forum was certainly to the south and below Temple Hill, but the location of the agora of Greek Corinth is uncertain. |
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| Proper lunch food is also available, including soups, hot savoury tarts, sandwiches, Greek salad and vegetable lasagne. |
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| The Athenian believed that the traditional sources of Greek wisdom had become dysfunctional. |
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| From what I've always been told these names come from Norse, Greek, and Egyptian mythology. |
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| From the Greek agora to the contemporary mall, the forms of public space are a direct reflection of society's public and private values. |
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| In the center of this Greek cross plan, he placed a rotunda surmounted by a low dome topped by a lantern. |
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| He named them using the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and beta. |
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| The inscription is in Greek with well formed letters seven to 12 centimetres high. |
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| The Greek philosophers used to talk eloquently and sagaciously, but they never felt the need of experimentation to prove their theories. |
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| Prized for their status as original autograph works of Greek art, these images stood as witnesses to the civilizing power of Rome. |
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| He writes in both Arabic and English, and some of his work has been translated into German, Italian, Greek and Norwegian. |
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| A presidential council would be formed whose membership would be proportionate to the majority Greek population. |
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| The jewellery of the Kushan and Mauryan periods shows distinct Greek touches. |
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| The Getty Museum was offered an ancient Greek marble of a standing youth, a kouros. |
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| Church services are conducted in koine, a later form of ancient Greek in which the New Testament is written. |
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| Arsinoe's Greek nature, which, unlike Fiodor's Russianness, had seemed somewhat arbitrary, becomes necessary. |
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| In 1993 Federico Zeri, the Italian art historian, resigned as a Getty trustee after it bought a Greek kouros he believed was bogus. |
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| Now it is a narrow, bustling thoroughfare of Greek tavernas and kebab shops. |
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| Third, he has taken this revision as an opportunity to provide real definitions, not simply glosses for the Greek words. |
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| On my must-try list are Greek lamb with oregano and lemon, and Italian ricotta tart with a chocolate crust. |
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| A corollary of this is that, before Hipparchus, astronomical tables based on Greek geometrical methods did not exist. |
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| Before there were Greek, Roman, and British colonies, there was a Babylonian colony in Assyria. |
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| From Greek Old Comedy he borrowed the saturnalian pattern of release from restraint through recognition and clarification. |
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| She was born in New York to Greek parents and, before she got her stage name, was known as Aikaterini Hadjipateras. |
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| Until now the stunning Greek island of Kefalonia has remained something of a well-kept secret. |
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| He paid his soldiers, scientists and architects well and insisted that all old debts were to be redeemed with new Greek coins. |
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| Modern physics has ceased to be atomistic in the full sense that the Greek atomists intended. |
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| There is also a restaurant attached, and the speciality is kleftiko, a slow-roasted Greek lamb dish. |
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| It was a gift from a visiting Greek shipping tycoon who had just launched a new ship called Inca. |
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| A close friend of Erasmus and gifted student of law and Greek, More translated Lucian and wrote English and Latin poetry. |
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| Greek surgeons used various types of knives, syringes and forceps as surgical tools. |
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| Were ancient athletics useful for preparing young Greek men for the battlefield? |
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| His works have not survived, and the only known Greek mimes date from two centuries later. |
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| A word with Ancient Greek origins, psithurism is defined as the rustling whispers of the trees on a windy, autumn day. |
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| But Greek monasticism was not eclipsed until the thirteenth century, when Latin culture finally prevailed in southern Italy. |
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| Each army is led by a powerful Greek chieftain who aides him in regaining the kingship. |
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| It is early morning on the Greek island of Paxos and a bearded Dalietos has just returned from the harbour with a carrier bag bulging with fish. |
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| Despite the Greek Republic being described as a democracy and idealised, it was an androcracy. |
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| Shakespeare's last two sonnets are variations on an anacreontic epigram from The Greek Anthology. |
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| Traditional Greek foods are favorites of Greek Cypriots, such as baklava, made from phyllo pastry, nuts, honey and syrup. |
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| I'm in the Greek Islands, the sun is shining, the views are amazing and I think I still have some strawberry schnapps back at the hotel. |
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| It represents the Greek god of wine as a beautiful youth, his hair attractively tousled and bound with vine leaves. |
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| The building is in the shape of an early Greek temple with rusticated walls. |
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| Technical terms have been explained and the Greek has been transliterated into English characters. |
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| The Greek government's sustained veto over recognition of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia infuriated its partners. |
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| They hope to raise enough support to force the issue when Greek Orthodox clergy and laity convene next year in Los Angeles. |
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| Like, have they not read about the Greek theory that soldiers actually fought better alongside the men they loved? |
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| It was complemented by two classic marble statues of Greek gods situated at each side of the entrance. |
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| Names from languages written with different alphabet characters, such as Cyrillic, Hebrew, and Greek, are transliterated with Roman characters. |
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| Yet just look at the successive performances of the Greek team in the knockout stages of the tournament. |
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| Tavernas were full to bursting and taped or real Greek Music added its own charm to the scene. |
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| I love politics, too, with its human dramas worthy of Greek tragedy, or at least soap opera. |
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| The semi-circular design of Greek and Roman amphitheatres clearly indicates a fundamental understanding of the spherical propagation of sound. |
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| Perhaps the most widely known of legendary women warriors are the Greek Amazons and the Nordic Valkyries. |
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| Each is an epic journey of passion, honour and dishonour, rooted in the pages of Greek mythology, with strong language and violence. |
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| It is time to take a look at this most outstanding work on algebra in Greek mathematics. |
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| Democritus was an ancient Greek philosopher who moved in the same circles as Socrates. |
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| While entertaining, try out some Greek recipes, such as keftedes or loukoumades. |
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| She had been tutored by John Aylmer and she spoke French, Greek, Latin and Italian fluently. |
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| I have a friend that makes the most wonderful gooseberry ice-cream, using fresh berries and Greek yoghurt. |
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| By contrast, Chapter 6 uses the prosody of classical Greek poetry to illuminate the Seventh Symphony. |
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| Now I do understand it is difficult for publishers to have polytonic Greek on hand, but if that was the problem, why not just transliterate? |
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| He took a Persian wife, and encouraged his officers to do likewise, arguing against the traditional Greek parochialism. |
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| A popular Greek drink is ouzo, a strong alcoholic drink flavored with anise. |
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| Most modern Greek wine finds a ready market within Greece, where the appreciation of good wine has increased considerably. |
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| Many verbs that are usually intransitive are also used transitively in Greek. |
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| This theatre have now put their stamp on this absurd story, in which the Greek demigoddess Clio intervenes in the life of buff beach boy Sonny. |
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| The new languages include Czech, Danish, Dutch, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish and Swedish. |
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| We have already observed that during the time of Hellenistic Greek, the middle voice form was losing ground to the passive. |
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| Entering the lecture hall, Maridakis asked a question in Greek, to be sharply told that speaking in Macedonian was not welcome. |
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| Yesterday's EU test followed the discovery on Monday of bird flu on a Greek Aegean island. |
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| Each year millions of tourists visit Italy to see the country's cultural and historical landmarks such as the Colosseum in Rome and the Greek ruins in Sicily. |
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| You could accuse him of hitching a lift on the back of Greek tragedy. |
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| The representatives of tragedy and comedy chosen are not Greek but Roman. |
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| But the mayor of one of the Greek island's cities took a British tour group to court in September to block 100 sapphic sojourners from indulging in a stay at a local resort. |
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| Though we think of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World as a single list today, there were actually a number of lists compiled by different Greek writers. |
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| The middle voice spoke not only for but also to the Greek sense of self. |
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| He cared deeply about Greek and Latin history and mythology and possessed a comprehensive knowledge of the prose, poetry and prosody of the eighteenth century. |
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| I will argue that the validity of the notion of deponency is questionable in light of a closer look at the function and meaning of the middle voice in Greek. |
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| Why is it that Greek Gods honey-flavored Greek yogurt seems wholesome, even though each 24-ounce container has 99 grams of sugar? |
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| Others contend that Greek mercenaries who came to India with Alexander the Great left their genetic mark in coorg. |
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| Later, he was taught to turn English verse into alcaics and sapphics in Horatian style, as well as imitating Virgil, Ovid and the Greek tragedians. |
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| Depending on whether you use a Greek, Hebrew, or English number scheme, a lot of different names add up to the devilish number. |
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| As a result Middlesex presents a view of history that is as determinative and linear as you will find in any Greek myth. |
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| His speech was punctuated by Yiddishisms, Hebrew, Greek and Arabic. |
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| My mother was a descendent of Greek royalty, an intellectual grande dame who wore elegant shaded glasses. |
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| Ariadne is this character in Greek myth who accompanies Theseus on his dangerous expedition to the heart of the labyrinth to kill the dreaded Minotaur. |
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| Doula is a Greek word meaning slave or servant and stems from ancient Greece where the doula was the top-notch home help privileged to help the lady of the house give birth. |
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| Why has Indian civilisation survived over the years, instead of going the way of the Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Babylonian civilisations? |
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| He ordered the Temple in Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Greek gods and forbade the practice of circumcision, kashrut, and observance of the Sabbath. |
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| That distant whirring sound you hear is a long-dead Greek physician spinning in his grave. |
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| A string of restaurants ranging from fine dining through to a Greek taverna and a pizza terrace dot the seafront, with its classical views out to the island of Zakynthos. |
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| Golden sandy beaches, international restaurants, hip cafes and Greek hospitality inspire many European artists and writers to live here all year round. |
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| The Greek people, it turns out, have had it with austerity and slumping growth. |
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| Mary Dakas became Australia's only Greek female pearl lugger operator. |
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| Scuffles broke out with riot police, who used pepper spray to repel party members wielding Greek flags on thick wooden sticks. |
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| But the Greek bailout and the China slowdown affect business behavior far more than they influence consumer behavior. |
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| If she's Greek, then my dad, also a first-generation American, is Latvian. |
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| It is shaped like a Greek cross with its arms bent at right angles. |
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| Greek mythology as we have it developed during the Greek Dark Ages, between the fall of the Minoan civilisation and the rise of classical Hellenism. |
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| It wasn't on the programme at the Ancient Greek Olympics, though the Minoans may have used poles to leap over the bulls during bull-dancing events. |
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| Late in life Broome returned to Greek poetry and published a verse translation of sixteen Anacreontics in several instalments in the Gentleman's Magazine. |
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| The Greek embassy confirmed the death, which has barely registered by the international press. |
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| As I uncovered these stories, I found a way to empathize with members of the Greek system. |
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| Elis: Ancient Greek region and city-state in the northwestern corner of the Peloponnese, well known for its horse breeding and for the Olympic Games. |
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| Greek television broke into programs to report developments. |
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| Internal wall thickenings in Amphoratheca are better developed and regularly spaced, delineating flask-shaped pseudochambers that resemble ancient Greek amphorae. |
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| The most common Egyptian amulet was the scarab, made in the form of a sacred beetle, and this design continued to be used in early Greek and Etruscan work. |
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| The Renaissance-style building and its high-ceilinged rooms lined with alabaster statues of Greek gods made an unforgettable impression on the 13-year-old. |
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| There were many things only in Greek in his lifetime, or not all that readable in their first translations. |
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| She could speak French, Latin, Spanish and some Ancient Greek. |
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| They then took the borrowed money and invested it in Greek bonds and in loans to customers around the Mediterranean and Adriatic. |
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| West is a dynamo, a fearsome warrior who quotes classic Greek with a warm, Southern charm. |
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| The Greeks held the pass but eventually a traitorous Greek led a Persian force through the hills to the rear of the Greek forces, who were subsequently massacred. |
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| It was common for ancient Greek temples to be built over or near the tombs of local heroes. |
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| There are Mom and Pop shops for fish markets, bakeries with baklava and cannolis, produce stands and specialty Greek markets filled with olives, feta cheese and pita bread. |
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| In 1988, frogmen planted limpet mines on a Greek ferry, the Solphrini, which sank in Limassol harbor in the Greekcontrolled sector of Cyprus. |
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| This period sought the revival of classical art forms, including Greek drama and music. |
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| Roman gardens were influenced by Egyptian, Persian, and Greek gardening techniques. |
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| Ancient Roman pottery started by copying Greek and Etruscan styles but soon developed a style of its own. |
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| Fine Etruscan pottery was heavily influenced by Greek pottery and often imported Greek potters and painters. |
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| In the 3rd century BCE, Greek art taken as booty from wars became popular, and many Roman homes were decorated with landscapes by Greek artists. |
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| He spoke the local Punic language fluently, but he was also educated in Latin and Greek, which he spoke with a slight accent. |
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| A wide range of shapes for different uses developed early and remained essentially unchanged during the Greek history. |
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| The circuses were similar to the ancient Greek hippodromes, although circuses served varying purposes and differed in design and construction. |
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| The form of the Roman temple was mainly derived from the Etruscan model, but using Greek styles. |
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| The Carthaginian sailor Himilco is said to have visited the island in the 5th century BC and the Greek explorer Pytheas in the 4th. |
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| Each issue includes first publications of facsimiles from the history of modern Greek art music. |
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| They probably were inspired by Greek and Hellenic examples, as well as by regularly planned cities that were built by the Etruscans in Italy. |
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| The Greeks who saw them used the Greek 'obeliskos' to describe them, and this word passed into Latin and then English. |
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| Constantine's mother was Helena, a Greek woman of low social standing from Helenopolis of Bithynia. |
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| Even if the original Greek versions were lost, the entire New Testament could still be assembled from the translations. |
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| In Greek mythology, Hydra was a many-headed water snake that lived in the Lernaean marshes of Argolis. |
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| The tradition of serving the Greek dish, saganaki while aflame, has its origins in Chicago's Greek community. |
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| Lesvos is one of the Greek islands that has been overwhelmed by those arriving, often packed on to flimsy vessels. |
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| Madam Mo is one of the three to have attempted the trip, along with Greek Goddess and Burnt Sienna, but she did so riderless. |
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| Roman literature was from its very inception influenced heavily by Greek authors. |
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| The architecture used in Rome was strongly influenced by Greek and Etruscan sources. |
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| In the history of several languages, like Greek and some varieties of Chinese, murmured stops have developed into aspirated stops. |
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| Making contact with local rebels who were hostile to the Sicilian crown, Greek forces quickly overran the coastlands and began striking inland. |
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| By the age of twelve, they would be learning Latin, Greek, grammar and literature, followed by training for public speaking. |
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| In the 3rd century BC, Greek art taken as booty from wars became popular, and many Roman homes were decorated with landscapes by Greek artists. |
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| His main language was Latin, and during his public speeches he needed Greek translators. |
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| The Etruscan letter Z was derived from the Phoenician alphabet, most probably through the Greek alphabet used on the island of Ischia. |
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| Both rhyme and rhythm are related to Latin rhythmus, itself a borrowing from Greek. |
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| She learned to speak, read and write in Spanish and Latin, and spoke French and Greek. |
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| The Seleucids sued for peace, and Rome forced them to give up their recent Greek conquests. |
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| Economic writings date from earlier Mesopotamian, Greek, Roman, Indian subcontinent, Chinese, Persian, and Arab civilizations. |
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| With her Greek allies facing a major new threat, Rome declared war on Macedonia again, starting the Third Macedonian War. |
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| During the civil war that followed, as many as a thousand ships were either constructed or pressed into service from Greek cities. |
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| He then fixed the dates of other events in Babylonian, Greek, Hebrew and Roman calendars relative to the eclipses that they recorded. |
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| Roman music was largely based on Greek music, and played an important part in many aspects of Roman life. |
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| The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet. |
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| In architecture and sculpture, the difference between Greek models and Roman paintings are apparent. |
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| The Roman gods also assumed the attributes and mythologies of these Greek gods. |
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| Unlike in Greek mythology, the gods were not personified, but were vaguely defined sacred spirits called numina. |
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| Out of combat, a Greek hoplite would wear the helmet tipped upward for comfort. |
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| Ptolemy wrote in Greek and can be shown to have utilized Babylonian astronomical data. |
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| He was a Roman citizen, but most scholars conclude that Ptolemy was ethnically Greek, although some suggest he was a Hellenized Egyptian. |
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| Pipes with idioglot reeds have been identified from later civilisations, for example the Greek aulos and the Sardinian launeddas. |
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| Many of the most famous Greek bronze sculptures are known through Roman copies in marble, which were more likely to survive. |
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| Berlin was fluent in Russian and English, spoke French, German and Italian, and knew Hebrew, Latin, and Ancient Greek. |
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| In Europe, the Etruscans were making bronze mirrors in the sixth century BCE, and Greek and Roman mirrors followed the same pattern. |
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| Variants of Finn or Fenni were in wide use in ancient times, judging from the names Fenni and Phinnoi in classical Roman and Greek works. |
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| As contact with the Greeks increased, the old Roman gods became increasingly associated with Greek gods. |
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| He lived in the city of Alexandria in the Roman province of Egypt, wrote in Koine Greek, and held Roman citizenship. |
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| With Egypt and Macedonia weakened, the Seleucid Empire made increasingly aggressive and successful attempts to conquer the entire Greek world. |
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| The Modern Greek word pornographia is a translation of the French pornographie. |
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| Following various military conquests in the Greek East, Romans adapted a number of Greek educational precepts to their own fledgling system. |
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| Constantine received a formal education at Diocletian's court, where he learned Latin literature, Greek, and philosophy. |
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| The book was a retelling of the ancient Greek myth of the hero Jason and his quest to find the Golden Fleece. |
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| With their consent, he set up a rival emperor, the prefect of the city, a Greek named Priscus Attalus. |
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| Its alphabet was based on the Etruscan alphabet, which was in turn based on the Greek alphabet. |
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| In the 6th century BC, Greek settlers established the colony of Tyras, along the Black Sea coast and traded with the locals. |
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| These can be separated in three groups based on the original language used for the work, namely Latin, Greek or Arabic. |
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| In the Greek, Slavic, and Syrian traditions there are 12 bells hung along these chains representing the 12 apostles. |
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| The earliest settlements on the Adriatic shores were Etruscan, Illyrian, and Greek. |
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| The letters Y and Z were later added to represent Greek letters, upsilon and zeta respectively, in Greek loanwords. |
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| Missionaries brought Orthodoxy to many regions without ethnic Greeks, where the Greek language was not spoken. |
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| In noble families a Greek nurse usually taught the children Latin and Greek. |
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| The lexicographer Suidas enumerates the works of Horapollo, the philologer and commentator on Greek poetry. |
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| The Latin alphabet is derived from the Etruscan and Greek alphabets, and ultimately from the Phoenician alphabet. |
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| Both Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities consider the monastery a holy place. |
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| Syriac scholars were aware of the Pillars through their efforts to translate Greek scientific works into their language as well as into Arabic. |
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| In 1833 he began publishing the Comparative Grammar of Sanskrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Old Slavic, Gothic, and German. |
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| Others treated Greek philosophical subjects, more often the Platonic and Neoplatonic schools rather than the thought of Aristotle. |
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| This identification with Greek, however, became increasingly confusing with time. |
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| They apparently survive in part in the form of extracts in later Greek glossaries. |
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| In Modern Greek typesetting, this system has been simplified to only have a single accent to indicate which syllable is stressed. |
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| The word Varangian may have originated in Old Norse, but in Slavic and Greek it could refer either to Scandinavians or Franks. |
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| In Greek mythology, the species became associated with numerous gods. |
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| Late Roman attempts to translate Greek writings into Latin had limited success. |
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| As the knowledge of Greek declined, the Latin West found itself cut off from some of its Greek philosophical and scientific roots. |
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| Nicodemus was the undisputed leader of the enosis movement which was strongly supported by the Greek Consul Kyrou. |
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| These beliefs coincide to the thoughts about the gods in polytheistic Greek religion. |
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| However, they did not feel entirely restricted by Greek aesthetic concerns, and treated the orders with considerable freedom. |
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| The individuals were free to believe what they wanted, as the Greek religion was created out of a consensus of the people. |
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| Unlike their portrayals in Greek religion, Homer's portrayal of gods suited his narrative purpose. |
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| Chryses prays for Apollo's help, and Apollo causes a plague to afflict the Greek army. |
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| White Zimbabweans are mostly of British origin, but there are also Afrikaner, Greek, Portuguese, French and Dutch communities. |
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| The k in skope is in effect a marker of graecity, and as such conserves the original Greek seme of sight. |
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| Unlike the earlier edition, all foreign alphabets except Greek were transliterated. |
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| In the schools of art, philosophy and rhetoric, the foundations of education were transmitted throughout the lands of Greek and Roman rule. |
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| Material from Greek heroic legend was grafted onto this native stock at an early date. |
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| Standop combines the ancient Greek technique of Physiognomy and the Chinese version of Siang Mein. |
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| One of Windstar Cruises' five repositionings will take the Wind Spirit from Rome to Athens for a season in the Greek Isles. |
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| The 24th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of the Greek Ministry of Culture excavated two cemeteries in Ierapetra, Crete, Greece. |
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| Furthermore, the question on the Greek influence found in the early Roman Law is still much discussed. |
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| Yet, the absence of a doctrine of creation in ancient Greek philosophy makes this mimesis disappointing. |
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| In Greek mythology, the Teumessian fox or Cadmean vixen, was a gigantic fox that was destined never to be caught. |
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| Greek stringed instruments included the Chelys Lyre, Kithara, Barbitos, Phorminx, Thracian Kithara, and Harp. |
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| The soldiers seen at various stations belong to the corps of the Greek army that proved itself most effective in the recent war, the Evzonoi. |
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| Rome quickly moved into southern Italia, subjugating and dividing the Greek colonies. |
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| Also for meal or snack times, the store carries samosas, curries and falafel wraps, hummus, Greek and tabouleh salads. |
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| The female equivalents were called Merveilleuses and adopted Greek dress and espoused a neo-classical nostalgia. |
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| You can see the Greek influence with avgolemono sauces and the use of yogurt and phyllo dough. |
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| Congreve held fast to the Greek poets, but otherwise seems to have drowsed his way through Trinity studies. |
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| The principle was recognized by some of the early Greek philosophers who embodied it in their systems. |
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| This classic Greek soup, avgolemono, gets its velvety texture from beaten eggs. |
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| A literary historian, she specialized in the dialogues of ancient Greek philosophers. |
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| Agamemnon, a goodly king and a mighty spearsman, is the Greek warrior whose name thou dost ask. |
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| When necessary, the Greek spelling is disambiguated by an appended phonetic transcription. |
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| In the 2nd century, the Greek geographer Ptolemy referred to it as the Logia. |
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| Earlier in the day, his mother had prepared soup for the female lead and melomakarona, or Greek honey cookies, for the crew. |
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| And it was German procrastination that aggravated the Greek crisis and caused the contagion that turned it into an existential crisis for Europe. |
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| Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years. |
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| The inscription of the Rosetta Stone is written in hieroglyphics and in enchorial letters, with a Greek translation. |
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| Every Greek drama ends with an exodos. It is obligatory that the stage be left empty. It is left by the actors and the chorus. |
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| The auletris, or flute-player, provided musical accompaniment at the Greek symposium, a drinking party enjoyed by aristocratic males. |
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| Both mezes start with a selection of dips, Greek salad, olives and chillies. |
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| Avgolemono is a traditional Greek chicken and lemon soup that rarely contains anything but chicken, lemon, eggs, and sometimes rice or onion. |
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| There are also sizeable minorities of other European ethnic groups, namely Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, and Greek. |
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| She believes it's no coincidence that the Greek goddess of health was named Hygieia, from which our word hygiene comes. |
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| Contemporary accounts report that the Greek language was widely spoken on the island during this period. |
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| What avails it to make a shine in Greek if the next hour one does a barney in calculus. |
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| Two years later, his young officers Octavian and Mark Antony lead a force that defeats the rebel army in the Greek city of Philippi. |
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| One unpredicted result is that, despite all the bailout funding, the Greek economy has contracted 25 per cent over five years. |
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| Greek Syracuse controlled much of Sicily, though there were a few Carthaginian colonies in the far west of the island. |
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| They pulled out of Greece entirely, maintaining minimal contacts with their Greek allies. |
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| In Greek the main stress falls on the antepaenultimate syllable, in French on the last syllable. |
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| Beerlore indeed gave way to druglore, and student attitudes and values shifted as Greek life waned. |
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| According to Greek Mythology, Moirai were three white dressed women incarnating the destiny of humans. |
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| A Greek bailout, however, may set the stage for subsequent bailouts in other economically troubled nations, creating a risk of moral hazard. |
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| The delegation succeeded, even though prior Greek attempts to involve Rome in Greek affairs had been met with Roman apathy. |
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| The zaptieh was of the opinion I could do no better than pay my respects to the Bishop of the Greek Orthodox Church. |
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| In about half of these instances, the Authorized Version translators appear to follow the earlier 1550 Greek Textus Receptus of Stephanus. |
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| Fearing this increasingly unstable situation, several small Greek kingdoms sent delegations to Rome to seek an alliance. |
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| At school, pupils were taught English, Latin, Greek, catechism and arithmetic. |
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| Rome gave Philip an ultimatum to cease his campaigns against Rome's new Greek allies. |
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| One such involuntary sacrifice is found in the story of Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon, the famous Greek king and warrior. |
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| He died on April 23rd, 1915 at the age of twenty seven and was buried on the Greek Island of Skyros. |
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| In addition, Bullet for My Valentine also played alongside the Big Four on the Greek leg of Sonisphere. |
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| During the English Renaissance, many words were coined from Latin and Greek origins. |
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| The Parthenon in Athens is an octostyle, but most large Greek temples are hexastyle. |
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| However, they keep many valuable manuscripts of Greek, Latin, and Biblical works. |
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| However, the Celtic invasions of Italy and the expedition in Greece and western Anatolia, are well documented in Greek and Latin history. |
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| Besides naming the continent, the Greek mythological figure of Europa has frequently been employed as a personification of Europe. |
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| In 197 BC, the Romans decisively defeated Philip at the Battle of Cynoscephalae, and Philip was forced to give up his recent Greek conquests. |
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| Paradise' entered into English, via Greek, from the ancient Avestan pairidaeza. |
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| Much of the Greek literary corpus remained in Greek, and few in the west could speak or read Greek. |
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| The classical education system, which would persist for hundreds of years, emphasized grammar, Latin, Greek, and rhetoric. |
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| People who were taught classical Greek and Latin at school are a dying breed. |
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| Advanced scientific research and teaching was mainly carried on in the Hellenistic side of the Roman empire, and in Greek. |
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| Do you want to sound like you're on the cutting edge of geek chic? Of course you do! There's no reason for Geek to sound like Greek anymore. |
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| No Greek manuscript of the Geography survives from earlier than the 13th century. |
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| For example, several hundred papyrus volumes found in a Roman villa at Herculaneum are in Greek. |
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| The New Testament, originally written in Koine Greek, contains 27 books which are agreed upon by all churches. |
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