The noun Greek refers to: Synonymous to Grecian; a native or inhabitant of Greece (Ελλάδα), or a person of Greek descent. - main articles: Greek people and Names of the Greeks The Indo-European language of the Greeks. - see main article: Greek language The adjective Greek may refer to a number of things relating to: Greek - History & Geography. Greek history Aegean Civilization (befor ...

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Greeks - Classical and Roman. Herodotus states that the Athenians declared, before the battle of Plataea, that they would not go over to Mardonius, because in the first place, they were bound to avenge the burning of the Acropolis; and, secondly, they would not betray their fellow Greeks, to whom they were bound by: A common language1 (the use of one of the dialects of the Greek language) Common blood2 (descent from Hellen, son of Deucalion) Common shrines, statues and sacrifices (practice of the ancient Greek religion)3 and ...

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Greek mythology comprises the collected narratives of Greek gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. Our surviving sources of mythology are literary reworkings of this oral tradition, supplemented by interpretations of iconic imagery, sometimes modern ones, sometimes ancient ones, as myth was a means for later Greeks themselves to throw light on cult practices and traditions that were no longer explicable. The historian must sometimes deduce from hints in imagery, such as in ...

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• Greek mythology - Theories of origin
• Greek mythology - Did the Greeks believe their myths?
• Greek mythology - Hellenistic rationalism
• Greek mythology - Syncretizing trends
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• Greek mythology - Modern interpreters
• Greek mythology - Greek cosmology
• Greek mythology - Related subjects
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Aeolic Greek is a linguistic term used to describe a set of rather archaic Greek sub-dialects, spoken mainly in Boeotia (a region in Central Greece), in Lesbos (an island close to Asia Minor) and in other Greek colonies. It is probable that the Aeolic speakers represent the second (i.e. Achaean) migratory wave of Greeks (Hellenes) from the plains of Central Europe (or, according to other opinions, from what is present-day Ukraine) into their current homeland. The Aeolic dialect shows many archaisms, in comparison to the other Greek dialects (i.e. Ionian-Attic, Doric, Northwester ...

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Ancient Greek refers to the stage in the history of the Greek language corresponding to Classical Antiquity, which normally applies to two periods of Greek history: Archaic and Classical Greece. The Ancient era of Greek history normally includes also the Hellenistic (post-Classic) age; however, that period formally composes its own stage in the Greek Language known as Hellenistic Greek. For information on the Greek language prior to the creation of the Greek alphabet, see articles Mycenaean Greek and Proto-Greek. ...

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• Ancient Greek - Sounds
• Ancient Greek - Vowels
• Ancient Greek - Consonants
• Ancient Greek - Consonant classes
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• Ancient Greek - Compensatory lengthening
• Ancient Greek - Augment
• Ancient Greek - Reduplication
• Ancient Greek - Grammatical forms
• Ancient Greek - Nouns
• Ancient Greek - Alpha Declension
• Ancient Greek - Omicron Declension
• Ancient Greek - The Article
• Ancient Greek - Numerals
• Ancient Greek - Verbs
• Ancient Greek - Principal parts
• Ancient Greek - Present tense
• Ancient Greek - Contracted verbs
• Ancient Greek - Future tense
• Ancient Greek - Aorist tense
• Ancient Greek - Perfect tense
• Ancient Greek - Deponents semi-deponents
• Ancient Greek - Sample paradigms
• Ancient Greek - Subordination rules and verbs meaning

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Attic Greek is the ancient dialect of Greek that was spoken in Attica, which includes Athens. Of the ancient dialects, it is the most similar to later Greek. It differs from most Greek dialects, including Doric, by frequently changing long ā to ē; from Ionic in not changing all of them. The Homeric dialect was an artificial compound, which resembled Ionic; but it also differed from Attic in losing the augment on the past tenses, and much more frequent use of the dual and other archaic forms. The later Koiné was largel ...

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Apis in Greek mythology was the king of Apia a ruler in the long line of rulers of Sicyon. Historically, he was most often alleged to have been killed by Aetolus. According to Robert Graves, Apis was accidentally ran over and fatally injured by a chariot driven by Aetolus during the funeral games of Azan, son of Arcas. Other related archivesAetolus, Apia, Arcas, Azan, Greek mythology, Robert Graves, Sicyon

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The Indo-Greeks (or sometimes Greco-Indians) designate a series of Greek kings, who invaded and controlled parts of northwest and northern India from 180 BCE to around 10 CE. They were the successors in India of the Greco-Bactrian dynasty of Greek kings (the Euthydemids) founded by the military governor Diodotus around 250 BCE when he established the independence of his Bactrian territory from the Seleucid Empire. During the two centuries of their rule, the Indo-Greek kings combined the Greek and Indian languages and sym ...

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• Indo-Greek Kingdom - The Indo-Greeks and Buddhism
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - The conversion of Menander
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• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Main Indo-Greek kings timeline and territories
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Eastern territories
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Western territories
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Indo-Greek princelets Gandhara
• Indo-Greek Kingdom - Notes

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Greek Old Calendarists (Greek: Παλαιοημερολογίτες, Paleoimerologites) are groups that separated from the Orthodox Church of Greece or from the Patriarchate of Constantinople, precipitated by disagreement over the retention of the Julian Calendar. Greek Old Calendarists - History. Up to the early 20th century, the Eastern Orthodox Church used the Julian Calendar universally, not accepting the calendar reforms of the Roman Catholic Council of Trent (1545-1563) and the then-cur ...

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Greek Orthodox Church can refer to any of several hierarchical churches within the larger group of mutually recognizing Eastern Orthodox churches: Orthodox Church of Constantinople, headed by the Patriarch of Constantinople, who is also the "first among equals" of the Eastern Orthodox Communion Church of Greece, which has been autocephalous since 1833 any Eastern Orthodox church that uses a Greek liturgy, including the Orthodox Churches of: Orthodox Church of Alexandria Antiochian Orthodox Church Orthodox Church of Jer

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Greek religion is the polytheistic religion practiced in ancient Greece in form of cult practices, thus the practical counterpart of Greek mythology. Within the Greek world, religious practice varied enough so that one might speak of Greek religions. The cult practices of the Hellenes extended beyond mainland Greece, to the islands and coasts of Ionia in Asia Minor, to Magna Graecia (Sicily and southern Italy) and to scattered Greek colonies in the Western Mediterranean, such as Massilia (Marseille). Greek examples tempered Etr ...

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The most comprehensive statement we possess as to the various kinds of clubs which might exist in a single Greek state appears in a law of Solon quoted incidentally in the Digest of Justinian I (47.22), which guaranteed the administrative independence of these associations provided they kept within the bounds of the law. Those mentioned (apart from demes and phratries, which were not clubs as here understood) include associations for religious purposes, for burial, for trade, for privateering, and for the enjoyment of co ...

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Dragons play a role in Greek mythology. Dragons in Greek mythology - Ladon. Ladon was a dragon-like beast that was slain by Hercules as a part of the requests of Eyrystheus. He is the hundred-headed dragon that guarded the garden of the Hesperides. He is variously described as the offspring of Phorcys or of Typhon and Echidna. It was said that his heads spoke with a multitude of voices in many languages. Dragons in Greek mythology - Python. Main artic ...

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A Greek-English Lexicon is the standard lexicographical work of the ancient Greek language, begun in the nineteenth century and now in its ninth (revised) edition. It was edited by Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, Henry Stuart Jones, and Roderick McKenzie, and published by the Oxford University Press. It is now conventionally referred to as the Liddell-Scott-Jones or LSJ, and sometimes humorously referred to as "the big Liddell" or "the great Scott". A version o ...

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In Greek mythology, Althaea was the daughter of Thestius, wife of Oeneus and mother of Meleager, Melanippe (one of the Meleagrids), and Deianeira. When Meleager was born, the Moirae predicted he would only live until a brand, burning in the family hearth, was consumed by fire. Althaea immediately hid the brand. Later, Meleager killed her two brothers in an argument and she placed the brand back upon the fire, k ...

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Outside Greece and Cyprus, large Greek communities can be found in a number of countries: United States: 1,153,295 (self-reported heritage); 365,435 speak Greek at home. (2000 Census). See Greek-Americans. Germany: 363,000 (1995, based on citizenship) Canada: 203,354 born in Greece4 (1996 Census); total approx. 320,000 Canadians of Greek heritage (2003 community estimates). See Greek-Canadians Australia: 260,000 speak Greek at home (1996 Census); 336,782 self-reported Greek origin (1986 Cens ...

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Greek products - Olive oil. Greece produces more than 430,000 tons of olive oil annually, and more than 75% of that is extra virgin. Greek olive oil is exported throughout the world. Olive oil plays a unique role in the Greek diet, being the basis of many traditional dishes. Greek products - Honey. Honey in Greece is mainly flower-honey from the nectar of fruit and citrus trees (lemon, orange, bigarade trees), thyme honey, and pine honey from conifer trees. ...

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1In Greek: homoglosson (ὁμόγλωσσον) + 2In Greek: homaimon (ὅμαιμον) 3Compare the Christian Greek and Demotic term omothriskon (ὁμόθρησκον). 4Includes non-Greeks born in Greece; excludes Greeks not born in Greece; exclude ...

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A variety of encodings have been used for Greek online, many of them documented in RFC 1947 "Greek Character Encoding for Electronic Mail Messages". The two principal ones still used today are ISO/IEC 8859-7 and Unicode. ISO 8859-7 supports only monotonic orthography; Unicode supports polytonic orthography. Greek alphabet - Greek in Unicode. Unicode supports polytonic orthography well enough for ordinary continuous text in modern and ancient Greek, and even many archaic forms for epigraphy. With the ...

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