Why the Greeks?

Achilles was an ancient Greek hero.

They won against the Gauls and against Carthage.

إنها مشكلة أرقت العلماء الإغريق كثيرا

And that setting is of Mt Olympus, the abode of the gods.

The Greek built the Statue of God they didn't know.

The maxim, Know thyself has been around since the ancient Greeks.

Two millennia ago, those Greeks had some powerful insights.

He's part of this ethnic minority called the Pontic Greeks.

Those profligate, idle, ouzo swilling, Zorba dancing Greeks, they are the problem.

After the Greeks and the Romans, this place was transformed into a fortress.

The habit of some plants to move in the direction of the sun was already known by the Ancient Greeks.

The ancient Greeks had schools of rhetoric to hone their skills for the assembly.

Well, the Greeks thought about what happens when gods and humans and immortality mix for a long time.

The early Muslims read the works of the great Greek scientists, mathematicians, and philosophers.

Primality of one Most early Greeks did not even consider 1 to be a number, and so they did not consider it a prime.

After the Greeks, little happened with the study of prime numbers until the 17th century.

It contained not only gold and gems but the soldiers' women and children.

But the Classical Greeks had natural philosophy, and the Classical Romans believed in figuring out what worked and applying it.

The root of Chen s moral demise is something the classical Greeks identified hubris.

The Greeks don't have their own central bank that can back up the banking system there.

The first construction cranes were invented by the Ancient Greeks and were powered by men or beasts of burden, such as donkeys.

He turned to medicine and astrology for a livelihood, studying the sciences of the Greeks, Arabs, Babylonians, and Indians.

How did the Greeks manage to devise a mechanism... ...to reflect such complex and irregular data as the lunar cycles?

And in The Histories, Polybius describes a technology developed by Aeneas Tacticus one of the earliest Greek writers on the art of war from the 4th century BC.

Well, if you go back to the Ancient Greeks, it was a revelation, a discovery, that we had the potential, together, to be masters of our own fate, to be able to examine, to learn, to imagine, and then to design a better life.

The ancient Greeks were the first to think more or less scientifically about what light is and how vision works.

Because, you see, the Greeks believed you live only once, and when you die, you have to cross the River Styx.

As the Volga route declined by the end of the century, the Trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks rapidly overtook it in popularity.

هذه الفكرة ليست جديدة فقد ناقشها من قبل علماء الفلك الإغريق و الهنود والعرب و أعيد كشفها من قبل (كوبر نيقوس ) رجل الدين البولندي الذي فك معضلة الدوائر الإغريقية

Greek philosophers had already alluded to, and which blow up in our face today in 2011 because of the contemporary cosmology.

And if that's true, then what we want to do is we want to go through four lessons from the Greeks and one lesson from a Latin American.

One mayor of the palace, Charles Martel, defeated an Islamic invasion of Gaul at the Battle of Tours (732) and earned respect and power within the Frankish kingdoms.

The number 1,207 appears very early in the historical record (472 BC), and the Greeks appear to have genuinely believed they faced that many ships.

Wine making technology improved considerably with the ancient Greeks but it wasn't until the end of the Roman Empire that cultivation techniques as we know them were common throughout Europe.

Again, the Ancient Greeks, with all their shortcomings, believed in the wisdom of the crowd at their best moments.

It probably first established itself as a mindset when the Greeks, 25 centuries ago, perceived themselves as Western versus the Oriental Persians.

Despite being seen as distinct in its manners and customs by contemporary Greeks, the cultures of Greece, and later Rome, influenced the civilization to a great extent.

Around 1640, Blaise Pascal, a leading French mathematician, constructed a mechanical adding device based on a design described by Greek mathematician Hero of Alexandria.

In 1934, Italy adopted the name Libya (used by the Ancient Greeks for all of North Africa, except Egypt) as the official name of the colony (made up of the three provinces of Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and Fezzan).

Plagued by internal strife and financial difficulties in keeping the fleet in constant readiness, the Greeks failed to prevent the capture and destruction of Kasos and Psara in 1824, or the landing of the Egyptian army at Modon.

هذا التعقيد لم يجعل الإغريق يتساءلون عن عدم كمال هذه الدوائر ولكن عوضا عن ذلك أضافوا العديد منها ما يزيد عن 50 دائرة هذه المجموعة المتشابكة من الدوائر تشرح كيف أن الكواكب كانت تتراجع إلى الوراء أحيانا وذلك بهدف المحافظة على عقيدة أن الأرض مركز الكون

None of the foregoing conditions applied to people of Greek origin, omogenis , whose forebears had emigrated for economic reasons, or to Greeks who lived in Eastern Europe or the former Soviet Union.

This fantasy was unambiguously rejected by Irish voters, so it seems fitting to remind ourselves that the ancient Greeks, who gave the word hubris to the western world, saw it as a portent of tragedy leading to downfall, or nemesis.

After all, the human sex drive, especially if it compels risky or self destructive behavior, has held appeal for dramatists since the ancient Greeks, who originated the story of Achilles and his vulnerability.