The Greek Tragedy, Act II

I learned a lot about Greek culture.

Many of these used a substance known as Greek Fire.

Greek for 'between two rivers'

There are a whole series of them, kind of like a Greek chorus.

We would view them as gods like in Greek mythology.

CHICAGO A Greek tragedy is typically composed of three acts.

Ancient Greek's sculptures, bronze or marble, are frozen but that doesn't mean that the the Ancient Greeks did not want to convey movement.

Islamic chemists improved on Greek Fire by using and refining a naturally occurring resource petroleum.

Zinedine Zidane may be pondering that bit of ancient Greek wisdom today.

The bird is celebrated in Indian and Greek mythology and is the national bird of India.

The Greek alphabet borrowed from the Phoenician letters along with light, and cheap, papyrus effected the transfer of power from the priestly to the military class.

In Germany, by about 1795, there was a growing interest in Homer and Greek mythology.

One of the main interests of the Hellenic Cultural Centre (CCH) is to promote cultural identity.

Other subjects covered include specimens of Greek music and documents relating to magic and astrology.

In fact, the phrase topic sentence that comes from the Greek word topos, which means place.

And a great place to begin is with the Greek myth of Cadmus a Phoenician prince who introduced the 'phonetic' letters to Greece.

And he put that in the word arête, which we, from Ancient Greek , translate as virtue.

Greek gallery, this is described as a geometric crater from the 8th century BCE.

Rectangular hyperbola A rectangular hyperbola, equilateral hyperbola, or right hyperbola is a hyperbola for which the asymptotes are perpendicular.

Democracy, in its Greek origins, began with the creation of a public sphere distinct from the family and its intense emotions.

Akragas grew rapidly, becoming one of the richest and most famous of the Greek colonies of Magna Graecia .

The Hellenic Cultural Centre (CCH) organizes monthly press conferences to which the cultural correspondents of the country's various newspapers are invited.

And then he went even beyond that, because even the idea of grouping things into a genus dated back to the ancient Greeks.

One such challenge, the Vatican Bank, is equivalent to cleaning up the Augean stables.

And the reason why they're called magnets is because they're named after lodestones that were found near the Greek province of Magnesia.

At least half of the body of Greek theater and philosophy was produced in Asia Minor.

So this is Greece right over here, but he lived in Alexandria which at the time was part of the Roman Empire.

These robots are the kind of the intermediary between the main character, Simon Powers, and his family. There are a whole series of them, kind of like a Greek chorus.

Samples of Greek tapestry have been found preserved in the desert of Tarim Basin dating from the 3rd century BC.

The 'rootword' is a term derived from a source language such as Greek or Latin and usually describes a body part.

The vicarious experiences generated by Greek tragedies, televised sitcoms, and newspaper stories have all played an important role in expanding the scope of moral concern.

As in ancient Greek tragedies, misconceptions and a sheer lack of understanding have had unintended but fateful consequences.

Like the ancient Greeks Hydra, Georgia s political elite never ceases to die and be reborn.

Those in Europe and around the world who yearn for a victory by John Kerry in the US presidential election ought to keep that bit of ancient Greek wisdom in mind.

In his book, he also studied static electricity using amber amber is called elektron in Greek, so Gilbert decided to call its effect the electric force .

Cultural exchange took place between the Greek colonies of Magna Graeca and the young Roman Republic before Rome's rise to dominance of the Western Mediterranean.

In organic chemistry, a heteroatom (from Ancient Greek heteros , different, atomos ) is any atom that is not carbon or hydrogen.

Natura was a Latin translation of the Greek word physis (φύσις), which originally related to the intrinsic characteristics that plants, animals, and other features of the world develop of their own accord.

Unlike the case of those Latin texts, which had been preserved and studied in Western Europe since late antiquity, the study of ancient Greek texts was very limited in medieval Western Europe.

Two cases in that connection still had not been resolved the Dodecatheists , who worshipped the twelve gods of ancient Greece, and the Scientologists, who at the current stage had been classified as an association, not a religion.

MAYNOOTH, IRELAND As the Greek financial drama reaches its sorry dénouement, another crisis looms for the European project this time in Germany, beginning with a case now before Germany s Constitutional Court.

Phoenix is a genus of 14 species of palms, native to the Canary Islands east across northern and central Africa, the extreme southeast of Europe (Crete), and southern Asia from Turkey east to southern China and Malaysia.

While the Iliad is the earliest source for descriptions of theophanies in the Classical tradition (and they occur throughout Greek mythology), probably the earliest description of a theophany is in the Epic of Gilgamesh.

One such challenge, the Vatican Bank, is equivalent to cleaning up the Augean stables. It is enough to mention the words Vatican and bank in the same sentence to start a cascade of jokes about comic opera ineptness and skullduggery.