The study of Greek was the distinctive mark of boys destined to go to college, and Lucy Upton too expected to go to college and take the full classical course offered to men.

Linnaeus entered the Växjö Gymnasium in 1724, where he studied mainly Greek, Hebrew, theology and mathematics, a curriculum designed for boys preparing for the priesthood.

Cornelia provided her boys with the best available Greek tutors, who taught them in addition to oratory skills and political science, progressive and democratic views that all the power rightly belongs to the people.

Forms of schooling ranged from dame schools to “ Latin ” schools for boys already literate in English and ready to master preparatory grammar for Latin, Hebrew, and Greek.

Later the emphasis was on classical studies, dominated by Latin and Ancient History, and, for boys with sufficient ability, Classical Greek.

The novel is atypical in that it was written in first person plural from the perspective of an anonymous group of teenage boys who became infatuated with the girls, a style mirroring a Greek chorus.

In Greek mythology, Eiresione ( Greek: Εἰρεσιώνη, from εἶρος-eiros, " wool ") was the personification of an object very important in many Greek rituals and ceremonies: a branch of olive or laurel, covered with wool, fruits, cakes and olive flasks, dedicated to Apollo and carried about by singing boys during the festivals of Pyanopsia and Thargelia, and afterwards hung up at the house door.

The usual pattern was to create an endowment to pay the wages of a master to instruct local boys in Latin and sometimes Greek without charge.

According to Philodemus, who presented it as a little-known fact, Tyrtaeus was honoured above others because of his music, not just his verses, Pollux stated that he introduced Spartans to three choruses based on age ( boys, young and old men ) and some modern scholars in fact argue that he composed his elegies in units of five couplets each, alternating between exhortation and reflection, in a kind of responsion similar to Greek choral poetry.

Greek, Mandarin Chinese, German or Spanish are offered to boys with good linguistic ability, alongside or in lieu of French and Latin.

The subjects taught were Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and many boys were sent to Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

For some years he was a master in the " little school " for boys established at Port Royal, and had the honour of teaching Greek to young Jean Racine, the future poet.

The Greek gymnasium never became popular with the Romans, who believed the training of boys in gymnastics was conducive to idleness and immorality, and of little use for militaristic reasons ( though in Sparta gymnastic training had been valued chiefly because it encouraged warlike tastes, promoted the bodily strength needed to use weapons and ensured the fortitude required to endure hardship ).

The magazine was named Barazoku ( The Rose Tribe ) by Ito since the flower rose had been a prominent symbol of male homosexuality in Japan, derived from Greek myth of the King Laius who have affairs with boys under rose trees.

Devshirme < ref > Ottoman, Greek παιδομάζωμα, Paedomazoma-collection of children ;, Mankahavak < nowiki >'</ nowiki >)-child-gathering ; Romanian: tribut de sânge ; Croatian: Danak u krvi, Slovene: Krvni davek, Bosnian and Serbian: Данак у крви / Danak u krvi, Macedonian: Данок во крв / Danok vo krv, and Bulgarian: Кръвен данък / Kraven Danak-blood tax </ ref > was the practice by which the Ottoman Empire forcibly took boys from Christian families, who were selected by skilled scouts to be trained and enrolled in one of the four imperial institutions: the Palace, the Scribes, the Religious and the Military.

In Athens, dithyrambs were sung by a Greek chorus of up to fifty men or boys dancing in circular formation ( there is no certain evidence that they may have originally been dressed as satyrs ) and probably accompanied by the aulos.

Nevertheless, entrance into the corps ( accompanied by conversion to Islam ) offered Greek boys the opportunity to advance as high as governor or even Grand Vizier.

UCS was separately named best boys independent school for classical Greek A-Level 2006.

In addition to these compulsory subjects, boys may also take a combination of several other subjects, including history, geography, Latin, physical education, business studies, classical Greek, music, religious studies, electronics, and art.

One other explanation is that the boys referred to are the twins Castor and Pollux, both of whom appear in Greek mythology.

There the boys learnt Latin and Greek, Divinity and some Hebrew.

There were also Greek boys ' and girls ' schools. After long and persistent struggle of the local Bulgarians in Nevrokop in 1894 the Sultan issued a " berat "-a decree about the creation of the " Nevrokop Bulgarian Diocese ", under the jurisdiction of the Bulgarian Exarchate with the first Primate Metropolitan Hilarion.

Despina is a given name for girls, meaning ' lady ' in Greek.

There is reference on a Greek papyrus from 163 BCE to the procedure being conducted on girls in Memphis, the ancient Egyptian capital, and Strabo ( c. 64 BCE – c. 23 CE ), the Greek geographer, reported it when he visited Egypt in 25 BCE.

When Greek and Roman girls got married they would dedicate their doll to a Goddess.

The shepherds spend their time chasing pretty girls — or, at least in the Greek and Roman versions, pretty lads as well.

There was a Greek school, with almost 200 students, some girls.

While the senate was debating the issue a slave girl, whose Greek name was Philotis and Latin Tutela or Tutula proposed that she together with other slave girls would render herself up to the enemy camp pretending to be the wives and daughters of the Roman families.

In this context, the adolescentophilia focused on boys is ephebophilia ( from the Greek ephebos ), the adolescentophilia focused on girls is hebephilia ( the terms korophilia and parthenophilia are sometimes used in similar meanings ).

While at the cottage Hawthorne wrote Tanglewood Tales ( 1853 ), a re-writing of a number of Greek myths for boys and girls.

Initially, Dr. Freud applied the Oedipus complex to the development of boys and girls alike ; he then developed the female aspect of phallic-stage psychosexual development as the feminine Oedipus attitude and the negative Oedipus complex ; but his student – collaborator Carl Jung proposed the “ Electra complex ”, derived from Greek mythologic character Electra, who plotted matricidal revenge against her mother for the murder of her father, to describe a girl ’ s psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father.

Until the earl's death the boys of the family, and possibly the girls, were given a classical education under the tutelage of a Sicilian Greek, Master " Digines " ( Diogenes ), who may have been Humphrey de Bohun's boyhood tutor.

The most important of the 24 monuments and buildings in the county capital of Zalău are: " Transilvania " ( theatre in 1895 ), the city hall ( court and seat of the prefects office in 1889 ), the Roman Catholic Church ( 1878 ), the reformed church ( 1904 – 1907 ), the Greek Catholic church " Adormirea Maicii Domnului " ( 1930 – 1934 ), the Orthodox deanery ( built in late 19th century ), the Historical Museum ( built about 1900 – casino of the artisans fellowship ), the primary school " Simion Bărnuţiu " ( girls ' school in 1895 ) and the National College Silvania ( Reformed College in 1860 ), all these being valuable urbanistic elements for the historical and cultural patrimony of the land.

In Jihlava, a principal Protestant center in Moravia, there were six schools: two Czech, two German, one for girls and one teaching in Latin, which was at the level of a high / grammar school, lecturing on Latin, Greek and Hebrew, Rhetorics, Dialectics, fundamentals of Philosophy and fine arts, as well as religion according to the Lutheran Augustana.

However when the Greek singer gives Beryl a congratulatory kiss, Robert drunkenly starts a fight and ends the night in a police cell while the girls compare their new rings back at their flat.

Within two years, however, the garrison lost the control to Indians and some or all of the Greek, Persian, Thracian and Macedonian soldiers of the garrison married the local girls and became assimilated into the local Hindu society.

In Jihlava, a principal Protestant center in Moravia, there were six schools: two Czech, two German, one for girls and one teaching in Latin, which was at the level of a high / grammar school, lecturing on Latin, Greek and Hebrew, Rhetorics, Dialectics, fundamentals of Philosophy and fine arts, as well as religion according to the Lutheran Augustana.

The girls in the senior department are divided into four houses, each named after an Ancient Greek deity:

Subsequently, a Bulgarian girls school was opened and it operated simultaneously with the Greek schools in the town.

Homer interprets Apollo as a terrible god ( δεινός θεός ) who brings death and disease with his arrows, but who can also heal, possessing a magic art that separates him from the other Greek gods.

Apollo is a common theme in Greek and Roman art and also in the art of the Renaissance.

The adoption of a standard recognizable type for a long time, is probably because nature gives preference in survival of a type which has long be adopted by the climatic conditions, and also due to the general Greek belief that nature expresses itself in ideal forms that can be imagined and represented.

Aquarius is also sometimes identified with Ganymede, a youth in Greek mythology who was taken to Mount Olympus by Zeus to act as cup-carrier to the gods.

In order to help reestablish his name and improve the image of his business from the earlier controversies associated with the dangerous explosives, Nobel had also considered naming the highly powerful substance " Nobel's Safety Powder ", but settled with Dynamite instead, referring to the Greek word for ' power '.

Anatolia ( from Greek — " east " or "( sun ) rise "; also Asia Minor, from " small Asia "; in modern ) is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey.

An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.

Using his excellent knowledge of Greek, which was then rare in the West, to his advantage, he studied the Hebrew Bible and Greek authors like Philo, Origen, Athanasius, and Basil of Caesarea, with whom he was also exchanging letters.

But the Septuagint ( the Greek translation of the Old Testament ) adds that " pigs " also licked his blood.

The word is found in Gnostic texts such as the Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, and also appears in the Greek Magical Papyri.

In certain obscure magical writings of Egyptian origin ἀβραξάς or ἀβρασάξ is found associated with other names which frequently accompany it on gems ; it is also found on the Greek metal tesseræ among other mystic words.

The magic word " Ablanathanalba ," which reads in Greek the same backward as forward, also occurs in the Abrasax-stones as well as in the magic papyri.

It was also considered the greatest sin of the ancient Greek world.

Herodotus also describes that just like his predecessor, Amasis II relied on Greek mercenaries and council men.

He also married a Greek princess named Ladice daughter of King Battus III and made alliances with Polycrates of Samos and Croesus of Lydia.

He also translated from Greek into Latin a life of St. John Chrysostom ( Venice, 1533 ); the Spiritual Wisdom of John Moschus ; The Ladder of Divine Ascent of St. John Climacus ( Venice, 1531 ), P. G., LXXXVIII.

In addition to being married to Jochebed, Amram is also described in the Bible as having been related to Jochebed prior to the marriage, although the exact relationship is uncertain ; some Greek and Latin manuscripts of the Septuagint state that Jochebed was Amram's father's cousin, and others state that Amram was Jochebed's cousin, but the Masoretic text states that he was Jochebed's nephew.

c. 60 BC ) was a Greek philosopher from Rhodes who was also the eleventh scholarch of the Peripatetic school.

Generals were elected not only because their role required expert knowledge but also because they needed to be people with experience and contacts in the wider Greek world where wars were fought.

In many Gnostic systems, the various emanations of God, who is also known by such names as the One, the Monad, Aion teleos ( " The Broadest Aeon "), Bythos (" depth or profundity ", Greek ), Proarkhe (" before the beginning ", Greek ), the Arkhe (" the beginning ", Greek ), are called Aeons.

Later Greek myths also say that Helen had spent the time of the Trojan War in Egypt, and not at Troy, and that after Troy the Greeks went there to recover her.