Within this notion clarity is possible, but for us who are neither Greek nor Jansenist there is not such clarity.

I have chosen to use the word `` mimesis '' in its Christian rather than its classic implications and to discover in the concrete forms of both art and myth powers of theological expression which, as in the Christian mind, are the direct consequence of involvement in historical experience, which are not reserved, as in the Greek mind, only to moments of theoretical reflection.

Greek boys and girls also go for rock-and-roll, and the stations most tuned to are those carrying United States overseas programs.

In Greek tragedy as in Shakespeare, mortal actions are encompassed by forces which transcend man.

`` The great Greek tragedies are concerned with man against Fate, not man against man for the prize of a woman's body.

The Dipylon Geometric pottery of Athens and the Iliad are amazing manifestations of the inherent potentialities of Greek civilization ; ;

The rows of animals and birds, in particular, suggest awareness of Oriental animal friezes, transmitted perhaps via Syrian silver bowls and textiles, but the specific forms of these rows on local vases and metal products are nonetheless Greek.

Milman Parry rigorously defended the observation that the extant Homeric poems are largely formulaic, and was led to postulate that they could be shown entirely formulaic if the complete corpus of Greek epic survived ; ;

Love affairs ascribed to Apollo are a late development in Greek mythology.

There are dozens of alphabets in use today, the most common being the Latin alphabet ( which was derived from the Greek ).

The vowels are significant in the Greek language, and the syllabical Linear B script which was used by the Mycenaean Greeks from the 16th century BC had 87 symbols including 5 vowels.

Asteroids ( from Greek ἀστεροειδής-asteroeidēs, " star-like ", from " star " and " like, in form ") are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun.

Uppercase and lowercase Greek alpha are represented in Unicode as U + 0391 ( Α ) and U + 03B1 ( α ) respectively.

* 479 BC – Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan commander of the Greek army in the Battle of Plataea.

Some heroes of Greek legend are allowed to visit the underworld.

Cognate words are the Greek ( ankylοs ), meaning " crooked, curved ," and the English word " ankle ".

They are said to go back at least to the Greek poet Lycophron, in the third century BCE ; but this relies on an account of Lycophron given by John Tzetzes in the 12th century.

Crucial to this definition are the ancient Greek concepts of honor ( timē ) and shame.

* 1898 – 700 Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.

Tiberius took Agrippina by her hand and quoted the Greek line: “ And if you are not queen, my dear, have I then you wrong ?”

The ' far-away light ' () is a reference to St Elmo's Fire, an electrical discharge supposed by ancient Greek mariners to be an epiphany of the Dioscuri, but the meaning of the line was obscured by gaps in the papyrus until reconstructed by a modern scholar — such reconstructions are typical of the extant poetry ( see Scholars, fragments and sources below ).

* Alexander # Alexander_as_a_given_name, where various Greek persons named Alexander are disambiguated

The Amazons (, Amazónes, singular, Amazōn ) are a nation of all-female warriors in Greek mythology and Classical antiquity.

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.

But by first calling the final product Novum Instrumentum omne (" All of the New Teaching ") and later Novum Testamentum omne (" All of the New Testament ") he also indicated clearly that he considered a consistently parallelized version of both the Greek and the Latin texts as the essential dual core of the church's New Testament tradition.

Nestorius emphasized the dual natures of Christ, trying to find a middle ground between those that emphasized the fact that in Christ God had been born as a man, insisted on calling the Virgin Mary Theotokos ( Greek: Θεοτόκος, " God-bearer "), and those that rejected that title because God as an eternal being could not have been born.

Nestorius tried to find a middle ground between those that emphasized the fact that in Christ God had been born as a man, insisted on calling the Virgin Mary Theotokos ( Greek: Θεοτόκος, " God-bearer "), and those that rejected that title because God as an eternal being could not have been born.

Joseph Eddy Fontenrose suggests that for Nonnus Campe is a Greek refiguring of Tiamat and that " she is Echidna under another name, as Nonnos indicates, calling her Echidnaean Enyo, identifying her snaky legs with Echidna's ", and " a female counterpart of his Typhon ".

The word is a transliteration of Greek κλῆσις ( klēsis ) " calling ", used to rank army draftees by property from first to fifth class.

At the age of 55, Anna took it upon herself to finish her husband's work, calling the completed work the Alexiad, the history of her father's life and reign ( 1081 – 1118 ) in Greek.

Some were calling Stone an atheist but it was her absolute faith that the Bible held better things for women that drove her to learn Greek and Hebrew.

Raphael first appears disguised in human form as the travelling companion of Tobit's son, Tobiah ( Greek: Τωβίας / Tobias ), calling himself " Azarias the son of the great Ananias ".

Jeff Johnson, a friend of Knight, suggested calling the firm Nike, named after the Greek winged goddess of victory.

In the early 1920's, Doto started calling himself " Joe Adonis " ( Adonis was the Greek god of beauty and desire ).

The Greek government, while nominally accepting the Allied proposals, made hasty preparations for the formation, under the auspices of the Greek military leaders, of a special " Government of Ionia " ( hinterland of Smyrna ) on the same general lines as the Angora Nationalist government, while simultaneously an organization of Greeks resident abroad, consisting mainly of Venizelist elements and calling itself the " League for National Defense ", issued an appeal to Greeks all over the world to oppose the evacuation of Asia Minor by the Greek army.

A Convocation ( Latin ' calling together ', translating the Greek ecclesia ) is a group of people formally assembled for a special purpose.

French astronomers began calling it Herschel before German Johann Bode proposed the name Uranus, after the Greek and Roman god.

The Greek plan was calling for a wider open field combat which ultimately would cost heavy casualties against an already superior opponent.

Therefore the organisation promotes who they vote for and who they believe the left should support during election periods, for example calling for the left to unite around SYRIZA in the 2012 Greek legislative election.

When historians of translation studies have traced early thinking about translation, for example, they have most often set the beginning with Cicero's remarks on how he used translation from Greek to Latin to improve his oratorical abilities -- an early description of what Jerome ended up calling sense-for-sense translation.

Damanaki was the voice of the famous " Εδώ Πολυτεχνείο " (" This is the Polytechnic ") radio broadcast from within the uprising, calling Greek citizens out to support ; she was arrested and tortured by the regime.

By calling Edward King " Lycidas ," Milton follows “ the tradition of memorializing a loved one through Pastoral poetry, a practice that may be traced from ancient Greek Sicily through Roman culture and into the Christian Middle Ages and early Renaissance .” Milton describes King as “ selfless ,” even though he was of the clergy – a statement both bold and, at the time, controversial among lay people: “ Through allegory, the speaker accuses God of unjustly punishing the young, selfless King, whose premature death ended a career that would have unfolded in stark contrast to the majority of the ministers and bishops of the Church of England, whom the speaker condemns as depraved, materialistic, and selfish .”

Washington goes on to warn the American people to question the ulterior motives of any person or group of people who argue that the land within the borders of the United States is too large to be ruled as a republic, an argument made by many Greek philosophers and later during the debate on the proposed purchase of the Louisiana Territory, calling on the people to at least give the experiment of a large republic a chance to work before deciding it cannot be done.

Putnam discussed Davidson's 1910 theory based on the Greek word kalli ( meaning beautiful ) but discounted it as exceedingly unlikely, a conclusion that Dora Beale Polk agreed with in 1995, calling the theory " far-fetched ".

During the 1994 trial of the Omonoia members, an organization that represents the Greek minority in Albania, three local Greeks were arrested and beaten by the Albanian police after they were found in possession of leaflets calling for the release of the arrested Omonoia leaders.