In 1974 it merged with the male-only rowing club Asopos ( named after the Greek rivergod Asopos ), which had been founded in 1962 by discontent members of the club Njord, nowadays a sub of Leiden's traditional fraternity / sorority ( corps ) Minerva.

Dysphoria ( from Greek δύσφορος ( dysphoros ), from δυσ -, difficult, and φέρειν, to bear ) ( semantically opposite of euphoria ) is a medically recognized mental and emotional condition in which a person experiences intense feelings of depression, discontent, and in some cases indifference to the world around them.

The origins of the war lie in the continuing desire of many Greek states, most notably Athens and Sparta, for a restoration of their former independence along with the Ptolemaic desire to stir up discontent within the sphere of influence of its Macedonian rival.

After Thomas Aquinas wrote his theology, working from Moerbeke's translations, the demand for Aristotle's writings grew and the Greek manuscripts returned to the West, stimulating a revival of Aristotelianism in Europe that continued into the Renaissance.

The Ancient Greek colony of Selinous ( Greek: Σελινοῦς, Selinoūs ), on Sicily, was named after wild parsley that grew abundantly there ; Selinountian coins depicted a parsley leaf as the symbol of the city.

The empire that grew from Athenian conquest spurred the spread of Greek language, religion, science and philosophy throughout the colonies.

Some Greeks grew rich as merchants and shipowners, and Piraeus became a major port, but little of this wealth found its way to the Greek peasantry.

" Omphalos " is Greek for " navel ", and Gosse argued that the first man, Adam, did not require a navel because he was never born ; nevertheless he must have had one, as do all complete human beings, just as God must have created trees with rings that they never grew.

The city grew and prospered, and for some time stood as the most powerful Greek city anywhere in the Mediterranean.

The name is supposed to have been derived from quantities of wild parsley ( Greek: — selinon ) that grew on the spot.

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

Patron, a Greek mercenary, encouraged Darius to accept a bodyguard of Greek mercenaries rather than his usual Persian guard to protect him from Bessus and Nabarzanes, but the King could not accept for political reasons and grew accustomed to his fate.

In Greek mythology, the Lernaean Hydra () was an ancient nameless serpent-like chthonic water beast, with reptilian traits, ( as its name evinces ) that possessed many heads — the poets mention more heads than the vase-painters could paint, and for each head cut off it grew two more — and poisonous breath so virulent even her tracks were deadly.

The Roman presence in the area grew exponentially over time and the Paleo-Veneti ( whose culture mirrored Etruscan and Greek values more so than Celtic ones ) were gradually assimilated.

He grew up a neighbor to Jimmy the Greek.

He was taught English by his caretakers as he grew up, but in conversations with his parents he refused to speak anything but Greek.

In the meantime, tensions between the Balkan allies grew, as Bulgaria claimed Greek and Serbian-occupied territory.

When the Bible was quoted to her, defending the subordinate position of women to men, Stone declared that when she grew up, she'd learn Greek and Hebrew so she could correct the mistranslation that she was confident lay behind such verses.

This was a period in Rome of widespread imitation of Greek culture, and many other men grew beards in imitation of Hadrian and the Greek fashion.

Negroponte was born to Dimitri John Negroponte, a Greek shipping magnate, and grew up in New York City's Upper East Side.

Greek tyranny in the main grew out of the struggle of the popular classes against the aristocracy or against priest-kings where archaic traditions and mythology sanctioned hereditary and / or traditional rights to rule.

In the 18th and 19th century, as revolutionary nationalism grew across Europe — including the Balkans ( due, in large part, to the influence of the French Revolution )— the Ottoman Empire's power declined and Greek nationalism began to assert itself.

In connection with the Greek professorship, Jowett had undertaken a work on Plato which grew into a complete translation of the Dialogues with introductory essays.

The old-style single module diners featuring a long counter and a few small booths sometimes now grew additional dining rooms, lavish wallpaper, fountains, crystal chandeliers and Greek statuary.

This Greek abacus saw use in Achaemenid Persia, the Etruscan civilization, Ancient Rome and, until the French Revolution, the Western Christian world.

Argon ( αργος, Greek meaning " inactive ", in reference to its chemical inactivity ) was suspected to be present in air by Henry Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen from a sample of clean air.

According to the Bibliotheca, no one had realised that Ajax had raped Cassandra until Calchas, the Greek seer, warned the Greeks that Athena was furious at the treatment of her priestess and she would destroy the Greek ships if they didn't kill him immediately.

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 ).

Ludwig Ross, the German archaeologist appointed Curator of the Antiquities of Athens at the time of the establishment of the Kingdom of Greece, by his explorations in the Greek islands from 1835 onwards, called attention to certain early intaglios, since known as Inselsteine ; but it was not until 1878 that C. T. Newton demonstrated these to be no strayed Phoenician products.

Resumed Ottomans rule in Aegina and the Morea was confirmed in the Treaty of Passarowitz, and they retained control of the island with the exception of a short-lived Russian occupation, until the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 1821.

Therefore wonders ( Greek dynameis ) were not wrought in him until the Spirit ( which Theodotus called Christ ) came down and was manifested in Him.

The name comes from Greek Bosporos ( Βόσπορος ), which the ancient Greeks analysed as bous ' ox ' + poros ' means of passing a river, ford, ferry ', thus meaning ' ox-ford ', which is a reference to Io ( mythology ) from Greek mythology who was transformed into a cow and condemned to wander the earth until she crossed the Bosphorus where she met Prometheus.

It is also said in myth that floating rocks known as the Symplegades or Clashing Rocks once crushed any ship that attempted passage of the Bosphorus until the hero Jason obtained passage, whereupon the rocks became fixed, and Greek access to the Black Sea was opened.

Up until that point the official Christian presence in the region was Greek Orthodox.

There is little evidence for any such tactical thinking in Greek battles until Leuctra in 371 BC.

The philology of Greek survived in the Byzantine Empire until the fall of Constantinople, and was re-introduced in Western Europe in the Renaissance.

Bradycardia (; Greek βραδυκαρδία, bradykardía, " heart slowness "), in the context of adult medicine, is the resting heart rate of under 60 beats per minute, though it is seldom symptomatic until the rate drops below 50 beats / min.

From October 1840 until January 1843 he was in Paris, busy with the treasures of the Bibliothèque Nationale, eking out his scanty means by making collations for other scholars, and producing for the publisher, Firmin Didot, several editions of the Greek New Testament — one of them exhibiting the form of the text corresponding most closely to the Vulgate.

Today, the numeral is often called stigma, after the value of a Byzantine Greek ligature σ-τ ( ϛ ), which shares the same shape and was used as a textual ligature in Greek print until the 19th century.

Digamma / wau is in turn the ancestor of the Latin letter F. As an alphabetic letter it is attested in archaic and dialectal ancient Greek inscriptions until the classical period.

Dartmouth is home to 32 recognized Greek houses: 17 fraternities, 12 sororities, and three coeducational organizations, In 2007, roughly 70 % of eligible students belong to a Greek organization ; since 1987, students have not been permitted to join Greek organizations until their sophomore year.

Although most of the relevant tissues and endocrine glands had been identified by early anatomists, a more humoral approach to understanding biological function and disease was favoured by the ancient Greek and Roman thinkers such as Aristotle, Hippocrates, Lucretius, Celsus, and Galen, according to Freeman et al., and these theories held sway until the advent of germ theory, physiology, and organ basis of pathology in the 19th century.

This portion was printed in 1514, but publication was delayed until 1522 by waiting for the Old Testament portion, and the sanction of Pope Leo X. Erasmus had been working for years on two projects: a collation of Greek texts and a fresh Latin New Testament.

Relations with the Soviet Union remained at the same level until 1960, when Khrushchev met with Sophocles Venizelos, a left-wing Greek politician.