Saint Isidore introduced Aristotle to his countrymen long before the Arabs studied Greek philosophy extensively.

The study examines genetic markers spread across the entire genome and shows that the Jewish groups ( Ashkenazi and non Ashkenazi ) share large swaths of DNA, indicating close relationships and that each of the Jewish groups in the study ( Iranian, Iraqi, Syrian, Italian, Turkish, Greek and Ashkenazi ) has its own genetic signature but is more closely related to the other Jewish groups than to their fellow non-Jewish countrymen.

In 1706 he completed the edition of Julius Pollux's Onomasticon begun by Jean-Henri Lederlin ( 1672-1737 ); but the praise he received from his countrymen was more than counterbalanced by two letters of criticism from Bentley, which mortified him so keenly that for two months he refused to open a Greek book.

The Ottomans engaged in active campaigns to capture these insurgents in 1805 and 1806, and were able to enlist Greek villagers, eager to avoid the stake, in the hunt for their outlaw countrymen.

Vladimirescu was executed by the Etaireía ; the latter were completely checked by the Turks, who, grown suspicious after the Greek rising and confronted with the energetic attitude of the Romanian nobility, consented in 1822 to the nomination of two native boyars, Ioniţă Sandu Sturdza and Grigore IV Ghica, recommended by their countrymen, as princes of Moldavia and Wallachia, respectively.

Because of its close connection with Greek history, the public desperately yearned for the marathon to be won by one of their countrymen.

At Berlin he sustained the cause of Greek independence, but in all other respects remained isolated, and excited the wrath of his countrymen by returning to Italy with empty hands.

Underhill's classical education, through which he learns Greek and Latin, provides him with the ability to recite copious lines of poetry, which his countrymen ridicule.

Rather, he intended to afford to his countrymen, in an interesting form, some knowledge of Greek civilization.

He followed classical models so closely that he was styled by his countrymen El Griego, " The Greek.

Xanthippus however vehemently objected to this, since the Ionian cities were originally Greek colonies.

On the other hand, the Albanian League of Prizren strongly objected to the Greek positions through its local branch, the Albanian Committee of Preveza.

In Greek practice the title or function of Abbot corresponds to a person who actually serves as the head of a monastery, although the title of the Archimandrite may be given to any celibate priest who could serve as the head of a monastery.

( The etymological convention that verbs derived from Greek roots are spelled with-ize and those from Latin with-ise is preserved in that practice.

In Ancient Greece, the practice of keeping a slave concubine ( Greek " pallakis ") was little recorded but appears throughout Athenian history.

His famous twenty-three catechetical lectures ( Greek Κατηχήσεις ), which he delivered while still a presbyter in 347 or 348, contain instructions on the principal topics of Christian faith and practice, in rather a popular than a scientific manner, full of a warm pastoral love and care for the catechumens to whom they were delivered.

The hexameter came into Latin as an adaptation from Greek long after the practice of singing the epics had faded.

The Greek island of Syros, whose population is divided almost equally between Catholics and Orthodox, is one of the few places where the two Churches share a common date for Easter, with the Catholics accepting the Orthodox date-a practice helping considerably in maintaining good relations between the two communities.

Epicurus ' teachings were introduced into medical philosophy and practice by the Epicurean doctor Asclepiades of Bithynia, who was the first physician who introduced Greek medicine in Rome.

A Gaulish man and a Gaulish woman and a Greek man and a Greek woman were buried alive under the Forum Boarium ... They were lowered into a stone vault, which had on a previous occasion also been polluted by human victims, a practice most repulsive to Roman feelings.

In theological discussions, the practice is sometimes referred to as paedobaptism or pedobaptism from the Greek pais meaning " child ".

Just as colonisation and colonialism have been practiced throughout recorded history, political self-determination, on an individual level, has been documented similarly and cherished highly by collective peoples despite them ; ancient Mesopotamia and the later Greek city-states are early examples of its practice.

As already in Aristotle's definitions, theory is very often contrasted to " practice " ( from Greek praxis, πρᾶξις ) a Greek term for " doing ", which is opposed to theory because pure theory involves no doing apart from itself.

This method resembles the Ancient Greek practice of placing an obolus in the corpse's mouth to pay the toll to cross the River Styx in the underworld ; it has been argued that instead, the coin was intended to ward off any evil spirits from entering the body, and this may have influenced later vampire folklore.

Nevertheless, it is unclear whether the simultaneous sounding of notes was part of ancient Greek musical practice ; " harmonía " may have merely provided a system of classification of the relationships between different pitches.

In the Greek practice, ordinary Compline is chanted on Friday night together with the Akathist to the Theotokos ( Mother of God ).

In the Greek practice, the priest will strew the entire church with fresh bay leaves, symbolizing Christ's victory over death.

" Lingard departed from usual Catholic practice by using early Greek manuscripts rather than the Latin Vulgate as the principal basis for the translation.

The device has also appeared in the American television series Star Trek: The Next Generation as the Klingon practice of discommendation ; as a threat in Ancient Greek and Persian culture in Frank Miller's 1998 comic book series 300 and its 2007 film adaptation ; and in the 2004 role playing game Vampire the Requiem.

Early in the 1st century BCE, they adopted the Greek and Roman practice of issuing coinage, adapting the widely imitated gold staters of Philip II of Macedon, in the characteristic Celtic coin metal alloy called billion.

Theurgy ( from Greek θεουργία ) describes the practice of rituals, sometimes seen as magical in nature, performed with the intention of invoking the action or evoking the presence of one or more gods, especially with the goal of uniting with the divine, achieving henosis, and perfecting oneself.

The Eleusinian Mysteries are believed to be of considerable antiquity, deriving from religious practice of the Mycenaean period and thus predating the Greek Dark Ages.

Classical architecture is architecture derived in part from the Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, enriched by classicizing architectural practice in Europe since the Renaissance.

Article 5 allows ethnic Greeks who are stateless ( which, in practice, includes those who voluntarily renounce their nationality ) to obtain citizenship upon application to a Greek consular official.

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 ; ;

The Greek sculptors tried to clarify it by looking for mathematical proportions, just as they sought some reality behind appearances.

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.

" The Covered Hall ") This abode is somewhat like Hades from Ancient Greek religion: there, something not unlike the Asphodel Meadows can be found, and people who have neither excelled in that which is good nor excelled in that which is bad can expect to go there after they die and be reunited with their loved ones.

After describing the manifestation of the Gospel in the Ogdoad and Hebdomad, he adds that the Basilidians have a long account of the innumerable creations and powers in the several ' stages ' of the upper world ( diastemata ), in which they speak of 365 heavens and say that " their great archon " is Abrasax, because his name contains the number 365, the number of the days in the year ; i. e. the sum of the numbers denoted by the Greek letters in ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ according to the rules of isopsephy is 365:

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.

These troops, returning home from a disastrous military expedition to Cyrene in Libya, suspected that they had been betrayed in order that Apries, the reigning king, might rule more absolutely by means of his Greek mercenaries ; many Egyptians fully sympathized with them.

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.

William of Tyre explains that " after suffering intolerably from the fever for several days, he ordered physicians of the Greek, Syrian, and other nations noted for skill in diseases to be called and insisted that they give him some purgative remedy.

: huiotes ); according to Marcus, they are numbers and sounds ; in Valentinianism they form male / female pairs called " syzygies " ( Greek, from σύζυγοι syzygoi ).

The Greek states of Athens and Eretria allowed themselves to be drawn into this conflict by Aristagoras, and during their only campaigning season ( 498 BC ) they contributed to the capture and burning of the Persian regional capital of Sardis.

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.

Greek officers, revolting in August 1909, had secured the appointment of a progressive government under Eleftherios Venizelos which they hoped would resolve the Cretan issue in Greece's favour and reverse their defeat of 1897 by the Ottomans.

His Hellenic Jewish parents called him Joseph ( although the Byzantine text-type calls him, Iōsēs, ' Joses ', a Greek variant of ' Joseph '), but when he sold all his goods and gave the money to the apostles in Jerusalem, they gave him a new name: Barnabas.

When the Greek army entered Thessaloniki in the First Balkan War ahead of the Bulgarian 7th division by only a day, they were asked to allow a Bulgarian battalion to enter the city.

During the night of 30 ( 17 ) June 1913 they attacked the Serbian army at Bregalnica river and then the Greek army in Nigrita.

In addition to many of the Greek Cypriot refugees ( a third of the population ), many Turkish Cypriots ( on whose pretext Turkey invaded ) also moved to the UK and other countries where for the past 30 years they have lived as neighbours with the Greek Cypriots.

Greek engineers were the first to use canal locks, by which they regulated the water flow in the Ancient Suez Canal as early as the 3rd century BC.

Cell biology ( formerly cytology, from the Greek kytos, " contain ") is a scientific discipline that studies cells – their physiological properties, their structure, the organelles they contain, interactions with their environment, their life cycle, division and death.

The contemporary Greek geographer Strabo testifies that the Cimbri still existed as a Germanic tribe, presumably in the " Cimbric peninsula " ( since they are said to live by the North Sea and to have paid tribute to Augustus ):

The trio were likened to the Greek chorus, and the three witches in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, as they would sit in the snug bar of the Rovers Return, passing judgement over family, neighbours and frequently each other.

As a result they appear lighter than the Greek orders.