However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.

The first Western literature, including the Hurrian – Hittite literature, the first Greek polis and the two main schools of Ancient Greek philosophy seem to originate in this region.

He was a cultivated patron of literature and art, and it was in his time that the first printing press authorized to use the Arabic or Turkish languages was set up in Constantinople, operated by Ibrahim Muteferrika ( while the printing press had been introduced to Constantinople in 1480, all works published before 1729 were in Greek, Armenian, or Hebrew ).

In his study of Greek literature his master was Emmanuel Chrysoloras.

However, in Coptic literature, St Athanasius is the first patriarch of Alexandria to use Coptic as well as Greek in his writings.

In Coptic literature, St. Athanasius is the first patriarch of Alexandria to use Coptic as well as Greek in his writings.

This theory of Homer's influence on Beowulf remained very prevalent in the 1920s, but started to die out in the following decade when a handful of critics stated that the two works were merely “ comparative literature ” although Greek was known in contemporary England.

It was used by Saints Cyril and Methodius and their disciples to translate the Bible and other liturgical literature from Greek into Slavic.

As far back as the early 2nd century, there is evidence that the codex — usually of papyrus — was the preferred format among Christians: in the library of the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum ( buried in AD 79 ), all the texts ( Greek literature ) are scrolls ( see Herculaneum papyri ); in the Nag Hammadi " library ", secreted about AD 390, all the texts ( Gnostic Christian ) are codices.

Cerberus featured in many works of ancient Greek and Roman literature and in works of both ancient and modern art and architecture, although the depiction and background surrounding Cerberus often differed across various works by different authors of the era.

Cerberus featured in many prominent works of Greek and Roman literature, most famously in Virgil's Aeneid, Peisandros of Rhodes ' epic poem the Labours of Hercules, the story of Orpheus in Plato's Symposium, and in Homer's Iliad, which is the only known reference to one of Heracles ' labours which first appeared in a literary source.

A convert to Christianity, he was an educated man who was familiar with classical Greek philosophy and literature.

Though female centaurs, called Kentaurides, are not mentioned in early Greek literature and art, they do appear occasionally in later antiquity.

" Thus Thrax, like contemporary Alexandrian scholars who edited Attic Greek and Homeric texts, was concerned with facilitating the teaching of classic Greek literature to an audience who spoke Koine Greek.

Erotica ( from the Greek ἔρως, eros " desire ") are works of art, including literature, photography, film, sculpture and painting, that deal substantively with erotically stimulating or sexually arousing descriptions.

Like all Greek forms, elegy was adapted by the Romans for their own literature.

Moreover, numerous fragments and testimonies are found throughout ancient Greek and Roman literature, a collection of which can be found in Usener's Epicurea.

In Rabbinic literature the term Epikoros is used, without a specific reference to the Greek philosopher Epicurus, yet it seems apparent that the term was derived from his name.

In early English literature the short couplet poem was dominated by the poetic epigram and proverb, especially in the translations of the Bible and the Greek and Roman poets.

This was the Greek word most often translated as `` baptism ''.

Thus, the Greeks most often associated Apollo's name with the Greek verb ἀπόλλυμι ( apollymi ), " to destroy ".

As a quintessentially Greek god, Apollo had no direct Roman equivalent, although later Roman poets often referred to him as Phoebus.

In the Hebrew Bible and the Qur ' an, Aaron ( or ; Ahărōn, Hārūn, Greek ( Septuagint ): Ααρών ), who is often called "' Aaron the Priest "' () and once Aaron the Levite () ( Exodus 4: 14 ), was the older brother of Moses, ( Exodus 6: 16-20, 7: 7 ; Qur ' an 28: 34 ) and a prophet of God.

Although the Greek word " techně " is often mistranslated as " art ," it actually implies mastery of any sort of craft.

In ancient Greek mythology, ambrosia () is sometimes the food or drink of the Greek gods ( or demigods ), often depicted as conferring ageless immortality upon whomever consumed it.

Amazonian raiders were often depicted in battle with Greek warriors in amazonomachies in classical art.

Ammonius Saccas ( 3rd century AD ) () was a Greek philosopher from Alexandria who was often referred to as one of the founders of Neoplatonism.

Similarly, in the Greek Magical Papyri, the term " Aion " is often used to denote the All, or the supreme aspect of God

While Greek states had in the past often been ruled by tyrants, this was a form of arbitrary government that was on the decline.

His value as a war god is even placed in doubt: during the Trojan War, Ares was on the losing side, while Athena, often depicted in Greek art as holding Nike ( Victory ) in her hand, favored the triumphant Greeks.

Ares plays a relatively limited role in Greek mythology as represented in literary narratives, though his numerous love affairs and abundant offspring are often alluded to.

Within the later tradition of Western Civilization and classical revival the Acropolis, from at least the mid-18th century on, has often been invoked as a key symbol of the Greek legacy and of the glories of Classical Greece.

In the classical period of Greek mythology, Artemis ( Greek: ( nominative ), ( genitive ) ) was often described as the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo.

Medical terms related to blood often begin with hemo-or hemato-( also spelled haemo-and haemato -) from the Greek word ( haima ) for " blood ".

For example: in Africa, the bronze heads of the Kingdom of Benin ; in Europe, Grecian bronzes typically of figures from Greek mythology ; in east Asia, Chinese bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasty — more often ceremonial vessels but including some figurine examples.

Since the following two hundred years saw the rise of the Classical Greek civilization, which has been enduringly influential in western society, the Battle of Marathon is often seen as a pivotal moment in European history.

" In the original Greek, Logos ( λόγος ) is used for " Word ," and is often used untranslated.

The use of " Χ ," derived from Chi, the Greek alphabet initial, as an abbreviation for Christ ( most commonly in the abbreviation " Χmas ") is often misinterpreted as a modern secularization of the term.

In antiquity, Greek reports of cannibalism, ( often called anthropophagy in this context ) were related to distant non-Hellenic barbarians, or else relegated in Greek mythology to the ' primitive ' chthonic world that preceded the coming of the Olympian gods: see the explicit rejection of human sacrifice in the cannibal feast prepared for the Olympians by Tantalus of his son Pelops.

Its name refers to Cetus, a sea monster in Greek mythology, although it is often called ' the whale ' today.

Its name means " no feet " in Greek, and it represents a bird-of-paradise ( which were once believed to lack feet ).

This discovery has shed much light on the differences between the two versions ; while it was previously maintained that the Greek Septuagint ( the version used by the earliest Christians ) was only a poor translation, professor Emanuel Tov, senior editor of the Dead Sea Scrolls ' publication, wrote that the Masoretic edition either represents a substantial rewriting of the original Hebrew, or there had previously been two different versions of the text.

In Greek mythology, Centaurus represents a centaur ; a creature that is half man, half horse.

In Modern Greek, it represents a voiced dental fricative, like the " th " in " that " or " this ".

Thus in Modern Greek, Eta is pronounced and represents the sound / i / ( a close front unrounded vowel ).

In Modern Greek the letter, pronounced, represents a close front unrounded vowel,.

For example, when representing a vowel, the letter ⟨ y ⟩ in non-word-final positions, represents the sound in some words borrowed from Greek ( reflecting an original upsilon ), whereas the letter usually representing this sound in non-Greek words is the letter ⟨ i ⟩.

John Elliot, however, suggests that the notion of Silvanus as secretary or author or drafter of 1 Peter represents little more than a counsel of despair and introduces more problems than it solves because the Greek rendition of 5: 12 suggests that Silvanus was not the secretary, but the courier / bearer of 1Peter.

In Modern Greek, it represents a voiced fricative.

Both in Ancient and in Modern Greek, before other velars ( κ, χ, ξ k, kh, ks ), gamma represents a velar nasal.

where the Greek letter phi () represents the golden ratio.

However, this represents only a small proportion of occurrences of hubris in Greek literature, and, for the most part, hubris refers to infractions by mortals against other mortals.

An ideogram or ideograph ( from Greek idea " idea " + grafo " to write ") is a graphic symbol that represents an idea or concept.

The Greek word eikon means an image or likeness that represents something else.

Ivanhoe, though of a more noble lineage than some of the other characters, represents a middling individual in the medieval class system who is not exceptionally outstanding in his abilities, as is expected of other quasi historical fictional characters, such as the Greek heroes.

The name came from the Greek letter mu ( μ ) which represents permeability in physics and engineering formulae.

In Modern Greek Ω represents the same sound as omicron.

A common digraph in English is ph, which represents the voiceless labiodental fricative, and can be used to transliterate Phi ( φ ) in loanwords from Greek.

The Latin presbyter ultimately represents Greek presbyteros, the regular Latin word for " priest " being sacerdos, corresponding to Greek hiereus.

The Cretan Renaissance poem Erotokritos is undoubtedly the masterpiece of this early period of modern Greek literature, and represents one of its supreme achievements.

A pasigraphy ( from Greek pasi ' to all ' and graph ' write ') is a writing system where each written symbol represents a concept ( rather than a word or sound or series of sounds in a spoken language ).

Plainchant represents the first revival of musical notation after knowledge of the ancient Greek system was lost.

In Ancient Greek, the locative merged with the Proto-Indo-European dative, so that the Greek dative represents the Proto-Indo-European dative, instrumental, and locative.