Using the word apocrypha ( Greek: hidden away ) to describe texts, although not necessarily pejorative, implies to some people that the writings in question should not be included in the canon of the Bible.

This may lead to more of a focus on etiquette than on ethics as understood in Western civilization, leading some in Western civilizations to question why the word ethos was adapted from Ancient Greek with such vast differences in cultural norms.

Greek politics in the 19th century was dominated by the national question.

Another political issue in 19th-century Greece was uniquely Greek: the language question.

Furthermore, the question on the Greek influence found in the early Roman Law is still much discussed.

In the Galileo affair, the acceptance, from 1616 to 1757, of the Greek geocentric model ( Ptolemaic system ) by the Roman Catholic Church, and its consequent opposition to heliocentrism, was first called into question by the Catholic cleric Copernicus, and subsequently disproved conclusively by Galileo, who was persecuted for his minority view.

Opponents of this approach point out that many of the terms in question carry male denotations and connotations in the original Hebrew and Greek.

In pursuit of the retrieval of this question, Heidegger spent considerable time reflecting on ancient Greek thought, in particular on Plato, Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Anaximander, as well as on the tragic playwright Sophocles.

In their bearing upon the question of papal infallibility these words have caused considerable attention and controversy, and prominence is given to the circumstance that in the Greek text of the letter to the Emperor which the phrase occurs, the milder expression subverti permisit (" allowed to be overthrown ...") is used for subvertare conatus est.

Early in 1940, he was trained for a commission after, whilst working in a kitchen, answering the question of an inspecting brigadier with a Greek proverb ; on several occasions, he told colleagues that he expected to be at least a major-general by the end of the war.

According to a story reported by Simplicius, Plato posed a question for Greek astronomers: " By the assumption of what uniform and orderly motions can the apparent motions of the planets be accounted for?

In Greek and Church Slavonic, a semicolon indicates a question, similar to a Latin question mark.

This leads to a meeting (" Congress ") of all Greek states in order to consider the question of rebuilding the temples destroyed by the Persians.

Since Greek is classified as an Indo-European language, the major question of concern is whether Pelasgian was an Indo-European language.

The question as to whether the story about the Egyptian treasury is derived from Greece, or whether the Greek story was an importation from Egypt, has been answered by modern scholars in both ways ; but Müller has rendered it very probable that the tradition took its rise among the Minyans, was transferred from them to Augeas, and was known in Greece long before the reign of Psammetichus, during which the intercourse between the two countries was opened.

The question of the union with the Greek church, especially, gave rise to a misunderstanding between them which soon led to a rupture.

This system was successfully used to resolve the Polish-Saxon crisis at Vienna and the question of Greek independence at Laibach.

Although biblical books that are letters, like Greek plays, presumably had one original, the question of whether some biblical books, like the gospels, ever had just one original has been discussed.

Constantine, in turn, announced the creation of the Anna Maria Foundation, to allocate the funds in question back to the Greek people for use in " extraordinary natural disasters " and charitable causes.

One important move in Greek philosophy to answer the question of how to achieve eudaimonia is to bring in another important concept in ancient philosophy, " arete " (" virtue ").

Not the least of his achievements on this occasion was the successful attempt, made with extraordinary tact, ability, knowledge and perseverance, to induce the Orientals, Anglicans and Old Catholics present to accept a formula of concord drawn from the writings of the leading theologians of the Greek Church, on the long-vexed question of the Procession of the Holy Spirit.

The question as to why a person could not tickle him / herself was raised by the Greek philosopher, Aristotle.

He was the author of numerous works, including: a Greek grammar in the form of question and answer, like the Erotemata of Manuel Moschopulus, with an appendix on the so-called " Political verse "; a treatise on syntax ; a biography of Aesop and a prose version of the fables ; scholia on certain Greek authors ; two hexameter poems, one a eulogy of Claudius Ptolemaeus — whose Geography was rediscovered by Planudes, who translated it into Latin — the other an account of the sudden change of an ox into a mouse ; a treatise on the method of calculating in use amongst the Indians ( ed.

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.

A diacritical mark (; also diacritical point, diacritical sign from ancient Greek διά ( dia, through ) and κρίνω ( krinein, to separate ) is a glyph added to a letter, or basic glyph.

Other uses include the Early Cyrillic titlo ( ◌҃ ) and the Hebrew gershayim ( ״ ), which, respectively, mark abbreviations or acronyms, and Greek diacritical marks, which showed that letters of the alphabet were being used as numerals.

Other examples include ⟨ ph ⟩ pronounced ( which is usually spelt ⟨ f ⟩), and ⟨ ch ⟩ pronounced ( which is usually spelt ⟨ c ⟩ or ⟨ k ⟩) – the use of these spellings for these sounds often mark words that have been borrowed from Greek.

Languages such as Ancient Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit had ways of altering or inflecting nouns to mark roles which are not specially marked in English, such as the ablative case (" John kicked the ball away from the house ") and the instrumental case (" John kicked the ball with his foot ").

Her classical education left its mark ; Christopher Stray has observed that " George Eliot's novels draw heavily on Greek literature ( only one of her books can be printed correctly without the use of a Greek typeface ), and her themes are often influenced by Greek tragedy ".

The term, which was spelled semeiotics, derives from the Greek σημειωτικός, ( sēmeiōtikos ), " observant of signs " ( from σημεῖον-sēmeion, " a sign, a mark ") and it was first used in English by Henry Stubbes in a very precise sense to denote the branch of medical science relating to the interpretation of signs.

" Stigmata is the plural of the Greek word στίγμα stigma, meaning a mark or brand such as might have been used for identification of an animal or slave.

The success of Zorba the Greek in 1964 was the high water mark of his career and resulted in another Oscar nomination for Best Actor.

These battles of Salamis and Plataea thus mark a turning point in the course of the Greco-Persian wars as a whole ; from then onward, the Greek poleis would take the offensive.

The coins minted in Athens for the euro introduction in 2002 as well as all the subsequent Greek euro coins do not carry any mint mark.

In the 16th century, the printer and scholar Robert Estienne ( also known as Stephanus in Latin and Stephens in English ) used it to mark differences in the words or passages between different printed versions of the Greek New Testament ( Textus Receptus ).

" It is derived from the Greek words στίγμα stigma " mark, sign " and ἔργον ergon " work, action ", and captures the notion that an agent ’ s actions leave signs in the environment, signs that it and other agents sense and that determine and incite their subsequent actions.

The optic chiasm or optic chiasma ( Greek, " crossing ", from the Greek ' to mark with an X ', after the Greek letter ' Χ ', chi ) is the part of the brain where the optic nerves ( CN II ) partially cross.

The characteristic mark of the vow, as the Suda and the Greek Church Fathers remark, was that it was a promise either of things to be offered to God in the future and at once consecrated to Him in view of their being so offered, or of austerities to be undergone.

In the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek, the rough breathing ( or daseîa: modern Greek δασεία dasía ; Latin spīritus asper ), is a diacritical mark used to indicate the presence of an sound before a vowel, diphthong, or rho.

With funds from her father and Lord Wakefield she purchased G-AAAH, a second-hand de Havilland Gipsy Moth she named " Jason ", not after the voyager of Greek legend, but after her father's trade mark.

The name Atropa is thought to be derived from that of the Greek goddess Atropos, one of the three Greek fates or destinies who would determine the course of a man's life by the weaving of threads that symbolized his birth, the events in his life and finally his death ; with Atropos cutting these threads to mark the last of these.