Following the tradition of these Ancient Greek folk etymologies, in the Doric dialect the word originally meant wall, fence from animals and later assembly within the agora.

However, the Greek tradition is referring to the existence of vapours and chewing of laurel-leaves, which seem to be confirmed by recent studies.

According to Greek tradition, he helped Cretan or Arcadian colonists found the city of Troy.

According to the Greek tradition the Dipylon master was named Daedalus, and in his statues the limbs were freed from the body, giving the impression that the statues could move.

In Italian, possibly following a tradition of antiquity, the Arcipelago ( from medieval Greek * ἀρχιπέλαγος ) was the proper name for the Aegean Sea and, later, usage shifted to refer to the Aegean Islands ( since the sea is remarkable for its large number of islands ).

" The Presocratic tradition from Parmenides to Democritus " volume 2 of A History of Greek Philosophy Cambridge University Press, Cambridge OCLC 4679552 ; 1978 edition ISBN 0-521-29421-5

The contrasting view that " Achaeans ", as understood through Homer, are " a name without a country ", an ethnos created in the Epic tradition, has modern supporters among those who conclude that " Achaeans " were redefined in the fifth century, as contemporary speakers of Aeolic Greek.

Ares was one of the Twelve Olympians in the archaic tradition represented by the Iliad and Odyssey, but Zeus expresses a recurring Greek revulsion toward the god when Ares returns wounded and complaining from the battlefield at Troy:

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.

Baptism ( from the Greek noun Βάπτισμα baptisma ; itself derived from baptismos, washing ) is a Christian rite of admission ( or adoption ), almost invariably with the use of water, into the Christian Church generally and also a particular church tradition.

The later tradition preserved in the Greek Testament of Job ( chap.

In the Consolation, Boethius answered religious questions without reference to Christianity, relying solely on natural philosophy and the Classical Greek tradition.

Guns are subject to strict regulation from the Greek government, yet the authorities turn a blind eye, accepting gun possession as their tradition.

An example is John Milton's Paradise Lost, an " epic elaboration of the Judeo-Christian mythology " and also a " veritable encyclopedia of myths from the Greek and Roman tradition ".

According to tradition, Constantine arranged for the rockface to be removed from around the tomb, without harming it, in order to isolate the tomb ; in the centre of the rotunda is a small building called the Kouvouklion ( Kουβούκλιον ; Modern Greek for small compartment ) or Aedicule ( from Latin: aediculum, small building ), which supposedly encloses this tomb, although it is not currently possible to verify the claim, as the remains are completely enveloped by a marble sheath.

The anecdotes are literary, and late ; however, in the founding tales of the Greek colony of Gela, founded in the 680s on the southwest coast of Sicily, a tradition was preserved that the Greeks had seized cult images wrought by Daedalus from their local predecessors, the Sicani.

In Greek legend, for instance, it was Poseidon ( god of the sea ) who raised the storms which blew Odysseus ' craft off course on his return journey, and Japanese tradition holds that a god-sent wind saved them from Mongol invasion.

The hexameter was first used by early Greek poets of the oral tradition, and the most complete extant examples of their works are the Iliad and the Odyssey, which influenced the authors of all later classical epics that survive today.

For instance, Paul cites Greek writers and philosophers, and the author of Hebrews references oral tradition which spoke of an Old Testament prophet who was sawn in half in Hebrews 11: 37, two verses after the 2nd Maccabees reference.

Where Diocletian's system of rescripts shows an adherence to classical tradition, Constantine's law is full of Greek and eastern influences.

The first extant grammar of Greek, " Art of Grammar " ( Tékhnē grammatiké, Greek: ) is attributed to him but many scholars today doubt that the work really belongs solely to him due to the difference between the technical approach of most of the work and the more literary approach ( similar to the 2nd century's Alexandrian tradition ) of the first few sections.

Although some scholars consider the letter a pseudonymous work written between the end of the 1st century and the first quarter of the 2nd century, arguing from the references to the apostles, tradition ; and the book's competent Greek style, conservative scholars date it between 66 to 90.

The Greek tradition of epigrams began as poems inscribed on votive offerings at sanctuariesincluding statues of athletesand on funerary monuments, for example " Go tell it to the Spartans, passersby ...".

Antlia (; from Ancient Greek ἀντλία ) is a constellation in the southern sky.

Bayer assigned a lower-case Greek letter, such as alpha ( α ), beta ( β ), gamma ( γ ), etc., to each star he catalogued, combined with the Latin name of the star ’ s parent constellation in genitive ( possessive ) form.

A single constellation may contain fifty or more stars, but the Greek alphabet has only twenty-four letters ; when these ran out, Bayer began using lower-case Latin letters: hence s Carinae ( s of the Keel ) and d Centauri ( d of the Centaur ).

For the most part, Bayer assigned Greek and Latin letters to stars in rough order of apparent brightness, from brightest to dimmest, within a particular constellation.

The stars of the main asterism within a constellation are usually given Greek letters in their order of brightness, the so-called Bayer designation introduced by Johann Bayer in 1603.

In Greek mythology, the constellation is sometimes identified as Amalthea, the goat that suckled the infant Zeus after his mother Rhea saved him from being devoured by his father Cronos ( in Greek mythology ).

According to the Roman poet Ovid ( Fasti v. 379 ), the constellation honors the centaur Chiron, who was tutor to many of the earlier Greek heroes including Heracles ( Hercules ), Theseus, and Jason, the leader of the Argonauts.

In Greek mythology, the monster Perseus defeated was called Ceto, which is depicted by the constellation of Cetus.

Even though the name Dorado is not Latin but Spanish, astronomers give it the Latin genitive form Doradus when naming its stars ; they are treating it ( like the adjacent constellation Argo Navis ) as if it were a feminine proper name of Greek origin ending in-ō ( like Io or Callisto or Argo ), names that have a genitive ending in-ūs.

The Greek constellation is probably based on the Babylonian figure known as the Mad Dog ( UR. IDIM ).

It is often found in association with the sun god and another mythical being called the Bison-man, which is supposedly related to the Greek constellation of Centaurus.

Lyra (; Latin for lyre, from Greek λύρα ) is a small constellation.

Its name is from the Greek " serpent-bearer ", and it is commonly represented as a man grasping the snake that is represented by the constellation Serpens.

In Greek mythology, this constellation is known as the Great Fish and it is portrayed as swallowing the water being poured out by Aquarius, the water-bearer constellation.

The German astronomer Johann Bayer created a series of star maps and applied Greek letters as designations to the stars in each constellation.

Serpens (" the Serpent ", Greek ) is a constellation of the northern hemisphere.

An illustration of the Perseus ( constellation ) | Perseus constellation ( after Perseus from Greek mythology ) from the star catalogue published by the German astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1690

The Mul. Apin lists, dated to sometime before the Neo-Babylonian Empire ( 626-539 BC ), are direct textual descendants of the ' Three Stars Each ' lists and their constellation patterns show similarities to those of later Greek civilization.

Although the ancient Vedas of India specified how the ecliptic was to be divided into twenty-eight nakshatra, Indian constellation patterns were ultimately borrowed from Greek ones sometime after Alexander's conquests in Asia in the 4th century BC.

These are given a Greek letter followed by the genitive case of the constellation in which they are located ; examples are Alpha Centauri or Gamma Cygni.

The Greeks called Triangulum Δελτωτόν, as the constellation resembled an upper-case Greek letter delta ( Δ ) to the earlier Greeks.