The Roman worship of Apollo was adopted from the Greeks.

The Greeks adopted the Babylonian system in the 4th century BC.

The letter Ε was taken over from the Phoenician letter He ( x12px ) when Greeks first adopted alphabetic writing.

The Seleucids adopted a pro-western stance that alienated both the powerful eastern satraps and the Greeks who had migrated to the east.

The names Demeter and Kore are Greek, and this probably indicates that the Greeks adopted these divinities during their wandering, and that they were later fused with local divinities in the ancient cults.

Romans, and Greeks adopted pipes from their neighbors to the east and they were subsequently used by Germanic, Celtic and Nordic tribes.

The Romans, who eventually conquered the Greeks, and adopted many aspects of their culture, did not adopt the Greek perception of footwear and clothing.

The medieval Arabs adopted the distillation technique of the Alexandrian Greeks, and written records in Arabic begin in the 9th century, but again these were not distillations of alcohol.

The Romans, who eventually conquered the Greeks, and adopted many aspects of their culture, did not adopt the Greek perception of footwear and clothing.

Rome adopts the Etruscan alphabet, which the Etruscans themselves had adopted from the Greeks.

The Romans first adopted the arch from the Greeks, and implemented it in their own building.

Literacy had been lost and Mycenaean script forgotten, but the Greeks adopted the Phoenician alphabet, modifying it to create the Greek alphabet.

This practice was adopted by the Greeks and Romans, and is still unknowingly followed by some today.

In 1274, at the Second Council of Lyon, he confirmed by an oath in the emperor's name that that confession of faith which had been previously sent to Constantinople by the pope had been adopted by the Greeks.

Romans adopted the shirt ( tunica, or in Greek chiton ) which the Greeks and Etruscans wore, made the toga more bulky, and wore it in a looser manner.

Under its supervision, the Greeks had adopted the triangular infantry division as their main formation, but more importantly, the overhaul of the mobilization system allowed the country to field and equip a far greater number of troops than it had in 1897: while foreign observers estimated a mobilized force of approximately 50, 000 men, the Greek Army fielded 125, 000, with another 140, 000 in the National Guard and reserves.

Repeatedly defeated in battle by the Greeks, and plagued by internal rebellions that hindered their ability to fight the Greeks, after 449 BC Artaxerxes I and his successors instead adopted a policy of divide-and-rule.

Alexander, now the Persian " King of Kings ", adopted Persian dress and mannerisms, which, in time, the Greeks began to view as decadent and autocratic.

In modern times, apart from Cyprus, Enosis is adopted among part of the Greeks living in southern Albania / Northern Epirus.

The Iberians may have adopted some of the Greeks ' artistic techniques.

Under its supervision, the Greeks had adopted the triangular infantry division as their main formation, but more importantly, the overhaul of the mobilization system allowed the country to field and equip a far greater number of troops than it had in 1897: while foreign observers estimated a mobilized force of approximately 50, 000 men, the Army eventually fielded 125, 000, with another 140, 000 in the National Guard and reserves.

Greeks and Romans, and the later Muslim and Western European medical establishments that adopted and adapted classical medical philosophy, believed that each of these humors would wax and wane in the body, depending on diet and activity.

With the colonization by the Greeks of Southern Italy, hexastyle was adopted by the Etruscans and subsequently acquired by the ancient Romans.

The Greeks, for example, greatly valued asteria in gemstones, which were regarded as a powerful love charm, and Helen of Troy was known to have worn star-corundum.

Three years later in Switzerland, Heinrich Hoessli published the first volume of Eros: Die Männerliebe der Griechen (" Eros: The Male-love of the Greeks "), another defence of same-sex love.

Rousseau had no recollection of learning to read, but he remembered how when he was 5 or 6 his father encouraged his love of reading: Not long afterward, Rousseau abandoned his taste for escapist stories in favor of the antiquity of Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, which he would read to his father while he made watches.

* In the 1956 film Helen of Troy, Paris, as the main character, is portrayed as a heroic character who at first worships peace and love but is later forced to take up arms against the treacherous Greeks.

He joined the Parian colony on Thasos and battled the indigenous Thracians, expressing himself in his poems as a cynical, hard-bitten soldier fighting for a country he doesn't love (" Thasos, thrice miserable city ") on behalf of a people he scorns (" The woes of all the Greeks have come together in Thasos "), yet he values his closest comrades and their stalwart, unglamorous commander.

The Greeks, who became rulers of Egypt for three hundred years before the Roman domination in 31 BC, also loved Hathor and equated her with their own goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite.

She falls in love with Troilus the youngest son of King Priam, and pledges everlasting love, but when she is sent to the Greeks as part of a hostage exchange, she forms a liaison with the Greek warrior Diomedes.

Envious and jealous of the beauty of a mortal girl named Psyche, Venus asks her son Cupid ( known to the Greeks as Eros ) to use his golden arrows while Psyche sleeps, so that when she awakens, Venus ( Aphrodite in the Greek tradition ) would place a vile creature for her to fall in love with.

With the help of Criseyde ’ s uncle Pandarus he wins her love but soon loses it when the Greeks and the Trojans conduct an exchange of prisoners.

Meanwhile, Carolyn, starry-eyed in love, learns many things from her divine sweetheart, such as finding out that the group with which Apollo was associated considered themselves to be gods, but not in the same sense that the ancient Greeks believed they were.

Kirk and McCoy conclude that he is indeed the real Apollo, who was part of a group of powerful space aliens that visited Earth 50 centuries ago, and thrived on the love, worship, loyalty and attention of the ancient Greeks.

The third book, written two years after the first books were published, gives women advice on how to win and keep the love of a man (" I have just armed the Greeks against the Amazons ; now, Penthesilea, it remains for me to arm thee against the Greeks ...").

In a popular addition to the story, originating in the 12th century, Troilus falls in love with Cressida, whose father has defected to the Greeks.

The Sacred Band of Thebes, a separate military unit reserved only for men and their beloved youths, is usually considered as the prime example of how the ancient Greeks used love between soldiers in a troop to boost their fighting spirit.

To fulfil this audience's expectation that heroic characters should be lovers in accordance with the principles of courtly love, Benoît invented the story of the young Trojan prince Troilus's love for the daughter of Calchas, the priestly defector to the Greeks.

He wrote drinking songs and love ditties which are very popular among the Greeks.

Dover concludes that the Greeks conceived of same-sex relations primarily as boy love and identifies the terms for the roles of the two male lovers, erastes, " the lover ," that is, the older active partner, and eromenos, " the beloved ", indicating the adolescent male beloved.

By the 12th century the cultural confidence of the Byzantine Greeks led them to develop new literary genres, such as romantic fiction, in which adventure and love are the main elements.

In the classical world, the phenomenon of " love at first sight " was understood within the context of a more general conception of passionate love, a kind of madness or, as the Greeks put it, theia mania (" madness from the gods ").