Many scholars believe that there is a historical core to the tale, though this may simply mean that the Homeric stories are a fusion of various tales of sieges and expeditions by Mycenaean Greeks during the Bronze Age.

Some scholars believe that Oceanus originally represented all bodies of salt water, including the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, the two largest bodies known to the ancient Greeks.

* The Greek congress decides to send a force of 10, 000 Greeks, including hoplites and cavalry, to the Vale of Tempe, through which they believe the Persian army will pass.

Paris returned to Troy without a new bride, but the Greeks refused to believe that Helen was in Egypt and not within Troy's walls.

The Ancient Greeks used to believe even he was the first man.

With the knowledge transferred to the Ancient Greeks, historians believe that the Greeks originated pie pastry.

The Greeks did not believe in only one god – they had gods and goddesses, but no God or Goddess.

" For our part, and we mean no offence, we firmly believe that both Greeks and Latins have always taken learning to a higher level by extending it to each other's literature.

Some mistakenly believe that Turkish oriental dancing is known as Çiftetelli due to the fact that this style of music has been incorporated into oriental dancing by Greeks, illustrated by the fact that the Greek belly dance is sometimes mistakenly called Tsifteteli.

There are, however, those who believe the Ionian migration cannot be explained as simply as the classical Greeks claimed.

Antiochus did not believe Flamininus had the authority to speak for the Greeks, and promised to leave Greece alone only if the Romans did the same.

Much like the ancient Greeks, the Chinese traditionally believe that guardian gods watched over cities.

( From some ancient Greek paintings many people believe Ajax raped Cassandra, and the verb that Euripides used to describe Ajax's " taking " of Cassandra can also be translated as rape, but it does not directly say that in this story ) What follows shows how much the Trojan women have suffered as their grief is compounded when the Greeks dole out additional deaths and divide their shares of women.

This may have led some Greeks to believe that the Persians worshipped their king, who was the only Persian that received proskynesis from everyone, and other misinterpretations caused cultural conflicts.

Bishop of Kitium Kyprianos addressed Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley upon his arrival in Larnaca in a speech on the 22nd of July 1878 saying " We ( Greeks ) accept the change of the government, because we believe that Great Britain will eventually help Cyprus, just like with the Ionian islands, unite Cyprus with mother Greece ".

The word “ butter ” is believed to be derived from the Greek word bou-tyron, the approximate meaning of which is “ cowcheese .” ( dubious ) However, some believe the word came from the Scythian culture, as the ancient Greeks tended to herd sheep and goats, whose milk is not as optimal for butter making as cows, which the Scythians primarily herded.

This led the Greeks to believe in a division of the world into five regions.

Hippocrates mentions euthanasia in the Hippocratic Oath, which was written between 400 and 300 BC The original Oath states: “ To please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug nor give advice which may cause his death .” Despite this, the ancient Greeks and Romans generally did not believe that life needed to be preserved at any cost and were, in consequence, tolerant of suicide in cases where no relief could be offered to the dying or, in the case of the Stoics and Epicureans, where a person no longer cared for his life.

The name Achilleus was a common and attested name among the Greeks soon after the 7th century BC.

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

The Greeks gave to him the name αγυιεύς agyieus as the protector god of public places and houses who wards off evil, and his symbol was a tapered stone or column.

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The name comes from Greek Bosporos ( Βόσπορος ), which the ancient Greeks analysed as bous ' ox ' + poros ' means of passing a river, ford, ferry ', thus meaning ' ox-ford ', which is a reference to Io ( mythology ) from Greek mythology who was transformed into a cow and condemned to wander the earth until she crossed the Bosphorus where she met Prometheus.

Josephus too relates that this was the name by which he was known to the Greeks, and the Midrashic text, Esther Rabba also makes the identification.

Indeed, based on their previous experience of the Greeks, the Persians might be excused for this ; Herodotus tells us that the Athenians at Marathon were " first to endure looking at Median dress and men wearing it, for up until then just hearing the name of the Medes caused the Hellenes to panic ".

The Greeks depicted the constellation as a centaur and gave it its current name.

When they came to possess the whole of southern Mesopotamia, the name " Chaldean " became synonymous with " Babylonian ", particularly to the Greeks and Jews.

Some say that the Greeks took the constellation of Centaurus, and also its name " piercing bull ", from Mesopotamia, where it symbolized the god Baal who represents rain and fertility, fighting with and piercing with his horns the demon Mot who represents the summer drought.

* Autokrator ( Αὐτοκράτωρ ) or Basileus ( βασιλεύς ): although the Greeks used equivalents of " Caesar " ( Καίσαρ, Kaisar ) and " Augustus " ( in two forms: transliterated as, Augoustos or translated as, Sebastos ) these were rather used as part of the name of the Emperor than as an indication of the office.

An alternate name for Greek fire was " Median fire " (), and the 6th-century historian Procopius, records that crude oil, which was called naphtha ( in Greek νάφθα, naphtha, from Middle Persian نفت ( naft )) by the Persians, was known to the Greeks as " Median oil " ().

The Greeks are responsible for the name Iberia, apparently after the river Iber ( Ebro in Spanish ).

The satirist Lucian, in his True History, describes him as a Babylonian called Tigranes, who assumed the name Homer when taken " hostage " ( homeros ) by the Greeks.

During the early years of his reign a group of Bavarian Regents ruled in his name, and made themselves very unpopular by trying to impose German ideas of rigid hierarchical government on the Greeks, while keeping most significant state offices away from them.

Larissa was indeed the birthplace of Meno, who thus became, along with Xenophon and a few others, one of the generals leading several thousands Greeks from various places, in the ill-fated expedition of 401 ( retold in Xenophon's Anabasis ) meant to help Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II, king of Persia, overthrow his elder brother Artaxerxes II and take over the throne of Persia ( Meno is featured in Plato's dialogue bearing his name, in which Socrates uses the example of " the way to Larissa " to help explain Meno the difference between true opinion and science ( Meno, 97a – c ) ; this " way to Larissa " might well be on the part of Socrates an attempt to call to Meno's mind a " way home ", understood as the way toward one's true and " eternal " home reached only at death, that each man is supposed to seek in his life ).

Theophrastus reports how the bearing olive can be grafted on the wild olive, for which the Greeks had a separate name, kotinos.

The existence of so many different forms shows how difficult it was for the Greeks to pronounce the word in their own language and suggests that the name has probably a pre-Greek origin.

Kerenyi suggests that the name Ariadne ( derived from, hagne, " pure "), was an euphemistical name given by the Greeks to the nameless " Mistress of the labyrinth " who appears in a Mycenean Greek inscription from Knossos in Crete.

The sea's ancient Greek name Propontis derives from pro ( before ) and pont-( sea ), deriving from the fact that the Greeks sailed through it to reach the Black Sea.

" This venerable etymology is at least as old as Dionysius of Halicarnassus, who said " And there is no reason that the Greeks should not have called them by this name, both from their living in towers and from the name of one of their rulers.

Even Poseidon, who normally favors the Greeks, comes to Aeneas ' rescue after he falls under the assault of Achilles, noting that Aeneas, though from a junior branch of the royal family, is destined to become king of the Trojan people.

A second form of evidence comes from Greeks writing about India during the period of contact following the conquests of Alexander.

The only other reference to veneration of Peleus comes from the Christian Clement of Alexandria, in his polemical Exhortation to the Greeks.

The name comes from the classical elements of the ancient Greeks.

The connection between spleen ( the organ ) and melancholy ( the temperament ) comes from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks.

The thymus was known to the Ancient Greeks, and its name comes from the Greek word θυμός ( thumos ), meaning heart, soul, desire, life — possibly because of its location in the chest, near where emotions are subjectively felt ; or else the name comes from the herb thyme ( also in Greek θύμος or θυμάρι ), which became the name for a " warty excrescence ", possibly due to its resemblance to a bunch of thyme.

The word " Rhone " comes from Latin Rhodanus, which itself comes from Greek Rhodanos, the Greek rendering of the Gaulish ( Celtic ) name of the river, as heard by Greeks ' living in the colony of Massalia ( Marseille ).

Like most of the other leaders of the Greeks, he is alive and well as the story comes to a close.

Calculate comes from the Greek word Κάχληκα or gravel in English because Greeks used gravel for counting.

* " The word theatre comes from the Greeks.

In Aristophanes ' Peace, when War has trapped Peace ( Εἰρήνη Eirene ) in a deep pit, Hermes comes to give aid: " Now, oh Greeks!

Just then, as chance would have it, War comes grumbling and growling outdoors, carrying a gigantic mortar in which he intends grinding the Greeks to paste.

The term comes from the belief of classical Greeks that only the mythical Cyclopes had the strength to move the enormous boulders that made up the walls of Mycenae and Tiryns.