The Ancient Greeks often gave their colonies around the Mediterranean a grid plan.

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

Pythia, the oracle at Delphi, only gave prophecies the seventh day of each month, seven being the number most associated with Apollo, during the nine warmer months of the year ; thus, Delphi was not the major source of divination for the ancient Greeks.

The kings, queens, and heroes of the Trojan Cycle are often related to the gods, since mythic origins gave stature to the Greeks ' heroic ancestors.

The Greeks invented for Cilicia an eponymous Hellene founder in the purely mythic Cilix, but the historic founder of the dynasty that ruled Cilicia Pedias was Mopsus, identifiable in Phoenician sources as Mpš, the founder of Mopsuestia who gave his name to an oracle nearby.

In the earliest testimony for this character in ancient Greek literature ( the account of Homer ), Cinyras was a ruler on Cyprus who gave a corselet to Agamemnon as a guest-gift when he heard that the Greeks were planning to sail to Troy.

Over the first decades after liberation, with the departure of most ethnic Turks and Greeks and the arrival of Bulgarians from inland, Northern Dobruja, Bessarabia, and Asia Minor, and later, of refugees from Macedonia, Eastern Thrace and Southern Dobruja following the Second Balkan War and the First World War, ethnic diversity gave way to Bulgarian predominance, although sizeable minorities of Gagauz, Armenians, and Sephardic Jews remained for decades.

One of the experts was one of the Eumolpidae, the ancient family from whose members the hierophant of the Eleusinian Mysteries had been chosen since before history, and the other was the scholarly Egyptian priest Manetho, which gave weight to the judgement both for the Egyptians and the Greeks.

The earliest known name for the mare may be " The Shrine of Hecate "; Plutarch records that the Ancient Greeks gave this name to the largest of the " hollows and deeps " on the Moon, believing it to be the place where the soul of the deceased were tormented.

Ibrahim initially refused to comply with his father's evacuation orders, but gave way shortly after the French troops landed in Navarino Bay at the end of August, to a jubilant reception by the Greeks.

On May 31, Mikis Theodorakis gave a speech attended by appropximately 10, 000 Greeks in the center of Athens, criticising the Greek government for the loan debt it has taken from the International Monetary Fund.

This victory gave the Greeks of Sicily many years of peace and safety from Carthage.

The Greeks gave Montecristo its oldest known name, Oglasa ( Ωγλάσα ) or Ocrasia ( Ωκρασία ), after the yellowish colour of the rocks.

He gave a speech, arguing that their conquests were not secure, that the Persians did not want the Greeks to remain in their country, and that only the strength of Macedon could secure the country.

Thinking the Greeks in full retreat, Mardonius ordered his forces to pursue them, but the Greeks ( particularly the Spartans, Tegeans and Athenians ) halted and gave battle, routing the lightly armed Persian infantry and killing Mardonius.

The Greeks during the times of Ottoman Empire renamed it Fidonisi ( English: Snake Island ) and the island gave its name to the naval Battle of Fidonisi.

He welcomed the Greek Patriarch of Antioch, Symeon II to Cilicia, and he gave much of the Latin church lands there to the Greeks.

* Iberians, in general the name the ancient Greeks and Romans gave to the people of the ancient Iberian peninsula and more specifically to one of the ancient Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula ( this latter meaning should not be confused with the Celtiberians )

The Greek Orthodox Bishop Agathangel gave the half the urban school for Bulgarian school, but after protests of Greeks and Vlachs the Bulgarian school was closed and Nenov-expelled.

The grand ruins and tumuli remaining from the Bronze Age gave the pre-literate Greeks of the 10th and 9th centuries BC a sense of a grand and vanished age that was reflected in the oral epic tradition, which would be crystallized in the Iliad.

* The planet Venus when it appears in the west ( evening sky ) after sunset ; the ancient Greeks gave it the name Hesperus.

* Less commonly, the planet Mercury when it appears in the west ( evening sky ) after sunset ; the ancient Greeks gave it the name Hermes.

Herodotus: " Amasis was partial to the Greeks, and among other favors which he granted them, gave to such as liked to settle in Egypt the city of Naucratis for their residence.

His chief fault was his overwhelming haughtiness ; an over-exalted opinion of his position that led him to insult Chryses and Achilles, thereby bringing great disaster upon the Greeks.

According to the Bibliotheca, no one had realised that Ajax had raped Cassandra until Calchas, the Greek seer, warned the Greeks that Athena was furious at the treatment of her priestess and she would destroy the Greek ships if they didn't kill him immediately.

Despite this, Ajax managed to hide in the altar of an unnamed deity where the Greeks, fearing divine retribution should they kill him and destroy the altar, allowed him to live.

Ajax argues that because of his strength and the fighting he has done for the Greeks, including saving the ships from Hector, and driving him off with a massive rock, he deserves the armor.

When Alexander was trying to show that he is divine so that the Greeks and Macedonians would perform proskynesis to him, Anaxarchus said that Alexander could " more justly be considered a god than Dionysus or Heracles " ( Arrian, 104 )

Early in his reign, the Greeks and Jews of Alexandria sent him two embassies at once after riots broke out between the two communities.

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.

The blinding and mocking of Polyphemos called down the nemesis of Poseidon upon Odysseus ; Poseidon already bore Odysseus a grudge for not giving him a sacrifice when Poseidon prevented the Greeks from being discovered inside the Trojan Horse.

Even though Poseidon fought on the side of the Greeks during the Trojan War, he bore Odysseus a grudge for not giving him a sacrifice when Poseidon prevented them from being discovered inside of the Trojan Horse.

Coubertin himself was frustrated by the Greeks, who increasingly ignored him in their planning and who wanted to continue to hold the Games in Athens every four years, against de Coubertin's wishes.

One of the vitae describes his father's desire for him to, " learn not only the books of the Muslims, but those of the Greeks as well.

Called ho Megas (, translated as " the Great ") by the Greeks, Manuel is known to have inspired intense loyalty in those who served him.

Horseradish is probably the plant mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History under the name of Amoracia, and recommended by him for its medicinal qualities, and possibly the Wild Radish, or raphanos agrios of the Greeks.

This improved Greek-Persian relations as Darius opened his court and treasuries to the Greeks who wanted to serve him.

Later Greeks included him in the canonical list of nine lyric poets which included his uncle Simonides.

Odysseus ' plan called for one man to remain outside of the horse ; he would act as though the Greeks abandoned him, leaving the horse as a gift for the Trojans.

Having established a system of vassal states in the East, Antiochus now adopts the ancient Achaemenid title of " great king ", and the Greeks, comparing him to Alexander the Great, surname him " the Great ", that is to say Antiochus III Megas.

This earned him the enmity of the wealthy Greeks who had endowed the chair, and in 1924 he was forced to resign the position.

The Greek version ( Septuagint ) of the Book of Esther refers to him as Artaxerxes, and the historian Josephus relates that this was the name by which he was known to the Greeks.

Thoth's chief temple was located in the city of Khmun, later renamed Hermopolis Magna during the Greco-Roman era ( in reference to him through the Greeks ' interpretation that he was the same as their god Hermes ) and Eshmûnên in the Coptic rendering.

The Greeks further declared him the inventor of astronomy, astrology, the science of numbers, mathematics, geometry, land surveying, medicine, botany, theology, civilized government, the alphabet, reading, writing, and oratory.

Thoth's qualities also led to him being identified by the Greeks with their closest matching god Hermes, with whom Thoth was eventually combined, as Hermes Trismegistus, also leading to the Greeks naming Thoth's cult centre as Hermopolis, meaning city of Hermes.