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Greek (Modern Greek: Ελληνικά, romanized: Elliniká, pronounced; Ancient Greek: Ἑλληνική, romanized: Hellēnikḗ) is an Indo-European language, constituting an independent branch of it, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, Caucasus, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
A History of Greek Literature. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Lesky, Albin (1966). A History of Greek Literature. Translated by James Willis; Cornelis de Heer. Indianapolis / Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company. ISBN 0-87220-350-6. Schmidt, Michael (2004). The First Poets: Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember the scientific names of organisms. The binomial nomenclature used for animals and plants is largely derived from Latin and Greek words, as are some of the names used for higher taxa , such ...
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Crete (/ kriːt / KREET; Greek: Κρήτη, Modern: Kríti [ˈkriti], Ancient: Krḗtē [krɛ̌ːtεː]) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica. Crete is located about 100 km (62 mi) south of ...
Greek Basketball League teams were first allowed to have foreign (non-Greek) players on their rosters in the 1988–89 season. [6] Under the league's current foreign player rules, Greek Basketball League teams must have at least 6 players with Greek citizenship on their active 12-man game rosters.
Corfu (/ kɔːrˈf (j) uː / kor-FEW, -FOO, US also / ˈkɔːrf (j) uː / KOR-few, -foo) or Kerkyra (Greek: Κέρκυρα, romanized:Kérkyra, pronounced [ˈcercira] ⓘ) a is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, of the Ionian Islands, 1 and, including its small satellite islands, forms the margin of the nation's northwestern frontier with ...
e. In Greek mythology, Prometheus (/ prəˈmiːθiəs /; Ancient Greek: Προμηθεύς, [promɛːtʰéu̯s], possibly meaning "forethought") [1] is one of the Titans and a god of fire. [2] Prometheus is best known for defying the Olympian gods by taking fire from them and giving it to humanity in the form of technology, knowledge and, more ...