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  • It has a long and distinguished history and was studied in ancient Greece and China, and there is an argument that it forms the basis for modern chemistry.†   (source)
  • The rhetoricians of ancient Greece were the first teachers in the history of the Western world.†   (source)
  • We also find the belief, both in Ancient Greece and in other parts of the world, that people could learn their fate from some form of oracle.†   (source)
  • In truth, it was the ancient Greeks touched by the Change who first worshiped me as the mother they searched for within their endless Night.†   (source)
  • But the Swiss kouros didn't come from ancient Greece.†   (source)
  • The entire grouping is indicated with a notation that is a mixed-up version of Latin and ancient Greek.†   (source)
  • I wandered through the ancient Greek and Egyptian galleries, but my favorite spot was the manuscript room, with letters written by the kings and queens of England, Henry VIII and poor Anne Boleyn, and Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria.†   (source)
  • But Hodge never thought we needed to learn anything but ancient Greek and Latin, and nobody speaks those.†   (source)
  • It's a reference to the ancient Greeks and Romans," I explained.†   (source)
  • Dimensions in Mathematics was not strictly a textbook but rather a 1,200-page brick about the history of mathematics from the ancient Greeks to modern-day attempts to understand spherical astronomy.†   (source)
  • Deo was behaving like one of those arrogant ancient Greek heroes who, victorious in a battle, succumbs to hubris, claims he's mastered fate, doesn't fear Ata's retaliation, and for his stupid boast gets visited by Nemesis.†   (source)
  • He had changed the ancient Greek myth to his own purpose and meaning: Phaethon, the young son of Helios, who stole his father's chariot and, in ambitious audacity, attempted to drive the sun across the sky, did not perish, as he perished in the myth; in Halley's opera, Phaethon succeeded.†   (source)
  • Number 18: Weaknesses Doomed Ancient Greek Confederacies†   (source)
  • And I sit opposite, turning the pages of art books on Ancient Greece.†   (source)
  • , is the most gloriously expressive since the ancient Greek?†   (source)
  • I seem to remember that small cities in ancient Greece quarreled bitterly over which was the birthplace of Homer.†   (source)
  • Ah, everything was better in ancient Greece!†   (source)
  • A Greek symbol appeared: A, the Ancient Greek Delta.†   (source)
  • Anaklusmos, the Ancient Greek name for Riptide.†   (source)
  • I brought it out, studied the Ancient Greek writing engraved on the side: Anaklusmos.†   (source)
  • What could you tell an ancient Greek that he couldn't say, 'Big deal.'†   (source)
  • Zoe stood up, muttering an Ancient Greek curse.†   (source)
  • It's from the ancient Greek: apo—'to become,' theos—'god.'†   (source)
  • These were the famous teachers of "wisdom," the Sophists of ancient Greece.†   (source)
  • It's in their blood, but not as much as Ancient Greek.†   (source)
  • It was an Ancient Greek city, except it wasn't in ruins.†   (source)
  • Nico poured root beer and tossed barbecue into the pit, then began chanting in Ancient Greek.†   (source)
  • That's an ancient Greek saying that translated pretty well into American.†   (source)
  • A year before, he'd had his biggest role as an Ancient Greek king.†   (source)
  • Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry of ancient Greece.†   (source)
  • I watched as Artemis cupped her hand above Zoe's mouth and spoke a few words in Ancient Greek.†   (source)
  • He wore an ancient Greek chiton and a white himation, a kind of cape that flowed down his shoulders.†   (source)
  • Kitto had more to say about this areté of the ancient Greeks.†   (source)
  • Midas cursed in Ancient Greek, thoroughly pinned under his chandelier.†   (source)
  • They had a quick, intense discussion in Ancient Greek.†   (source)
  • We're surrounded by Ancient Greek stuff," Annabeth said.†   (source)
  • He limped toward me, muttering ancient Greek curses.†   (source)
  • The ancient Greeks invented it and, in so doing, put their permanent stamp on it.†   (source)
  • But when Jason mentioned King Midas, she cursed in Ancient Greek.†   (source)
  • That's because your mind is hardwired for ancient Greek.†   (source)
  • He was an ancient Greek — a rhetorician — a 'composition major' of his time.†   (source)
  • Hera paced furiously around her cage, cursing in Ancient Greek.†   (source)
  • The receding Ancient Greek perspective of the past ten years has a very dark side: Chris is dead.†   (source)
  • I discovered Annabeth was right about my dyslexia: Ancient Greek wasn't that hard for me to read.†   (source)
  • " 'Riptide,' " I translated, surprised the Ancient Greek came so easily.†   (source)
  • Can the dharma of the Hindus and the "virtue" of the ancient Greeks be identical?†   (source)
  • Will put some silver paste over the wound and hummed words in Ancient Greek—a hymn to Apollo.†   (source)
  • There is a wealth of legend about fearsome female warriors from ancient Greece.†   (source)
  • Etched along the guard was an Ancient Greek word Percy somehow understood: Anaklusmos—Riptide.†   (source)
  • The Zhang family went all the way back to Ancient Greece.†   (source)
  • Hopefully they knew about patient confidentiality in Ancient Greece.†   (source)
  • Her golden hair was gathered into a high-set ponytail, Ancient Greek style.†   (source)
  • To prove their points, they cite the turbulent democracies of ancient Greece and modern Italy.†   (source)
  • I thought my dyslexia was acting up until I realized she was writing in Ancient Greek.†   (source)
  • That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece.†   (source)
  • Frank saw Ancient Greek graffiti scratched into the stone.†   (source)
  • Hercules fought ninety-nine percent of everything in Ancient Greece.†   (source)
  • He murmured some words in Ancient Greek—a final blessing.†   (source)
  • "Cutting-edge Ancient Greek technology," she said.†   (source)
  • She kept cursing in Ancient Greek and stabbing at the dirt.†   (source)
  • "We'll probably get attacked by Ancient Greek mosquito monsters now."†   (source)
  • None of them looked surprised to see an Ancient Greek trireme.†   (source)
  • The word noetic, Trish had learned, derived from the ancient Greek nous—translating roughly to "inner knowledge" or "intuitive consciousness."†   (source)
  • They move from country to country as the center of power shifts—like they moved from Ancient Greece to Rome.†   (source)
  • For centuries, iambic pentameter had been a preferred poetic meter of outspoken literati across the globe, from the ancient Greek writer Archilochus to Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, and Voltaire—bold souls who chose to write their social commentaries in a meter that many of the day believed had mystical properties.†   (source)
  • The sea —" to Andy—"deny it all you may but it's your birthright, it's in your blood, back to the Phoenicians, the ancient Greeks —"†   (source)
  • Her words were in some lan-guage other than Ancient Greek, but just as old-Minoan, maybe, or something like that.†   (source)
  • Indeed, the very setup of the epic, in which Achilles throws a fit and withdraws from the war because his sex slave has been taken from him, does not engage our sympathies as it would have those of the ancient Greek audience.†   (source)
  • In ancient Greece, too, there were many people who believed in an ascetic, or religiously secluded, way of life for the salvation of the soul Many aspects of medieval monastic life can be traced back to beliefs dating from the Greco-Roman civilization.†   (source)
  • Draped on her fingers was a set of wind chimes—a collection of hollow brass tubes and medallions engraved with ancient Greek and Cretan symbols.†   (source)
  • She wrote that we know the moon is not made of green cheese and that there are also craters on the dark side of the moon, that both Socrates and Jesus were sentenced to death, that everybody has to die sooner or later, that the great temples on the Acropolis were built after the Persian wars in the fifth century B.C. and that the most important oracle in ancient Greece was the oracle at Delphi.†   (source)
  • Modern cryptologists used segmented ciphers all the time, although the security scheme had been invented in ancient Greece.†   (source)
  • Kayla muttered an ancient Greek curse.†   (source)
  • "Stathi," she shouted in Ancient Greek.†   (source)
  • So he taught himself Greek at the age of thirty-five and began the laborious job of translating the Bible from the ancient Greek version into German.†   (source)
  • Whenever I get nervous (which doesn't happen often), I like to hum a song to calm myself—usually Ravel's Bolero or the ancient Greek "Song of Seikilos."†   (source)
  • He had told Katherine about the ancient Greek practice of creating a symbolon—a code broken into parts—and how this capstone, long separated from the pyramid itself, would hold the key to deciphering the pyramid.†   (source)
  • He cursed in Ancient Greek and squinted as if he couldn't see his work, even though it was a sunny day.†   (source)
  • Luke paced in front of the swimming pool, cursing in Ancient Greek, gripping his sword so tight his knuckles turned white.†   (source)
  • I'll outline very broadly the way people have thought about philosophy, from the ancient Greeks right up to our own day.†   (source)
  • He emptied another twelve-pack of soda and three more Happy Meals into the grave, then began chanting in Ancient Greek.†   (source)
  • There was a set of locked double doors, which Annabeth managed to pry open with her knife and a fair amount of cursing in Ancient Greek.†   (source)
  • Hammered into the bronze were pictures in Ancient Greek style, scenes from our adventures this sum-mer.†   (source)
  • The Oracle at Delphi The ancient Greeks believed that they could consult the famous oracle at Delphi about their fate.†   (source)
  • Aelia and her sisters filled it with rose petals and something that must've been Ancient Greek Mr. Bubble, because soon the water was covered with multicolored foam.†   (source)
  • A sarcophagus, engraved with Ancient Greek scenes of cities in flames and heroes dying grisly deaths.†   (source)
  • The sides of the thermos were enameled with red and yellow Ancient Greek scenes-a hero killing a lion; a hero lifting up Cerberus, the three-headed dog.†   (source)
  • Piper saw a cluster of buildings like ancient Greek temples, a big blue mansion, ball courts, a lake, and a climbing wall that seemed to be on fire.†   (source)
  • But Annabeth being who she waswell, if she could struggle through Ancient Greek architecture books and enjoy documentaries on the History Channel, I guessed the Sirens would appeal to her, too.†   (source)
  • A second path to ancient Greece was indicated by the sudden way the whole question, What is quality? had been jolted into systematic philosophy.†   (source)
  • I've never heard of something like that happening, but it might explain why you think in Roman terms, why you can speak Latin rather than Ancient Greek.†   (source)
  • Each morning I took Ancient Greek from Annabeth, and we talked about the gods and goddesses in the present tense, which was kind of weird.†   (source)
  • That would make us like those liars and cheats and defilers of ancient Greece, the Sophists…remember them?†   (source)
  • C.C. cursed in Ancient Greek.†   (source)
  • They lashed their whips at Annabeth while she waved her knife and yelled in Ancient Greek, telling them to back off.†   (source)
  • He thought he already knew about the general area they led to, ancient Greece, but now he wondered if he had overlooked something there.†   (source)
  • Chiron shouted something in Ancient Greek, which I would realize, only later, I had understood perfectly: "Stand ready!†   (source)
  • His search for it takes him through a number of histories of ancient Greece, which as usual he reads detective style, looking only for facts that may help him and discarding all those that don't fit.†   (source)
  • She carried a book on famous classical architecture, written in Ancient Greek, to read when she got bored, and a long bronze knife, hidden in her shirt sleeve.†   (source)
  • Thus, in cultures whose ancestry includes ancient Greece, one invariably finds a strong subject-object differentiation because the grammar of the old Greek mythos presumed a sharp natural division of subjects and predicates.†   (source)
  • The landscape was dotted with buildings that looked like ancient Greek architecture-an open-air pavilion, an amphitheater, a circular arena-except that they all looked brand new, their white marble columns sparkling in the sun.†   (source)
  • I could start at any point in my short miserable life to prove it, but things really started going bad last May, when our sixth-grade class took a field trip to Manhattan— twenty-eight mental-case kids and two teachers on a yellow school bus, heading to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to look at ancient Greek and Roman stuff.†   (source)
  • And today in those few Universities that bother to teach classic ethics anymore, students, following the lead of Aristotle and Plato, endlessly play around with the question that in ancient Greece never needed to be asked: "What is the Good?†   (source)
  • Ancient Greece.†   (source)
  • "The ancient Greeks," I say, "who were the inventors of classical reason, knew better than to use it exclusively to foretell the future.†   (source)
  • Afterword This book has a lot to say about Ancient Greek perspectives and their meaning but there is one perspective it misses.†   (source)
  • The tension between ancient Greek thought and emotion is described elsewhere as basic to Greek makeup and culture.†   (source)
  • Zero, originally a Hindu number, was introduced to the West by the Arabs during the Middle Ages and was unknown to the ancient Greeks and Romans.†   (source)
  • Ten years after the publication of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance the Ancient Greek perspective is certainly appropriate.†   (source)
  • The ancient Greeks never separated art from manufacture in their minds, and so never developed separate words for them.†   (source)
  • The examining committee included a professor of English, a professor of philosophy, a professor of Chinese, and the Chairman, who was a professor of ancient Greek!†   (source)
  • And in Aristotle and the ancient Greeks he believed he had found the villains who had so shaped the mythos as to cause us to accept this insanity as reality.†   (source)
  • Reason was to be subordinate, logically, to Quality, and he was sure he would find the cause of its not being so back among the ancient Greeks, whose mythos had endowed our culture with the tendency underlying all the evil of our technology, the tendency to do what is "reasonable" even when it isn't any good.†   (source)
  • He didn't know what an Ancient Greek sea god would be doing at a Georgia aquarium, but he didn't have any better ideas.†   (source)
  • She began to mutter in Ancient Greek.†   (source)
  • He took it from her fingers and opened it, reading, as she had, the single word of Ancient Greek scrawled in elaborate script across the top of the page.†   (source)
  • And as the meaning of a statue of ancient Greece-the statue of man as a god-clashed with the spirit of this century's halls, so his body clashed with a cellar devoted to prehistorical activities.†   (source)
  • She was disguised as a crazy old bag lady, smiling and singing an Ancient Greek lullaby as her leathery hands gripped Percy's neck.†   (source)
  • Rebooting System JULY 1–OCTOBER 7 Despite the rich variety of Amazon legends from ancient Greece, South America, Africa, and elsewhere, there is only one historically documented example of female warriors.†   (source)
  • It was made of carved white columns, and the dome was lit from beneath, so that it looked like something that could have been found in ancient Greece, and then restored to its original glory and lit for the night to see.†   (source)
  • Percy muttered something in Ancient Greek that Hazel was pretty sure the nuns at St. Agnes wouldn't have liked.†   (source)
  • The long lines of his body, running from his ankles to the flat hips, to the angle of the waist, to the straight shoulders, looked like a statue of ancient Greece, sharing that statue's meaning, but stylized to a longer, lighter, more active form and a gaunter strength, suggesting more restless an energy-the body, not of a chariot driver, but of a builder of airplanes.†   (source)
  • For example, Pericles, the ruler of Athens in ancient Greece, attacked and destroyed the city of the Samnians because he was angry with a prostitute.†   (source)
  • She spoke with an Ancient Greek ghost in a Laundromat (on a one-to-ten scale for weird conversations, definitely an eleven) and got directions to an ancient stronghold where the shape-shifting descendants of Periclymenus supposedly hung out.†   (source)
  • Vamp Soc class was so interesting—we'd moved from the Amazons to learning about an ancient Greek vampyre festival called Correia—that I'd stopped thinking about the Dark Daughters ritual planned for that evening, and for a little while I'd actually quit worrying about what I was going to do about Aphrodite.†   (source)
  • Because we're a little short on children of Ares…… " A horrible thought occurred to me, and I cursed in Ancient Greek.†   (source)
  • In Ancient Greek:' Rachel nodded.†   (source)
  • He wasn't great at Ancient Greek, but he could tell the inscription on the case read On Building Spheres.†   (source)
  • He couldn't read Ancient Greek, but he guessed they were prayers or supplications to the dead, written by pilgrims thousands of years ago.†   (source)
  • "In Ancient Greek," I said.†   (source)
  • Besides, Arachne probably had other horrible powers—a poisonous bite, or web-slinging abilities like an Ancient Greek Spider-Man.†   (source)
  • Calypso thrust her hand toward Gaea in a three-fingered gesture Leo recognized from Camp Half-Blood: the Ancient Greek ward against evil.†   (source)
  • Annabeth could imagine being an Ancient Greek, walking into the Parthenon and seeing this massive goddess with her shield, spear, and python, her free hand holding out Nike, the winged spirit of victory.†   (source)
  • As in the Pantheon, the domed roof was a waffle pattern of recessed square panels, but here each panel was a stela—a grave marker with Ancient Greek inscriptions.†   (source)
  • Most of them wore tattered Ancient Greek dresses, except for the one in the lead, Kelli, who wore a burned and torn blouse with a short pleated skirt …. her cheerleader's outfit.†   (source)
  • At the top of his bovine neck was the head of a man with short curly black hair, a beard done in ringlets Ancient Greek style, deep, mournful eyes behind bifocal glasses, and a mouth that seemed set in a permanent pout.†   (source)
  • However, aside from the fact that in a sense Aristotle may still be right, it must be explained that ancient Greek music was closely associated with poetry, and depended upon its character as an accessory to verse to make its imitative meaning clear.†   (source)
  • Greece, ancient Greece, exercised a mysterious fascination over me.†   (source)
  • It's curious: it's exactly what an ancient Greek would have done.†   (source)
  • He observed her dejection one day, when he had casually mentioned something to her about pastoral life in ancient Greece.†   (source)
  • Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.†   (source)
  • That, if statues were decreed in Britain, as in ancient Greece and Rome, to public benefactors, this shining citizen would assuredly have had one.†   (source)
  • We do not meet for games of strength[1] or skill, for the recitation of histories, tragedies, and odes, like the ancient Greeks; for parliaments of love and poesy, like the Troubadours;[2] nor for the advancement of science, like our co-temporaries in the British and European capitals.†   (source)
  • "Yes, I speak five of the modern tongues—that is to say, German, French, Italian, English, and Spanish; by the aid of ancient Greek I learned modern Greek—I don't speak it so well as I could wish, but I am still trying to improve myself."†   (source)
  • All other moods save this had been exhausted: the unceasing criticism, the boundless curiosity in the ways and thoughts of man, which was the mood of the ancient Greek, to whom these things were not so much a means, as an end, was gone past recovery; nor had there been really any shadow of it in the so-called science of the nineteenth century, which, as you must know, was in the main an appendage to the commercial system; nay, not seldom an appendage to the police of that system.†   (source)
  • Other rays passed by so quickly I couldn't tell if they deserved that name "eagle ray" coined by the ancient Greeks, or those designations of "rat ray,"†   (source)
  • Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there must always be our poor little eyes peeping as usual and our timorous lips more or less under anxious control.†   (source)
  • So this was the submerged region that had existed outside Europe, Asia, and Libya, beyond the Pillars of Hercules, home of those powerful Atlantean people against whom ancient Greece had waged its earliest wars!†   (source)
  • "Alas, no," said Albert; "nor even ancient Greek, my dear count; never had Homer or Plato a more unworthy scholar than myself."†   (source)
  • Among the Brachyura, Conseil mentions some amanthia crabs whose fronts were armed with two big diverging tips, those inachus scorpions that—lord knows why—symbolized wisdom to the ancient Greeks, spider crabs of the massena and spinimane varieties that had probably gone astray in these shallows because they usually live in the lower depths, xanthid crabs, pilumna crabs, rhomboid crabs, granular box crabs (easy on the digestion, as Conseil ventured to observe), toothless masked crabs,…†   (source)
  • I wished I could say that like the House of Atreus or Cadmus we were suffering for the sins of our forefathers, or fulfilling an ancient Greek oracle.†   (source)
  • —Metempsychosis, he said, is what the ancient Greeks called it.†   (source)
  • Argumentum ad feminam, as we said in old Rome and ancient Greece in the consulship of Diplodocus and Ichthyosauros.†   (source)
  • A most interesting discussion took place in the ancient hall of Brian O'ciarnain's in Sraid na Bretaine Bheag, under the auspices of Sluagh na h-Eireann, on the revival of ancient Gaelic sports and the importance of physical culture, as understood in ancient Greece and ancient Rome and ancient Ireland, for the development of the race.†   (source)
  • Your absurd name, an ancient Greek!†   (source)
  • Nor was his name unheard or unadored In ancient Greece; and in Ausonian land Men called him Mulciber; and how he fell From Heaven they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day, and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, th' Aegaean isle.†   (source)
  • Being subjects either of an absolute or limited monarchy, they have endeavored to heighten the advantages, or palliate the evils of those forms, by placing in comparison the vices and defects of the republican, and by citing as specimens of the latter the turbulent democracies of ancient Greece and modern Italy.†   (source)
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