Both Uses of
ancient Greece
in
The Da Vinci Code
- 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.†
Chpt 71-72
- In ancient Greek, wisdom is spelled S-O-F-I-A. Chapter 78 .†
Chpt 77-78 *
Definition:
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(ancient Greece) the Greek culture that provided much of the foundation of Western Civilization (from about 750 to 146 BC)