Sample sentences for ANCIENT GREECE

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the Greek culture that provided much of the foundation of Western Civilization; from about 750BC to 146 BC (when Rome conquered Greece)

It is easy to trace philosophical thought from Ancient Greece to Rome, to medieval Muslims, to the European Renaissance, to the modern day.

Greece, ancient Greece, exercised a mysterious fascination over me.
Helen Keller -- Story of My Life
, is the most gloriously expressive since the ancient Greek?
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
"In order to win the Trojan War," he said, "the ancient Greeks hid soldiers inside an enormous wooden horse.
Lemony Snicket -- The Reptile Room
In ancient Greek, wisdom is spelled S-O-F-I-A. Chapter 78 .
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
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.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
The entire grouping is indicated with a notation that is a mixed-up version of Latin and ancient Greek.
James A. Owen -- Here, There be Dragons
Will put some silver paste over the wound and hummed words in Ancient Greek—a hymn to Apollo.
Rick Riordan -- The Last Olympian
Anaklusmos, the Ancient Greek name for Riptide.
Rick Riordan -- The Titan's Curse
And I sit opposite, turning the pages of art books on Ancient Greece.
Peter Shaffer -- Equus
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.
Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst
They date back to ancient Greece.
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
But what if you were hurled into a time warp and came face to face with the ancient Greeks.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
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,"
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The rhetoricians of ancient Greece were the first teachers in the history of the Western world.
Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
It's curious: it's exactly what an ancient Greek would have done.
George Bernard Shaw -- Major Barbara
He observed her dejection one day, when he had casually mentioned something to her about pastoral life in ancient Greece.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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.
Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
I seem to remember that small cities in ancient Greece quarreled bitterly over which was the birthplace of Homer.
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
There is a wealth of legend about fearsome female warriors from ancient Greece.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

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