Literary notes about greek (AI summary)
The term "Greek" appears in literature with a rich diversity of meanings, ranging from a strict linguistic label to a broader cultural and philosophical symbol. Authors cite Greek as the language of ancient texts and scholarship, as seen when early translators and grammarians rely on Greek for accurate rendition of classic works ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]). In other contexts, "Greek" evokes the grandeur of antiquity and its artistic and mythological heritage—referencing everything from the formal structure of tragedies and iconic art ([7], [8], [9], [10]) to the celebrated ethos of classical thought as in the admiration of Greek as the “language of the mind” ([11]). Moreover, the term functions as a shorthand for a complex cultural legacy that informed religious, philosophical, and even scientific discourse, underscoring its pervasive influence throughout the history of Western literature ([12], [13], [14], [15]).
- All these were of Greek or Asiatic origin and would probably be well known to Philemon, at least by name.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon by J. B. Lightfoot - In which scroll were written in ancient Hebrew, and in ancient Greek, and in good Latin of the school, and in Spanish, these words:
— from New Atlantis by Francis Bacon - Substantives, 432-607 ; -ā- stems, 432-445 ; -ā- stems, Greek nouns, 444 , 445 ; -o- stems, 446-466 ; -o- stems, Greek nouns, 466 ; 513 cons.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane - Pg 235 Greek text
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen - Infinitive, the, 30 . —— as an adverb, 31 . —— in Greek, 36 . —— as substantive, 37 . —— in Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, 47 .
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - This is called Anaptyxis (Greek ἀναπτύσσειν , unfold ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane - The poet's aim was to present in English a pure tragedy, with all the passion and restraint which marked the old Greek dramas.
— from English Literature by William J. Long - In Greek mythology, the Cyclops were a race of giants.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson - How was Greece enabled to force its thought upon Europe? Greek art, when we first catch sight of it, is entangled with Greek religion.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater - It seems simple, like a Greek column, because of its perfection.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe - I ought to profess Greek, the language of the mind.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce - An appalling stew of Greek philosophy and Judaism; asceticism; continual judgments and condemnations; the order of rank, etc. 170.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Nietzsche - The Roman idiom, by an infusion of Doric and Aeolic Greek, was gradually ripened into the style of the xii.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - With the poetry of the Greek and Latin classics he was, like Milton and Gray, thoroughly saturated.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson - But the faint rudiments of Greek learning, which Petrarch had encouraged and Boccace had planted, soon withered and expired.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
