ADJECTIVE
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of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially their art, literature, or culture
the classical world
classical mythology
How To Use Graeco-Roman In A Sentence
- It is inappropriate here to discuss the substantial Graeco-Roman corpus of military treatises and concepts that the Byzantines inherited, copied and adapted for their own purposes. De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Strategy of Heraclius
- Among entries you can sample is one the alchemist and writer "Maria" She was a principal founder of Graeco-Roman alchemy, the experimental science of its day. Femina Habilisa and Maria the Alchemist
- And this: Alexander, a recent coloniser, brought Aristotle to the barbarians; thus the widespread mania for believing that the Graeco-Romans invented the world; and thus the contempt — in secondary education — for things Eastern just a bit of Egypt, Luxor and the pyramids, so that children can learn to draw shadows. Archive 2010-04-01
- The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, in an effort to shore up an endowment to buy contemporary art, sacrificed to the auction block (and almost inevitably to the private sector) great rarities in its holdings of Graeco-Roman and Asian art. The Man Who Remade the Met
- What ever happened to the Graeco-Roman wrestling caption contest!? Cthulhu Dice « Third Point of Singularity
- Within the socially stratified Graeco-Roman world the exchange of services were never voluntary, but always reciprocal.
- I think, he says, I need new terms here entirely because, yes, not all monotheism is universalist and predicated on the faith/doubt, win/lose scenario of Pascalus's Christianity (as your example of Judaism illustrates), not all polytheism is of that Graeco-Roman nature (as your example of Hinduism points out), and the atheism I'm talking about really includes antitheist and agnostic outlooks in its focus on doubt. THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FIVE
- Runaway, which West directed and starred in, was heavily influenced by film noir and Graeco-Roman mythology and features an extended ballet sequence. Kanye West: Mister Perfection is stylishly reinventing the rules of rap
- See for instance C. P. Jones, “Tattooing and Branding in Graeco-Roman Antiquity,” Journal of Roman Studies 77 1987: 139–55. Bloodlust
