How To Use Greek mode In A Sentence
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It is an imposing edifice, a mock temple based on the classical Greek model, with a fine pediment and no fewer than six columns.
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Most of the fourth-century BC Skythian gold sheet and toreutic reliefs of Greek workmanship or imitating Greek models belong to a limited number of general types which sometimes are enlarged by additional figures and features that may add information for our understanding of the scene type.
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Mason's "Caractacus" (1759) was a dramatic poem on the Greek model, with
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
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The arc of the members' lives follows precisely the classic Greek model of destiny, hubris and nemesis.
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The legends which fill up the dark space with _eponymous_ heroes, as they have been called -- heroes who take the name of a tribe in order to bestow it back upon the tribe; for it was the Greek mode of thinking at these early periods to presume that every tribe, or _gens_, had a common progenitor from whom it took its title and origin, -- these legends are at one time treated with the due suspicion which should attend upon them; yet, at another, if a fortunate congruity, some lucky "dovetailing," can be observed amongst them, they are raised into the rank of historical evidence.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847