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When he did win the gold medal, the Greeks gave him a statue of Athena, and, presumably to fatten him back up , a lamb.

Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.

The modern Greeks have been experiencing crisis for over a year and no end is in sight.

That's what sport has always been about, to the time of the legendary Greeks and before.

I recall that in the early years of the euro zone there was a general notion in the markets that the Greeks were behaving like the Germans.

Fred's thought reminded me of the ancient Greeks - they measured a person's wealth not by how much he owned but by how much he gave away.

To the Greeks it was important to win well, and any competitor found guilty of an unfair practice had to pay a fine.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the Greeks would get no more euro-zone rescue aid until the question is answered.

The ancient Greeks were perhaps a little more modest than those of us who have come to feel that this world was created just for our use.

1 - The Greeks were rash in their hypotheses, but the Milesian school, at least, was prepared to test them empirically.

And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.

The Greeks believed that Gibraltar was one of the Pillars of Hercules and no one dared sail beyond it.

Adonis, Hercules, Bacchus, among the Greeks, illustrate in like manner the changes of the seasons and personify the sovereignty of the Sun.

The ancient Greeks believed they were the work of a gifted maiden doomed by a jealous goddess to weave forever in a spidery form.

When Hector recovered he led such a charge, with Paris on one side of him, Aeneas on the other, that the Greeks fled in good earnest.

Extracts from the willow tree have been used for pain relief in folk medicine since the time of the ancient Greeks.

As if this wasn't enough, the Greeks topped it off with a theatre, which has functioned ever since.

"The Greeks have never learned to be citizens, to see themselves as part of the state, " another friend explained.

Honey has been used since the time of the ancient Greeks and Egyptians to treat everything from wounds to insect bites.

We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

His object in writing was "that the great and wonderful deeds done by Greeks and Persians should not lack unknown" .

"Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution, " he said, calling on Greeks to support reforms.

A little later, though, the Greeks and Romans began to put pictures of famous people on their coins.

To the ancient Greeks she was known as Themis , originally the organizer of the "communal affairs of humans, particularly assemblies. "

In Europe, Greeks, Irish and Spaniards began partying through the night to help put a year of economic woe behind them.

His object in writing was "that the great and wonderful deeds done by Greeks and Persians should not lack renown" .

And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

Therefore, the Greeks almost a threshold into a civilized society, on the overseas trade has a strong dependence.

Fourth (probably a bit guilty), that the Greeks invented democracy in anything like the way that we recognise it now.

The remaining Greeks then betook themselves to their ships and sailed away, as if for a final departure.

Like the ancient Greeks, its inhabitants turned their backs on their rocky soil, venturing out to fish and trade with distant shores.

THE ancient Greeks had their list of the seven wonders, dotted in and around the Mediterranean, to aid and entertain travellers.

However for the Greeks , it was an epoch of inquiry, and of true marvels.

From the time they formed their republics until they were conquered by alien empires, the Greeks also rejected monarchy of any kind.

The Fates still spin the web of men's lives. So now perhaps the Gods wish Greeks to be great again.

The Greeks and Egyptians believed the heart was the center of the emotions.

Like many young self-employed Greeks he wonders whether he should stop trying to keep his business afloat and emigrate to Australia instead.

He might have added Armenians and Greeks too.

The legal conceptions of archaic age of the Greeks are known to us through the epic works of Homer and the poetry of Hesiod.

He who enjoys a good neighbour, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for the neighbour's wife.

The Greeks attributed the misfortunes of men in great measure to the antipathies and jealousies of gods and goddesses.

The splendor of it was acknowledged by Greeks as well: they named this plant "kallos" , which means "beauty" .

Every sabbath he held discussions in the synagogue, trying to convince both Jews and Greeks.

For some, it was an unfamiliar taste of the honor for Greeks tired of the country's reputation as unruly and disorganized.

Modern sculpture does not approach that of the Greeks.

Or maybe bacon is meant to represent all food, since it is very ancient, having been a favorite of the early Romans and Greeks.

The Greeks must have had a more optimistic outlook because in Greek diamon didn't mean "evil spirit, " but "divine. "

He became King at the age of 20 and was determined to beat the Persians who were old enemies of the Greeks.

The Greek myth that comes down to us is that this world that the Greeks knew was entirely surrounded by a circular flowing river.

' It reported that Greeks on average paid almost $A2000 a year in bribes, and shops routinely refused to provide tax receipts for purchases.

The land at the eastern end of the Black Sea, Colchis, (now Georgia), marked for the Greeks an edge of the known world.

Techne was also used to indicate the ability to outwit circumstances, and as such it was a trait greatly treasured by Greeks.

True, only the gods (and, of course, the Greeks) can save the Greeks, who may be dependent on emergency external funding for years.

The Greeks, perhaps due to their democratic form of government, built some of the earliest outdoor amphitheaters.

A ladder leans so the Greeks and Romans called it a climax.

But it's also a game of poker; an attempt to convince the Greeks that the EU has all the cards, while the Greeks have just a pair of deuces.

This kind of hostile reaction has only convinced the Greeks that this crisis is a two-way tug-of-war.

Anaxagoras was the first, apparently, among the Greeks to vindicate the predominance of mind or reason in the universe.

"Sell your islands, you bankrupt Greeks. And the Acropolis while you're at it, " demanded Bild, a popular tabloid.

Some of the Jews were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a large number of God-fearing Greeks and not a few prominent women.

The strike coincided with protests that brought out tens of thousands of Greeks, one of the country's largest protests in years.

The Greeks referred to it as "polychrysos" , meaning "rich in gold" .

"We are catching up with Americans but are not nearly as open as the French, Italians and the Greeks, " he said.

To the ancient Greeks and Persians, the lake's immense size suggested it was an ocean, hence its name.

The conflict, however, led not to a stable democracy, but to the gradual growth of what the Greeks would have called a "tyranny. "

Like the ancient Greeks, these artists tried to create an ideal form of beauty based on nature.

His death while aiding the Greeks in their war for independence was a fitting climax to his brief, adventurous life.

Over the next few weeks, Alexander marches nearly a thousand miles through Anatolia, liberating the Greeks.

The Greeks believed they made men more virile as well. Plus, olives make for a perfect low-carb appetizer.

The ancient Greeks used to believe that light comes out of the eyes to illuminate the world.

Through the years the serpent moved on to the Phoenicians and the Greeks-who were what gave it the name 'Ouroboros.

For the Greeks, hypochondria had been an unambiguous disease, located in the "hypochondrium" region of the abdomen.

The Greeks, naturally intelligent and courageous, had been early cultivated by the kings and settlers who had come from Egypt.

For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body--whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free--and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.

"Those whom the gods will destroy, they first make mad, " said the Greeks, and it is hard not to believe them.

Results that sprung readily from a theorem is called by the Greeks corollaries or porisms.

German public opinion is firmly set against dipping into the public purse to help the profligate Greeks.

But with an artificially strong currency and access to cheap debt, the Greeks took the money and ran.

Thousands of Greeks have been staging daily -- and growing -- demonstrations outside parliament in Athens.

It was a multi-ethnic society, in which Greeks, Bactrians, western Iranians and Indians lived together.

The Hindus and Arabs were aware of the totally new concept of mathematical proof promulgated by the Greeks.

The French seemed less than enamoured. Only the poor Greeks welcomed it.

Ancient Egyptians, Assyrians, Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans used wigs, often as protection from the sun.

Helena: Well, the Greeks are the fourth largest national group in Australia, after the British, the Irish and the Italians.

Like the Romans to the Greeks, Jobs realized that wonderful inventions already existed but were not being harnessed to their potential.

We have to follow our path with the Greeks, too, even if it costs us something.

It's a trick used by the Ancient Greeks and how Cicero managed to reel off extraordinarily complicated speeches off the cuff.

Then again, SJM might be pipped to Diana's dress by the Greeks, who could then offer to trade it for their precious marbles.

A material on which to write made from the pith or the stems of this sedge, used especially by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans.

But after nearly two years, many Greeks say the salary cuts and tax hikes have done little to revide Greek's struggling economy.

The Greeks will want the IMF piece of the deal to be in place before that.

The touch of what Greeks call the "foreign finger" was felt right up to the dictatorship of 1967.

Mr. Papademos said he worries that many Greeks don't fully appreciate the gravity of the situation.

The ancient Greeks managed perfectly well without mobile phones, and this singular failure will probably not matter much to sports fans.

A couch facing three sides of a rectangular table, used by the ancient Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans for reclining at meals.

Various forms of a game involving the kicking about of a ball were played by the ancient Chinese, and by the Greeks and Romans.

To avoid all of this, the French and the Germans may need to swallow their pride and work out a better deal for the Greeks with the banks.

The Greeks of the time believed that nudity was conducive to health, just as our passionate sunbathers do today.

Greece is of course located on the Mediterranean so the Greeks were well aware of that body of water.

And I think by "Greeks" he just means Gentiles, not just Greeks ethnically but anybody who wasn't a Jew is what he mainly means here.

The Greeks taught them how to make scarabs, but the Etruscans did not use the scarab as a seal.

Troy still held out, and the Greeks began to despair of even subduing it by force, and by advice of Ulysses resolved to resort to stratagem.

The understanding of the theory of fluids including sound propagation through them made little progress from the Greeks to the Renaissance.

They sang and danced around the horse and made jokes about the stupid Greeks.

Perhaps the Greeks knew that the soul can fly as joyfully and beautifully as a butterfly, but only when soul has combined with love.

The ancient Greeks were aware of other acoustical principles, at least empirically.

Only a minority of Greeks want to see the old national currency, the drachma, return.

The Greeks took a very active interest in anatomy and medicine so it shouldn't be too surprising that they had a word for this lung ailment.

This attitude would have surprised the ancient Greeks, who believed humor to be essentially aggressive.

Even the wealthiest Greeks are turning to the basic heating method as an economic crisis deepens, taxes rise and temperatures drop.

The Greeks storked chin. ? French kissed fingers. ? Brazilians pretened his hands is a telescope.

But Greeks coming to Australia in search of work and a better life will have to compete with a growing throng of other crisis-hit Europeans.

Many Greeks believe they are caught up in a cycle of decline.

The return to a national currency would also involve renegotiating business contracts, both within Greece and between Greeks and others.

Founded by Greeks from Sparta in the 8th century BC, it was called Taras and became one of the leading cities of Magna Graecia.

This went on for two years , so that all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord .

Television images of Greeks haranguing their government over reforms do not help.

Senate, Greeks, Carthaginians of those riding the Elephant Man and, of course, there are other families in Rome.

Through these poems we are enabled confidently to state that certain things were known among the Greeks before they entered civilization.

it was not until many centuries later that the ancient Greeks placed the science of map-making on a sound footing.

Athletic competition became so important to the Greeks that the Olympic celebrations were a peaceful influence on the warlike city-states.

The public perception that everyone's on the take has left many Greeks believing that it's morally acceptable to defraud the public coffers.

For the Greeks, the work of art exists in a sphere of aesthetic ideality; for the Egyptians, in a sphere of magical reality.

Mr Georgiou would make a useful scapegoat to many Greeks who have suffered over the past two years.

Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the Feast.

Spring, summer, autumn, winter---the seasons change without fail. The ancient Greeks told a story of how the seasons came to be(1).

Ostrogoths, Vikings , and in a different way, intolerant masters of the Inquisition are no less - "European" than ancient Greeks.

Mercury was the Roman god of trade and commerce, in the same vein as Hermes of the Greeks, the messenger.

Among the ancient Greeks, homosexuality was not only permitted, it was highly respected.

It contains ideological elasticity as well as leniency, and displays ancient Greeks naivety, and lively and healthy spiritual nature.

We have exiled beauty; the Greeks took up arms for her.

later, led by Alexander the Great and his boyfriend Hephaestion, the Greeks conquered the known world.

Since many Greeks live on or near the sea, water sports are popular and children learn to swim at an early age.

Among the Basic techniques are cross-stitch, crewel work, and quilting. The Persians and Greeks wore quilted garments as armor.

And long before then the ancient Greeks claimed their god Vulcan had a device that could make long, spaghetti-like, strings of dough.

The Irish have been hurt not by the excessive borrowing, tax evasion or false national statistics that troubled the Greeks.

There is great accumulated knowledge from India, from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Greeks, the Romans and of course the Persians.

Theoretically, to make up the economic ground lost in less than a decade, the Greeks would need to devalue by 40 per cent.

During this century, the Greeks developed the belief (through contact with other cultures) that souls left the sleeping body.

The Hindus, like the Greeks, regarded trigonometry as a tool for their astronomy.

As history goes on, the Greeks became more religious and superstitious as the faiths of the conquered welled up from below.

Within the EU, Greeks and Italians will be better placed to move to cooler climes than inhabitants of similarly sized countries elsewhere.

But a large majority of Greeks say they cannot take more austerity as the country enters its third year of recession.

Yet until recently - and as far back as the ancient Greeks - sexual self-control was a respectable objective in Western thought.

This resulted in galloping inflation and a radically lower standard of living for Greeks.

And no European politician wants to be seen giving more taxpayers' money to the Greeks without getting something back.

The Trojans thought that the Greeks had given up and left the horse as a gift.

Then Odysseus had a plan. He told the Greeks to build a great wooden horse and leave it in front of the city gates.

Greeks could break free of the shackles of Teutonic austerity and head back to the beaches by repudiating their debts.

What, after all, is the incentive for the Greeks to reform their government and economy if the benefits accrue to creditors indefinitely?

Inhabited since the Stone Age, the region was colonized by Phoenicians and Greeks and later ruled by Carthage and Rome (after 201b. c. ).

You see, we're like the Greeks and Romans when we put pictures of famous men on our money, too.

But the Huns were much more wedded to the nomadic life than the early Greeks, who were rather migratory cattle farmers than true nomads.

Chariot wheels in Asia Minor were heavy, whereas those of the Greeks were light since they had to operate on rocky ground.

Ever since, the Irish have been on the run, and the Greeks and others on tenterhooks.

Shipping is one of Greece's main industries, with Greeks controlling nearly 20 percent of the world's merchant fleet.

For the Romans and Greeks, well-washed hands were a natural accompaniment to fairly clean bodies.

The Greeks and Romans lived, I suppose, very comfortably though they had no linen.

peripheral-government bond yields shot up and stockmarkets sank on fears that Greeks might reject a rescue plan agreed days earlier.

Germany's finance minister says he'll support more money for the Greeks only if lenders agree to take a haircut first.

But certain elements had been lacking until the Greeks supplied them.

Ancient Greeks in philosophy, history, architecture, literature, drama, sculpture and many other aspects of a deep knowledge.

The modern Olympics have many events the ancient Greeks would not recognize.

The Ancient Greeks considered pale skin to be a sign of prestige and beauty.

The earliest history of Mothers Day dates back to the ancient annual spring festival the Greeks dedicated to maternal goddesses.

The Italians, unlike the Greeks, are born savers, and much of the Italian debt is owned by the Italians.

Even the gargantuan Medes could not defeat them and the Greeks of Ionia suffered the same fate as the rest of Asia Minor.

As far back as the Greeks, the white gown was a symbol of joy. Now a white wedding dress is more a symbol of purity than of joy.

What does the tragic myth mean precisely for the Greeks of the best, strongest, and bravest age?

In Germany, where the jobless rate is lower than in 2008, people tend to think the crisis is about lazy Greeks and Italians.

Are Greeks really prepared to accept all of this?

The advocators of agricultural features only apply several old remarks by one or two ancient Greeks thinkers to their theory.

Sikania to its most ancient peoples, Sicily was Sikelia, Plato's utopian society, to the ancient Greeks.

For the Greeks civilization (for which there is no single Greek word) is something more basic and also more precarious.

Ancient Greeks'believed the pineal gland to be our connection to the Realms of Thought.

The ancient Greeks considered the rhythm and precision of an athlete throwing the discus as important as his strength.

For the Greeks, the worst case could be even worse, and may include ongoing unrest and government instability.

The earliest known mosaics date from the 8th century BC and were made of pebbles, a technique refined by the Greeks in the 5th century.

The primitive Greeks clung desperate-ly to myths. . . . . . to explain the random hopelessness of their miserable lives.

During the ancient Olympics, the Greeks ran with a torch to worship the gods.

The ancient Greeks wrote of vampires (or vrykolakas), malevolent undead creatures that stalked the living, bringing death and disease.

From Pandora's box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all.

Greeks huge family life to pay attention to imperial clan, the door ethnic Chinese people familiar.

This star was given deity status among the ancient Egyptians and later the Greeks.

The custom of decorating a ship probably Began in ancient Egypt or India and was followed by the Chinese, Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans.

However, the ancient Greeks and Romans used coins of a definite value like our dime or quarter.

In one of the great naval victories of history, the Greeks sank 200 enemy ships while losing only 40 of their own.

but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

As their society advanced, the Greeks developed systems and structures that differentiated roles to maximize efficiency.

What advice would the ancient Greeks provide to help modern Greeks with their current financial worries?

From Palestinians to Greeks, Armenians to Hmong, young Internet users learn much about their culture and politics in their diaspora.

Greeks Advocating human body, for the Almighty God and the Olympus of the best games on the statue.

Mother's Day originated in Greece, the ancient Greeks to this day the gods in Greek mythology, Hera pay tribute to the mother.

Take all this together, and we can be sure that debts amassed by the Greeks will never be paid in their entirety.

Government (and that meant self-government to these Greeks) brought order by fending off chaos.

The limitations of Greek mathematical thought almost automatically imply the problems the Greeks left to later generations.

The Greeks and Romans of the Mediterranean area concentrated on ceramics rather than wood or furniture items.

Until the crisis hit, about 30, 000 Greeks a year studied abroad.

The Greeks later called this region Mesopotamia, which means "between the rivers. "

Some pundits argue that Germany's brutality to Greece during the second world war should have tempered its irritation with the Greeks.

One of the history of civilization is how to account for the brilliance and creativity of the ancient Greeks.

paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat; used by ancient Egyptians and Greeks and Romans.

Reform-minded Greeks see the crisis as an opportunity to set their country right.

He frequents museums all over the world gleaning tips from ancient cultures such as the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians.

Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Greeks were uprooted from Ionian coastal areas.

Will he go where our people live scattered among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

Public-sector accounting is Enronesque. Creditors will punish governments with dodgy numbers, as the Greeks have discovered.

"Greeks don't have money but they borrow to go on vacation, " said John.

But as Greece's economy shrinks, its society is fraying, raising questions about how long Greeks will be able to take the strain.

It was the Greeks who shaped the thinking of Western man.

The ancient Greeks knew it as the Scythian Sea, after the tribes who held its shores at the time.

Body art originated in the West, to appreciate the human body as an art or ancient Greeks.

Romantic myth of the Greeks also given confusing division of the vault of heaven and their constellations.

Jn. 12: 20 And there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast.

Astrolabes , which may date back to the Greeks, enabled travelers to determine time and direction from the constellations.

Spaniards and Greeks, by contrast, have been whisked abruptly, and painfully, from boom to bust.

Creditors will punish governments with dodgy numbers, as the Greeks have discovered.

As a tribute to the magic of Venus, the Greeks used her eight-year cycle to organize their Olympic Games.

The Greeks said artisans and technicians shaped wool into sweaters, marble into ornaments, iron into axes and silver into jewelry.

This is said to be the reason why the Greeks gave wreath of laurel to the winners of games held in honour of Apollo .

My paternal grandfather died as many good Greeks did, attempting to kill his mortal enemy, the old Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.

It's unclear who first invented the toilet: early contenders for the honor are the Scots and the Greeks.

The Greeks' biggest medals hopes were charged with staging the crash and providing authorities with false information.

Same-sex hand holding or walking arm-in-arm also occurs among Latinos, French, Spanish, Italians, Greeks, and middle easterners .

Classical Of or relating to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially their art, architecture, and literature.

the Greeks had virtually created philosophy, theatre and drama, and the writing of history--and had made great innovations in architecture.

The Greeks may be best known for inventing the Olympic Games, but they also invented the Mr. Universe contest.

Greeks hailed as a triumph the decision in 1997 by the International Olympic Committee to return this year's games to their birthplace .

Once more unto the breach, dear Greeks.

The ancient Greeks had games of chance, embryonic financial markets and some of the finest mathematicians who have ever lived.

They were about to go to war over two tiny Aegean islets called Imia by the Greeks and Kardak by the Turks.

Opinion polls suggest more than 60% of Greeks oppose the government's decision to call in the fund.

The large river best known to the ancient Greeks was the Nile of Egypt.

It also mischievously suggested that the Greeks sell some islands and the Acropolis to pay their debt.

Dozens of special charter flights took fans to Portugal to witness "the dream" - as many Greeks have started calling the victory.

Greeks could read texts like this also.

Even if this were set up, it would come far too late to help the Greeks.

The ancient Greeks, who longed for peace, light and kindness, obtained the ample realization of their desire.

The ancient Greeks held that the purest form of love was between two men.

But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

During the invasion of the Romans in Greece, instead of influencing the Greeks, they adapted the culture.

Of course the Greeks were aware of lands to the north, as their ships went all over and heard the rumors.

The Greeks came perilously close to national default this year.

Hadrian also worked to secure his popularity outside the city, traveling the empire to cultivate alliances, particularly with the Greeks.

Now we all say that the ancient Greeks and the ancient Romans were great civilized nations.

It is not surprising, therefore, to find the Greeks of Western Thrace suspicious of the Turks, and the Turks of the Greeks.

Greeks and Romans were much more civilized than Mongols, and they were a millennium earlier than the rise of Mongols.

The Greeks used the occasion to honor Rhea, wife of Cronus and the mother of many deities of Greek mythology.

Rather than spending, Greeks are cancelling their credit cards and withdrawing deposits.

Interviewer: And then, as you said, many Greeks arrived after the Second World War, didn't they?