Greek may refer to anything related to the Hellenic (Greek) Culture The Culture of Greece has evolved over thousands of years, beginning in the Mycenaean and Minoan Civilizations, continuing most notably into Classical Greece, through the influence of the Roman Empire and its Greek Eastern successor the Byzantine Empire. The Ottoman Empire significantly influenced Greek culture, but historians credit the Greek war.
Greek may refer specifically to:
- Greece Greece (English: /ˈɡriːs/ ; Greek: Ελλάδα, Elláda, IPA: [eˈlaða] ( listen); Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, Hellás, IPA: [helːás]), also known as Hellas and officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, Ellīnikī́ Dīmokratía, IPA: [eliniˈci ðimokraˈtia]), is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on (or specific earlier stages of its history:)
- Ancient Greece Ancient Greece is the civilization belonging to the period of Greek history lasting from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to 146 BC and the Roman conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth. At the center of this time period is Classical Greece, which flourished during the 5th to 4th centuries BC, at first under Athenian
- Medieval Greece (disambiguation)
- Ottoman Greece Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the 15th century until its declaration of independence in 1821, a historical period also known as Tourkokratia
- Modern Greece
- Greeks The Greeks , also known as Hellenes, are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions. They also form a significant diaspora, with Greek communities established around the world, an ethnic group
- Greek language Greek , an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, is the language of the Greeks. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. In its ancient form, it is the language of classical ancient Greek literature and the New Testament of, or more specifically:
- Mycenaean Greek Mycenaean is the most ancient attested form of the Greek language, spoken on the Greek mainland and on Crete in the 16th to 12th centuries BC, before the hypothesised Dorian invasion which was often cited as the terminus post quem for the coming of the Greek language to Greece. The language is preserved in inscriptions in Linear B, a script first, (16th to 11th centuries BC)
- Ancient Greek Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning the Archaic , Classical (c. 5th–4th centuries BC), and Hellenistic (c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD) periods of ancient Greece and the ancient world. It is predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek. Its Hellenistic phase is known as Koine (&, (c. 1000–330 BC)
- Koine Greek Koine Greek is the popular form of Greek which emerged in post-Classical antiquity (c.300 BC – AD 300). Other names are Alexandrian, Hellenistic, Patristic, Common, Biblical or New Testament Greek. Original names were koine, Hellenic, Alexandrian and Macedonian (Macedonic); all on the contrast to Attic dialect. Koine was the first common supra- or Alexandrian, Hellenistic, Common, New Testament Greek, (c. 330 BC – 330 AD)
- Medieval Greek Medieval Greek, also known as Byzantine Greek, is the stage of the Greek language between the beginning of the Middle Ages around 600 and the Ottoman conquest of the city of Constantinople in 1453. The latter date marked the end of the Middle Ages in Southeast Europe. From the 7th century onwards, Greek was the only language of administration and or Byzantine Greek, (330–1453 AD)
- Modern Greek Modern Greek refers to the varieties of Greek spoken in the modern era. The beginning of the "modern" period of the language is often symbolically assigned to the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, even though that date marks no clear linguistic boundary and many characteristic modern features of the language had been present, (from 1453 AD)
- Greek alphabet The Greek alphabet is a set of twenty-four letters that has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. It is the first and oldest alphabet in the narrow sense that it notes each vowel and consonant with a separate symbol. It is as such in continuous use to this day. The letters were also used to represent
- Greek history The history of Greece traditionally encompasses the study of the Greek people, the areas they ruled historically, and the territory now composing the modern state of Greece
- Greek art Greek art began around 2500 b.c. It began in the Cycladic and Minoan prehistorical civilization, and gave birth to Western classical art in the ancient period . It took in influences of Eastern civilizations and the new religion of Orthodox Christianity in the Byzantine era and absorbed Italian and European ideas during the period of Romanticism (
- Greek culture The Culture of Greece has evolved over thousands of years, beginning in the Mycenaean and Minoan Civilizations, continuing most notably into Classical Greece, through the influence of the Roman Empire and its Greek Eastern successor the Byzantine Empire. The Ottoman Empire significantly influenced Greek culture, but historians credit the Greek war
Other
Greek may also refer to:
- Greeks (finance) In mathematical finance, the Greeks are the quantities representing the sensitivities of derivatives such as options to a change in underlying parameters on which the value of an instrument or portfolio of financial instruments is dependent. The name is used because the most common of these sensitivities are often denoted by Greek letters, the Greeks are the quantities representing the sensitivities of derivatives (the most common of these sensitivities are often denoted by Greek letters)
- Fraternities and sororities Fraternities and Sororities are fraternal social organizations for undergraduate students. In English, the term refers mainly to such organizations at colleges and universities in North America, although it is also applied to analogous European groups also known as corporations. Similar, but less common, organizations also exist for secondary, often called the "Greek System," at American colleges and universities because many of them are named after Greek letters
- Greek Theatre (Los Angeles)
- Greek (TV series) Greek is an American, dramedy television series, which follows students of the fictional Cyprus-Rhodes University (CRU) who partake in the school's Greek system, an organization of single-sex "clubs" identified using Greek letters. The show's plots often taken place within the confines of the fictional fraternities, Kappa Tau Gamma (ΚΤ, an ABC Family show
- Greeking Greeking is a style of displaying or rendering text or symbols, not always from the Greek alphabet. The name is a reference to the phrase "Greek to me", meaning something that one cannot understand, so that it might as well be in a foreign language: inserting dummy text in a computer display or typographic layout
- Greek love, a term referring variously to male bonding, homosexuality, pederasty and anal sex
- Greek (play), by Steven Berkoff
- The Greeks, a 1980 play cycle directed by John Barton for the Royal Shakespeare Company
- The Greeks, a 1980 BBC television series featuring Kenneth Dover
See also
- Names of the Greeks The Greeks have been called by several names, both by themselves and by other people. The most common native ethnonym is Hellenes (Έλληνες)
- Name of Greece
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