Words similar to greco-
Example sentences for: greco-
How can you use “greco-” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
There is no law against combining bogus, ad hoc , “foreign” words and the real thing in one breath, just as Keillor's narrator does in his “Altrusian” blessing, juxtaposing what is obviously nonsense next to genuine Latin ( domino ) and Hebrew ( shadrach, meshach, abednego ). Likewise, in ancient Greek magical texts snippets of Egyptian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Coptic, and Babylonian words and proper names commingle in happy abandon with endless concatenations of gibberish, producing a veritable Babelian babble to challenge the ingenuity of Indo-European and Semitist scholars alike two thousand years later, as they wrangle with these more-than-sesquipedalian creations of Greco-Egyptian magical fantasy.
Off El Hurriya Street you’ll find the Neo-Classical façade of the Greco-Roman Museum with a fine collection of both Roman, Greek, and Ptolemaic artifacts found around the city and under the waters of the harbor, along with many ancient Egyptian pieces.
The Greco-Roman tradition is not the only happy hunting ground for the Niceness Principle.
At the southern end of Market Street is Kornárou Square (Plateía Kornárou) where you will find the Bembo Fountain (Kríni Bembo) created in the 16th century using numerous pieces of architectural salvage — including the fine torso of a Greco-Roman statue.
It was Giorgio Vasari, facile artist but first-rate chronicler of this cultural explosion, who allegedly dubbed it a rinascita, or rebirth, of the glories of Italy’s Greco-Roman past.
Loading...