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"The nude Greco-Roman wrestling that concludes every episode of Late Edition ."-- Tim Carvell
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.
A little further southwest are some second century a.d. catacombs with tomb chambers painted to depict Greco-Egyptian themes.
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.
There are numerous artifacts found at the Kydonía Minoan site, but equally impressive Greco-Roman remains including a collection of beautiful Hellenistic mosaics.