Greek
Appearance
Greek may refer to:
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
- Greeks, an ethnic group
- Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family
- Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all known varieties of Greek
- Mycenaean Greek, most ancient attested form of the language (16th to 11th centuries BC)
- Ancient Greek, forms of the language used c. 1000–330 BC
- Koine Greek, common form of Greek spoken and written during Classical antiquity
- Medieval Greek or Byzantine Language, language used between the Middle Ages and the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople
- Modern Greek, varieties spoken in the modern era (from 1453 AD)
- Greek alphabet, script used to write the Greek language
- Greek Orthodox Church, several Churches of the Eastern Orthodox Church
- Ancient Greece, the ancient civilization before the end of Antiquity
- Old Greek, the language as spoken from Late Antiquity to around 1500 AD
- Greek mythology, a body of myths originally told by the Ancient Greeks
Other uses
[edit]- Greek (play), a 1980 play by Steven Berkoff
- Greek (opera), a 1988 opera by Mark-Antony Turnage, based on Steven Berkoff's play
- Greek (TV series) (also stylized GRΣΣK), 2007 ABC Family channel's comedy-drama television series set at a fictitious college's fictional Greek system.
- Greek-letter organizations (GLOs), social organizations for undergraduate students at North American colleges
- Greek love, a term referring variously to male bonding, homosexuality, pederasty and anal sex
- Greek Revival architecture, an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries
- Greek Theatre (Los Angeles), a theatre located at Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California
- Greeking, a style of displaying or rendering text or symbols in a computer display or typographic layout
- Greeks, a group of scholars in 16th-century England who were part of the Grammarians' War
- Greeks (finance), quantities representing the sensitivity of the price of derivatives
- Nick the Greek (Nick Dandolos, 1883–1966), professional gambler
- Phil the Greek, a nickname for Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921–2021)
- The Greek, a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire.
- The Greeks (book), a 1951 non-fiction book on classical Greece by H. D. F. Kitto
See also
[edit]- All pages with titles beginning with Greek
- Greek dialects (disambiguation)
- Greek to me, an idiom for something not understandable
- Greeks (disambiguation)
- Hellenic (disambiguation)
- Name of Greece, names for the country
- Names of the Greeks, terms for the Greek people