Greek+and+Latin
41Latin names of cities — Users of Neo Latin have taken the Latin language to places the Romans never went; hence a need arose to make Latin names of cities that did not exist when Latin was a living language.trategies for constructing Latin namesThe first places that… …
42Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem — Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem Coat of arms Founder The Apostles Independence Apostolic Era …
43Latin alphabet — Infobox Writing system name=Latin alphabet type=Alphabet languages=Latin and Romance languages; most languages of Europe; Romanizations exist for practically all known languages. time= 700 B.C. to the present. fam1=Egyptian hieroglyphs fam2=Proto …
44Latin influence in English — English has been called a Germanic language with a Romance vocabulary. Estimates of native words (derived from Old English) in English range from 20% ndash;33%, with the rest made up of foreign borrowings. A large number of these borrowings are… …
45Greek drachma — ελληνική δραχμή (Greek) Modern drachma coins …
46Greek mythology in western art and literature — The widespread adoption of Christianity would not curb the popularity of the myths and their continual recycling in art, music and literature. With the rediscovery of classical antiquity in Renaissance, the poetry of Ovid became a major influence …
47Greek scholars in the Renaissance — The migration of Byzantine Greek scholars and other émigrés from Byzantium during the decline of the Byzantine empire (1203 1453) and mainly after the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the 16th century, is considered by modern scholars as… …
48Latin alphabet — the alphabetical script derived from the Greek alphabet through Etruscan, used from about the 6th century B.C. for the writing of Latin, and since adopted, with modifications and additions of letters such as w, by the languages of Western Europe …
49Greek philosophy — Ancient Greek philosophy focused on the role of reason and inquiry. Many philosophers today concede that Greek philosophy has shaped the entire Western thought since its inception. One scholar has noted, Western philosophy is just a series of… …
50Latin American art — Introduction artistic traditions that developed in Mesoamerica, Central America, and South America after contact with the Spanish and Portuguese beginning in 1492 and 1500, respectively, and continuing to the present. This article… …
