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Deimos and Phobos, the moons of Mars, are named after the sons of the Greek god Ares (Roman Mars): Deimos "horror" [8] and Phobos "fear". [9] Δέσποτα, μέμνεο τῶν Ἀθηναίων. Déspota, mémneo tôn Athēnaíōn. "Master, remember the Athenians."
Places of concern to Greek culture, religion or tradition, including: Greek mythology; Greek Jews, including Romaniotes and exiled Sephardim; Greco-Buddhism; Christianity until the Great Schism, and afterwards the Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Rite, etc. Greek Muslims, and those outside Greece who are Greek-speaking or ethnic Greek
Greek has been spoken in the Balkan peninsula since around the 3rd millennium BC, [18] or possibly earlier. [19] The earliest written evidence is a Linear B clay tablet found in Messenia that dates to between 1450 and 1350 BC, [20] making Greek the world's oldest recorded living language. [21]
The Dictionary of Modern Greek (Greek: Λεξικό της Νέας Ελληνικής Γλώσσας, ΛΝΕΓ), more commonly known as Babiniotis Dictionary (Λεξικό Μπαμπινιώτη), is a well-known dictionary of Modern Greek published in Greece by Lexicology Centre and supervised by Greek linguist Georgios Babiniotis.
Greek numerals, also known as Ionic, Ionian, Milesian, or Alexandrian numerals, is a system of writing numbers using the letters of the Greek alphabet. In modern Greece , they are still used for ordinal numbers and in contexts similar to those in which Roman numerals are still used in the Western world .
Such cases are marked in Greek orthography by either having an accent on the first rather than the second vowel letter, or by having a diaeresis ( ¨) over the second letter. For treatment of accents and diaereses—for example, ϊ —also see the section on romanizing Greek diacritical marks below.
Ancient Greek phonology is the reconstructed phonology or pronunciation of Ancient Greek.This article mostly deals with the pronunciation of the standard Attic dialect of the fifth century BC, used by Plato and other Classical Greek writers, and touches on other dialects spoken at the same time or earlier.