greco-roman

Speech parts

1. greco-roman - Adjective

2. greco-roman - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having characteristics that are partly Greek and partly Roman; as, Greco-Roman architecture.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

classical Graeco-Roman hellenic hellenistic classic wrestling classical antiquity ancient greek and roman ancient mediterranean classical mediterranean greco-romanic greek-romanic greek and roman greek and romanic hellenic and roman

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Antonyms

nonclassical

Examples

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same. Arthur Erickson

Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life. Kenneth Scott Latourette

Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.' Henry Rollins

Unfortunately, much of the post-Homeric poetry-called lyric poetry because it was usually sung to a lyre-was lost in the upheavals of subsequent centuries, especially in the depredations and decay that would follow the barbarian incursions into the Greco-Roman world in the fifth century A. D. Thomas Cahill

Just as the Judeo-Christian world had learned the Greek language and internalized Greek categories, the Greco-Roman world gradually abandoned its dying gods and became monotheistic. Thomas Cahill

classical mythology Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Greco-Egyptian Greco-Latin Greco-Latin square Greco-Roman architecture Greco-Roman deity Greco-Roman wrestling