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  • adjective chiefly UK Alternative form of Greco-Roman.

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  • adjective of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greek and Roman cultures

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Examples

  • See for instance C. P. Jones, “Tattooing and Branding in Graeco-Roman Antiquity,” Journal of Roman Studies 77 1987: 139–55.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Runaway, which West directed and starred in, was heavily influenced by film noir and Graeco-Roman mythology and features an extended ballet sequence.

    Kanye West: Mister Perfection is stylishly reinventing the rules of rap Elizabeth Day 2010

  • What ever happened to the Graeco-Roman wrestling caption contest!?

    Cthulhu Dice « Third Point of Singularity 2010

  • See for instance C. P. Jones, “Tattooing and Branding in Graeco-Roman Antiquity,” Journal of Roman Studies 77 1987: 139–55.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Among entries you can sample is one the alchemist and writer "Maria" She was a principal founder of Graeco-Roman alchemy, the experimental science of its day.

    Femina Habilisa and Maria the Alchemist Peggy 2008

  • The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, in an effort to shore up an endowment to buy contemporary art, sacrificed to the auction block (and almost inevitably to the private sector) great rarities in its holdings of Graeco-Roman and Asian art.

    The Man Who Remade the Met 2008

  • It is inappropriate here to discuss the substantial Graeco-Roman corpus of military treatises and concepts that the Byzantines inherited, copied and adapted for their own purposes.

    De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Strategy of Heraclius 2010

  • The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, in an effort to shore up an endowment to buy contemporary art, sacrificed to the auction block (and almost inevitably to the private sector) great rarities in its holdings of Graeco-Roman and Asian art.

    The Man Who Remade the Met 2008

  • The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, in an effort to shore up an endowment to buy contemporary art, sacrificed to the auction block (and almost inevitably to the private sector) great rarities in its holdings of Graeco-Roman and Asian art.

    The Man Who Remade the Met 2008

  • Among entries you can sample is one the alchemist and writer "Maria" She was a principal founder of Graeco-Roman alchemy, the experimental science of its day.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Peggy 2008

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