graeco-roman in English

adjective
1
of or relating to the ancient Greeks and Romans.

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1. In the Graeco-Roman world, the market primarily served the local peasantry.

2. Couches and armchairs as big as beds were surrounded by Graeco-Roman statuary and Oriental urns.

3. * In the Graeco-Roman world, runaways constituted a major problem not only for slave owners but also for the public administration.

4. In Biblical times the Bubal Hartebeest (Alcephalus busephalus) was well-known in Egypt, where several mummified specimens from the Graeco-Roman period have been found.Its range once extended from Egypt to …

5. ‘Four Cinerary urns, now held in the Exeter Museum, were uncovered.’ ‘Urn burial is an ancient Graeco-Roman practice, and to this day, the ashes of the dead are often preserved in Cinerary urns.’

6. When a stele from the 12th Dynasty was found in Wadi Gasus, in which a nearby port called Saww was mentioned, the University of Alexandria began an excavation headed by Abdel Monem A.H. Sayed near the Graeco-Roman hydreuma (watering station) where the stele was found.

7. It is sought to explain the origin of Christianity from the continuation and development of Jewish ideas and the influx of Brahmanistic, Buddhist, Graeco-Roman, and Egyptian religious notions, and from the Stoic and Philonic philosophy; it is held to have received its development and explanation especially from the neo-Platonic philosophy.