Greek

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Greek may refer to:

Greece

Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:

• Greeks, an ethnic group
• Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family
  • Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all known varieties of Greek
  • Mycenaean Greek language, most ancient attested form of the language (16th to 11th centuries BC)
  • Ancient Greek, forms of the language used c. 1000–330 BC
  • Koine Greek, common form of Greek spoken and written during Classical antiquity
  • Medieval Greek or Byzantine Greek, language used between the Middle Ages and the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople
  • Modern Greek, varieties spoken in the modern era (from 1453 AD)
• Greek alphabet, script used to write the Greek language
• Greek Orthodox Church, several Churches of the Eastern Orthodox Church
• Ancient Greece, the classical civilization centered in Greece

Other uses

• Greek (play), 1980 play by Steven Berkoff
• Greek (opera), 1988 opera by Mark-Antony Turnage, based on Steven Berkoff's play
• Greek (TV series) (also stylized GRΣΣK), 2007 ABC Family channel's comedy-drama television series set at a fictitious college's fictional Greek system
• Greeks (finance), quantities representing the sensitivity of the price of derivatives
• Greeking, a style of displaying or rendering text or symbols in a computer display or typographic layout
• Greek system or fraternities and sororities, social organizations for undergraduate students at North American colleges
• Greek Theatre (Los Angeles), a theatre located at Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California, USA
• Greek Revival, an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries
• Greek love, a term referring variously to male bonding, homosexuality, pederasty and anal sex
• The Greek, a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire
• The Greeks (book), a 1951 non-fiction book on classical Greece by HDF Kitto
• The Greeks, a 1980 cycle of ten plays adapted by John Barton and Kenneth Cavander from the works of Homer, Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles
• Greeks, a group of scholars in 16th century England who were part of the Grammarians' War

See also

• All pages beginning with Greek
• Greeks (disambiguation)
• Greek dialects (disambiguation)
• Hellenic (disambiguation)
• Names of the Greeks, terms for the Greek people
• Name of Greece, names for the country
• Greek to me, an idiom for something not understandable