To see how little this corresponds to middle-class Greek reality, you need only visit one of the flourishing and over-subscribed private schools in greater Athens.
The irony was that the Greek culture Alexander embraced and spread through the middle east was very largely Athenian Greek high culture.
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He collected a pass on the left side 25 yards from the goal, cut to the middle against a sagging Greek defense and fired an outward-bending shot toward the upper-right corner of the goal.
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Many scientists, physicists in particular, now upload drafts of their papers into public archives paid for by networks of universities for the general good. (The most popular is known as arXiv, the middle letter being a Greek chi.) Here, manuscripts are subject to a ruthless process of open peer review, rather than the secret sort traditional publishers employ.
In the second century BCE the ancient Jews were overrun by the Assyrians, a Greek proxy in the ancient Middle East.
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There is a Greek tragedy unfolding today in the Middle East.
It has frayed recently over Turkey's reluctance to stop large numbers of Central Asian and Middle Eastern migrants crossing from its Aegean coast to the Greek islands despite the EU's Frontex team of helicopters and patrol boats keeping watch on illegal immigration.
The new Greek interim PM is Lucas Papademos, pictured in the middle, while the man on the left is Klaus Regling.
Before our astounded eyes the entire fantastic mess unfolds like a bloody Greek legend the House of Atreus reincarnated in a middle-class Jewish family.
Very closely, that is, until the middle of 2011, when the combined effects of the Japanese earthquake, Greek debt and Euro credit crises pummeled shares, chasing investors out of stocks and sending share prices swooning.
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