Quotes About Greek-speaking

These Greek-speaking city folk were no country bumpkins, like those they called pagans—pagani—a term meaning "rustics" or "hicks."18 They inhabited one of the liveliest, most urbane, and culturally diverse regions on earth. Many could read and write; the early Christians, like the Jews, considered themselves People of the Book and prized the ability to read Scripture.

the highest levels of Macedonian society were thoroughly Greek-speaking by the mid-fourth century BCE.

that trumps any residual loyalty that some may have felt towards the resurgent Greek-speaking state of Byzantium.

His grandfather, he said, was from a traveling family—part of a group called the "Gringos"—signifying, here, not unwanted Americans but Greek-speaking Gypsies in Spain.

With the demise of the inward-looking, stodgy yeomen, enormous wealth and poverty ensued. The Greek-speaking Hellenistic world could now use the Hellenic genius without ethical constraint.