pre-Greek
- a word derived from Greek.
Example Sentences
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The style of the building showed that it dated from pre-Greek times, when the Great Gods were young.
From Time Magazine Archive
These and their like were what the pre-Greek world worshiped.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
The only real Pelasgian problem, concludes Meyer, is whether the Thessalian Pelasgians were a Greek or pre-Greek people, and he is inclined to favour the latter view.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
These reliefs belong to that pre-Greek oriental art generally called Hittite, of which there are numerous remains in the eastern half of the peninsula.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various
The Aegean Culture Preceded the Coming of the Greeks.—Spreading over the islands of the Aegean Sea was a pre-Greek civilization known as Minoan.
From History of Human Society by Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)
