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Greek (language)

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Greek (language)

Greek was a language that originated in Greece. It was also the language of the Algea. (PROSE: The Door We Forgot) The first four letters of its alphabet were alpha, beta, gamma and delta. (AUDIO: Ghosts)

The Rosetta Stone was written in both Egyptian hieroglyphs and Greek. This allowed the Greek-speaking archaeologists to translate the hieroglyphic script, which they didn't know, into Greek. (PROSE: Love and War, AUDIO: Love and War)

In 64, the First Doctor witnessed the translation of the Gospel of Mark from Hebrew and Aramaic into Greek. (PROSE: Byzantium!)

In 950, the Necronomicon was translated from Arabic to Greek by Theodorus Philetus, but all such copies were burned in 1050. (PROSE: The Banquo Legacy)

Jo Grant's command of the Greek language was a bit faulty, as she accidentally asked for a kilo of peaches when she intended to ask for fruit juice. (PROSE: The Seismologist's Story)

In the 1970s, the Master, while posing as a Greek professor, used the alias Thascalos, which was Greek for Master. (TV: The Time Monster)

The prefix nano, such as in nanomedicine, was derived from the Greek word for dwarf. (AUDIO: The Sleeping Blood)

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