Word: graeco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...today, stressed Brendel, is only a modern interpretation of past art, just as Renaissance art was based directly on early Graeco-Roman figures. "This imitation," said Brendel, "may sometimes help creativity; it will not hinder...
Pollard believes that Western culture oscillates between its Judaeo-Christian roots and its Graeco-Roman roots. At most times it is so firmly embedded in one tradition that the other cannot even be understood. Thus the Middle Ages Christianized Aristotle, while the modern age has secularized Jesus. In certain eras, the dominant viewpoint is no longer adequate for coping with reality, and men again grasp the full meaning of the alternative, thereby creating a mysterious Rennaissance. Thus the Alexandrine world was converted to Christianity; thus the Middle Ages were converted to Hellenism; thus the modern Alexandria will be converted once...
Toynbee argued from a parallel to the Christian-pagan struggle in ancient Rome, where the Christians, while bitterly opposed to the infields, ultimately incorporated much of Graeco-Roman paganism into the new religion...
...Podro has somehow contrived to satisfy real Jewish scholars of the highest professional standing that he has an enviably deep knowledge of the purely Aramaic setting of the Gospel story. Nor has "Crank" Robert Graves yet been caught out in any historical blunder which invalidates his findings on the Graeco-Roman side of the problem; though he dared tempt British New Testament experts with valuable money prizes if they could spot one. Together they have even persuaded leading U.S. Protestant Theologian Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr to take the book seriously with: "The authors have labored so diligently and within the limits...
...Greek literary standards" say Graves & Podro ". . . are poor; by historical standards, unreliable; and their doctrine is confused and contradictory. The late-Victorian atheist (was it Bradlaugh?) may be excused for remarking that they read as though 'concocted by illiterate, half-starved visionaries in some dark corner of a Graeco-Syrian slum...