Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greek Walls. In one camp were archaeologists who have yearned to dig into Marseille's rich, entombed past for decades. Opposed to them are proponents of a long-planned urban-renewal project-the Projet de la Bourse...
...shovels bit into the rocky grey soil, more and more of Massilia's fortifications began to appear. To Euzennat, it soon became apparent that a greater expanse of ramparts remained intact than anyone had estimated when fragments were unearthed earlier in the century. Moreover, the walls were definitely Greek rather than Roman, and far more important historically...
...archaeologists began digging. They unearthed remnants of towers, lower ramparts, parts of a pier, inner walls, a sewer network and a central flagstone street. Buried within the fortifications, which are at least 460 ft. by 130 ft., were catapult balls of apparently Roman origin, along with building blocks bearing Greek monograms and pottery fragments, including one that dates from the 5th century B.C. Said Euzennat, who believes the find as important as the ruins of Carthage: "You have to go to Syracuse to find something comparable...
...even exist in its present form until several centuries after the founding of Christianity. The bishop similarly dismisses the infallibility of church councils on the ground, among others, that Christian denominations disagree violently on how many there really were; Roman Catholics accept 21 ecclesiastical synods as ecumenical councils, the Greek Orthodox only seven. He also contends that the creeds did not take shape until several centuries after Christ, and "do not stand on their own feet...
...townspeople accept the servant girl's disappearance, but the sister does not. She begins to grill her stepbrother, who hysterically runs to his parents for aid. To ensure her silence, the father consents to let her marry a man whom she loves-and he despises. At the Greek fete, as Anestis drunkenly dances in celebration of his stepsister's wedding, the servant's body mysteriously rises to the water's surface and begins floating to shore, bringing with it the dissolution of the house of Canalis...