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Greek may refer to anything related to Greece, including Greek culture, Greek history and the Greek language.

See Greek mythology, Greek philosophy

Greek (also, as a synonym: Hellenic) may refer to:

• pertaining to Greece (or specific earlier stages of its history:)
  • Ancient Greece
  • Roman Greece
  • Medieval Greece
  • Ottoman Greece
• Greeks, persons from Greece, or of Greek descent.
• Greek language, or more specifically:
  • Mycenaean Greek, (16th to 11th centuries BC)
  • Ancient Greek, (c. 1000–330 BC)
  • Koine Greek or Alexandrian, Hellenistic, Common, New Testament Greek, (c. 330 BC – 330 AD)
  • Medieval Greek or Byzantine Greek, (330–1453 AD)
  • Modern Greek, (from 1453 AD)
• Greek alphabet

Other

Greek may also refer to:

• Greeks (finance), the Greeks are the quantities representing the sensitivities of derivatives (the most common of these sensitivities are often denoted by Greek letters)
• Fraternities and sororities, often called the "Greek System," at colleges and universities because many of them are named after Greek letters
• Greek Theatre (Los Angeles)
• Greek (TV series), an ABC Family show
• Greeking: inserting dummy text in a computer display or typographic layout
• Greek love, a term referring variously to male bonding, homosexuality, pederasty and anal sex

See also

• Names of the Greeks
• Name of Greece