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Graeco-Roman

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Graeco-Roman esp US, Greco-Roman
adj
1. (Historical Terms) of, characteristic of, or relating to Greek and Roman influences, as found in Roman sculpture
2. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Wrestling) denoting a style of wrestling in which the legs may not be used to obtain a fall and no hold may be applied below the waist
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Adj.1.Graeco-Roman - of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greek and Roman cultures; "classical mythology"; "classical
Greco-Roman, Hellenic, classic, classical
classical, classic - of or relating to the most highly developed stage of an earlier civilisation and its culture; "classic Cinese pottery"
Translations
Graeco-Roman (Brit), Greco-Roman (esp US)
adj art, sculpture → griechisch-römisch; Graeco-Roman wrestling → Ringen nt → im griechisch-römischen Stil
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Could not a rejuvenated Graeco-Roman system of valuing (once it had been refined and made more profound by the schooling which two thousand years of Christianity had provided) effect another such revolution within a calculable period of time, until that glorious type of manhood shall finally appear which is to be our new faith and hope, and in the creation of which Zarathustra exhorts us to participate?
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
 
 
 
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