Grec·o-Ro·man

(grĕk′ō-rō′mən, grē′kō-)

adj.

Of or relating to both Greece and Rome: Greco-Roman mythology.

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Gre•co-Ro•man

(ˌgri koʊˈroʊ mən, ˌgrɛk oʊ-)

adj.

1. of or having both Greek and Roman characteristics: the Greco-Roman influence.

2. a style of wrestling in which the contestants are forbidden to trip, tackle, or use holds below the waist.

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Adj.

Greco-Roman - of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greek and Roman cultures; "classical mythology"; "classical

Graeco-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"

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Not to consider here anything except the Christian architecture of Europe, that younger sister of the great masonries of the Orient, it appears to the eyes as an immense formation divided into three well-defined zones, which are superposed, the one upon the other: the Romanesque zone*, the Gothic zone, the zone of the Renaissance, which we would gladly call the Greco-Roman zone.

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