Meanings of greek model in English

His characters, although founded on Greek models, act, speak, and joke like Romans.

The people must be taught the Greek language-theymust live in cities built after a Greek model.

The theatre was organized on Greek models.

Roman sculpture owed much to Greek models.

The author follows the admirable fable of antiquity with a directness and simplicity worthy of his Greek model.

A Gaul's, who imitated Greek models.

"I thought the French copied their Empire furniture from ancient Greek models?"

They are apparently uninfluenced by Greek models, and certainly do not present a high standard either of poetical thought or expression.

Now-a-days everything is changing; furniture is made from Greek models; wherever you go you see helmets, lances, shields, and bows and arrows!

It has rather worked as the Romans did, who anxiously adopted and imitated Greek models, admiring the form but not comprehending the spirit.

The first, made up of uniform stanzas, was called "Aeolian" or "Horatian,"-sinceHorace imitated the simple, regular strophes of his Greek models.

Andrea Pisano again; the head superb, founded on Greek models, feathers of wings wrought with extreme care; but with no precision of arrangement or feeling.

In the eleventh century they overthrew in large part the rule of their Prince-Bishops, and became little City- Republics, much after the old Greek model.

Theocritus can match both (Idylls vii and xv), but it may be doubted whether he could have found any Greek model for either.

Mason's "Caractacus" (1759) was a dramatic poem on the Greek model, with a chorus of British bards, and a principal Druid for choragus.