All Greek

Greek: something hard to understand. Greek: a language intricate and rich in its powers of evocation, elegant in its archaic form, viscerally expressive in its modern one. Greek: an ancient culture that seems to have influenced everyone.

From an article in the New York Times, “Artistically Speaking, It’s All Greek to Me.”

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