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It's all Greeks to Me
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We had a game once upon a time where we catalogued the names of some of the lesser-known Knights of the Round Table, such as Sir Kit Breaker, Sir Gycal Truss, Sir Monon de Mounte and so forth. I thought it might be educational to go further back, to Greek times, and list a few of them. John Cleese, Androcles and Pericles may be quite well-known, but what about the tailors Euripides and Eumenides, for example? Extra points will be given for providing some biographical details on these long-forgotten fellows.

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The Greek rhetorician Colander was notorious for arguing cases in such a manner that, as Socrates later put it, he was like one trying to draw up water in a net. Hence the modern use of his name for a coarse sieve for draining vegetables. Colander and his contemporaries are credited with spurring the development of formal logic, as a reaction against their rhetorical excesses.
Well, ahead of his time, this philosopher saw the possibility of breaking down tasks into simple component parts 'such that they could be performed by an engine devoid of reason, thus releasing the wise man to pursue the exercise of the mind' Alas he was ahead of his time and it was 2000 years before the realisation of the ideas of Spiningenes
Phlytippa left her rubbish all over the place.
If a Greek traveller found, in some deserted place, strange glyphs painted on a rock or carved on a tree, he would presume that nature spirits -- the kilroi -- were there.
Lendusmorples is believed to be a direct ancestor of the current Finance Minister
Chismias was a bureaucrat known for contemptuously dismissing unfavoured petitioners.
Vehicles was owner of one of the world's first horse and cart rental emporia.
Founder of the somewhat short-lived Pryapic school and a staunch opponent of Stoicism, Bigtites, is said to have formed his world view that "all is milk" from his years under the tutelage of his mother Mammaria. His influence can be seen in the works of Freud and the lesser-known Heffner.
After the Sumerians developed the cart-wheel, a young Greek entrepreneur called Kroupia turned one on its side, spun it and encouraged youths to place bids on which spoke a tossed stone would hit.
The orator Telephon was famed for the distance he could project his voice.
(And in modern times, a xenophone must be a device for talking to foreigners.)
Dogines amused himself by kicking an inflated pig's bladder around the place.
Kennai fought in a lot of wars, but was killed in every battle.
[Raak]
Hidden textTook me a good 5 minutes to get that - excellent!
Many are the tales told of the mighty warrior Androgenes, both of her prowess in combat and his tactical brilliance.
None of the writings of Burocrates have come down to us, as they were too boring for anyone to think worth preserving.
Bicycles was the inventor of an early two-wheeled transportation machine.
Oddly enough, given the introduction to the game, Sircles was both a Greek geometer and a Knight of the Round Table.
No one ever seems to talk about Cockites, wife of Pythagoras, who first inspired then later enthusiastically participated in the human-scale demonstrations that unequivocally established the mathematician’s most famous theorem.
Cockneys - Reached London long before the Romans.
"There is nothing on earth to be more prized than a hefty discount from a good friend." (From "On the nature of friendship", Matesrates, 214-152 B.C.)
Standatease was the forerunner of generations of seargent-majors.
[Kim] For a moment there I thought you were talking about Maserates, the famous chariot racer.
I can barely bring myself to mention the inexorable vileness that was Stoktonontes.
Much has been written about the Chorus in Greek plays, rather less about the accompanying interpretive dancers, the bolshoi.
(Reusing a move from another game a long time ago alert:) Isosceles was a Greek sorcerer executed for heresy by impalement on a narrow, triangular block of wood, to the shape of which his name has since been given.
Tossos - an island named after the staggering ineptitude of its inhabitants.
Let's not ignore the magnificent contribution to the world of cartography made by Sephenses
[Phil] Didn't he also do important work in the development of vitamin supplements?
[Kim] Indeed he did, often in conjunction with the Roman physician Centrum
Nobblines, the first Greek to abandon the traditional Greek toga and wear shorts in summer.
Helpmaboab Itsthepolis was an ancient Greek bovver boy.
The narrative multi-panel paintings by Greek artist Miniceres are precursors to the contemporary graphic novel.
Anchoves was probably one of the most modest fishermen ever to live. His most extravagant claim was of catching a fish nearly 5½ inches long - although admittedly, he did bore everyone to death with how tasty it was.
Glycerides - a purveyor of cooking oil.
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