Grecolatry

English Etymology en :af Greco- -latry + 1 Pronunciation en ɒlətɹi 4 Noun - en Graecolatry en 1888 The American Naturalist 487 https://books.google.com/books?id=F2TyAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA487 Grecolatry and Latinolatry are sometimes obstructive. The physician will have less use for a profound knowledge of the humanities than of humanity; the chemist or miner will doubtless find Greek and Latin of use, but much less than German or French and still less than an elementary acquaintance with matter. The future merchant may be glad to bandy classical allusions with his customers, but a knowledge acquired, in the schools, of the objects of his trade will save much cost and labor in those years when time and labor are of most account. en 1975 François Hemsterhuis 52 https://books.google.com/books?id=rXoOAAAAIAAJ [...] attitude toward Christianity, partly determined by his Grecolatry, he voices opinions and biases widely current in the Age of Enlightenment. en 2015 Michael Dietler Archaeologies of Colonialism 30 https://books.google.com/books?id=26owDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA30 Rome by no means disappeared as a cultural ancestor in the face of this rampant Grecolatry. It still remained a powerful source of inspiration in terms of legal, institutional, and architectural models, and the legacy of its imperial conquests continued to provide a standard of reference and ambition for modern European nations. But the relationship between the Greek and Roman legacies was the subject of a broad range of complex, and often contradictory, interpretations.