The rumors at times have been blamed for triggering waves of withdrawals from Greek retail banks.
These ECB loans make it possible for Greeks to withdraw euros from Greek banks and transfer them abroad.
First of all, the art style and design of the game, taken from Greek pottery designs, is absolutely gorgeous.
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She was often the soloist in her dances and drew inspiration from Greek mythology, Native American culture, and uniquely American themes.
Like Pluto's three other moons, Charon, Nix and Hydra, they need to be assigned names derived from Greek or Roman mythology.
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The ECB said its interest income earned from Greek bonds last year helped boost its 2012 net profit by more than a third.
But as a minority of New Testament scholars have discovered over the years, much of Mark translates easily back from Greek into very good Aramaic.
"This will certainly make me feel more secure, " says Eirini, adding that many of her friends and relatives have already withdrawn their money from Greek banks.
Hippodramas (from Greek roots meaning "horse" and "play") were sometimes performed in "hippodromes, " and many of the earliest horse actors and their riders were cavalry veterans.
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Cyprus's financial system is in trouble because of losses from Greek government bonds, inflicted during a euro-zone-led debt restructuring last year, and a quickly deflating real-estate bubble.
On April 11, with the crisis of investor confidence spreading from Greek government bonds to the country's banking system, the EU finally put money on the table.
Pedants used to insist that words like mechanise and organise be spelt -ize, since they come from Greek roots and -izo is a common Greek way of forming verbs.
Kazim-Richards joined Blackburn in August from Greek club Olympiakos.
As you may recall from Greek mythology, when Pandora opened her box in 2007, after all the evil had been released, the last symbol of hope remaining inside was a food truck.
Having one of the south's longest beaches, Plakias has attracted some smallish hotels and restaurants, though the truly extraordinary Youth Hostel Plakias (open from Greek Easter through October) also attracts devotees of all ages.
The drama's title character is a notorious figure from Greek mythology, a sorceress whose main claim to fame is the event that brings down the curtain on Cherubini's opera: She murders her own children.
And two minutes later, a cross from Greek midfielder Konstantinus Lobutis found Tedesco - but his flying header went inches wide of the far post as the visitors were again on the back foot.
Procrustes was a nasty little fellow from Greek mythology who would invite guests into his home and then either stretch or amputate parts of their legs to make them fit just right in his guest bed.
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Washington's request was met by a chorus of protest, particularly from Greek ship owners who claim that America needs to know only who is in day-to-day control of a vessel, not the name of the beneficial owner.
They were open to all free-born, Greek-speaking males, attracting athletes not just from the Greek mainland and surrounding islands, but also from the most far-flung Greek colonies, everywhere from Iberia (Spain) in the west to the Black Sea in the east.
So now we move on from Greek default, that inevitability, to the possible default of Portugal and Ireland (neither too damaging nor entirely necessary) to the possibilities of contagion through to Spain and Italy (neither necessary, both horrible to contemplate) and the really big question: will any and all of these countries stay in the euro?
Here is a slightly simplified account of how this works: when someone takes 100 euros from a Greek bank and transfers it to the perceived safety of a German bank (which has been happening quite a lot), that Greek bank gets the 100 euros from the Greek central bank, which in turn borrows the money from the Bundesbank.
That sounds bad, but the banks that have lost access to direct ECB funding can almost certainly still get money from the Greek central bank, which, of course, is ultimately, getting its cash from the ECB (though unlike the more direct form of ECB liquidity support, all the risk implicit in this so-called ELA lending is, formally at least, borne by the Greeks alone).
Derived from the Greek word for "circle, " an encyclical is among the church's most authoritative teaching documents.
The losses are intended to shave off a chunk from the Greek debt mountain.
Nano is a prefix (from the Greek word for dwarf) meaning a billionth of something.
And that is the aim: to limit the shock waves from a Greek default.
The word is of military origin, deriving from the Greek word strategos, which roughly translates as general.
However, the Mediterranean diet (from the Greek diaita, or way of life) encompasses more than just food.
Should the EU, the IMF or indeed the world really expect much from the Greek deficit reduction plan?
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