Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word la tour. Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: La Tour, Georges de La Tour(noun) French painter of religious works (1593-1652)
The Greeks or Hellenes (Greek: Î­Î»Î»Î·Î½ÎµÏ [Ëelines]) are an ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Anatolia, Southern Italy, and other regions.They also form a significant diaspora, with Greek communities established around the world.ost Greeks are Christians, belonging to the Greek Orthodox Church. During the first centuries after Jesus Christ, the New Testament was originally written in Koine Greek, which remains the liturgical language of the Greek Orthodox Church, and most of the early Christians and Church Fathers were Greek-speaking.
The Greeks. Western intellectual history always begins with the ancient Greeks. This is not to say that no one had any deep thoughts prior to the ancient Greeks, or that the philosophies of ancient India and China (and elsewhere) were in any way inferior.reek philosophy didnât begin in Greece (as we know it); It began on the western coast of what is now Turkey, an area known then as Ionia. In Ioniaâs richest city, Miletus, was a man of Phoenician descent called Thales (624-546). He studied in Egypt and other parts of the near east, and learned geometry and astronomy.