Greek mode

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Greek mode - any of the descending diatonic scales in the music of classical Greece

musical mode, mode - any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave

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But, since we are in a Greek mode, I should guard against hubris, the temptation to overreach myself.

The movement of Christianity into a Greek mode led to the great doctrinal disputes of the early Church, all of which took place in the East.

He wrote of Moses, in a Greek mode echoing Plato's, and viewed Hellenism with the eye of a believing Jew.