The new class of Ottoman landlords reduced the hitherto free Greek peasants to serfdom, leading to further poverty and depopulation in the plains.

Proclus (5th century) reported that Greek peasants "fairly" parted fields relying on their perimeters.

His hands played idly across his desk's electronic console as a Greek peasant might fondle his worry beads.

The Greek peasants who tilled Souliot land were distinguished by the name of the village in which they dwelt.

Spiridon Louis, a Greek peasant, did it 100 years ago for Athens by winning the marathon.

The other plane is Alitalia, filled with uneducated Sicilian, Greek and Turkish peasants.

Far below them, Greek peasants were driving overloaded donkeys through a maze of low stone walls and vineyards.

Every now and then, the members of a friendly chorus of Greek peasants pop their heads over the walls to echo her.

It was used at the climax of the Eleusinian Mysteries to break a sacred fast, but it was also a favourite drink of Greek peasants.