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Symmetry: Culture and Science, 2021 Abstract: Fibonacci numbers are a very popular subject in mathematics, culture and science. A major open question is why the ancient Greeks overlooked this series, while they were very familiar with the golden mean and division in extreme and mean ratio.
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Morality, institutions and economic growth: Lessons from ancient Greece [PDF]
We show that the character and the morality of citizens are important ingredients of economic growth because they go hand in hand with the great institutions of private property, democ-racy, and free markets.
Bitros, George, Karayiannis, Anastassios
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Correction to: The Medical Historical Cultural Foundations of Western Nasal Surgery from Ancient Greece to the Middle Ages. [PDF]
Aesthetic Plast Surg, 2023 Marinozzi S +6 more
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New Classicists, 2020 The Orestes myth has served as a literary device that mythically justifies the political authority of various figures or city-states. The multiple power plays among the figures of the myth are projected and interpreted in political dynamics and tensions ...
Doukissa Kamini
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The Medical Historical Cultural Foundations of Western Nasal Surgery from Ancient Greece to the Middle Ages. [PDF]
Aesthetic Plast Surg, 2023 Marinozzi S +6 more
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Half-Heard Voices of the Primal Zone; Sleep and Waking in a Poem by Cao Shuying
, 2017 Initially touching artifacts and sculpture from ancient Greece, and the risk of misreading thought or emotion cross-culturally, this essay draws briefly on Wordsworth’s testimony that poetic process arises first in a primally sensual and pre-verbal zone.
O’CONNELL, George, SHI, Diana
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2015 Charles Gates, Ancient Cities. The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near Est and Egypt, Greece and Rome, 2nd Edition, London, Routledge ...
Cosmin Mihail Coatu
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The rites of man: The British Museum and the sexual imagination in Victorian Britain [PDF]
, 2008 In the nineteenth century, the British Museum possessed a locked store of erotic objects. However, this did not serve to sanitize the rest of the collection.
Janes, Dominic
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On the Morphology of Toponyms: What Greek Inflectional Paradigms Can Teach us
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 77-96, March 2025.Abstract The research is a contribution to the investigation of the grammatical status of toponyms from the point of view of inflectional paradigmatic morphology. By examining data from Standard Modern Greek, as well as select data from its historical development, the analysis reveals that the inflectional morphology of toponyms shows significant ...
Michail I. Marinis
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