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Polyphemus, a lexical database of the Ancient Greek papyri, and the Madrid Wordlist of Ancient Greek
, 2023 At present there is no way to search the corpus of Greek papyri for lemmas, or to search for specific grammatical forms of a word. Much less is there a way to search for examples of a grammatical category. Polyphemus comes to solve these shortcomings, and some more. For this purpose we have processed all the papyrus texts from PapyInfo ().
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article presents a synthesis of recent developments in the study of human evolution over the past five years. It begins with an overview of hominin species nomenclature and diversity, followed by an examination of the proposed population bottleneck ∼900,000 years ago.
James Cole +3 more
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Time in Ancient Greek Literature [PDF]
, 2007 This is the second volume of a new narratological history of Ancient Greek lietrature, which deals with aspects of time: the order in which events are narrated, the amount of time devoted to the naration, and the number of times they are presented.; Readership: All those interested in ancient Greek literature, narrative theory, literary history ...
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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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USE OF MODERN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN TEACHING OF OLD GREEK FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
Інформаційні технології і засоби навчання, 2011 Work is devoted to determination of sphere of the use of modern information technologies in the process of teaching the ancient Greek language for students of higher educational establishments.
Viacheslav M. Shovkovyi
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Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature [PDF]
, 2018 This is the fourth volume in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. The book deals with the narratological concepts of character and characterization and explores the textual devices used for purposes of characterization by ancient Greek authors from Homer to Heliodorus.; Readership: Anyone working on ancient Greek (narrative) literature, and ...
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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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Space in Ancient Greek Literature [PDF]
, 2012 The third volume of the Studies in Ancient Greek narrative deals with the narratological category of space: how is space, including objects which function as 'props', presented in narrative texts and what are its functions (thematic, symbolic, psychologising, or characterising).; Readership: All those interested in ancient Greek literature, narrative ...
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Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann +3 more
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Studies in History and Philosophy of ScienceThe prevailing narrative in the history of science maintains that the ancient Greeks did not have a concept of a 'law of nature'. This paper overturns that narrative and shows that some ancient Greek philosophers did have an idea of laws of nature and, moreover, they referred to them as 'laws of nature'. This paper analyzes specific examples of laws of
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