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The Representation of Modern Greek in Ancient Greek Textbooks
Vestnik za Tuje Jezike, 2020 Focusing on Agnello and Orlando (1998), Elliger and Fink (1986), Weileder and Mayerhöfer (2013), Mihevc-Gabrovec (1978) and Keller and Russell (2012), I discuss attempts at introducing elements of Modern Greek into teaching its ancient predecessor.
Jerneja Kavčič
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"The Milk of Birds": A Proverbial Phrase, Ancient and Modern, and its Link to Nature [PDF]
, 2017 A curious phrase from ancient Greek, ὀρνίθων γάλα, finds parallels in Latin as lac gallinaceum and in Modern Greek, as και του πουλιού το γάλα. While the Greek phrases translate as "(and) the milk of (the) bird(s)", the Latin translates as "henʼs milk".
Payne, Martha J.
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, 2013 Dictionaries of the Ancient Greek language distinguish only two or three different meanings of the Greek word ὕστριξ. The present author analyses all the contexts and glosses where the word in question appears.
Witczak, Krzysztof
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Eva Palmer-Sikelianos Dances Aeschylus: The Politics of Historical Reenactment when Staging the Rites of the Past [PDF]
, 2016 Eva Palmer-Sikelianos (1874–1952), along with her husband, the poet Angehlos Sikelianos, founded the first modern Delphic Festival in 1927 in an effort to revive the Ancient Greek rites that took place on that spot over 2,500 years before.
Samuel Dorf
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Filosofia e religião Grécia: dinâmica de ruptura e diálogo
Classica, Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos, 1990 One aspect of the problem we have been asked to examine can be formulated in the question: how does it come about, in the 'axial age', that men start to ask whether human social organization and political decisions should be dominated by religious ...
Sally C. Humphreys
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A RECONSTRUCTION OF THE GREEK-ROMAN REPEATING CATAPULT [PDF]
, 2010 An “automatic” repeating weapon used by the Roman army is presented. Firstly a short description is shown of the working principle of the torsion motor that powered the Greek-Roman catapults.
F. Russo, ROSSI, CESARE
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Filozofija i Društvo, 2009 The teachability of virtue is an issue on which were crossed swords during the struggle for supremacy between two basic principles of ancient Greek spirit - sophistry and ancient Greek ethics. Two great representatives of these opposite principles, Plato
Nikitović Aleksandar
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Tudi stari Slovani so poznali gnomone
Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2021 The belief that only written records of ancient Greek science are relevant to our knowledge of past science and that there is nothing outside of that knowledge that is not contained in written sources is misleading. The ancient Slavs were able to develop
Andrej Pleterski
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Prog imperfective drift in ancient Greek? Reconsidering eimi 'be' with present participle [PDF]
, 2013 In this paper, I reconsider the diachrony of the Ancient Greek periphrastic construction of eimi 'be' with present participle by means of Bertinetto’s recently proposed model for the development of progressive grams (a process called ‘PROG imperfective ...
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Teaching Modern Greek to Classicists
Keria: Studia Latina et Graeca, 2020 The ideology of decline is a part of the history of the study and characterization of the Greek language from the Hellenistic period and the Roman Atticist movement right up to the emergence of katharevousa in the 19th century and the resulting modern ...
Jerneja Kavčič +2 more
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