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Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This article surveys the arrival of gameful government into Australian public sector practice. Gameful government is a shorthand, descriptive term denoting the interpenetration of (video)games, and design elements and thinking from them, into public sector work.
David Threlfall, Catherine Althaus
wiley   +1 more source

On Some Control Structures in Hellenistic Greek: A Comparison with Classical and Modern Greek

open access: yesLinguistic Discovery, 2002
Control Structures in Ancient Greek typically involved infinitival complementation while in Modern Greek, finite complementation is the rule. Hellenistic Greek provides an interesting "way-station" between these two types of complementation, inasmuch as ...
Brian D. Joseph
doaj   +1 more source

« Familière et partageant l’origine grecque » : idéologie et théâtre dans les mises en scène contemporaines du répertoire dramatique grec ancien. À propos de l’Électre de Peter Stein

open access: yesPallas, 2018
In Greece, the systematic production of ancient drama at the National Theatre, especially after the inauguration of the Epidauria Festival in the 1950s, introduced and recycled a largely ‘classicist’ interpretative and performative model – and this ...
Eleni Papazoglou
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A critical lexicostatistical examination of Ancient and Modern Greek and Tsakonian

open access: yesJournal of Applied Linguistics and Lexicography, 2019
This article provides a lexicostatistical comparison of Ancient and Modern Greek Swadesh-100 vocabulary with data from the three recorded dialects of Tsakonian: Southern, Northern, and Propontis.
Nick Nicholas
doaj   +1 more source

Hands-on Learning for Classics: Building an Effective, Long-term Project

open access: yesThe Journal of Classics Teaching, 2017
In this paper, I explore the use of long-term, hands-on learning activities for Classics courses. I will show that a carefully designed project can complement classroom lectures on Greek and Roman culture and contribute towards the development of ...
Kyle Alexander Jazwa
doaj   +1 more source

The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
wiley   +1 more source

Terminologia dotycząca pokory i pychy w pismach greckich Ojców Kościoła IV wieku

open access: yesVox Patrum, 2012
The aim of the presented paper is to analize the terminology describing humil­ity and pride that appears in the writings of the Greek Fathers of the Church of the 4th century (Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus, Gregory of Nyssa, John Chrysostom). To
Mariusz Szram
doaj   +1 more source

Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

open access: yesTransactions 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
wiley   +1 more source

An example of ‘hyperbolic decoding’. Reframing the narrative of a greek symposium scene in the Erica Jong’s novel Sappho’s Leap

open access: yesBetween, 2012
The study is about the only greek symposium scene in the Erica Jong’s novel Sappho’s Leap. We intend to explore the relationship between linguistic rendering of greek fragments by the author and the original texts.
Gloria Larini
doaj   +1 more source

The ancient Greek roots of the term Toxic. [PDF]

open access: yesToxicol Rep, 2021
Laios K   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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