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Greek to a Greek

Inference: International Review of Science, 2019
Former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis fought increasingly onerous demands for reforms and austerity in response to Greece’s financial crisis. His account, Adults in the Room, is a strange but indispensable book. According to Wolfgang Streeck, it is an account that will be plausible to anyone who has tried to make sense of political life without ...
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On Greek Numerology

Centaurus, 1988
It is now a hundred years since one learnt from Byzantine manuscripts of the existence of procedures to predict the chances of the survival or death of a sick person. The literature on this subject almost completely ignored the structure of the numerical tables which obviously must be of central importance for the whole procedure.
Neugebauer, O., Saliba, G.
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Greek pseudo‐homosexuality and the ‘Greek miracle’

Symbolae Osloenses, 1968
(1968). Greek pseudo‐homosexuality and the ‘Greek miracle’. Symbolae Osloenses: Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 69-92.
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Greeks and Pre-Greeks

2006
By systematically confronting Greek tradition of the Heroic Age with the evidence of both linguistics and archaeology, Margalit Finkelberg proposes a multidisciplinary assessment of the ethnic, linguistic and cultural situation in Greece in the second millennium BC. The main thesis of this book is that the Greeks started their history as a multi-ethnic
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The Greeks and Greek Issues

2014
Dialectic in the Presocratics and Neoplatonists in its relation to later Trinitarian thinking and to Nietzsche’s reflection on the problem of grounds. Comparison between the historical figures of Socrates and Jesus in relation to this problem.
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Greeks and Non-Greeks

2006
Whatever else Greeks were, they were not barbarians - at least not by their own lights. After all, they spoke Greek. Others spoke in unintelligible tongues, thus sounding to Greek ears as so much “bar-bar-bar” (Strabo, 14.2.28). The term “barbarian” served to demarcate the Hellenic world from the non-Hellenic.
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The Greek Of The Bible: Translated Greek Or Translation Greek?

2008
This chapter argues that the translation process of the first books of the Septuagint, presumably the Pentateuch, created a new variety of Greek, which subsequently was used as a pattern for other translators and composers. The aim of the chapter is to point out the fact that most translators, consciously or not, actually decide what kind of language ...
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