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Bulkes: The "Greek Republic" that "Never Existed"
Bulkes: The "Greek Republic" that "Never Existed" This is a fascinating case of a place that existed briefly and within living memory (just barely) being deliberately forgotten. A Twitter reference to "wells" (πηγάδες) as a threat made by Greek Leftists...
Abarim Publications: Feet and erotica in the Bible: do feet euphemize male genitalia?
Abarim Publications: Is "uncovering his feet" a euphemism? Did Naomi tell Ruth to seduce Boaz? This article says no. The website features lengthy articles on Hebrew and Greek words and names. Not sure how reliable it is, but worth bookmarking....
Greek Language
About the Greek Language by Harry Foundalis A guide to the modern Greek language, including pronunciation, grammar basics, common expressions, and handwriting. Useful information for this student of ancient Greek curious about how the language has evolved: the disappearing dative...
Part of Sir Isaac Newton's Manuscripts Were Written in Greek | Greek Reporter Europe
Part of Sir Isaac Newton's Manuscripts Were Written in Greek | Greek Reporter Europe "The notebooks in which Isaac Newton worked out the theories on which much of classical science is based were partly written in Greek, proving that in...
Cases in Finnish
Cases in Finnish Latin has six cases (and sometimes a seventh), Greek has four, but Finnish has 14 or 15: Nominative, genitive, essive, partitive, translative, inessive, elative, illative, adessive, ablative, allative, abessive, comitative, instructive, and maybe accusative. And then there...
Ancient Greek fonts and keyboards
Ancient Greek typefaces from the Greek Font Society The Greek Font Society offers a collection of freely available digital typefaces that can handle all the combinations of accents and other diacritical marks. My favorite: GFS Porson, the standard for publication...
Piling It On: Why Classical Schools Have Too Many Periods and Teach Too Many Subjects | Inside Classical Education
Piling It On: Why Classical Schools Have Too Many Periods and Teach Too Many Subjects | Inside Classical Education "It turns out that a buffet can be a marvelous way to eat, but not such a great way to study....
Greek to Me, by Mary Norris | The New Yorker
Greek to Me, by Mary Norris | The New Yorker "On returning to New York, I registered for an elementary class in ancient Greek at Columbia University and blithely submitted the bill to the [New Yorker] magazine's new executive editor,...
Did the fabled Phoenicians ever actually exist? | The Spectator
Did the fabled Phoenicians ever actually exist? | The Spectator "In Search of the Phoenicians explores the links that connected these people, language and religion foremost among them, while emphasising the absence of ties based on nationhood and ethnicity. To...
Latin Pronunciation
THE PRONUNCIATION OF LATIN: Ancient and Modern Pronunciations "A great deal of heat, if not light, has been spent on the problem of the "correct pronunciation of Latin". Probably most students will go with the method that their teachers use,...
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