Victorian attempts to veil the meanings of crude ancient Greek words are set to be brushed away by a new dictionary 23 years in the making. It is the first to take a fresh look at the language in ...

For the past hundred or so years, classics students who looked up the ancient Greek verb χέζω in a commonly used English dictionary would find it modestly translated as "Ease oneself, do one's need." ...

Cambridge University Press has hailed its new Ancient Greek dictionary as "the most innovative in almost 200 years”, providing fresh definitions and translations in contemporary English.

The “most innovative dictionary of its kind” has been compiled by Cambridge researchers in a feat that took more than 20 years and even “took over” the editor’s life. Researchers from the University ...

IN ANCIENT times, the Athenians dismissed northern Greeks as boorish and backward. Yet there is still a north-south divide: metropolitans in the south these days tend to view people in Salonika, the ...

CHICAGO (AP) — It was a monumental project with modest beginnings: a small group of scholars and some index cards. The plan was to explore a long-dead language and reveal an ancient world of chariots ...

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