Simon Fraser University

Greek Tragedy (English & Greek): Internet Texts

Aeschylus. Agamemnon. ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D. (Greek) (Aesch. Ag.) Aeschylus. Agamemnon. ed. Robert Browning. (English) Aeschylus. Agamemnon. ed. Herbert Weir ...
The Irish Times

First English dictionary of ancient Greek since Victorian era ‘spares no blushes’

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 ...
Slate

Why Does English Use “Iambic Pentameter” and Other Greek Poetic Terms?

If you paid any attention at all in high school English, you probably remember iambic pentameter, most likely from reading Shakespeare, and perhaps even other meters like trochaic tetrameter (the ...

Hindi, Greek and English all come from a single ancient language – here’s how we know

This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago. But how do we know ...
Travel + Leisure

Basic Greek Words, Phrases, and Slang to Learn Before You Go to Greece

With a little practice, the language won't be "all Greek" during your next visit. Helen Iatrou is a travel journalist and guidebook author from Australia who has lived in Greece for almost three ...
Mental Floss

21 Amusing Greek-Americanisms English Speakers Might Recognize

In the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding, fictional Greek-American small business owner Gus Portokalos repeatedly issues a bold linguistic challenge: “Give me a word—any word—and I’ll show you how the ...

How linguists figured Hindi, Greek, English all come from a single ancient language

Discover the fascinating origins of Indo-European languages and the ancient Proto-Indo-European tongue that connects them all ...