Greek Reporter

The Greek Alphabet and Its Surprising Connection to Egyptian Hieroglyphics

Ancient Greek records contain stories about Greek alphabet origins. Could the Greek alphabet actually have an Egyptian ...
SBS

From Alpha to Omicron...Why do we use ancient Greek alphabet to name Covid-19 variants? And SBS Omicron latest in Australia and around the world (English)

From Alpha to Omicron...Why do we use ancient Greek alphabet to name Covid-19 variants? And SBS Omicron latest in Australia and around the world (English) It's an ancient alphabet having a modern ...
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 ...
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 ...
CBC.ca

English dictionary of ancient Greek gets a vulgar update complete with F-bombs

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." ...
nerdist

The Oldest Known Sentence in the First Alphabet Is Written on an Ancient Lice Comb

The Canannites invented the first alphabet about 3,800 years ago. The letters, instead of hieroglyphics like those used in Egypt, became the basis for written Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. English, ...