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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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." ...
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 ...