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Ancient Greek

October 12, 2015

Organic geometry: the structure of Homer's Iliad

  The Iliad is a Greek epic poem of 15,693 lines composed sometime...

Sanskrit and Greek
July 31, 2015

Greek - a book on Sanskrit grammar

Of all the Indo-European languages, ancient Greek and Sanskrit are undoubtedly the...

June 24, 2015

Father in Greek and Sanskrit: looking is not tasting

In an earlier article entitled Father sky in ancient Greek and Sanskrit the...

June 17, 2015

Kennings: renaming the world

This article is intended as a follow-up to yesterday’s article entitled Sanskrit words...

June 12, 2015

Wolf and wolves and foot and feet

  We all know that the plural of foot is not *foots but feet. This is, by...

Hands of Fate
June 11, 2015

The weird lottery of fate unravelled

  According to Greek mythology the fate of each and every individual is determined...

June 10, 2015

To be ... or not?

It will have escaped no one, that Germanic languages, such as English...

June 6, 2015

Father Sky in ancient Greek and Sanskrit

    In the late stone age, about seven or eight millennia ago, the...

June 4, 2015

Words for king in Sanskrit, Greek and Old English

    The common word for king is राजा (rājā) in Sanskrit, βασιλευς (basileus)...