PHILOLOGY DU JOUR
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) August 4, 2021
Quite telling evolution of language.
παιδεύω in Ancient Greek meant: educate (sometimes to chastise).
παιδεύω in Modern Greek: to torture (includes prisoners), to harass.
"Only autodidacts are free".
Wednesday, August 04, 2021
Change in the Sense of παιδεύω
Friday, July 09, 2021
The Expressiveness of Modern Greek
In Modern Greek, Rent-seeking is "Κρατικοδίαιτος" (state-diet). According, of course, to my neighbor Foteini "Husband Humiliator" of Arcadia. pic.twitter.com/NGVZE3gbDk
— Faléflix™ (@faleflix) July 8, 2021
Tuesday, June 01, 2021
Human Nature Doesn't Change
The new Cambridge Greek Lexicon is a monumental work that contains 37,000 Greek words set out across 1,500 pages, and the media celebrate it because it translates χέζω as "to shit", βινέω as "to fuck" and λαικάζω as "to suck cocks". https://t.co/S563RctUKy
— Byz history Tweep (@ByzHistoryTweep) May 30, 2021
Sunday, November 29, 2020
A Question about Ancient Greek
People are being misled about colours in ancient Greek, yet again, by people who don't know ancient Greek. This time it's @AsapSCIENCE.
— Peter Gainsford (@PeterGainsford) November 29, 2020
Guys, I know you're just repeating what you've read. But the people you're reading don't know ancient Greek either. https://t.co/apAIJizXX6
As for the speaker... is he just being expressive? Or is the expression in his voice a consequence of how his emotions relate or dominate reason? (He's not centered/grounded or "stoic" enough.) His intonation is all over the place because emotions dominate, like they do in a woman, hence the female-way of speaking?
Monday, October 05, 2020
Greek and Spanish
I feel the same when I visit Greece. Plus, we can pronounce each other's languages impeccably. If you wonder why, here's a very good explanation:https://t.co/UdDo2Ls7fW
— eva 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🏳️🌈 (@lavigi) October 3, 2020
Friday, August 21, 2020
The Unique Advantages of Latin and Greek
The Unique Advantages of Latin and Greek (essay by Austin Hoffman) https://t.co/lOxyn54Lr2
— ImaginativeConservat (@imaginativecons) August 21, 2020
Imaginative Conservative
Friday, August 07, 2020
A Testimony in Greek
Η γυναίκα στην Ορθόδοξη Χριστιανική πίστη | nenamyway https://t.co/I51wO69NjH via @YouTube
— Julia Bridget Hayes (@ikonographics) August 7, 2020
Friday, July 17, 2020
The Persians by Aeschylus
Athens and #Epidaurus Festival will live-stream The Persians by #Aeschylus to a global audience from the ancient theatre of Epidaurus#orthodox_timeshttps://t.co/m1GsPNazLv
— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) July 17, 2020
Monday, June 08, 2020
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Monday, April 22, 2019
Monday, September 03, 2018
Greek and Latin and a Classical Education
The idea that we can appreciate ancient Greece and Rome without learning their languages was once unfathomable.
Sunday, July 01, 2018
Monday, December 25, 2017
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Sunday, May 15, 2016
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Friday, December 25, 2015
Christ is Born! Glorify Him!
Byzantine triumphalism? Or is it warranted because of the language of the Psalms and the Old Testament?