Euripides’ Iphigenia: Ancient Victim, Modern Greek Heroine?

On Greek, Ancient and Modern (but Rather Ancient than Modern)

In this paper a few applications of the current implementation of R are given. These applications concern typesetting problems that cannot be solved by TEX (consequently, by no other typesetting system known to the authors). They cover a wide range, going from calligraphic script fonts (Adobe Poetica), to plain Dutch/Portuguese/Turkish typesetting, to vowelized Arabic, fully diacriticized schol...

Ancient greek philosophy and modern psychiatry.

Homeostasis. The ancient Greek origin of a modern scientific principle.

Many medical terms have a long history. They are first introduced as a concept and later acquire their proper name. In this article we trace the origin of the term homeostasis, which in modern medicine means the complex balance and the constancy of all aspects of body function and the coordinated regulation of its component fluids and cells. The various organs and systems have different roles i...

Word in Modern Greek

Case Attraction in Ancient Greek

Case attraction has stood as a puzzling, and elusive, oddity of older Indo-European languages. This paper focuses on attraction in Ancient Greek, establishing both the regularity of the operation and its underlying motivation. A novel method is proposed for grounding case in terms of a feature-based representation of agentivity properties, loosely based on Dowty’s proto-role theory, but reformu...