The interplay of architecture and acoustics is remarkable in ancient Greek and Roman theaters. Frequently they are nowadays lively performance spaces and the knowledge of the sound field inside them is still an issue of relevant importance. Even if the transition from Greek to Roman theaters can be described with a great architectural detail, a comprehensive and objective approach to the two ty...

Language functions, which are the central concept of communicative Turkish teaching today, constitute one main fields study language philosophy. functions have attracted interest and curiosity mankind since Ancient Greece. Greek philosophers, Enlightenment Humboldt, logical positivists, Wittgenstein, Austin, Searle postmodern thinkers come to fore among those who explain their thoughts on funct...

The Kashmiri population is an ethno-linguistic group that resides in the Kashmir Valley in northern India. A longstanding hypothesis is that this population derives ancestry from Jewish and/or Greek sources. There is historical and archaeological evidence of ancient Greek presence in India and Kashmir. Further, some historical accounts suggest ancient Hebrew ancestry as well. To date, it has no...

Moreover, the comparative study of prices in Egypt and even in parts of Egypt (a nome, a toparchy, a village) is rendered very difficult by many peculiar circumstances. This is true, for example, of the prices of such a basic commodity as grain. In the statistical lists compiled by modern scholars the price of grain is shown per artaba, as if the artaba were a constant measure. In fact, as has ...

the expressions of “esoteric” and “esotericism” have a wide range of meanings, however, they specifically apply to religious, mystical, and philosophical secret schools. in ancient greek world, i.e. before the hellenistic era, we come across some currents with esoteric tendencies. the various texts from this period show that the ancient greeks sought the source of the esoteric currents outside ...

This system for automated morphological analysis of ancient Greek had its origin in a practical need rather than a theoretical concern for natural language parsing. Our immediate goal was to develop a new textbook and curriculum for teaching ancient Greek to American university students. Most traditional methods assume that a student is willing to spend at least one year in the study of grammar...