One of the most famous problems of classical geometry is the Apollonius' problem asks construction of a circle which is tangent to three given objects. These objects are usually taken as points, lines, and circles. This well known problem was posed by Apollonius of Perga ( about 262 - 190 B.C.) who was a Greek mathematician known as the great geometer of ancient times after Euclid and Archimede...

A large Greek-English Dictionary with 81,515 entries, 192,592 translations into English and 50,106 usage examples with their translation has been developed in combined printed and electronic (DVD) form. The electronic dictionary features unique facilities for searching the entire or any part of the Greek and English section, and has incorporated a series of speech and language processing tools ...

This study investigated vocabulary size and vocabulary composition in Greek children aged 1;6 to 2;11 using a Greek adaptation of Rescorla's Language Development Survey (LDS; Rescorla, 1989). Participants were 273 toddlers coming from monolingual Greek-speaking families. Greek LDS data were compared with US LDS data obtained from the instrument's normative sample (Achenbach & Rescorla, 2000). V...

In this article, we study the structures that the Greek language employs to express quantification. By Greek, I am referring to the contemporary Greek spoken in the countries of Greece and Cyprus (an estimated total of 14 million speakers), and Greeks in diaspora (an estimated 5–6 million). It has long been customary, especially in the study of classics, to use the term ‘Greek’ to refer to the ...

The aim of my paper is to present the life and poetical works Bonawentura Czesław Graszyński (1859–1922), a Polish classical philologist, who wrote number tragedies lyrical poems in Ancient Greek. He was born Murowana Goślina (Greater Poland). After graduating from high school Leszno Poland), he studied medicine philology 1879 1887 at University Greifswald. In 1908 received awards Academy Athen...

jean racine, the 18th century french author, gave outstanding roles to his female characters. the presence of women in the literary works of racine was so powerful that some referred to him as the founder of female territory in literature. this text draws a comparison between three heroines featured in three racine plays of andromach, britannicus and phedra which are among the remarkable works ...

The impact of Greece is typified by the hyperbole of Sir Henry Main: “Except the blind forces of nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin.” Including the adoption of Egyptian and other earlier cultures by the Greeks, we find their patrimony in all phases of modern life. Handicrafts, mining techniques, engineering, trade, governmental regulation of commerce and more h...

This paper describes the Cypriot Greek speech database collected in the framework of the European project OrienTel (IST-200028373) and the acoustic models adaptation techniques that were applied in order to perform dialect adaptation from Greek to Cypriot. Greek and Cypriot Greek share the same phoneme set. However, there are some differences in the way the same phonemes are pronounced. That is...

The independence or interaction between the L1 and L2 phonetic/phonological systems in bilingualism has been a challenging question. This study aims to add to previous literature by investigating voice onset time (VOT) of word initial /p, t, k, b, d, g/ by Greek-German bilingual children. A key factor also examined is the influence of language exposure on VOT variation. Twelve bilingual childre...