When in search of an explanation for the nature of philosophy, a good starting point is to inquire as to its origins. As is commonly known, Occidental philosophy originated in Ancient Greece as a substitute for mythological and religious explanations. Instead of accepting explanations of the foundations and origins of reality based on the anthropomorphic projections of mythology, the early Gree...

We present a number of experiments on parsing the Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank (AGDT), i.e. the largest syntactically annotated corpus of Ancient Greek currently available (350k words ca). Although the AGDT is rather unbalanced and far from being representative of all genres and periods of Ancient Greek, no attempt has been made so far to perform automatic dependency parsing of Ancient Gre...

The applications ORPHEUS and ARION have been presented to vast audiences during the International Fair of Thessaloniki between 8-17 September 2006. They were presented in international conferences, in nation-wide radio emissions, in newspaper and magazine articles. ORPHEUS has been supported by the “HERMES”1 project, while ARION is under the auspices of the SEEArchWeb2 project. ORPHEUS is an in...

ttemational Hippocrates Colloquium ( 13th : 2008 : Austin, Tex.), author. Ancient concepts of the Hippocratic : papers presented at the xmth International Hippocrates olloquium, Austin, Texas, August 2008 / edited by Lesley Dean-Jones and Ralph M. Rosen. p. ; cm. (Studies in ancient medicine, ISSN 0925-1421; volume 46) Includes bibliographical references and index. In English; two papers in Fre...

This paper describes an instrument that can compose a song using predicates of Ancient Greek Music. It employs the methodology and musical notation of this specific music system and at the same time, it provides a mapping mechanism that depicts the whole process to composition predicates of the usual notation of Western Music. The aim of this application is to facilitate the efforts of Ancient ...

Were the ancients Greeks “racists” in the modern sense of the term “racist”? The terms ancient Greek “proto-racism”, tribalism (and/or racism) are used here to denote the abstract, narcissistic notion that not only the non-Greek barbarians, but also certain ancient Greek tribes (like the Macedonians, the Boeoteans etc.) should be excluded from the Hellenic community, for they were considered to...

many mythological roots and cosmological tendencies link ibsen’s characters to their archaic origins in ancient cultures. hence, a study of the symbolic essence reveals many ideas seen in the zoroastrian template, and this can serve like a key for opening the unknown dimensions of ibsen’s works.the mythopoetic inclinations in ibsen's works and the common elements of his characters with tho...