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...

The use of geometric patterns in art has a long history. The geometric period of ancient Greek art (ca. 900–700BC) is characterized by the extensive use of geometric motifs, mainly on vase and amphorae painting. These decorative motifs (meanders, triangles, circles, etc.) extend horizontally in multiple bands about the vase circumference, and they exhibit central and translational symmetry [7, ...

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...

Tim Whitmarsh, Cambridge, UK Were the atheoi atheists? Religious scepticism and Greek polytheism It is a truism that there are few exact ancient equivalents to the modern atheist, who denies all and any possible supernatural power. To reach that position, one has to have both a rigid, identifiable line of differentiation between the natural and the supernatural, and a more or less coherent conc...

Contemporary medical terminology frequently stems from ancient Greek origins. However, there is some controversy relating to the true derivation of the word ‘‘glaucoma’’. The disorder, now defined as glaucoma, was first documented by the Ancient Greeks in 400 BC. ‘‘Glaucosis’’ was first mentioned in Hippocratic writings as a blinding disease occurring most commonly in the elderly. The descripti...

./ Literature and fine art, the 1wo most important and idealistic cultural factors in society, have traditionally been assigned the goals of prcsenting chieHy the two Greek ideals of beauty : the beautiful and the good. Neither, has, however, shied away from picturing the nonpicturesqu e as seen, for exa mple, in .the ugly and often offendin g appearances of major plagues whi ch have left their...