Professor of Greek tells me that he truly believes the classics have made him what he is. This is a very grave statement, if well founded. Indeed, I have heard the same argument from a great many Latin and Greek scholars. They all claim, with some heat, that Latin and Greek have practically made them what they are. This damaging charge against the classics should not be too readily accepted. In...

to know every phenomenon the first step is to know its root. hygiene and medicine have noble origin from the beginning of the recorded human history; in fact, they have been the milestone of human society. medical history will help us to know this background and roots and achaemenid period as a brilliant age of iranian heritage is meritorious to be studied. the present study is an attempt to fi...

this study addresses samuel beckett’s most celebrated play, waiting for godot, in an effort to analyze its characters from a novel perspective. since greek mythology has been undisputedly influential on western culture and literature, the researcher attempts to investigate a connection between greek mythology and the play. this study aims to reveal that even after more than fifty seven years of...

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 ...

The aim of this paper is threefold. First, it presents the key characteristics of the Greek elections of 6 May and the corresponding campaign, highlighting the main trends, winners and losers in their context. Second, it discusses Greece’s future in the Eurozone, on the basis of the experience of the pre-crisis period, the handling of the ongoing crisis, political and policy developments at the...

A quantitative model for the process of 0 contour generation, originally developed for Japanese by Fujisaki and his co-workers, has already been shown to be valid for several other languages. The present study aims at testing its applicability to 0 contours of Greek utterances. Analysis of 0 contours of 200 utterances by two native speakers of Greek, produced by reading texts of narrations and ...

engrave, carve", and, by extension, "to write" (on a tablet). The Greek root persists in English as the suffix "-glyph", in "hieroglyph" or "petroglyph". The same root appears in many western European languages as a word meaning "to cut" or "to cleave", for example, in cleft palate. The Greek letter upsilon should be translated into English only as y or u. There is no reasonable English equival...

second half of the book presents the information that the authors were able to gather with the assistance of two public health teams supported by the Greek Ministry of Health in relation to medical examinations, hygienic knowledge and practice, and interpretation of illness. This book is written in a simple, straightforward style which is equally readable by ethnologists, physicians, public hea...

Human Cu,Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD) is a single domain all beta-sheet protein with its eight beta-strands arranged as a Greek key beta-barrel or immunoglobulin fold. Three circularly permuted variants of SOD were made by joining the native amino- and carboxy-termini, and introducing new termini at sites originally within connections between beta-strands. The locations of the new termini were...