This paper is an overview — in it I take a critical look at works that have come out recent years about Antiphon. My primary focus on four books: two scholarly Antiphon, one by Annie Hourcade and another Michael Gagarin, edition of the fragments Antiphon’s treatises with detailed commentary Gerard Pendrick, and, finally, new speeches prepared Mervin Dilts David Murphy. There still dispute among...

The Neolithic revolution, which began some 12,000 years ago in Turkey and in other parts of the Fertile Crescent, caused man to adopt a sedentary lifestyle, which on its turn speeded up the process of domestication of animals. The dog was already domesticated before this revolution and had served man as help in hunting. During hunting, man probably figured out that a few of the hunted species c...

The role that dialogue plays in the works of Xenophon is a deeply interesting issue that could be analyzed from a variety of different perspectives. From a literary point of view, it would be possible to raise the question of how dialogue fits into what is above all a narrative framework, in particular in the Cyropaedia and in the Anabasis. It would also be worthwhile to analyze from a literary...

Copyright © 2010 Xenophon Zabulis et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Being a goal over decades, the extension of television, and visual communications in general, to the third dimension (3DTV) has been almost r...

In recent years, both automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) conversion systems have attained quality levels that allow inclusion in everyday applications. One remaining problem to be solved in both these types of applications is that alleged phone inventories of specific languages are commonly expanded with phones from other languages, a problem that becomes the more acute...