Greek Reporter

The Fascinating Evolution of the Greek Language Through Time

The language of the Greeks is a living organism that has endured millennia. Credit: Thomas Wolf, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA ...
Simon Fraser University

Greek Tragedy (English & Greek): Internet Texts

Aeschylus. Agamemnon. ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D. (Greek) (Aesch. Ag.) Aeschylus. Agamemnon. ed. Robert Browning. (English) Aeschylus. Agamemnon. ed. Herbert Weir ...
The Guardian

English dictionary of ancient Greek ‘spares no blushes’ with fresh look at crudity

Words Victorian-era Greek lexicon translated as ‘to wench’ or ‘do one’s need’ have been given much earthier new readings at Cambridge for modern students of classics Victorian attempts to veil the ...
The Irish Times

First English dictionary of ancient Greek since Victorian era ‘spares no blushes’

Victorian attempts to veil the meanings of crude ancient Greek words are set to be brushed away by a new dictionary 23 years in the making. It is the first to take a fresh look at the language in ...
CBC.ca

English dictionary of ancient Greek gets a vulgar update complete with F-bombs

For the past hundred or so years, classics students who looked up the ancient Greek verb χέζω in a commonly used English dictionary would find it modestly translated as "Ease oneself, do one's need." ...