Questions tagged [greek]
Questions related to the history of the language or culture of Greece.
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Would calling Favorinus a ‘eunuch’ have boosted or harmed his fame as an orator in the Greco-Roman World?
In researching eunuchs for my very first novel that I wrote about a 6th-century BCE Ethiopian eunuch, I ran across Favorinus, a 2nd-century orator. His rival Polemon, said he was a “born without ...
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How were the Oracles of Zeus, Apollo, and Mars different?
Consider these oracles:
Delphi: All but ubiquitous,
Apollo was said to speak through the Pythia
Dodona: Here it was Zeus, not Apollo; Zeus Ammon in Siwa also comes to mind
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Who was Dionysodorus of Melos?
I am trying to find information about Dionysodorus of Melos. Although he is mentioned by ancient writers, Wikipedia seems to ignore his existence, because it mentions three men by the name ...
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Did the early kingdoms of the Macedonian and Thracian Diadochi exert any control or influence over the region of ancient Israel/Judea?
Specifically, after Alexander the Great's death in 323 BC:
Did Cassander's Macedonian kingdom have any dominion or authority in the Levant region during his rule in the early 3rd century BC?
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How significant was poetry as mnemonic device in technical / philosophical / scientific texts in classical Rome and Greece? [closed]
This starts because I remembered that he works of one of the classical Greek philosophers was lost, but what was kept was an adaptation of the work into poetic form.
This is highly unlikely in the ...
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How did the Ancient Greeks forge and shape metal gears?
The closest to answer I've gotten is this video:
Wikipedia: Making gears by hand without machines
However, I don't really know if Archimedes and his contemporaries would have the above tools or not. I'...
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Until when was Marseille Greek-speaking?
Marseille was originally a Greek city. It fell to the Romans in 49 BC, but without suffering very much. Given the widespread use of the Greek language in the Roman Empire, it is not clear to me that ...
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What is the correct publication date for Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War?
At Archive.org: Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War I found a digital edition of the subject work as translated by Rex Warner (9 March 1905 – 24 June 1986) with a purported publication date of 1916.
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How realistic are the number of battle deaths in the Anabasis?
I have been reading "The Anabasis and the Indica" by Arrian.
In the battle at Sangala Pimprana, the numbers are hundred dead on Alexander's army and seventeen thousand dead on the other side....
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Did Empedocles think that plants have sexes?
I was reading the book Flora Unveiled: The Discovery and Denial of Sex in Plants by Lee Taiz and Lincoln Taiz published by Oxford. In Chapter 8, "Plant sex from Empedocles to Theophrastus", ...
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Anyone have an e-text of the Doctrina Jacobi in Greek?
I have been trying to find an e-text of the Doctrina Jacobi in its original language. Does anyone have the Doctrina Jacobi (The teaching of Jacob) ( text form) in the original Greek.
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Are the sources in Flora Unveiled correct?
According to the book, Flora Unveiled: The Discovery and Denial of Sex in Plants by Lee Taiz and Lincoln Taiz published by Oxford, Chapter 8: Plant sex from Empedocles to Theophrastus (pg 213), the ...
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What does a "wage" mean in the time of 'The Odyssey'?
In Book 10 of The Odyssey, there's the following sentence (English translation):
A sleepless man could earn a double wage by herding cows, then pasturing sheep - the paths of day and night are ...
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Do Pashtuns belong to Greek heritage? [closed]
From some of local Pashtuns people, I have heard that they belong to Greek Origin. There explanation was, When Alexander conquered Persia (Achaemenid Empire). he left some of the soldiers here.
But I ...
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What is/was the correct pronunciation of Byzantine? [closed]
When I first came across the Byzantine Empire in books I assumed that it was pronounced as it was spelled (i.e. bih-zan-tin or baɪ zən tɪn in IPA). However I have since heard many people, including ...
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