This app brings all 116,000 definitions of the Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek-English Lexicon to your iOS device, with blazing speed, smart searching algorithms, and a unique "reverse search" system that turns the LSJ into an English-Greek dictionary.
Features:
- Full offline dictionary reading, presenting auto-generated short definitions of every word backed up by the full LSJ entry.
- A powerful search mechanism lets you type in English, Greek or Beta Code to find words. The English search system uses heuristics to return highly accurate search results, even when accent and breathing vary.
- A unique "reverse search" system lets you query the English definition of each word. For example, searching for "rock" returns "πέτρα". This effectively turns the LSJ into an elementary English to Greek lexicon, backed up by all the copious referencing and detailed usages that the LSJ offers.
- Includes a guide to getting started with Beta Code, which allows you to search for precise orthography.
- Full support for iPad and iPhone - buy the app once and use it anywhere.
- Did we mention that it was really, really fast? At last you can search the entire LSJ in a fraction of a second!
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The Odyssey is an ancient Greek epic poem attributed to Homer. It centres on the Greek hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to return from Troy to his home island of Ithaca. This map tale describes Odysseus's epic voyage and the many foes he meets upon the way.
Scholars, both ancient and modern, are divided as to whether or not any of the places visited by Odysseus are real, even so the locations shown in this tale give a good sense of Odysseus's journey around the Peloponnese and the Ionian Islands.
The value of a table like this is to be able to see what is going on in many areas simultaneously, so to keep the table to reasonable proportions all events are tabulated in the nearest 5 year cell; actual date (if known) is given in brackets. Innovations and developments in technology are very difficult to date accurately. Unless there is a date in brackets after such an entry, its position in the table should be regarded as approximate, indicating our earliest evidence of such a technology, rather than the date of its invention (which would be earlier).
Portraits such as these are some of the most poignant surviving artifacts from around the time of, but not beyond, the 3rd century, in which the dead, such as they were, were painted and immortalized on planks of wood or other surfaces which sometimes covered the face of their mummy. It is generally accepted that this style of portrait was in vogue in the Greek colonies within Egypt, which gradually phased out with political, religious, and economic change. It is a fascinating spotlight in that period of Egypt's history, where the clear separation between the Greek and Egyptian portraits began to mingle and reveal citizens of mixed ancestry, combining Greek and Egyptian features in their faces.
A preview of the official video for the exhibition-event Lux in Arcana -- The Vatican Secret Archives reveals itself http://www.luxinarcana.org. Filmed inside the Vatican Secret Archives, it shows rooms and bunkers in the Archive of the Popes, together with some of the 100 original documents that will leave the Vatican City for the first time in history. 12 centuries of history, 400 years of life, 85 kilometres of shelving: the world's most famous Archive reveals itself in the extraordinary halls of Rome's Capitoline Museums. Conclaves, heresies, popes and emperors. Crusades, excommunications, ciphered letters. Manuscripts, codices, ancient parchments. An exceptional and once-in-a-lifetime chance to learn History through its sources. February-September 2012.
Fotografías históricas de monumentos y edificios clásicos. La página que lo aloja declara en su página inicial:
The Warburg Institute is concerned mainly with cultural history, art history and history of ideas, especially in the Renaissance. It aims to promote and conduct research on the interaction of cultures, using verbal and visual materials. It specializes in the influence of ancient Mediterranean traditions on European culture from the Middle Ages to the modern period. Its open-access library has outstanding strengths in Byzantine, Medieval and Renaissance art, Arabic, Medieval and Renaissance philosophy, the history of religion, science and magic, Italian history, the history of the classical tradition, and humanism. In several of these fields it can claim to be the most important library in the world. The photographic collection, organised by subject, documents the iconographical traditions of western art and facilitates research into these traditions as well as the identification of the subject of individual images. The archive holds the papers of Aby Warburg, Fritz Saxl and other staff members of the Institute, including both sides of their correspondence with many leading scholars of the twentieth century.
ToposText is a new interface that links readers and travelers to Europe's most ancient literary culture and to the Greek landscape that inspired it. TT presents 5000 places relevant to the ancient Greek world -- ancient cities and shrines, medieval castles and towers, modern museums and excavation sites -- primarily in Greece but including major places from Spain to the Caucasus. It links those places to the ancient authors who wrote about them in Greek or Latin. A large classical library married to an up-to-date gazetteer, freely available as a mobile application or this web site.
A sample of Linear B script, the earliest Greek writing, 1450 BC, and an adaptation of the earlier Minoan Linear A script. This piece contains information on the distribution of bovine, pig and deer hides to shoe and saddle-makers. It is a script made up of 90 syllabic signs, ideograms and numbers, a form earlier than that used for the Homeric poems. These clay tablets were fortuitously preserved when they were baked in the Mycenaean palace of Pylos fire 250 years later.
Αρχαία Ελληνική (Ancient Greek):
λόγος ἀρχαίος, ἀεὶ ἀληθής. οὐκέτι φίλους αἵρει ὁ ἵμερος πάσιν ἀφανής
ἀλλάγη μίκρα, ὀλίγην φαίη, δέος καὶ φιλία, τέρας σὺν καλῇ, αὕτη ἔσθ' ἡ ζωή
ἀεὶ ταὔτ' ἐστίν, ἀεὶ θαυμαστά, ἀεί ὡς παλαιά, ἀεὶ βέβαια ὡσπὲρ ἡλίος
λόγον ἀρχαίον ᾅσεθ' ἡ θέα. πάνθ' ἃ ἐφιστῇς μάλιστ' ἀλλάξει ὄντως μάγευμα
ὡς ὁ ἡλίος ὕψιλος φαίνει, λόγος ἀρχαίος, τό πρώτον μέλος, τέρας σύν καλῇ
English
Ancient tale, always true. Not yet friends, longing seizes them, unseen by all.
A small change, one might say little. Fear and friendship, the beast with the beauty, this is life.
It is always the same, always wonderful, always as before, always sure as the sun
The goddess will sing the ancient tale. True magic will change all you know.
As the sun appears above, ancient tale, the first song, the beast with the beauty.
To the ancient Greeks, every mystery in nature could be explained by the whims, passions and peculiarities of the gods. This episode features three favorite nature myths:
- The Myth of Persephone, in which Hades, the god of the underworld, abducts the beautiful young Persephone, thereby plunging the earth into a permanent state of icy winter. It takes the great Zeus to negotiate a deal between Hades and Persephone's distraught mother, resulting in the arrival of spring, and the ongoing cycle of seasonal changes.
- Echo & Narcissus, in which a talkative nymph loses her heart to the handsome Narcissus, only to discover the young man only has eyes for himself.
- Helios, in which a brash young man named Phaethon borrows his father's sun chariot and finds out the hard way that pulling the sun across the sky each day is easier said than done.
This paper reports on a flipped design for teaching ancient Greek in a theological college. Students lear the basic content through online videos and actividites and them atteded a two-weeks intensive ti ubteract with faculty and peers. Studentes were satisfied with the online resource and agreed that it had helped them prepare to learn Greek erw eeii
From the Olympics and Sparta to the Trojan Horse and the birth of democracy, this interactive reference delves into one of the world's most fascinating civilizations-ancient Greece-and illustrates how deeply it continues to influence modern life. Utilizing easily obtainable materials and requiring scant adult supervision, 25 hands-on projects instantly immerse kids in ancient Greek culture while diagrams, facts, jokes, and activities educate young readers on topics such as housing, food, clothing, toys, and science in this golden Mediterranean society. Step-by-step instructions are provided for each project, which include creating a Greek vase, an Olympic wreath, and a Trojan Horse, as well as participating in a Greek trial.
See Rome as it looked in 320 AD and fly down to see famous buildings and monuments in 3D. Select the "Ancient Rome 3D" layer under Gallery in Google Earth.