Nine villages in southern Italy known as La Grecia Salentina have maintained aspects of the Greek language and culture for centuries.

UNESCO's recognition of International Greek Language Day affirms Greek as a living, global vessel of culture, knowledge and ...

The issue of who was considered Greek during the era of ancient Greece has been a matter of broad scholarly debate for ...

A new data crowdsourcing platform aims to preserve the sound of Romeyka, an endangered millennia-old variety of Greek. Experts consider the language to be a linguistic goldmine and a living bridge to ...

Prologue In the early 1970s, I wrote my Ph.D. thesis on Adamantios Koraes at the University of Wisconsin. I read his ...

We don’t know how language first began. The first writing didn’t occur until around 3200 B.C.E., and we know that spoken language came before that. Some experts contend that it started with hand ...

Classics is the study of ancient Greek and Roman civilization, which laid the foundation of the western tradition in literature, philosophy, history, art, science and mathematics. Classics is thus not ...