Greek Reporter

What Did Ancient Greek Sound Like?

Reading like the lyrics to a popular song or poem from modern times, ancient Greek poems have prompted new insights into spoken language.
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Learning Greek, speaking Cypriot: what’s wrong with a classroom in dialect?

The Cypriot dialect has travelled a long way from the margins. Once confined to casual conversations and jokes among friends, it is now breaking into public life, heard in radio ads, TV sketches, and ...
Greek Reporter

Homer’s Greek Was Never a Spoken Language, Yet It Lives on in Modern Greek

Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in ...
Tampa Bay Times

Greek courses keep students connected with their heritage

On the first day of beginner Greek class at Tarpon Springs Community School, teacher Maria Pantelis produced a four-page handout of hundreds of Greek words. The words were written in the Greek ...