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 ...
Discover Magazine

It Was Rare, But Ancient People Sometimes Needed to Translate Languages — Here's How

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 ...
Portland Press Herald

Archaeologists find ancient tomb, evidence of Greek language in Pompeii

ROME — Archaeologists in the ancient city of Pompeii have discovered a remarkably well-preserved skeleton during excavations of a tomb that also shed light on the cultural life of the city before it ...