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It’s All Greek To Me: Ancient Greek
In my first posting on the Greek language I gave a broad historical overview of the Greek language. In the second I talked briefly about Mycenean Greek which we know from clay tablets and inscriptions written in the syllabic Linear … Continue reading
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Lessons from the Great War: The End
In my initial post on the Great War I asked four questions. The first of them was about the reasons for the war, and the second was about why the belligerants persisted in the war at such great cost rather … Continue reading
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Tagged Armistace, The End of the Great War, The End of World War I, The Great War, The Hundred Days
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Wade In The Water
A sermon preached for The Second Sunday of the Epiphany: The Baptism of Christ at the Anglican Church of St. Thomas, Kefalas, Crete, Greece, 11:00 am January 13, 2019. Do you know your birthdate? Well, of course you do. You … Continue reading
It’s All Greek To Me: The Origins of the Greeks
In the eighteenth century, when many classically educated Englishmen and Germans made the long journey to Greece and Anatolia, they were struck by what they found to be a major disjunction between the glories of ancient Greece and the Greek-speaking … Continue reading
It’s All Greek To Me: Mycenaean Greek
What did Achilles, Odysseus, and Agamemnon sound like? Up until the 1950s you would have been directed to the earliest form of “classical Greek”, the archaic form of ancient Greek found in the lyrics of The Iliad and The Odyssey, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Kobler, Greek, John Chadwick, Linear B, Michael Ventri, Mycenaean Greek, Sir Arthus Evans
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A Few Reasons I Should Have Known I Was Going To Move To Greece
I moved to Greece a little over three months ago. I had never been there before until a visit after my interview in Brussels, and I don’t think I ever had it on my list of Things To Do Before … Continue reading
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Lessons from the Great War: Some Questions
If you know me you will know that I am a great reader of history books. I have spent many hours reading about wars and conflicts around the world. Ever since the approach of the 100th anniversary of the beginning … Continue reading
It’s All Greek to Me: Preface
If you know me you will know that I am interested in languages. Not that I am a linguist – I am fluent in English, but for someone born in a town that is 95% francophone I speak French terribly, … Continue reading
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The Epiphany (Yesterday’s Sermon)
A Sermon preached at the Anglican Church of St. Thomas, Kefalas, Crete, Greece 11:00 am January 6, 2018 So, have you taken down the Christmas tree? Have you got all your Christmas decorations put away? The tradition is, of course, … Continue reading
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Tagged Apocalypse, Blessing, Christian, Christianity, Epiphany, Jesus, Manifestation, Showing Forth
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Some Resolutions for 2019
I follow a number of Canadian writers on Twitter, and one of them is Amanda Reaume. She reads an astonishing number of books, and knows the Canadian Literary scene as well as anyone. Way back in 2018, on December 29, … Continue reading
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Tagged A. H. Reaume, CanLit, Reading, Resolutions
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