Pure Greek Research Articles

Σταλλῳ y βανουας (Tamaşalık, Isauria)

Among the Greek inscriptions from Tamaşalık (ancient Isauria), two hapaxes are found: Σταλλῳ and βανουας. The first is a theonym and should be explained as a pure Greek formation. By contrast, the noun βανουας, a title of a local priest, is here considered a borrowing from Aramaic bānōyā ‘builder, architect’. The connection between the priests and the buildings of this ancient village is given by the aedilic inscriptions of the site.

Sugar profile determination of four pure Greek honeys by gas-chromatography

Honey sugar determination was performed by using a combination of two methods (Iverson & Bueno, 1981 and Pierce no. 16, 1990) with some modifications. The proposed by Pierce method no.16, has been designed to assist in the routine determination of sugars in food products and syrups. Sugars are treated with hydroxylamine hydrochloride and the resulting oximes are converted to trimethylsilyl ethers by direct silylation with TMS. The derivatives are then determined by gas-chromatography with flame ionization detector and sugar oxime-TMS derivatives are quantitative and reproducible. This reaction is fast and simple, the results are quantitatively reproducible and multiple peaks due to the tautomeric forms of reducing sugars, which produced by direct TMS derivatization, are eliminated. From the honey samples analyzed it has been determined that only fir-tree honey contains trisaccharides with higher percentages that of melezitose.

Transliteration and transcription effects in biscriptal readers: The case of Greeklish

In order to overcome limitations associated with script incompatibilities Greek users of the Internet have developed Greeklish, a transliterated version of Modern Greek using Roman characters. The representational status of this artificial writing system was examined in two masked priming lexical decision experiments using Greeklish primes with different degrees of graphemic overlap with their corresponding Greek targets. Results suggested that Greeklish primes were effectively processed and transliterated to their Greek counterparts. Larger masked priming effects were found as a function of increased prime-target graphemic overlap. Interestingly, these Greeklish priming effects were in all cases of smaller magnitude than the pure Greek identity priming effect. Our findings revealed that extensive experience with a recently developed artificial writing system leads to its non-effortful processing, but that even for highly experienced Greeklish users the Greeklish-to-Greek conversion is modulated by the graphemic properties of the input stimulus.

Migrants Encounter Migrants in the City: the Changing Context of ‘Home’ for Second‐Generation Greek‐American Return Migrants

AbstractThis article looks at the ‘return’ migration of second‐generation Greek Americans to their parents’ homeland, Greece. It is based on interviews with, and written accounts supplied by, 40 participants in the research, all now living in the Athens region. The article addresses two main sets of questions. First, why do they relocate to Greece, what are they looking for, and how do they cope with difficulties and disappointments? Second, and more specifically, how do they react to the fact that Greece is no longer a homogenous hellenistic society, but has become in recent years a de facto multicultural one due to the presence of hundreds of thousands of immigrant workers and their families? Three hypotheses are proposed for this inter‐migrant encounter: returnees, shocked by the ‘new immigration’, view it negatively as upsetting the ‘pure Greek’ homeland they had hoped to find; returnees are more sympathetic because of their own families’ history as immigrants in multicultural America; and returnees differentiate themselves as ‘good’ migrants from Greece’s immigrants who are constructed as ‘bad’ migrants. Evidence from the migrants’ testimonies is found to support all three hypotheses; however, there is more support for the second one. In addition, a fourth outcome was voiced: that of discrimination against Greek Americans who are made to feel, in certain circumstances, outsiders by the ‘true’ Greeks. Suggestions are made for further comparative research.

The Word "Australopithecus" and Others

ALL will admit that many words of Greek origin were used by the Romans, and that pithecus was one of them. The evidence adduced, however, does not prove that pithecus was regarded as a Latin word. The pithecium of Plautus is not a Latin diminutive; it is merely a latinisation of an ordinary Greek diminutive. Had a Roman regarded pithecus as Latin, he would not have used the Greek word for “tail” to combine with it: cercopithecus is of course pure Greek. Nevertheless had the Roman lived to our day and turned zoologist, he might under stress of circumstances have combined pithecus with a word of Latin origin. Circumstances, it is true, did not stress; a good Greek word for “south” was available, and a Roman, especially a “polished Roman”, would probably have used it.

Notes on the Imperial Persian Coinage

The rulers of the Persian Empire, during whose reigns the Persian Imperial coinage was issued, were the following:—Dareios I., s. of Hystaspes ... ... ... ... 521-486Xerxes I., s. of Dareios I. ... ... ... ... 486-465Artaxerxes I. Makrocheir, s. of Xerxes I. ... ... 465-425Xerxes II., s. of Artaxerxes I. ... ... ... ... 425Ochos = Dareios II. Nothos, s. of Artaxerxes I. ... 424-405Arsakas = Artaxerxes II. Mnemon, s. of Dareios II. ... 405-359Cyrus the Younger, s. of Dareios II. ... ... ... 401Ochos = Artaxerxes III., s. of Artaxerxes II. ... ... 359-338Arses, s. of Artaxerxes III. ... ... ... ... 338-337Kodomannos = Dareios III., s. of Arsanes, s. of Artostes or Ostahes, s. of Dareios II. ... ... ... ... 337-330The Persian Imperial coinage consisted of gold coins, generally known to the Greeks as Darics (Δαρϵικοὶ στατῆρϵς), with smaller denominations, and silver coins, generally known as sigloi (σίγλοι, σίκλοι, σίκλα, the same word as Hebrew shekel), which also had smaller denominations. The word Δαρϵικός was sometimes also used by the Greeks of the silver coins. The Persian name for the gold coins is not known; there can be little doubt that the word Δαρϵικός is ‘a pure Greek formation from the Greek form of the Persian name Darayavaush; just as “fanciful” is a pure English formation from the English form “fancy” of the Greek ϕαντασία.’

A Philological Problem from Philadelphia.

ABSTRACT Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 15, 1895.To the Editor: —In one of the latest numbers of the Journal is an extract from the Deutsche Medicinische Wochenschrift on The New Anatomic Nomenclature, and the number also contains an editorial commendation of the idea. In reading the extract I note that, it was resolved that the terms should be in one language, that is, Latin designations only.... The names shall be Latin, and etymologically correct.That promises well, but when I look at the examples given by the Journal, I find the first one given to be osteologia, a pure Greek word, with nothing Latin about it! Liddell and Scott define Oστeoλoγια as the science which treats of bones. Splanchnologia and angiologia are also Greek, from Σπλαγχoν viscera, and `Aγγe[unk]oν a blood vessel, respectively, and these are not the only examples.I do not wish to be considered a captious critic, but isn't

XVIII. Notes upon the Sculptures of a Temple discovered at Bath

During the fall of last year I visited the ancient city of Bath, and was astonished at the quality and extent of the sculptures and inscriptions now preserved in the Literary Institution. They are collected in a vestibule attached to that building, which has a portico of very pure Greek Doric architecture, and the sculptures are effectively arranged, with the advantage of a central light from above. All the sculptures in this vestibule have a particular local interest, as they were discovered within the precincts of the city, most of them about the year 1790, upon what appears to have been the site of an ancient temple, or, more probably, a group of buildings.