With so many baby names to choose from sometimes it's best to stick with your roots. These names highlight global culture and ...

This journey of Greek influences to English clearly shows how languages evolve and influence each other even to this day.

Perhaps the most well-known of the lost Greek letters is Digamma. Shaped like an F or a modern-day gamma with an extra stem, Digamma represented the “w” sound. Its use was widespread in early dialects ...

The Suda, the massive tome written by a Byzantine scholar around the year 1100, was one of the world's first encyclopedias ...

The scientific name for house flies has stayed the same since Linnaeus described them in 1758. Fun fact: If an insect is an actual fly, “fly” is written as a separate word. Like house fly or drone fly ...

The Etruscan language remains one of the most intriguing and mysterious tongues of the ancient world. Although much about the Etruscan civilization has been uncovered, their language is only partially ...

Globally, classical Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic, Greek, and Latin have been termed as ‘classical languages’. These have been recognised as such due to their overwhelming influence on other ...

That’s why Latin and Greek educators are congregating in Columbus this weekend to celebrate the works of Virgil, Homer and Sophocles. The Ohio Classical Conference (OCC) meets every year to honor ...

The 86th Annual Philadelphia Classical Society contests highlight the artistic, digital, and literary talents of Main Line and Metropolitan Philadelphia Latin and Greek language students.

One might guess this project would require lifelong familiarity with the Latin and Greek languages, but Childers did not encounter either one until his undergraduate years at UNC Chapel Hill. He ...