#m: greek

[madcat-world]

Dryad Lake Nymph - Palamarchuk Mikhail

[stairwaytoheavens]

winter in Greece

[methismeniprigkhpissa]

Νομίζω πως η χαρά μου φαίνεται με τις τουλίπες μου🥹

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

Strange maps and even stranger maps are collected here.

[nickydmtr]

Χαρά και τσαχπινια παιδιά!!

Χαρά και τσαχπινια!!

��α κάνετε πράγματα που σας ευχαριστούν και να έχετε ανθρώπους δίπλα σας που σας αγαπάνε πραγματικά.

Όλα τα άλλα αφήστε τα στην άκρη για λίγο η ζωή είναι πολύ μικρή για να την χαλάμε.

Οπότε χαρά και τσαχπινια!!

[albinobirb]

I heard we doing Miku as our culture👀 may I present Greek miku

[ikuzeminna]

I need your help with a hypothesis!

For context: My linguistics professor and I got into a discussion after a test she did with us, and I was of the opinion that the reason for the results was different from the one she offered, so she encouraged me to test my theory.

What I need

All you need to do is draw a coffee cup (with a handle, not the disposable stuff) and then answer three questions.

I don't need to see the coffee cup. You can draw it wherever you like; on a piece of paper, digitally, in the sand, on a foggy window. Anything works. It does not have to be good. A doodle is fine.

You have to draw the coffee cup before you see the questions. This is very important. If you decide to help me with this, please doodle the coffee cup before you keep reading.

Assuming you have drawn the coffee cup, I now need you to answer these three questions:

On which side did you draw the handle?

Are you right-handed or left-handed?

Do you primarily write using the Latin alphabet or a different one? (please specify which)

More context

Most people will draw the handle on the right side. My professor says it's because most people are right-handed, so they draw the handle in the direction that would be comfortable for them to pick up.

I said drawing it on the right side just felt more comfortable to my hand and argued it's probably because we write a bunch of letters like that. B, b, D, P, p, R all look like a tiny "handle on the right side" and are all a straight line followed by a round one (so "cup first, handle second," like most people draw cups). The Latin alphabet doesn't have letters like that that face the other way, except maybe d, depending on how you write it, so it makes sense to me that people writing mostly Latin letters would go with the handle on the right side.

Which means that I need to know what Asians, Arabs and Greeks do and if the distribution of left and right sides of handles differs from the Latin alphabet group. Cyrillic seems to favor right, too, though it'd be interesting to see if there are differences.

If there are, my theory is right. Doubly so if there is a sizeable increase in a group whose alphabet has letters that benefit the left side choice.

So feel free to spread this to as many people as you like and put the answers in the comments or the tags of a reblog. The more answers I get, the better I can assess whose theory is better.

Thank you for your help!

[bookofsecretstotell]

Selene, the moon herself 🌕

[blvvdk3ep]

I love you people going into "useless" fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn't considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive

[machetelanding]

[methismeniprigkhpissa]

Σήμερα μου πήρα τουλίπες🥹

Μπήκα στο σούπερ μάρκετ και τις είδα και κατευθείαν τις έβαλα στο καλάθι μου.

Δεν το σκέφτηκα δεύτερη φορά.

Μετά απλά τις κρατούσα στα χέρια μου καθώς έκανα τα ψώνια μου και τις μύριζα.

Ένιωθα σαν μικρό παιδί που πήρε μετά από καιρό ένα γλυφιτζούρι.

Τόσο χαρούμενη!

Και απλά έλεγα πως είναι ένα δώρο στον εαυτό μου για να τις βλέπω και να με αγαπάω λίγο παραπάνω κάθε μέρα,ένα δώρο από εμένα στον εαυτό μου, γιατί δεν χρειάζομαι κάποιον να μου δείξει ότι με αγαπάει όταν μπορώ να αγαπάω τον εαυτό μου.

Οπότε,ξεκινήστε να κάνετε δώρα στον εαυτό σας,καμία φορά το έχουμε ανάγκη ένα δώρο στον εαυτό μας. Είτε αυτό είναι ένα άρωμα,είτε ένα μπλουζάκι που είδαμε στην βιτρίνα,είτε είναι λουλούδια,είτε είναι απλά ένα σημείωμα στον καθρέφτη με το ποσό σαγαπας.

Κάνε ένα δώρο στον εαυτό σου,το έχεις ανάγκη. ❤️

[jadagul]

When I studied ancient Greek, the big reference dictionary was A Greek-English Lexicon by Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott. Commonly known as "Liddell and Scott".

But there were three editions of increasing size, based on whether you wanted it to fit in your bag, your bookshelf, or your reference podium.

So of course we called them the "Little Liddell", the "Middle Liddell", and the "Great Scott".

[thoodleoo]

thrilled to learn that theres an ancient greek word meaning "you are dumb as a bird or perhaps a locust"

[hanssloane]

Eastern greek fluorite carved idol: Owl.

4th - 3rd century BC.

Private Collection.

[thefoilguy]

Laocoon and His Sons - Aluminum Foil Sculpture