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In college, he studied Greek, Latin, Akkadian, Ancient Ethiopian, Syriac ... Fowler believed he knew how sentences should read—and his judgments have shaped The New Yorker’s style for a century.

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How is freedom, a polysemantic term, understood by the majority today? What is the relationship between modern freedom and ...

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Ancient Greeks mastered communication through ingenuity and persistence, sharing information across land and time.

New research from Oxford reexamines whether Greek was influenced by Anatolian languages, uncovering limited but notable ...

The Greeks were the most inventive, developing techniques for swaying voters, for stealing elections, and disqualifying opponents from running for office. Some of the Athenian politicians were as ...