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Characters and themes in Alcestis play

In this play, the three main characters represent three different virtues that a human being should have. First, Alcestis is the lovely wife, who accepts to die on behalf of and for her husband: with her ...

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Uses of participle

Participles in Classical Greek are widely used, are in the same case/number/gender as the element to which they are referred and may have two different functions: nominal or verbal one.

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Why most Greek words have the ' symbol on one of their letters?

The tone symbol (') is used in Greek language to provide an indication of the syllable that should be emphasized the most when reading Greek words. Words that contain only one syllable do not therefore ha...

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How can one know the different gender that each greek word falls into?

According to the ending (suffix) of most greek words one can easily tell the gender to which they belong to. Words that end in -η are usually feminine while words that end in -oς are masculine. Lastly, wo...

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