The Greek word μάρις ‘long pepper (Piper longum L.)’ that is attested in the lexicon of Hesychius (μ 289) has not been the subject of any research to date. The author’s hypothesis is that it is ultimately of Indo-Aryan ...

The fictional correspondence of Xenophon has survived to our times in a fragmentary form, thanks to Stobaeus, whose Anthology contains excerpts from the Socratic letters. This correspondence is also part of the collection ...

Since the mid-19th century, traveling to Europe has become a common practice among Latin American elites. The city of Naples, renowned since the 18th century for the Roman sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum, became a must-visit ...

The primary objective of this article is to examine the Spanish translations of three poems by Wisława Szymborska in which the Horatian formula Non omnis moriar appears: The Rest, Autotomy, The Great Number. This well-known ...

This article analyzes lines 2.645-648 of Lucan’s Civil War. These four lines contain Pompey’s command for the consuls to sail from Brundisium to Epirus, and from there to proceed to Greece and Macedonia, where they were ...

At the center of the article is the Physiologus – probably the best-known text of late antiquity and the Middle Ages after the Bible – and the descriptions of animals presented there. The depictions of the individual animals ...

In the seventh book of Ab Urbe Condita, Titus Livius describes an extraordinary phenomenon of battle symbiosis involving a bird. During the campaign against the Gauls in 349 BC, a Gallic warrior challenged a Roman to single ...

The study of normative and legal systems in archaic Greece reveals two competing interpretative models. The first highlights the autonomy of early lawmakers, portraying them as largely free from the constraints of inherited ...

The aim of this article is to identify how university-level students (of French as a Foreign Language) engage in completing a listening comprehension task. We will focus particularly on cognitive engagement, which we will ...

This article examines the functional affinities between the French plus-que-parfait and the Slovak antepréteritum. Since this Slovak tense is considered by linguists as a peripheral tense, it is absent from contrastive ...