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Among those awarded is Emeritus Professor James Diggle who receives the CBE for Services to Classical Scholarship. He was Professor of Greek and Latin from

For the past hundred or so years, classics students who looked up the ancient Greek verb χέζω in a commonly used English dictionary would find it modestly translated as "Ease oneself, do one's need." Now, the translation is "To sh-t."

Recently published by Cambridge University Press, the Lexicon provides fresh definitions and translations gleaned by re-reading most of Ancient Greek literature from its foundations in Homer, right through to the early second century AD.Introducing u

There were different registers of speech about sexual behaviour, but not the taboos we have accorded the F word and the C word

Ancient Greek text on a plaque on the Areopagus in Athens. Credit: Ioannis Kontomitros/Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 GenericA new Ancient Greek dictionary has been created by a team of experts from Cambridge University, a gigantic labor of love that was more than twenty years in the making.Its creators say that the monumental work takes a…