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Prof. Myerston

I am a philologist—someone deeply engaged in the study of languages and their role in shaping human experience. My work explores how language both reflects and structures the ways ancient societies understood the world. Geographically and intellectually, I focus on two major centers of ancient cultural production: Ancient Greece and Mesopotamia.

In my book Language and Cosmos in Greece and Mesopotamia, I examine how ancient thinkers conceived the relationship between language and the universe. Despite the geographical distance between Greece and Mesopotamia, I show how their views on language as a force that orders the cosmos often intersected in unexpected and illuminating ways.

More recently, my research explores how Artificial Intelligence can help us better understand ancient cultures and their languages. I am especially interested in how computational models can simulate historical perspectives, reveal linguistic patterns, and open new interpretive pathways into the ancient world.

P.D.

I write this blog with my alter egos, Jacobo, Al Boroto and Tremendo Bareto. Jacobo is a softer version of Prof. Myerston while Al Boroto is the multilingual and tropical variant of the first two. Tremendo Bareto is a rather mysterious character.