Proceedings of the 9th Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies, 2011
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The papers in this volume discuss many issues in Greek studies. The papers deal with ancient Greek and Byzantine philosophy, philology, the history of Greece and the Greek world, the history of the Greek Diaspora, and the teaching of the Greek language. They cover a considerable span of time and space, crossing the boundaries of various fields of research. The papers on the ancient world range from discussions of Athenian pagan philosophy in the fifth century BCE to Christian criticisms of pagan thought in Egyptian Alexandria in the sixth century CE. The papers on the medieval and Modern Greek world range from discussions of Byzantine Orthodoxy to debates about the significance of Greek textiles in twenty first century Australia. The papers display the diachronic and multidimensional relevance of Greek studies in the current world. All of the papers were submitted to independent referees. Those that passed the scrutiny of the referees were revised in the light of their comments. Sincere thanks are extended to our referees who have provided considerable support in their field of expertise in order to make this publication scholarly and academically sound and useful for the future. Our gratitude is also extended to Maria Sakellaridis who has formatted the texts and organised the publication in a creative and impeccable manner.
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Κατάρτιση λημματολογίου ενός διαλεκτικού λεξικού: η βάση δεδομένων Συντυσ ˇ ιές
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)Please note: This article is in Greek. Compiling a dialectal dictionary: the “Syntychies” lexical database: This paper introduces the reader to the issues of making an online dialectal dictionary, presenting some of the ... -
Η κινηματογραφική ταινία στο μάθημα της λογοτεχνίας στην ελληνική εκπαίδευση
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)Please note: This article is in Greek. Cinema as a text in teaching literature in Greek school: Cinema is a universal language which affects on people and especially students and shapes their perception of the world. Thus ... -
Τα παντοπωλεία του Πύργου Σαντορίνης κατά τον 20ό και 21ο αιώνα. Λειτουργία και μετασχηματισμός
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)Please note: This article is in Greek. Operation and transformation of grocery stores in the town of Pyrgos – Santorini during the 20th and 21st century: It is quite easy to demarcate the theme of this essay. The grocery ... -
Εθνική ιδεολογία και αλληγορία: παράσταση της Ελλάδας από τους αδελφούς Φυτάλη
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)Please note: This article is in Greek. The allegorical representation of Greece in the 19th century: The case of the sculptor brothers Fytali: This article presents, for the first time, an unknown work by the sculptor ... -
Διονύσιος Σολωμός και Pierre Hyacinthe Azais
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)Please note: This article is in Greek. Dionysios Solomos and Pierre Hyacinthe Azais: Pierre Hyacinthe Azais, a French philosopher and musician who lived in 1766–1845, was one of the philosophers the work of whom had been ... -
Πρωτόγονη ευαισθησία και νεωτερική διάνοια στο Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά του Νίκου Καζαντζάκη
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)Please note: This article is in Greek. Primitive sensibility and modernist mentality in N. Kazantzakis’ Zorba the Greek: This paper explores the recreation of mythic or primitive sensitivity and the dissociation of rational ... -
Βυζαντινός Κόσμος και Εννοιολογική Ιστορία
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)Please note: This article is in Greek. The Byzantine World and Conceptual History: The article examines the idea of the Byzantine world through the methodologies of conceptual history and socio-history. A criticism of the ... -
Διαφώτιση, Προπαγάνδα και Αντί-Προπαγάνδα στην Κύπρο, 1955–1959
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)Please note: This article is in Greek. Enlightenment, Propaganda and Counter-Propaganda in Cyprus, 1955–1959: Many parts of the insurgency in Cyprus of the period 1955–1959, while consists a multilevel struggle, remain ... -
The Crone role revisited in the migrant diaspora to Australia
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)In mythical tradition as revisited by research during the few last decades, the Crone is the feminine aspect of the ageing individual, she who protects and guides youngsters through her wisdom. Drawing on the darker as ... -
The Greek language of the diaspora in the era of globalisation
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)This paper is divided into two parts. The first one deals with the Greek language and education in the United States, focusing on schools, books, teachers and the educational policy of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese and ... -
Greek Orthodox iconography from a historical and cultural perspective
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)This paper will examine the historical events that made an impact on Greek Orthodox Iconography including the Iconoclastic period, and its acceptance into the Greek Orthodox community during the Byzantine period. As well ... -
Recreation of the Rhodian village of Lahania in Thebarton, South Australia, in the early 1950s. Part Three
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)After World War Two ended in Lahania in 1946, villagers formed an almost continuous stream to Australia until 1967. A smaller number of thirty-six went to America by 1956. The Australian contingent 117 of the 128 went ... -
Between young and old Greek Orthodox Christians: saint worship and dance as offering to a saint
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)The paper reconstructs what is remembered about saint worship practiced in the Rhodian highland village of Istrios. Istrian memory reveals a religious practice that included dance as a form of promise (taximo) and offering ... -
The pear tree. A study of Greek-Australian families 50 years after migration
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)The nation’s story of the migration of Greeks to Australia is immensely rich, but the everyday voices of migrant families are largely missing. Through the use of personal stories and case studies of families who originated ... -
Auto/biographical writing and Greek-Australian historiography
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)This paper outlines a methodology for 'auto/biographical' life-history writing and argues for its merits based on a particular case study. In the present context 'auto/ biographical life writing' refers to life writing ... -
Blending Greek with Aboriginal Australian cultural elements in artistic expression
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)This paper pursues another transnational course extending the paper I presented at the Eighth International Conference on Greek Research, where the influence of cultural aspects of Aboriginal Australians upon a variety of ... -
Faces beyond the Greek café: the traditional diversity of Greek-Australian occupational pursuits, 1820s–2010
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)From the late nineteenth century until the closing decades of the twentieth century, Greeks played a large part in Australia’s food catering industry. They continued, nevertheless, to enter a wide variety of occupations. ... -
The distinction between laiko and logio as a particular characteristic of the Modern Greek language: historical interpretation, contemporary function and didactic usage
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)It is well known that the Greek language, despite its long history and the various adventures it has experienced over the centuries and in contrast with other ancient European languages (e.g. Latin), has not undergone any ... -
Art censorship as art criticism: fighting the sacrilegious and protecting the 'shell'
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)Art censorship in Greece since the establishment of the new Greek state in 1830 has been formulated in relation to the ideological patterns of national identity. The influence of Romanticism intensified references to ancient ... -
Never to return: migration and old age in Venezis’s “The State of Virginia”
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)This paper discusses Ilias Venezis’s short story “The State of Virginia” with special emphasis on the themes of migration and old age. Published in 1954, in the aftermath of WWII and the Greek Civil War, “The State of ...
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