Browsing Proceedings of the 9th Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies, 2011 by Issue Date
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Myth, dialogue and the allegorical interpretation of Plato
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)From the late Classical period until the Nineteenth Century, Plato was admired for his inspiration and vision, rather than for his theories and argumentation. Then with the advent of analytic philosophy in the Twentieth ... -
Aristotle's four conceptions of time
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)In this paper I will describe four theories of time that can be found in Aristotle. I will compare these four theories with modern notions of time, and propose that the ancient and modern views are substantively the same. ... -
Aristotle and the intuitionists
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)Intuitionist mathematics has claimed a philosophy deriving from Kant. This paper aims to draw attention to significant similarities with a much older source, Aristotle. At the same time, the connection should not be ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Γλωσσικά Ζητήματα των Μουσουλμάνων της Θράκης: Μειονότητα ή Μειονότητες;
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)The present study discusses the linguistic minorities inhabiting Western Thrace. The treaty of Lausanne in 1923 was based on the religion of minorities and not their language. It’s only the last 15 years that the Greek ... -
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 ... -
Was Aristotle the founder of chemistry?
(Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek, 2013-06)Aristotle has recently been construed as the founder of chemistry. Aristotle does give a detailed account of combination in Generation and Corruption that can be read as conforming to the kind of combination characteristic ... -
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 ... -
Revolution, death , transformation and art: Delacroix's 'Scenes from the Massacres at Chios'
(Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand (MGSAANZ), 2013-06)“Of all foreign artists, Delacroix is the one whose name is most closely associated with the Greek Revolution of 1821.” By examining this famous Romantic painting, 'Scenes from the Massacres at Chios', it will become ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ...