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The “Novel-Textbook”: Using a Novel as the Main Teaching Material in the Adult GFL Classroom
(Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2017)Much research in the field of Foreign Language Teaching (FLT) demonstrates that using literature as a teaching material in the Foreign Language (FL) classroom can contribute significantly to learning the target language. ... -
On the Finitude of Time in Aristotle and Leibniz
(Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2017)This paper considers an argument called here the Shift argument, which has the upshot, it will be argued, that time cannot be infinite into the past but must have had a beginning or first instant. The Shift argument can ... -
Philoponus on the Nature of Time
(Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2017)John Philoponus produced an influential argument that time must have had a beginning. While that argument has been widely discussed, particularly in its Kantian form, little attention has been paid to his view of the nature ... -
School Belongingness and Coping with Victimisation in Bullied and Non-bullied Students: A Discriminant Analysis Approach
(Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2017)Documented evidence has raised public and professional concern regarding the prevalence of victimisation in schools and the established immediate and long-term adverse consequences it has on many aspects of the development ... -
The Significance of the Greek Orthodox Religion for Second Generation Greek-Australian Young Women
(Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2017)This paper discusses the significance of the Greek Orthodox religion for young Greek Australian women. The findings of a qualitative study undertaken in Melbourne, Australia in 2013 indicate that for these granddaughters ... -
Stoic Echoes in non-Stoic Sources: Exploring Stoic Influence in the First and Second Centuries CE
(Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2017)This article examines David Hahm’s claim that “more people in the Mediterranean world would have held a more or less Stoic conception of the world than any other from the third century BCE to the second century CE”. If ... -
Thrasymachus, Reasons and Rationality
(Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2017)Thrasymachus, in Plato’s Republic, claims that justice is what is in the interest of the stronger party. Cross and Woozley interpret this as the claim that the weak have a duty to serve the interests of the strong. I argue ... -
Three Times to Greece? — New Zealand State Attitudes and Public Projection about Greek Politics during the 1940s
(Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2017)During the 1940s the Pacific Dominion of New Zealand either sent or was faced with the possibility of despatching army formations to Greece no less than three times. The specific contexts were very different. However, it ... -
Towards an Ethics of Uncertainty: Authorship and Techno-Scientific Challenges to Subjectivity in Modern Greek Science Fiction Novels
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Why is the Timaeus Different?
(Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2017)The Timaeus is significantly different from Plato’s other works and is a difficult work to analyse. This paper will comprise two parts. In the first part, I will present two issues that may contribute to us having problems ... -
Διάλογος και Ειρωνεία: Ερμηνευτική Προσέγγιση της Ποίησης του Άρι Κουτούγκου
(Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2017)Please note: This article is in Greek. Dialogue and Irony: Hermeneutical Approach of Aris Koutoungos’ Poetry: This paper aims to provide an overview of Aris Koutoungos’ recently published poetry by emphasising on the ... -
Ευρωπαϊκές Ανθολογίες Ελληνικής Ποίησης την Περίοδο του Μεσοπολέμου. Μια Πρώτη Ανάγνωση
(Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2017)Please note: This article is in Greek. European anthologies of Greek poetry during the interwar period. A first reading: During the Decade 1920–1930 the Greek poetry, specially represented by C. Palamas, whose poems had ... -
Καβάφης: Εντάσεις δια-φθοράς
(Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2017)Please note: This article is in Greek. Kavafis: The tensions of “corruption”: In Kavafi’s poetry, there are many poems where historical or anonymous characters are corrupted or are going through the process of corrupting ... -
Το Παράδοξο της Άπειρης Ταυτότητας στον Νάνο Βαλαωρίτη
(Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2017)Please note: This article is in Greek. The Paradox of Infinite Identity in Nanos Valaoritis: The subject of Nanos Valaoritis’ writing is investigated through the theses of Whitehead and Deleuze on the construction of an ...