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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Felt-quality and Attitudinal Accounts of Pleasure and Pain in Ancient Greek and Contemporary Philosophy
(Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2017)A problem that emerges when analysing the arguments for and against hedonism is that each side has its own conception of the nature of pleasure and pain and paradigmatic examples which support their own argument. In this ... -
Interactive Memory and Recollection in Plato’s Meno
(Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2017)We re-examine the geometry lesson in the Meno, focusing on the interaction between interlocutors in the practice of recollection. We appeal to an analogy with interactive memory to suggest how Plato could think that inquiry ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
Does Achilles Forgive in the Iliad? The Archaic Origins of the Virtue of Forgivingness
(Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2017)In Before Forgiveness, David Konstan argues that the modern concept of interpersonal forgiveness was absent from Western thought until the early modern period. However, by “the modern” concept of the term, Konstan means ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The “Golden Greeks” from “Diggers” to Settlers: Greek Migration and Settlement during the Australian Gold Rush Era, 1850s–1890s
(Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2017)Between the 1850s and 1890s, the gentle ripples of Australia’s early Greek presence surrendered to the first real wave of Greek migration. Gold was the initial stimulus. Greek seaman — particularly those on British vessels ... -
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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Industrialisation, the Sewing Machine, and the Paper Pattern: Mixed Messages for the Heritage of Kendimata
(Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2017)Modern Greece embraced the new Western European approach to dress and culture through the industrialisation of textiles. The new technology of the sewing machine and paper pattern were adopted with great enthusiasm to show ... -
The Gothic Elements in Grigorios Xenopoulos’ Novel Teresa Varma-Dakosta
(Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2017)The purpose of the paper is mainly to pinpoint, examine and elaborate on the Gothic elements that are disseminated in Grigorios Xenopoulos’ novel Teresa Varma-Dakosta. Teresa’s physical and mental transformation is connected ... -
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 ...