Browsing Proceedings of the 7th Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies, 2007 by Issue Date
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Aristotle vs Theognis
(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)Aristotle argues that provided we have moderate luck, we can attain eudaimonia through our own effort. He claims that it is crucial to attaining eudaimonia that we aim at an overall target in our lives to which all our ... -
The Sustainability of Greek Economic and Social Prosperity in Adelaide's Inner Western Suburbs
(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)This paper outlines the results of an economic and social research study in selected inner western suburbs of Adelaide undertaken in 2007. The study area was chosen due to the dominant presence of Greek businesses and ... -
White Gold, Deep Blue: Greeks in the Australian pearling industry, 1880s-2007
(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)Since the late 1880s, Greeks have been involved in Australian pearling — initially in the pearl shell industry and then in pearl cultivation. The significant strength of the Greek contribution to Australian pearling far ... -
'Modern Greek' in 'Byzantium'? The notion of 'early modern' in Greek studies
(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)When does modern Greek literature begin? Modern Greek and Byzantine scholarship have used various terms in the past in order to describe the same texts of the so-called vernacular Greek literature. Thus, the Epic of Digenis ... -
Rhetoric as a Political Tool in Shaping the Byzantine Theocracy
(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)The transmission of rhetoric from classical Greece to Byzantium provides a salutary study of the way in which the manipulation of language can shape not only the cultural and political ethos of a civilisation but its ... -
Cross-Cultural Children in Melbourne: Thoughts of getting married in Greek- and Ukranian-Australian families
(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)This paper is an ethnographic portrayal of Greek and Ukrainian cross-cultural children in Melbourne at an age where marriage is a topic of discussion between parents and children, when ethnic traditions are discussed, ... -
Cookbooks, Memories and Family Recipes: Greek Cypriot immigrants' cultural maintenance and adaptation in Melbourne
(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)This paper draws from a larger oral history project on the domestic food cultures of a group of Greek Cypriots residing in Melbourne between 1947 and 2003. It explores the ways in which food, and specifically recipes, ... -
On Cicero's Interpretation of 'Katastematic' Pleasure in Epicurus
(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)The standard interpretation of the concept of katastematic pleasure in Epicurus has it referring to “static” states from which feeling is absent. We owe the prevalence of this interpretation to Cicero’s account of Epicureanism ... -
The 'Legend' of Alekos Doukas: A critical counter reading
(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)This paper examines how the writer Alekos Doukas (1900–1962) has been read and interpreted in later years as a migrant intellectual and socialist. I argue that Doukas has become a figure of myth through a process of oral ... -
Εξουσία και γλώσσα στη σύγχρονη ελληνική κοινωνία. Μια Εξουσία και γλώσσα στη σύγχρονη ελληνική κοινωνία. Μια προσέγγιση
(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)Please note: this article is in Greek. Authority and language in Modern Greek society: An approach: The present research is an interdisciplinary one and deals with the analytical category of gender. Specifically, the ... -
The Gender of the English Derived Nominal and the Modern Greek Counterpart: A morphological approach
(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)The main issue of this paper is to show that for the derived nominalizations1 unmarked for gender in English, the Modern Greek counterparts are nominals, usually of feminine gender, which is always marked due to the high ... -
'Some sort of an agreed line'. The negotiations for the ceasefire demarcation line in Cyprus, 30 July - 9 August 1974
(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)Using recently declassified British documents, this paper looks at the negotiations for the demarcation of an agreed ceasefire line between the invading Turkish forces and the defending Greek-Cypriot National Guard. These ... -
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Marx and Aristotle on the Highest Good
(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)Aristotle claims that the most perfect happiness is a life of contemplation, which is a life as close to the supremely happy lives of the Gods as is possible in human life. This life is more perfectly happy because ... -
Plato on Order from Chaos
(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)There is a debate about the account of the origins of the cosmos given in Plato’s Timaeus. Should we take it literally, as giving us a cosmogony? Or should it be taken metaphorically, giving an account of what the world ... -
Aristotle, Dialectic and Critical Realism
(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)This paper sets out to show that central aspects of Aristotle’s view of science are of continued contemporary relevance. It argues that a widespread failure to recognise this derives, in part, from a continued commitment ... -
Comprehension of Literary Texts by Elementary School Pupils in Greece
(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)This paper attempts to record the popularity of recreational reading among pupils, focusing on their understanding of the text. Initially we explore the factors, i.e. family and school, that influence pupils’ reading habits. ... -
Anarchic Utopia in Aris Alexandrou's 'The Mission Box'
(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)This paper shows that there are two notions of utopia operating in Aris Alexandrou’s novel The Mission Box (Το κιβώτιο). The first is the autarchic utopia espoused by the Communist Party and represented in the novel by the ... -
The Paradigm of Greek Romantic Prose Fiction (1830-1850): A reappraisal of A. Soutsos's 'The Exile of 1831'
(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)Refuting the assumption that the first novels after 1830 constitute the advent of Greek realism, this paper intends to corroborate Tziovas’s argument that these texts, drawing on the world construction of the Hellenistic ... -
The Diachronic Contribution of Greek to the Development of the English Language
(Flinders University Department of Languages - Modern Greek, 2009)Interlanguage contact and its resulting influences are a fascinating and rewarding field for the scholar and the general reader. Among the benefits of studying this linguistic interaction is the assistance which it provides, ...