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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Greek History"”.
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Resurrecting the Past, Constructing the Future: A Historical Investigation on the Formation of a Greek National Identity in Schools, 1834-1913
… Greece between 1834 and 1913 sought to shape a Greek national identity. The goal of this project is to present a historical analysis, that has thus far been absent from scholarship on the subject, and to convey how the adoption of a common national history in Greece, with roots to ancient …
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Synoikism : people, power and poleis
… is an investigation into the transformation of Greek societies from the Dark Age to the Archaic Period. That transformation included large-scale expansion overseas; the institutionalisation of slavery; population rise; the advent of literacy and literature, of laws and lawcodes; the development …
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Allied policy towards occupied Greece: the 1941-44 famine
… stage. The aim of this thesis is to study the Greek famine with two main objectives in sight. The first, more modest one, is to provide an account for the Allied policy towards the famine, as well as the processes that created policy. The second, more ambitious objective is explain the …
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Archery in Archaic Greece
… to popular opinion, there was no point in Greek history when the bow was not used. Rather, it was used in a variety of ways to support, supplement, and complement heavily armed infantrymen. Although archery could be effective, especially against horses and light-armed men, the bow was not …
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Studies in Aetiology and Historical Methodology in Herodotus
… of the Histories where the struggle between Greeks and barbarians is concerned. The upshot is to make a novel case not only for the programmatic significance of the proem, but also for the cohesion of Herodotean methodology from cover to cover, a perennial concern for scholars of Greek …
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The Aesthetics of Waste: Investigating the role of the ephemeral in the development of the avant-garde in Western Europe and Greece and its relationship to trauma
… with reflection upon traumatic situations in Greek history, especially the Greek Civil War. As a result of completing the above procedure, I realised the importance of everyday ephemeral materials and archive footage in the creation of an object or installation to which artists attach their …
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The Benaki Museum in Interwar Greece: Constructing Greek Art & the Greek Nation After the Fall of the Ottoman Empire
… in Greece today, was largely the work of the Greek collector and founder Antonis Benakis (1873 – 1954) and its first director and curator Theodore Macridy Bey (1872 – 1940). By analyzing the museum’s early acquisition policy, its curatorial strategies, and its publications, I argue that it …
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Xenophon on Athens : between democracy and oligarchy
… I show that his narrative of Athenian history at the end of the 5th century BCE, recorded in the Hellenika, presents a consistent set of problems in Athenian governance, related to the behavior and intentions of the political class, that exists both under the Athenian democracy and the …
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Democracy in the Peloponnese, c.550–146 BCE
… 1 provides an outline of the general features of Greek democracy, followed by a survey of the local specificities that may have had a bearing on how democratic institutions actually worked in the context of the Peloponnese. I also list the main relevant sources for a study of Peloponnesian …
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Pouring out tears: Andromache in Homer and Euripides
This thesis begins to examine the role of Andromache in the Trojan War saga and tradition by providing an in-depth analysis of Andromache in the Iliad, Euripides’ Andromache and Euripides’ Trojan Women. Using theories of character derived from the narratological study of modern fiction, it strives …
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Exonerating Manuel I Komnenos: Byzantine Foreign Policy (1143-1180)
<p>Manuel I of Byzantium (1143-80) has been unfairly judged as misguided, reckless, and, ultimately, as a failure. This work endeavors to refute the claims that Manuel's imperial policy lacked any coherent strategy, and that Byzantium simply reacted to external stimuli. The most ambitious aim of …
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Commanding Texts: Knowledge-ordering, Identity Construction and Ethics in 'Military Manuals’ of the Roman Empire
… as the way in which their authors order and rank Greek and Roman knowledge, engage with ideas about knowledge and power, help construct identity and discuss ethics and behavior. In the first chapter I will determine whether the authors operate within a specific ‘genre’, or ‘genres’, of military …