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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Greek culture"”.
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Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Lady Jeune's Views on Victorian Culture, Society and Education
… era were exposed to, or interpreted ancient Greek culture. My work examines the writings of a conservative female that initially supported traditional patriarchy, but evolved to support some advances for women, and provides a new layer of analysis to the Victorian Woman Question. The study of …
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The Benaki Museum in Interwar Greece: Constructing Greek Art & the Greek Nation After the Fall of the Ottoman Empire
… a wide variety of Ottoman art and material culture. The museum, which continues to be a pre-eminent institution 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 …
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Greek Influence is Shelley
… one of earth's cities, so the brilliancy of Greek culture, gleaming through the ages was caught by the responsive soul of Shelley and by him made to brighten the modern world with its beauty and its truth. | Shelley's power to so intercept and so transmit the "glory that was Greece" is …
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Hellenistic astrology as a case study of 'cultural translation'
… the transition of ideas and knowledge from one culture to another, making them available in the recipient culture by the ‘translation’ in its broader sense, using recipient’s own already familiar intellectual and cultural concepts. The spread of Greek culture and the adoption of non-Greek …
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Public Attitudes towards Crime and Punishment in Greece and the Factors Underlying their Construction
… crime and punishment, and to consider why Greek people hold the views that they do and how these views are constructed. A multi-method approach was adopted for the implementation of this study. Quantitative methods were used to map the scope of attitudes towards crime and punishment in …
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Η ΕΚΦΡΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΥΓΕΝΕΙΑΣ ΣΤΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΑ ΑΓΓΛΙΚΑ
… TO INVESTIGATE THE STATUS OF POLITENESS WITHIN GREEK CULTURE AND COMPARE IT TO THAT OF ENGLISH . AMONG THE BASIC AIMS OF THIS UNDERTAKING IS TO ESTABLISH THE REASONS WHICH HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO A WIDESPREAD IMPRESSION THAT THE GREEKS ARE IMPOLITE OR AT LEAST LESS POLITE THAN THE ENGLISH. MY MAIN …
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Rituales dramático-festivos en la Grecia Moderna. Estudio terminológico de los ritos del Ciclo Festivo de la Navidad (dodecamerón), del carnaval y de primavera: origen, evolución y desarrollo.
… that take place in different points of the Greek geography during the days of the festive period of Christmas and Carnival before the Orthodox Christian Easter, from the perspective of lexicography, in many of the cases in a comparative way. This vision aims to be a diachronic study of the …
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Wrestling’s Grip on the Past: A Comprehensive Study of Ancient Greek Wrestling
… in 708 BC. Wrestling continued to appear in Greek and Roman art and literature all the way until the end of antiquity, leaving behind a large cultural legacy over a period of a thousand years. This long history reflects a level of importance and prestige associated with the sport that is …
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A theory of Greek colonisation : EIA Thrace and initial Greek contacts.
The study of Greek colonisation is still dominated by Hellenocentric and Imperialist approaches. Furthermore, culture historical methodologies are still common. Studies often prioritise Imperialist readings of Greek literature, and even (as demonstrated here) restore fragments of Archilochos …
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The Golden Chain: Redrawing the map of ancient allegory
… the prestige of texts such as Homer’s Iliad in a culture with whose values and ideas they were no longer consistent. My discussion highlights the difficulties inherent in both views and stresses instead the close connections between allegoresis and early Greek philosophical thought. The third …
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Doing History with Monsters: the Sphinx, Chimera, and Centaur in Archaic and Classical Greece
“Monsters” abound in Greek art and literature, in every written genre and painted or sculpted medium from the emergence of post-Mycenaean Greek society down through late antiquity, and yet they remain understudied and underutilized in analyses of Greek culture. It is my contention that our ability …
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"Alla Greca"? Matter and Meaning of Greek-style bookbindings in Renaissance Venice
… meanings of so-called “alla greca” bindings, or Greek-style bindings made in Renaissance Europe. It takes Venice as a case study to re-examine wider historical phenomena such as the reception of Greek antiquity and of the Byzantine legacy in the West after the fall of Byzantium (1453), cultural …
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Where is Socrates going? : the philosophy of conversion in Plato's "Euthydemus".
… between philosophy and the competitive values of Greek society. The two sophists in this dialogue hardly merit serious, sustained attention. They make no serious arguments and do not seem clever enough to conceal the speciousness of their method. They practice eristic controversy for only one …
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Sexual Desire(s) and the Desire for Intimacy: An Autoethnographic Exploration
… of his sexual desire within the context of the Greek culture and describe his efforts to overcome his sense of dehumanization and pursue sexual intimacy. They also emphasize the importance of experiencing our emotions, exploring the materiality of our bodies, openly acknowledging and grappling …
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Metamorphoses of the Butterfly in Classical Antiquity: From the Female Body to the Soul of the Dead
… light in particular, and the female world in Greek culture, with particular regard to the erotic domain. I continue my analysis of the butterfly’s association with the erotic sphere in Chapter Three, where I analyse how the butterfly participated in the entangled symbolism linking the soul and …
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KORYDULLO: A STUDY OF A GREEK PRISON FOR WOMEN OFFENDERS
… this study seeks to explore the structure of a Greek prison for women offenders.</p><p>The data for this study were gathered over a period of approximately one year at Korydullo, the only prison for women offenders in Greece. In the tradition of field research, a combination of methods and …
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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 concept of Aidos in Greek literature from Homer to 404 BC
… classification of societies as shame or guilt-cultures, and the position is taken that, firstly, such a distinction has no real basis in human psychology and, secondly, that its application to the differences between ancient Greek culture and our own is largely superficial. The challenge to the …
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