10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GREEKNESS»
Discover the use of
Greekness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Greekness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Greeks on
Greekness: viewing the Greek past under the Roman ...
In this volume, which represents a selection of the papers presented at the colloquium, "Greeks on Greekness: The Construction and Uses of the Greek Past among Greeks under the Roman Empire," held at the Center for Hellenic Studies on 25-28 ...
David Konstan, Suzanne Saïd, 2006
This chapter will focus on a notion of 'Greekness' as it is constructed on the
Internet. The World Wide Web, also known as Koufkx; (komvos) or AiaSt~icruo (
thiadiktyo) in Greek, is a site where various 'technologies of national desire' (
Maxwell ...
Karim Haiderali Karim, 2003
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The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism: An ...
As such it reveals completely both all possibilities of war and of peace, and all
possibilities of barbarism and of Greekness. All human life moves between the
poles of war and peace, and between the poles of barbarism and Greekness.
Leo Strauss, Thomas L. Pangle, 1989
Rest, long periods of rest, were the conditions for the emergence of Greekness.
Greekness is late and rare; it is the exception. Just as humanity divides itself into
Greeks and barbarians, Greekness in its turn has two poles, Sparta and Athens.
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Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World
Fornow, itshould suffice tostatethat many Greeks residing in classical Greek
regionsandthe “unclassical” territories that Alexander conquered embraced this
visionand located their Greekness in their emulation ofclassical trends or, ...
Nathanael J. Andrade, 2013
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"Imitation Greeks": Being Syrian in the Greco-Roman World ...
Despite the dynamism of the expressions of localizing Greekness produced
during the reign of Antiochus IV, the king's efforts to promote new contexts of
Greek civic performance destabilized his kingdom. His endorsement of localizing
...
Nathanael John Andrade, 2009
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Psalms and Practice: Worship, Virtue, and Authority
these Hebrew texts already translated into Greek, embedded in a specific form of
Greekness. In order for me to gain any access to the Hebrew text as Hebrew text,
I am looking at it through a complex interpretive matrix that does not belong to ...
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Why This New Race: Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity
When "Greekness" is defined as sufficiently fluid as to be potentially available to
all (even if it is in fact attained only by few), in contrast to definitions of Greekness
that appeal to "the polis of one's birth," Tim Whitmarsh declares, "whatever might
...
Denise Kimber Buell, 2013
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Kazantzakis: Politics of the Spirit
Once more, this statement would seem to equate Greekness with the Apollonian
spirit interpreted as Epaphus. Once more, however, Kazantzakis is using the term
“Greek” in an arbitrary way, as a convenient foil to Buddha. His true view of ...
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Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church: Emperor Julian, ...
Once he had thought that the Antiochenes' Greekness was his; but now, to
demonstrate true Greekness to the Antiochenes, he referred (in time-honored
manner; see Tacitus,Germania) to good—because uncivilized and therefore not
yet ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GREEKNESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
Greekness is used in the context of the following news items.
Stooping with 'Hotel Living' Author Ioannis Pappos
7) I see the Greek flag on your wall. Greekness takes a lot of shapes, colors and sizes and it's not really the cookie-cutter mold that many here in ... «The Pappas Post, Jun 15»
The Incredible History of a Greek Jewish Shul in NYC
These names reflect Greekness, Turkishness and Jewishness all at once. Unfortunately, acculturation ultimately didn't protect the Jews of ... «Jewish Link of New Jersey, Jun 15»
Greece Letter: Economic woe gives way to pervasive uncertainty
Indigenous folk music was the essence of Greekness, but the western musical tradition was a compelling avenue towards internationalism. «Irish Times, Jun 15»
Addicted to Hotel Living: An Interview With Novelist Ioannis Pappos
IP: For a second I lost my Greekness, my job, my friends. When you lose your identity, you don't automatically find another one. It's not like ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
Hotel Living by Ioannis Pappos: A Review by Auguste Corteau
A penetrating sweetness even in the description of the most bitter regret, and a handling of Greekness reminiscent of Eugenides in Middlesex: ... «The Pappas Post, May 15»
America's Greeks rock it Myconos-style in Florida
Many were born here but their dads may have married Americans and as a result gradually slowly lost their Greekness, their Hellenism,” he ... «Kathimerini, May 15»
Why Homer still matters today
Greekness—and eventually Europeanness—emerged from the meeting and melding of those worlds. Homer is the trace of that encounter—in ... «ABC Online, Apr 15»
Greece and the debt crisis
Filotimia is how the Greeks would describe the essence of Greekness. How they describe the EU is mostly unprintable in a family newspaper. «Irish Times, Apr 15»
Greek Letter: Early election only option if exchequer bare
The incoming Syriza government won because they promised to protect that most valued part of Greekness. Committed but naive champions ... «Irish Times, Apr 15»
Introducing the Ancient Greeks by Edith Hall, book review: What …
... what gave the Greeks their unique "Greekness". She also recognises the influence of Greek literature on modern forms of entertainment such ... «The Independent, Apr 15»
