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ACTIVIDADES DEL CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS GRIEGOS, BIZANTINOS Y NEOHELÉNICOS 2023

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IOANIS KAPODISTRIAS ANO THE EUROPEAN UNION

2024-12-23T18:51:11+00:00

This article studies an aspect of the thought of Ioanis Kapodistrias during his performance as Attaché to the Ministry of F oreign Affairs of the Russian Empire (18121815) and lateras Minister (18151822). Through his memoranda and letters and his performances at various Congresses, his ideas about total European unity, about respect for small States and the value of the will of the people are expressed. It can be considered a precursor to the idea of the European Union.

Evyenios Vúlgaris (1716-1806): un ilustrado al servicio de la ortodoxia

2024-02-14T20:40:33+00:00

The article deals with the Eugenios Voulgaris academical, intellectual and literary career, since his initial studies in Jonic Islands, Venice and University of Padua (1716-1742) and his teaching in the Greek-orthodox schools of the Ottoman Rumelia (1742-1763) to his stay in Leipzig (1764-1770) and his promotion to the court of Catherine II the Great in Russia (1771-1806).

WEDDING SONGS IN CASTILIAN SPANISH AND GREEK CYPRIOT FOLK LYRIC POETRY. COMPARISON OF ANALOGOUS LAOGRAPHIC-LITERARY MOTIFS

2024-03-13T16:22:59+00:00

Folk lyric poetry is a form of artistic expression that is related to the cultural identity of the peoples to whom its creation is attributed. With respect to wedding songs both in the Iberian Peninsula and the island of Cyprus, due to the evolution of the civilizations that settled there providing their culture, the songs’ development in Castilian Spanish and Greek Cypriot has its antecedents in Latin and Greek ancient lyric poetry respectively. Given the continuity of the aforementioned kind of compositions over time, they are analysed their analogous laographic-literary motifs, that is to say, the minimal thematic units of ethnologic and literary nature that they both share, in which references to different aspects are discerned. The intention of this article is to determine the perspective with which both cultures create wedding songs.

MEMORY AND WRITING IN IAKOVOS KAMBANELLIS' MA UTHA USEN

2023-03-20T00:24:42+00:00

The Greek playwright Iákovos Kambanellis published in 1965 the prose chronicle Mauthausen. The book recounts his experience in the Nazi concentration camp where he was imprisoned between 1943 and 1945. The work is the result of a long creative process that lasted from his liberation from the camp and his return to Greece until 1995, the date of the book’s second edition. This paper examines this writing process and its different phases, and analyses some related motifs from a comparative point of view: the role of memory, the condition of the survivor as a witness, the moral imperative to bear witness, and the question of truth and fiction. All of them are essential themes in Holocaust Literature.

Migración e hibridez o los extranjeros de la literatura griega contemporánea

2023-08-26T08:53:18+00:00

El entendimiento de la literatura bajo un enfoque transnacional permite estudiar aspectos que cuestionan de manera contundente ciertos supuestos literarios tradicionales relacionados con el género literario, la función del escritor o su identidad personal. Grecia, en tanto que país de emigrantes, nos ofrece ejemplos de la literatura contemporánea multilingüe que llaman la atención sobre algunos de estos aspectos, desde el punto de vista de los estudios sobre la diáspora y las migraciones, así como del multilingüismo y el multiculturalismo. Este artículo se servirá de los casos de siete autores griegos modernos para ilustrar la importancia de la experiencia de la diáspora griega en relación con la creación literaria y los dilemas identitarios. Se espera poner de relieve la necesidad de considerar la práctica de la autotraducción y la relación entre xenitiá, identidad y pertenencia en el estudio de las obras de emigrantes griegos.

A MASTER NETWORK. GREECE IN MARY RENAULT

2024-12-23T19:47:55+00:00

Mary Renault is probably the best writer in the historical novel genre. The depth, beauty and artistry of her work is undeniable, but it also puts it in a difficult situation with respect to its study and understanding. To refer to the Hellenism of Mary Renault, one usually goes to the book by Bemard Dick who par tially studied the author 's work. This inescapable and unique reference, however, contains errors that sometimes contradict what the novelist tried to express and it is evident that it does not cover all of the author's work. I think a new study should be carried out on the author 's Hellenism. An outline of what such a study should contain is what is attempted in this article.

BELEROPHON IN TZETZES: HISTORIES VII 149: AN APPROACH TO THE AUTHOR

2024-12-23T17:51:32+00:00

As in much of his production, Juan Tzetzes intends to make a power ful selfpromotional instrument of the one that bears the number 149 of Book VII of his Histories. To this end, he acts on the text in diff erent ways, tuming it into the weapon with which to defeat his enemies on the intellectual battlefield of Byzantium and achieve the professional success he always yeamed for: using Bellerophon as a transcript of himself that allows him to be able to present himself as the wise hero unjustly persecuted and demonstrating his unbeatable qualities in all his facets as an intellectual. Beneath the surface of the myth, the text thus becomes a complex framework with which it addresses different recipients by making the same elements offer different readings depending on their capacity and erudition, a kind of kaleidoscope that requires his exegesis for his deep understanding.

Aratos’ Phaenomena in Byzantium: a philological study of the anonymous metaphrasis in MS. Barocci 131

2024-03-18T21:16:55+00:00

Metaphrases were very popular in Byzantine scholarship; they were rewriting tools that aimed, among other things, to render poetic works in prose and vice versa for didactic purposes and, in the case of scientific texts, to make them easier to understand. Only one instance of a synoptic metaphrasis of Aratos' Phaenomena is known, the one preserved in MS. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Barocci 131 (13th century). This article presents the first philological study of this synoptic metaphrasis —as its title suggests—, traditionally attributed to Michael Psellos (PHI.147; Moore 2005). I examine its genesis, structure, content, sources, compositional methodology, rewriting strategies, authorship, and its function within the Barocci 131 in relation to other texts in the codex on astronomy, meteorology and physics attributed to Psellos.

Compositional techniques in Biblical paraphrase in the poem of Job, or, On Indifference to Grief and on Patience of Leo the Philosopher.

2023-03-19T19:39:15+00:00

Among the concise literary production attributed to Leo the Philosopher there is a singular poem, titled Job, or, On Indifference to Grief and on Patience, edited by Westerink (1986). The formal and functional definition of the poem has been the subject of discussion during the last decades. The poem combines elements from different rhetorical traditions, including biblical paraphrasis. This paper offers a translation of the paraphrasis contained in verses 39-215 and a study on the compositional techniques used by Leo in its elaboration, based on the methodology on rewriting proposed by Genette (1982). Likewise, the various traditions that serve as a model for the author are analyzed. From this analysis it is possible to identify the context of the production of the poem within the first Byzantine Humanism of the 9th century and its diffusion in the circles of intellectuals around the Magnaura school in Constantinople.

Rome and Constantinople: The pope and imperial Authority in ltaly (701-751)

2024-03-12T00:44:24+00:00

In this research we will address the relationships between the papacy and the Eastern Roman Empire during the first half of the VIII century. We are going to defend the next affirmation: Popes acted as the main articulators of imperial power in Italy during these years. For a complete analysis about our topic, we will attend the dark situation of the empire, the weaknesses of different emperors, the political fragmentation of italian peninsula, and mostly, encounters and hostilities between pontiffs and emperors. We will focus in the analysis of the sources at our disposal, wich on our opinion demonstrate that popes acted as imperial officials in political sphere.

Politics, anthropology and philosophy in Heraclitus of Ephesus

2024-01-06T15:51:07+00:00

This article shows that in Heraclitus elements can be found to account for different types of knowledge. We can find elements of physics, religion or theology, logic or epistemology, politics, anthropology, and philosophy itself. We aim to show in this study the development of the last three, as a further step towards a possible characterization of the philosophy of the Ephesian as a “philosophical system” in a broad sense. To do this, the known fragments related to what we call “politics”, “anthropology” and “philosophy” will be grouped, and their relationships will be analyzed in support of the thesis of the systematicity of Heraclitean thought.

Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus: theology and education in Plato’s Republic and the Oratio ad adolescentes of Saint Basil

2024-03-12T05:08:04+00:00

The link between Platonism and early Cristian thought has been noted amply in so far the influence the former has had on the latter. This tremendous influence is evident in the philosophical platonic vocabulary that the Cristian thinkers will use. It has also been established an almost perfect analogy between some constructions of the platonic “philosophic system” and the speculative theological edifice that began to be developed after God’s death in the Cross. However, the analogy is not perfect and not all of Plato’s philosophical elements are compatible with the doctrine of Jesus Christ. This article discusses some points in common and some differences that seem to be present between platonic metaphysics, theology and politics in The Republic (books II and III) and the sketch of Christian theology in Basil’s Oratio ad adolescentes. Especially, those with respect to Homer’s role as an educator and the moral and political results of the mythological works of the Greek poets. Thus, the necessity for the polis, in the case of Plato, of stories that reflect true theological principles and the convenience of stories that encourage Christian youth to practice virtue, in the case of Basil.

ZOOMORPHIC METAPHORS, A MISOGYNISTIC RESOURCE IN THE IAMBIC POEM THE CATALOG OF WOMEN

2024-02-14T17:22:14+00:00

Analyzing fragments that marked literature is one of the most valuable ways to learn about the worldview of a culture. And thanks to these literary forms, we can contrast any sociocultural representation of a society with another, generating an atmosphere of reflection. Therefore, in this analysis, beyond assuming a position against Semónides' yambo, I seek to generate a remembrance of the first misogynist traces in ancient literature, and how, through the poem The Catalog of Women, Hellenic perceptions towards women are evidenced. These same perceptions are analyzed through the metaphoric theory of Lakoff and Johnson, where a mapping of metaphors, a sociocultural analysis, and their respective contemporary equivalences are made. Finally, analyzing the metaphors of the fragment allows us to understand that its main functions are to simplify a complex reality, to generate a collective memory under the oral tradition and to denigrate the role of woman.

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In this work, various textual evidence, and some epigraphics, are analyzed with the purpose of clarifying the place and meaning of boxing (sphairomachía) within the political organization of the Lacedaemonians and, in particular, their civic education. Based on this evidence, the two rival interpretations that have dominated the debate around this issue in the secondary literature are jointly evaluated. Finally, a ‘philosophical’ reflection is carried out in which the notion of ‘virtue’ is considered in relation to the body and good physical condition (euexia), following Aristotle’s statements in the Nicomachean Ethics.

THE ATHENAION POLITEIA OF PSEUDO-XENOPHON IN ITS SPANISH TRANSLATIONS

2023-03-21T20:39:44+00:00

This work presents four Spanish translations of the political pamphlet Athenaion Politeia or "The Republic of the Athenians". This text has been the cause of numerous controversies, due to its authorship, historicity and the many political interpretations contained in the concepts used. This document allows us to compare the diff erences in the meaning that different translators have given to the Greek text, using different stylistic resources that the Spanish language allows and that are part of the Hispanic American political heritage, still in force today.

THE KOINONFORMATION AS SOCIAL SPACE. THE ACHAEANS DURING THE THIRD CENTURY BC

2023-03-18T18:21:36+00:00

The article analyses the expansion of the Achaean koinon during the midthird century BC and its crisis during the Cleomenean War. The notion of social space is considered a key to understand the territorial arrangements of the
federal Hellenistic states, which bonded them to personalized networks relating polis, koinon and kingdoms during that period. In this way, diff erent alignments of the polis may be comprehended in terms of a common spatiality, which highlights the traj ectory of certain brokers placed between different interaction fields.

BETWEEN POLIS AND REGION: REFLECTIONS ON THE CITY-STATE OF GREECE'S ARCHAIC AGE

2023-04-11T17:03:51+00:00

This paper exposes the importance of understanding the cultural life of Archaic Greece, with a dialectical exchange between polis and region, considering the currently-limited sources of information. The prevailing principle is that each polis represented a particular space and that it should be evaluated with other poleis that had experienced similar and/or parallel historical experiences, whether
territorial, colonizing or other reasons, generating a dialogue between them, and they should not be studied with others that didn't have common experiences and evolution. To achieve this objective, a synthetic bibliographical review was carried out in order to highlight what a polis was like during the Archaic Era. The principle of region was evaluated, such as Colophon, Smyma, Miletus and Mytilene.

THE MOVEMENT OF THE SOUL: ON THE ARISTOTELIAN NOTION OF PERCEPTION AS A CERTAIN ALTERATION

2023-03-20T21:17:01+00:00

I argue that the actuality perception consists of can be described as a certain type of movement and alteration, formally understood, which from the viewpoint of its content, obtains the configuration of a continuous succession of sensible forms. To show that, an analysis of perceptive experience is carried out, thus exhibiting its internal structure and the relevant determinations that specify the way in which this is temporally conformed. At the light of such temporally oriented analysis of perceptive experience, precisely awareness of time reveals itself as a fundamental moment in the psychological theory of perception in Aristotle.

Laura Mestre: una humanista casi desconocida. Prólogo y selección de Elina Miranda Cancela. La Habana: Ediciones Boloña. 15,5 x 23 cms. pp. 220.

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Safo. Poemas y fragmentos Pablo lngberg (2015) Edición bilingüe. Editorial Universitaria. Santiago de Chile

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Ensayos I (2023) y Ensayos 11 (2024) César García Álvarez. Aspa-Ediciones. Santiago de Chile.

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