scholarly journals ΦΑΙΔΙΜΟΣ ΕΚΤΩΡ Studi in onore di Willy Cingano per il suo 70° compleanno

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrico Emanuele Prodi ◽  
Stefano Vecchiato
Keyword(s):  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Seventieth Birthday ◽  
Latin Poetry ◽  
Dynamic Aspect ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Greek Poetry ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
History Of

The volume collects thirty-six essays honouring Ettore (‘Willy’) Cingano, Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Current and former colleagues, students, and friends have contributed new studies on various aspects of Classical antiquity to celebrate his seventieth birthday. The work consists of seven main sections, mirroring and complementing Willy’s research interests. We start with the subjects to which Willy has contributed the most during his career, early Greek hexameter poetry (chapters 2-6: Calame, Coward, Currie, Meliadò, Sider) and lyric, broadly intended (chapters 7-15: Spelman, Cannatà Fera, Le Meur, Prodi, Tosi, Vecchiato, Hadjimichael, D’Alessio and Prauscello, de Kreij). Next come tragedy (Lomiento, Dorati), Hellenistic and later Greek poetry (Perale, Hunter, Bowie, Franceschini), historiographical and other Greek prose (Andolfi, De Vido, Gostoli, Cohen-Skalli, Kaczko), Latin poetry (Barchiesi, Garani, Mastandrea, Mondin), and finally linguistics and the history of scholarship, ancient and modern (Benuzzi, Cassio, Giangiulio, Guidorizzi, Tribulato). The volume is bookended by a collection of translations from medieval and modern Greek poetry (Carpinato) and a reflection on the dynamic aspect of the sublime (Schiesaro).

scholarly journals Lingua e letteratura (neo)greca a Ca’ Foscari: 1868-2018

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caterina Carpinato
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
The Political ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

The essay aims to outline the history of the teaching of Modern Greek at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice: it started with its foundation in 1868, with Costantino Triantafillis, and was interrupted for more than a century from 1890. This paper also deals with the history of the discipline from 1868 until today, with an eye on the connection with the political and cultural life of the country and on the relationship with other disciplines (such as Ancient Greek language and literature and Byzantine civilization). After an interval of a century classes of Modern Greek started up again at Ca’ Foscari in 1994-95 thanks to the teaching of Lucia Marcheselli Loukas. Since 1998 the teaching has been revived with a tenured professor and, in the last twenty years, it has trained graduate students and young scholars who today play a cultural and linguistic role of mediation between Italy and Greece.

scholarly journals Diglossic past and present lexicographical practices

2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Assimakis Tseronis
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come ◽  
Language Question ◽  
The Way

The publication of a dictionary is a means to describe, codify and ultimately standardise a language. This process is complicated by the lexicographer’s own attitude towards the language and the public’s sensitivity on language matters. The recent publication of the two most authoritative dictionaries of Modern Greek and their respective lexical coverage reveals the continuing survival of the underlying ideologies of the two sponsoring institutions concerning the history of the Greek language, as well as their opposing standpoints on the language question over the past decades, some 25 years after the constitutional resolution of the Greek diglossia, affecting the way they describe the synchronic state of language. The two dictionaries proceed from opposing starting points in attempting to influence and set a pace for the standardisation of Modern Greek by presenting two different aspects of the synchronic state of Greek, one of which focuses on the long history of the language and thus takes the present state to be only a link in an uninterrupted chain dating from antiquity, and the other of which focuses on the present state of Greek and thus takes this fully developed autonomous code to be the outcome of past linguistic processes and socio-cultural changes in response to the linguistic community’s present needs. The absence of a sufficiently representative corpus has restrained the descriptive capacity of the two dictionaries and has given space for ideology to come into play, despite the fact that both dictionaries have made concessions in order to account for the present-day Greek language.

scholarly journals Teaching Modern Greek to Classicists

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-139
Author(s):  
Jerneja Kavčič ◽  
Brian Daniel Joseph ◽  
Christopher Brown
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Hellenistic Period ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
History Of ◽  
Carry Over ◽  
The 19Th Century

The ideology of decline is a part of the history of the study and characterization of the Greek language from the Hellenistic period and the Roman Atticist movement right up to the emergence of katharevousa in the 19th century and the resulting modern diglossia. It is also clear, however, that there is an overwhelming presence of Ancient Greek vocabulary and forms in the modern language. Our position is that the recognition of such phenomena can provide a tool for introducing classicists to the modern language, a view that has various intellectual predecessors (e.g., Albert Thumb, Nicholas Bachtin, George Thomson, and Robert Browning). We thus propose a model for the teaching of Modern Greek to classicists that starts with words that we refer to as carry-overs. These are words that can be used in the modern language without requiring any explanation of pronunciation rules concerning Modern Greek spelling or of differences in meaning in comparison to their ancient predecessors (e.g., κακός ‘bad’, μικρός ‘small’, νέος ‘new’, μέλι ‘honey’, πίνετε ‘you drink’). Our data show that a beginners’ textbook of Ancient Greek may contain as many as a few hundred carry-over words, their exact number depending on the variety of the Erasmian pronunciation that is adopted in the teaching practice. However, the teaching of Modern Greek to classicists should also take into account lexical phenomena such as Ancient-Modern Greek false friends, as well as Modern Greek words that correspond to their ancient Greek predecessors only in terms of their written forms and meanings.

scholarly journals A Greek Manuscript describing the Siege of Vienna by the Turks in 1683

1922 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-23
Author(s):  
F. H. Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Short Note ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
General Character ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Greek Culture ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
History Of ◽  
Greek Manuscript ◽  
Richard Taylor

I think that those who take an interest in the history of the modern Greek language may possibly welcome a short note on a manuscript in the British Museum, which appears to me to be worth some attention, chiefly perhaps from the point of view of the part played by Greek culture in Roumania in the seventeenth century.The manuscript in question is Add. MS. 38890 in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum. It was acquired at Hodgson's sale, June 25, 1914, Lot 413, and is from the collection of the Hon. Frederic North, but was later in the possession of Richard Taylor. It is well written and presents but few difficulties of decipherment, and the number of errors is comparatively small. At the end the date of completion is given, viz. December 1686, and the place of writing—Bucharest.I think the general character of the MS. will be best explained by the reproduction of the short preface prefixed to it. I give it here, together with a translation. The pages and lines are those of the MS., and spelling, punctuation and abbreviations are reproduced as they stand, though I have not adhered to the very fluctuating use of the acute and grave accents.

scholarly journals Doing without the Fez: Greek Language Questions

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Gerard Brown
Keyword(s):  
Greek Language ◽  
Ionian Islands ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
National Movement ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Prestige Language

AbstractThis definitive history of the Greek Language Controversy shows how Greek's status as a prestige language galvanized a national movement attracting various ethnicities of the Millet-i rum. The status of classical Greek resonant in Adamantios Korais's katharévousa helped consolidate the Greek state. An alternate demoticist programme, anticipated by Katartzis, developed in the Ionian Islands, and formulated by Psycharis, took hold through the efforts of the Educational Demoticists. Standard Modern Greek is a synthesis of the two programmes—neither the phonologically puristic Romaika of Psycharis nor an archaizing Schriftsprache, it retains elements of both.

scholarly journals Philosophy Embracing Humanities

wisdom ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-42
Author(s):  
Evangelos MOUTSOPOULOS
Keyword(s):  
Greek Language ◽  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Roman Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
European Renaissance ◽  
Rational Reasoning ◽  
Main Factor ◽  
The Ideal

This paper discusses the following points of the history of philosophy and modern life. The emergence of philosophy – the longing for wisdom – in Ancient Greece as the historical point of formation of human rational reasoning. The formation of the ideal of kalokagathia – the art of fine speeches – as the main factor that initiated studia humaniora in Roman culture and the tradition of humanities in present days. The Greek language and literature as carriers of wisdom of Antic world that gave birth to Neoplatonism and Christian philosophy and mysticism. The rehabilitation of Aristotle’s Organon as the way to Neohellenic philosophy and the advent of the European Renaissance. Greek philosophy becoming an inseparable part of humanities in modern times. The unprecedented growth of technologies and globalization pushing aside philosophy and humanities in the interest of profit and immense wealth. The paradigm of corruption as the cause of worldwide detriment of individuals. Humanities and philosophy as the only warrants of an effective transition towards sane societies.

scholarly journals Et forslag til en grundtvigsk lærd skole 1832

1972 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-39
Author(s):  
Henning Heilesen
Keyword(s):  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Biblical History ◽  
Folk High School ◽  
The University ◽  
Old Greek ◽  
To Receive

Plan for a Grundtvigian Grammar School 1832By Henning HeilesenThis paper brings to light a number of previously unknown documents giving a clear picture of the resistance with which the University of Copenhagen met an application from two of Grundtvig’s young friends, J. F. Fenger and C. H. Muus, for permission to establish a school preparing its pupils for University entrance along the lines laid down by Grundtvig: Greek language and literature, rather than Latin, was to provide the basis, a living language was to be preferred to a dead one, the study of the mother tongue and history was to receive the bulk of attention, and the instruction in religion was to be based on Biblical history. C. H. Muus had taught Grundtvig’s children at home alone these lines, using as texts for instance Grundtvig’s Krønike-Riim (1829) and Historisk Børne-Lærdom with the key-map “ Tidens Strøm” , which appeared at approximately the same time. What especially displeased the professors who were to approve the plan was the idea of beginning the instruction in Greek with the Gospel according to St. John and of including Modern Greek alongside of Old Greek. The Senate also missed mathematics in the curriculum and regretted that the possibility of pupils returning to the traditional school in case their parents might wish so had not been provided for. - The plan proved harmful to both Fenger and Muus in their later careers and influenced Grundtvig’s article “Den latinske Stil” (1834). Peder Hjorth, the contemporary critic, characterised it as a “mixture of chauvinism and Romanophobia” . Grundtvig instead concentrated his endeavours on the plan for a folk high school.

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