scholarly journals The View on the Sexual Education of People with Autism in Modern Greek Society

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Nikos Αpteslis
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Education ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Greek Society

The Light of the Flame

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleni Bintsi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Social Differentiation ◽  
Social Discourse ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

This chapter presents a study of light, in particular light produced by flame, by investigating the most representative lighting devices used in preindustrial Greece. The symbolism of lighting devices in traditional Greek society, used either out of necessity or in ritual ceremonies and customs as well as in representations in art and in social discourse, is examined to reveal aspects of that society, its common beliefs, and its social differentiation. The oral literature, the myths and sayings still in use in Greek language, are studied as cognitive instruments, as forms of thought, to understand the way people interpret the world and act within it. Finally, the oil lamp, and its ceremonial use in Modern Greek society, which is closely connected to the Orthodox Christian rituals, is interpreted as a symbol that represents national and cultural identities.

Anti-clericalism in pre-independence Greece c 1750–1821

1976 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 257-276
Author(s):  
Richard Clogg
Keyword(s):  
Common Currency ◽  
Founding Father ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
National Movement ◽  
The Common ◽  
Greek Historiography ◽  
The Church

Writing in the 1820s, during the Greek war of independence, of his tour of the Peloponnese Sir William Gell noted that there was ‘a saying common among the Greeks, that the country labours under three curses, the priests, the cogia bashis, and the Turks; always placing the plagues in this order’. This kind of sentiment is a commonplace of the sources, both Greek and non-Greek, relating to pre-independence Greece and it is clear that anti-clericalism was deeply rooted, and not only among the intelligentsia, but among virtually all classes of Greek society. The prevalence, and indeed, the virulence of anti-clerical attitudes in Greece during the pre-independence period must call into question the view still advanced by authorities on this period that the church played a central role in the forging of the Greek national movement. Sir Steven Runciman, for instance, has written that ‘Hellenism survived, nurtured by the Church, because the Greeks unceasingly hoped and planned for the day when they would recover their freedom’, while Douglas Dakin has written that ‘so closely knit was the national existence of the Greeks with their Church that in their liberation movement there was no hostility to the Greek patriarchate comparable to that which the Italians displayed towards the Papacy’.2 Views of this kind also constitute the common currency of Greek historiography. D. A. Zakythinos, for instance, has written that ‘it is universally admitted that die Church saved the Greek Nation during the dark years of slavery’. But he goes on to say that earlier and more recent historians, the ‘healthy minded’ among them, as well as those having ‘certain special political tendencies’, do not subscribe to such a view in toto. He quotes the founding father of modern Greek historiography, Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos, to the effect that ‘the ancestral religion did not cease to constitute one of the principal moral mainsprings of Hellenism, but it did not itself alone constitute Hellenism’.

Studies on Modern Greek Society and Politics (review)

2002 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 434-436
Author(s):  
Victor Roudometof
Keyword(s):  
Modern Greek ◽  
Greek Society

scholarly journals The notion of the “foreigner” in contemporary Greek drama: “We” through the faces of the “others”

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Rea Grigoriou
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Greek Drama ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Cultural Element ◽  
Dramaturgical Analysis ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Dramatic Characters ◽  
The Way

This article explores the dramaturgy of modern Greek playwrights, among others Vassilis Katsikonouris, Giannis Tsiros, Michalis Reppas, Thanasis Papathanasiou and Lena Kitsopoulou. It looks at how these dramatists approach the theme of “alterity” when in their dramatic productions it acquires the meaning of a different ethnic, religious, social and cultural element. It mainly reflects on the roles of the dramatic characters within the multiculturalist environment as it manifested in Greek society in the 1990s and at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The notion of “different” is also examined by drawing on political views of racist and nationalistic ideologies that emerge in the dramatic situations. The dramaturgical analysis is also comparatively combined with the way theatre reviewers and the audiences have received the productions, since the plays’ various interpretations by contemporary directors is considered of the utmost importance.

scholarly journals Myth and reality: the social perception about schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in the Modern Greek society

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
George Doulis ◽  
Theodoros Giaourtsis ◽  
Grigoria Skartsila ◽  
Pigi Karaoulani ◽  
Christos Siotis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bipolar Disorder ◽  
Social Perception ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
The Social

Indigenous Hellenisms/Indigenous Modernities: Classical Antiquity, Materiality, and Modern Greek Society

2009 ◽  
pp. 18-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yannis Hamilakis
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Nation ◽  
Of Greece

This article attempts to briefly highlight an alternative Hellenism, indigenous Hellenism as performed by intellectuals and state bureaucrats, politicians and citizens, and poets and ordinary people, in Greece since the nineteenth century. Through a process of sacralization, classical antiquity was placed at the centre of the emerging modern state, and the material culture of the past (ruins, statues, inscriptions, etc.) gained in status and value. While the new nation of Greece saw itself as the resurrection of an ancient entity, the ideological basis for this national project was provided by a home-grown synthesis of ‘western’ and indigenous Hellenisms. The discussion also argues that it was the crucial work of Johann Gustav Droysen which facilitated this synthesis. It was his idea of a continuity between the ancient and modern worlds that gave Greek intellectuals the impetus to trace their own origins back to the classical past.

Enlightened intellectuals in modern Greek society

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 400-404
Author(s):  
Athanasia Glycofrydi Leontsini
Keyword(s):  
Modern Greek ◽  
Greek Society
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