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2022 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-120
Author(s):  
Gregory T. Papanikos

Democracy in ancient Athens was different from what is implemented today even in the most advanced democracies. To evaluate this difference, this paper presents five criteria of democracy and then applies them to ancient Athens and modern advanced democracies. In comparison and according to five criteria, modern democracies are inferior to what the eligible citizens of Ancient Athens enjoyed. The ancient Greek literature on the subject has identified five criteria of democracy which neither today nor in ancient times were fully satisfied. The democracy today satisfies some but not all five criteria. This was also true for the ancient (Athenian) democracy. They differ in which criteria they satisfied. Of course, each criterion is fulfilled to a certain extent and this may differentiate modern from ancient democracy. These issues are discussed in this paper.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathieu de Bakker ◽  
Irene J.F. de Jong

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewen Bowie

In this book one of the world's leading Hellenists brings together his many contributions over four decades to our understanding of early Greek literature, above all of elegiac poetry and its relation to fifth-century prose historiography, but also of early Greek epic, iambic, melic and epigrammatic poetry. Many chapters have become seminal, e.g. that which first proposed the importance of now-lost long narrative elegies, and others exploring their performance contexts when papyri published in 1992 and 2005 yielded fragments of such long poems by Simonides and Archilochus. Another chapter argues against the widespread view that Sappho composed and performed chiefly for audiences of young girls, suggesting instead that she was a virtuoso singer and lyre-player, entertaining men in the elite symposia whose verbal and musical components are explored in several other chapters of the book. Two more volumes of collected papers will follow devoted to later Greek literature and culture.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-230
Author(s):  
D Pugazhendhi

The Greek and Tamil people did sea trade from the pre-historic times. Sandalwood is seen only in Tamil land and surrounding places. It is also one of the items included in the trade. The Greek word ‘σανταλίνων’ is first mentioned in the ancient Greek works around the middle of the first century CE. The fact that the word is related to Tamil, but the etymologist did not acknowledge the same, rather they relate it to other languages. As far as its uses are concerned, it is not found in the ancient Greek literatures. One another type of wood ‘κέδρου’ cedar is also mentioned in the ancient Greek literature with the medicinal properties similar to ‘σανταλίνων’. In the same way the use of the Hebrew Biblical word ‘Almuggim -אַלְמֻגִּ֛ים’ which is the word used for sandalwood, also denotes teak wood. This shows that in these words, there are possibilities of some semantic changes such as semantic shift or broadening. Keywords: biblical word, Greek, Hebrew, Sandalwood, Tamil


Author(s):  
Françoise Morcillo

Este escrito ejecuta una revisión de los aspectos poéticos de la obra del escritor valenciano Jaime Siles a partir de su poemario Galería de rara antigüedad, que fue merecedor del XXVIII Premio de poesía Jaime Gil de Biedma en 2018. En el curso del texto, asimismo, se comentará la cuestión relativa a la la práctica del monólogo interior con su concepción autorial de la poesía íntima, en particular, así como de sus imbricaciones en la literatura griega antigua o la tradición europea moderna, en general, de la que Jaime Gil de Biedma fue un epígono esencial en el panorama de la creación literaria española en el siglo XX. This writing carries out a review of the poetic aspects of the work of the Valencian writer Jaime Siles from his collection of poems Galería de rara antigüedad, which deserved the XXVIII Jaime Gil de Biedma Poetry Prize in 2018. Over the course of this work the discussed issue will also consider the the inner monologues practice in its relation to Sile's authorial conception of intimate poetry, in particular, and its entanglements in Ancient Greek literature or European modernism tradition, in general, of which Jaime Gil de Biedma was an essential epigone in the Spanish literary scene in the 20th Century.


Author(s):  
Jennifer R. March

Oedipus Tyrannus by the great tragedian Sophocles is one of the most famous works of ancient Greek literature. The play has always been admired for the unity of its plot; every bit of every scene counts towards the dramatic effect. The action is concentrated into a single day in Oedipus’ life; his heinous crimes of unwittingly committing patricide and incest by marrying his mother all lie long ago in the past, and now, in the action of this one day, there awaits for him only the discovery of the truth. Oedipus is portrayed as a noble king, deeply devoted to his people and they to him. Proud of his earlier defeat of the Sphinx, he is determined to save his city once again, and he unflinchingly pursues the truth of who he is and what he has done, unaware that it will bring him to disaster. The spectators, familiar with Oedipus’ story, wait in horrified suspense for that terrible moment of realisation to arrive. And when it does, Oedipus survives it: he takes full responsibility for what he has done, accepts the grief and the pain, and carries on, remaining indomitable to the end. Sophocles gives no answer as to why Oedipus is made to suffer his tragic fate. Jenny March’s new facing-page translation brings alive the power and complexities of Sophocles’ writing, with a substantial introduction and a detailed commentary which is keyed to important words in the translation and aims to be accessible to readers with little or no Greek.


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