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2007, Presented at the 8th Hellenic Astronomical Conference (In Greek)
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This is the talk as presented. The conference proceedings were never published. The later paper "Are the moons of Ninnion a representation of earthshine?" (in English) covers in more detail the subject. The so called “Ninnion tablet” [National Museum of Athens 11036] is a votive red-figured attic clay plaque, found in the Sanctuary of Eleusis in 1895, and dated to ca. 370 BC. The complex iconography has been extensively discussed in classical scholarship. The main scene is crowned by a frieze depicting a series of lunar discs and crescents, in a variety of positions, which has not been given much attention yet. In the present paper we will examine whether these moons might have an astronomical significance. We conclude that they cannot give us specific astronomical information for the creation of the drawing, or for dating the scene that it depicts.
Ψυχολογία. Το περιοδικό της Ελληνικής Ψυχολογικής Εταιρείας, 2020
Hellenistica Groningana 23: Drama and Performance in Hellenistic Poetry, edd. A. Harder et al., 2018
This paper examines the links between inscribed hymns, especially inscribed paians, and Callimachus’ Hymn to Apollo, building on recent studies which identify inscribed cult hymns as an important influence on Callimachus’ hymns (Vamvouri Ruffy 2004; Petrovic 2011). It argues that the replication of performance found in the mimetic opening of the Hymn to Apollo uses strategies similar to those employed by the authors of contemporary inscribed paians. Inscribed paians, like Callimachus’ mimetic hymns, take steps to recreate a performance context that is lost when the paian is transferred away from the medium of performance. Thus, inscribed paians include an address inviting choirs of boys to sing (e.g. the Erythrae paian or those by Isyllos and Makedonikos) and are commonly accompanied by a paratext which attempts to give the reader in the sanctuary a sense of the context under which the poem was performed (e.g. Isyllos, Philodamos). In the same way, Callimachus’ mimetic opening to the Hymn to Apollo attempts to give the audience a sense of the conditions under which the hymn might be performed. Yet, without the accompanying context of a sanctuary for his hymn to be placed in, Callimachus expands the mimetic technique used by the authors of cult paians, creating a mimetic opening which points firmly to the hymn’s performance context (whether real or imagined) in the Cyrenaean Carneia. However, by virtue of its extended mimetic opening, the hymn can be read or performed in any location and is not bounded temporally or spatially. The extended mimetic opening takes the place of the inscription’s surroundings; the god’s temple and sacred flora are inside not outside the hymn.
Η Αριστερά στη Σύγχρονη Κυπριακή Ιστορία, 2021
Κριτική του βιβλίου "Η Αριστερά στη Σύγχρονη Κυπριακή Ιστορία" του Γιώργου Καμηλάρη, Λευκωσία 2021
Διδακτορική Διατριβή [Doctaral thesis], Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο , 1997
his thesis is concerned the social construction and culture of special social pockets that clustered on the urban fringe around activities of prostitution and leisure in the first half of the 20th century. This area of study is explored from the perspective of interpretive sociology and cultural anthropology based on the ethnographic example of the Lakkos, a space of differentiated social organization associated with a value system and codes of behaviour that deviate from the conventional norms of respectable society. The study explores scattered traces of urban popular culture and presents a local version of the rebetiko in a city for which are no reports of the existence of such subcultural formations. The social world of Lakkos is constituted in a particular socio-historical context, in a time when Heraklion is changing, its social organisation is transforming and the patterns of cultural behaviour and social relations are changing. The factual material on which the interpretive schemes of the study are structured comes from field research in Heraklion, Crete from March 1993 to June 1995 and consists of biographies (life stories of elderly people who were involved in the activities of the pit in the past), ethnographic observations, historiographic material, unedited texts from newspapers and magazines of the time and information from archival sources. The analysis focuses on biographical discourse and the way subjects negotiate their social conditions of existence. The biographical flashbacks, memories of subjects imbued with present purposes, are analyzed as narrative practises that constitute a social poetics for the world of Lakkos. Within the historiographical axis, unedited written sources are analyzed, the attitudes of the state apparatus and scholarly judgements on the idiosyncratic social pocket are investigated and an attempt is made to reconstruct the temporal transformation of the city in a period of rapid changes (the constructions Autonomous Crete State, the arrival of Asia Minor refuges, etc.). Περίληψη στα Ελληνικά Η διατριβή αυτή αφορά την κοινωνική συγκρότηση και το πολιτισμικό περιεχόμενο ιδιαίτερων κοινωνικών νησίδων που συστήνονται στις παρυφές της πόλης γύρω από δραστηριότητες αγοραίου έρωτα και πρακτικών ελεύθερου χρόνου στο πρώτο μισό του 20ου αιώνα. Αυτό το πεδίο μελέτης, διερευνάται από την σκοπιά της ερμηνευτικής κοινωνιολογίας και της πολιτισμικής ανθρωπολογίας με βάση το εθνογραφικό παράδειγμα του Λάκκου, ενός χώρου διαφορικής κοινωνικής οργάνωσης συνδεδεμένου με ένα αξιακό σύστημα και κώδικες συμπεριφοράς που παρεκκλίνουν από του συμβατικούς κανόνες της ευυπόληπτης κοινωνίας. Η μελέτη καταγράφει διάσπαρτα ίχνη του αστικού λαϊκού πολιτισμού και παρουσιάζει μια τοπική εκδοχή του ρεμπέτικου σε μια πόλη για την οποία απουσιάζουν οι αναφορές για την ύπαρξη τέτοιων υποπολιτισμικών μορφωμάτων. Ο κοινωνικός κόσμος του Λάκκου συγκροτείται σε ένα καθορισμένο κοινωνικό-ιστορικό πλαίσιο, σε μια περίοδο κατά την οποία το Ηράκλειο μετασχηματίζεται, αλλάζει η κοινωνική του οργάνωση και μεταβάλλονται τα πρότυπα πολιτισμικής συμπεριφοράς και κοινωνικών σχέσεων. Το πραγματολογικό υλικό πάνω στο οποίο δομούνται τα ερμηνευτικά σχήματα της εργασίας προέρχεται από έρευνα πεδίου στο Ηράκλειο Κρήτης από τον Μάρτιο του 1993 έως τον Ιούνιο του 1995 και απαρτίζεται από βιογραφίες (ιστορίες ζωής ηλικιωμένων ατόμων που είχαν εμπλακεί στο παρελθόν σε δραστηριότητες του Λάκκου), εθνογραφικές παρατηρήσεις, ιστοριογραφικό υλικό, αποδελτιωμένα κείμενα εφημερίδων και περιοδικών της εποχής και πληροφορίες αρχειακών πηγών. Η ανάλυση επικεντρώνεται στον βιογραφικό λόγο και στον τρόπο με τον οποίο τα υποκείμενα διαπραγματεύονται τις κοινωνικές συνθήκες ύπαρξης τους. Οι βιογραφικές αναδρομές, μνήμες ανθρώπων διαποτισμένες από παροντικές στοχοθεσίες, αναλύονται ως αφηγηματικές πρακτικές που συγκροτούν μια κοινωνική ποιητική για τον κόσμο του Λάκκου και της μαγκιάς. Στο πλαίσιο του ιστοριογραφικού άξονα αναλύονται ως προς τα ιδεολογικά και κοινωνικά τους συμφραζόμενα, αποδελτιωμένες γραπτές πηγές, διερευνώνται στάσεις του κρατικού μηχανισμού και λόγιες εκφορές κρίσεων για την ιδιότυπη κοινωνική νησίδα και επιχειρείται η ανασύσταση του χρονικού του μετασχηματισμού της πόλης σε μια περίοδο ραγδαίων μεταβολών (Κρητική Πολιτεία, είσοδος προσφύγων κτλ.).
Introduction, 2011
ΑνΑρχές οι µεταφράσεις µας ακόµα και οι καλύτερες ξεκινούν από µια εσφαλµένη αρχή θέλουν να γερµανοποιήσουν τα ινδικά τα ελληνικά τα αγγλικά αντί να ινδοποιούν, ελληνοποιούν, αγγλοποιούν τα γερµανικά […] το θεµελιώδες λάθος του µεταφραστή είναι ότι γαντζώνεται στην κατάσταση στην οποία τυχαίνει να βρίσκεται η γλώσσα του αντί να της επιτρέπει να τεθεί δυναµικά σε κίνηση από την ξένη γλώσσα. […] πρέπει να εµβαθύνει τη δική του γλώσσα µέσω της ξένης […] Rudolf Pannwitz όπως παρατίθεται στον Μπένγιαµιν
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