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Spanos, Dimitrios, and Alivisos Sofos. "Digital literacy of students participating in a one-to-one laptop initiative in Greece." Ανοικτή Εκπαίδευση: το περιοδικό για την Ανοικτή και εξ Αποστάσεως Εκπαίδευση και την Εκπαιδευτική Τεχνολογία 10, no. 1 (January 1, 2014): 69. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/jode.9812.

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This research was conducted at a private school in Athens Greece, that implements a one-to-one laptop initiative. There were two research questions: a) does the digital literacy of students participating in the program of one laptop per student change and b) is there a differentiation in the digital literacy of boys and girls. The students completed a questionnaire in two phases (pre / post) that included 75 Likert-scale questions, divided in 5 sections. According to the data, it can be concluded that the digital literacy of the students does indeed improve, while the second research question cannot be answered as there is no clear superiority of either of the sexes.
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Shapiro, H. A. "Literacy and social status of archaic attic vase-painters." Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, no. 5 (December 18, 1995): 211. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.1995.109236.

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In recent years, new evidence has led some scholars to question the traditional view of Athenian potters and painters as banausoi of low social status whose lives seldom if ever intersected with those of the aristocracy (Keuls, 1989: 149-67). The evidence pertains mainly to the generation of the red-figure pioneers, who are excepcional in their strong sense of identity and self-conscious reference to each other and to their patrons. Their meeting ground was the symposium. The presente paper focuses on an earlier period, the mid-sixth century, and on certain vase inscriptions that suggest not only a high degree of literacy on the part of the painter, but also a familiarity with several genres of sympotic and other poetry. These metrical inscriptions, some on otherwise modest vases and not previously collected, attest to the pervasiveness of the “song culture” of Archaic Greece described by J. Herington (1985). These and other examples imply that the social structure of Early Archaic Athens, in the wake of Solon’s reforms, was not a rigidly stratified one, but rather artisans mixed freely with aristocrats, often joined through their shared tastes for poetry and song.
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Nightingale, Andrea Wilson. "Plato's lawcode in context: rule by written law in Athens and Magnesia." Classical Quarterly 49, no. 1 (May 1999): 100–122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cq/49.1.100.

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Perhaps more than any other dialogue, Plato's Laws demands a reading that is at once historical and philosophical. This text's conception of the ‘rule of law’ is best understood in its contemporary socio-political context; its philosophical discussion of this topic, in fact, can be firmly located in the political ideologies and institutions of fourth-century Greece. In this paper, I want to focus on the written lawcode created in the Laws in the context of the Athenian conception and practice of rule by written law. How are the Athenian laws authorized, disseminated, and implemented, and how does Plato's lawcode reflect and/or depart from this model? What is the status of the ‘text’ of each lawcode? How—and how well—do the citizens know the law? When and by whom can the lawcode be altered? Recent work on literacy and on rule by written law in fourth-century Athens invites a serious reconsideration of Plato's lawcode and the polity it is designed for. Certainly Plato's Laws is grounded in a serious meditation on Athenian legislative practices. But Plato adds a novel ingredient to his legislation—the ‘Egyptian’ practice of ‘doing things by the book’ exemplified by (among other things) the institution of laws which compel doctors to treat patients in strict accordance with venerable and, indeed, sacred medical texts. As I will argue, the ‘Egyptian’ medical and textual practices offer a model for the rule of law quite different from that found in Athens.
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Efthymiou, Areti, Evridiki Papastavrou, Nicos Middleton, Artemis Markatou, and Paraskevi Sakka. "How Caregivers of People With Dementia Search for Dementia-Specific Information on the Internet: Survey Study." JMIR Aging 3, no. 1 (May 19, 2020): e15480. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/15480.

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Background During the last decade, more research has focused on web-based interventions delivered to support caregivers of people with dementia. However, little information is available in relation to internet use among caregivers in general, especially those caring for people with dementia. Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the dementia-related internet use and factors that may be associated with its use among caregivers of people with dementia in Greece. Methods Secondary data from the Greek Dementia Survey of the Athens Association of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders were collected from April to June 2017. A total of 580 caregivers of people with dementia participated in the study. Results The majority of the caregivers reported that they had used the internet in the previous 3 months (84.1%, 488/580). Nearly half of the caregivers (47.5%, 276/580) reported that they had received dementia services online. Bivariate analysis showed that a dementia-specific search of information was associated with age, education, kinship, and years of care. Age (odds ratio [OR] 2.362, 95% CI 1.05-5.33) and education (OR 2.228, 95% CI 1.01-4.94) were confirmed as predictors, with younger caregivers and those with higher educational attainment being more likely to search for dementia-specific information. Use of the internet to search for dementia information was only related to hours of care. The internet use by caregivers within the previous 3 months was associated with variables such as age, education, occupation, kinship, years of care, and self-reported impact on physical and social health. Conclusions Caregivers of people with dementia in Greece, as in the other southern European countries, are essential agents of the national health system. The existing short- and long-term respite care services are limited or nonexistent. Currently, caregivers receive mostly support and education from memory clinics and municipality consultation centers, which are mainly based in central cities in Greece. Despite the dementia awareness movement in Greece, there is still space to integrate the role of technology in the support and education of caregivers. Development of training programs for enhancing electronic health literacy skills as well as web-based services provision could support Greek caregivers in their everyday caring tasks.
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Spanou, Stella, and Makrina-Nina Zafiri. "Teaching Reading and Writing Skills to Young Learners in English as a Foreign Language Using Blogs: A Case Study." Journal of Language and Cultural Education 7, no. 2 (September 1, 2019): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jolace-2019-0009.

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Abstract This study focused on the development of reading and writing skills to a group of B1 level learners of English in a private language institute in Athens, Greece with the aid of blogs (a web tool), since Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) enhances foreign language learning. To this end, two groups of young learners were formed; the control group which was taught through the traditional coursebook and the experimental group which was taught through a differentiated approach to language teaching. The differentiated approach which was applied involved eight teaching sessions in a private language institute. Pre-tests and post-tests were administered to both groups in order to evaluate the use of CALL in the improvement of literacy skills. Pre- and post- semi-structured interviews were also conducted with the students of the experimental group to evaluate their attitudes and feelings before and after the instruction. The aim of using blogs, as a web tool, was to enhance collaborative learning and social interaction. This research attempted to prove that blogs create a social interaction between students, and between the students and the teacher. For the purposes of this research, students were involved in process writing by making drafts and writing their posts and in active reading when they read other posts and texts from other web sites.
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Georgakopoulou, Eleni A., and Georgios Kostakis. "TOPICAL AGENTS FOR THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF ORAL MUCOSITIS." Wiadomości Lekarskie 75, no. 9 (2022): 2121–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.36740/wlek202209113.

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Eleni A. Georgakopoulou, Georgios Kostakis NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS, ATHENS, GREECE The aim: To make a narrative assessment of the agents currently in use, with a particular emphasis on the topical agents that we frequently utilize in our practice. Materials and methods: The main method of this work is a review of literary sources. We reviewed the literature (PubMed, Google Scholar, Web of Science, Scopus) to support and explain the interventions we use in different cases of oral mucositis patients. We decided to combine our experience with evidence-based data. Conclusions: Topical treatments alleviate and prevent oral mucositis. Topical medicines can assist maintain oral balance and moistness by modulating oral bacteria and replacing saliva.
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Foxhall, Lin. "Household, Gender and Property in Classical Athens." Classical Quarterly 39, no. 1 (January 1989): 22–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009838800040465.

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The idea that the household was the fundamental building block of ancient Greek society, explicit in the ancient sources, has now become widely accepted. It is no exaggeration to say that ancient Athenians would have found it almost inconceivable that individuals of any status existed who did not belong to some household; and the few who were in this position were almost certainly regarded as anomalous. In ancient Athens, as elsewhere, households ‘are a primary arena for the expression of age and sex roles, kinship, socialization and economic cooperation’. It has been suggested for modern Greece that our own cultural biases, along with the Greek ideology of male dominance, have led to the assumption that the foundations of power in Greek society lie solely in the public sphere, and that domestic power is ‘less important’. In a less simple reality the preeminent role of the household cannot be underestimated. Here I hope to question similar assumptions about ancient Greece, focusing in particular on the relationships that existed between Athenian households and the property of the individuals, particularly women, within these households.
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Cawkwell, G. L. "Early Colonisation." Classical Quarterly 42, no. 2 (December 1992): 289–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009838800015937.

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It is commonly supposed that in the eighth century B.c. there was a ‘population explosion’ in Greece which moved the Greeks to send out colonies. A. J. Graham in the Cambridge Ancient History iii, 3 (1982) is typical: ‘The basic active cause of the colonizing movement was overpopulation’; ‘at the very time when the Archaic colonising movement began, in the second half of the eighth century, there was a marked increase in population in Greece’ (p. 157). The presumed connection between overpopulation and colonisation is not immediately obvious. The evidence for the population explosion is found in the increased number of burials in Attica and the Argolid, but Athens sent out no colony before the very end of the seventh century and Argos probably none at all, certainly none in this period. So special explanations have to be formulated for Athens' and Argos' lack of colonies while their postulated ‘population explosion’ is presumed for Greece as a whole and called in to explain the burst of colonising in the eighth century. The hypothesis is not used for seventh-century colonisation when the number of burials declines.
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Mausen, Sonja. "Athens to Aotearoa: Greece and Rome in New Zealand Literature and Society, Diana Burton, Simon Perris and Jeff Tatum (eds) (2017)." Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies 9, no. 2 (December 1, 2021): 287–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00081_5.

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Review of: Athens to Aotearoa: Greece and Rome in New Zealand Literature and Society, Diana Burton, Simon Perris and Jeff Tatum (eds) (2017)Wellington: Victoria University Press, 361 pp.,ISBN 978 1 77656 176 6 (pbk), NZ$40
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Fowden, Elizabeth Key. "The Parthenon, Pericles and King Solomon: a case study of Ottoman archaeological imagination in Greece." Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 42, no. 2 (September 5, 2018): 261–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/byz.2018.8.

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What made Athens different from other multi-layered cities absorbed into the Ottoman Empire was the strength of its ancient reputation for learning that echoed across the Arabic and Ottoman worlds. But not only sages were remembered and Islamized in Athens; sometimes political figures were too. In the early eighteenth century a mufti of Athens, Mahmud Efendi, wrote a rarely studiedHistory of the City of Sages (Tarih-i Medinetü’l-Hukema)in which he transformed Pericles into a wise leader on a par with the Qur'anic King Solomon and linked the Parthenon mosque to Solomon's temple in Jerusalem.
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Gribble, D. W. "Alcibiades and Athens : a study of literary presentation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239401.

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Amilitou, Eftychia. "L'écrivain et le camelot. Enjeux d'une littérature de presse dans les romans "athéniens" (1913-1945) de Gr. Xenopoulos." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030159.

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Ce travail a pour objectif la mise en évidence des interférences entre la presse et la littérature. en étudiant les "romans athéniens" de Grigorios Xénopoulos, publiés en feuilleton entre 1913 et 1945 dans la presse athénienne, nous examinons le champ littéraire et journalistique grec depuis la fin du XIXe siècle et jusqu’à la deuxième guerre mondiale, la description de l’espace urbain (Athènes) et la présence de l’interdiscours dans les romans. Nous traitons le corpus dans l’optique d’une littérature de presse, médiatique et largement accessible. Enfin, dans le sillage de l’analyse du discours et particulièrement de la nouvelle rhétorique, nous examinons la dimension argumentative des textes et l’image de l’auteur dans la fiction, telle qu’elle est perçue notamment à travers le réseau intertextuel
This work aspires to the description of the connection between the press and the literature. by studying Grigorios Xenopoulos’"Athenian novels", published in serial form between 1913 and 1945 in the Athenian press, I examine the greek literary and journalistic field from the end of the 19th century until the world war II, the description of the urbain space (Athens) and the interdiscourse in the novels. the corpus is treated from the point of view of the media and the largely accessible press literature. Finally, following on from the discourse analysis and in particular from the new rhetoric, I examine the argumentative dimension of the texts and the image of the author in fiction, as it is perceived in particular through the intertextual network
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Books on the topic "Literacy Greece Athens"

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Literacy and democracy in fifth-century Athens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Oral tradition and written record in classical Athens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

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Smith, Michael Llewellyn. Athens: A cultural and literary history. Northampton, Mass: Interlink Books, 2004.

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Alcibiades and Athens: A study in literary presentation. Oxford [England]: Clarendon Press, 1999.

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Theater outside Athens: Drama in Greek Sicily and south Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Stilistische Untersuchungen zu Pherekydes von Athen: Ein Beitrag zur ältesten ionischen Prosa. Stuttgart: F. Steiner, 1995.

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Rothe, Susanne. Kommentar zu ausgewählten Sophistenviten des Philostratos: Die Lehrstuhlinhaber in Athen und Rom. Heidelberg: J. Groos, 1989.

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Rothe, Susanne. Kommentar zu ausgewählten Sophistenviten des Philostratos: Die Lehrstuhlinhaber in Athen und Rom. Heidelberg: J. Groos, 1989.

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Plato's rhapsody and Homer's music: The poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in classical Athens. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, 2002.

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Nagy, Gregory. Plato's rhapsody and Homer's music: The poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in classical Athens. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002.

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"LITERACY, ORALITY, AND LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURE IN CLASSICAL ATHENS." In Epea and Grammata. Oral and Written Communication in Ancient Greece, 147–69. BRILL, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004350922_014.

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Neer, Richard. "Three Types of Invisibility: The Acropolis of Athens." In Conditions of Visibility. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198845560.003.0007.

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Classical Greek monuments were meant to be seen. The poet Pindar often refers to the conspicuousness of architecture: “When a work is begun,” he declares, “it is necessary to make its façade far-beaming” (Olympian 6.3–4), and a sacred precinct can be tēlephantos, “shining from afar” (fr. 5 SM). According to Plato, the works of Pheidias were made “conspicuously” (periphanōs), literally, “so as to seen round about,” a term that can also be used to distinguish freestanding sculpture from relief (Meno 91d). The philosopher may have been thinking of Pheidias’ great bronze Athena on the Acropolis of Athens, the spear and helmet of which, we are told, were visible to ships at sea. The conspicuousness of Greek architecture was integral to its function. The Acropolis itself, for instance, was the supreme monument of the most powerful and long-lived democracy of Classical antiquity. Soaring over Athens, its great buildings—the temple of Athena Nike, the Parthenon, the Erechtheum—were statements of the official ideology of the Athenian empire and testaments to its glory. Clustered around them were numerous private and public dedications: statues, objets d’art, and inscriptions on stone. Today these monuments are landmarks of art history and magnets for tourism. Curiously, however, many of the Acropolis monuments were more or less invisible in the 400s BCE. Visibility was circumstantial and contingent, in ways that I shall elaborate below. From this starting point flow two questions: what does it mean for a democracy that its most glorious public monuments should be, to a greater or lesser degree, unseen? And what are the consequences for art history? The Acropolis monuments were subject to at least three distinct types of invisibility. First, literal invisibility, in the sense of occlusion or concealment. In this case, any light that strikes the object does not bounce back and hit an observer’s eye. Were one to bury a statue in a hole, it would be occluded in this sense; the statue would be, literally, invisible.
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Scioli, Emma. "Confronting the Ancient Greek Golden Age in Jules Dassin’s Phaedra (1962)." In Screening the Golden Ages of the Classical Tradition, 119–36. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474440844.003.0007.

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In the second of three chapters examining Athens’ golden-age legacy, Scioli traces how Jules Dassin repeatedly draws attention to the origins of his 1962 melodrama Phaedra in Greek myth and tragedy through visual imagery, as a complement to his 1960 comedy Never on Sunday. Phaedra’s use of ancient Athenian art, and its suggestive modernization of elements from the ancient Athenian tragedyHippolytusand Racine’s 1677 adaptation Phèdre, force a confrontation with a particular modern formulation of the ancient Greek past. Dassin draws upon the golden age to characterize the world of ancient Greece that irrupts into the early 1960s setting of the film both visually and thematically. Rather than fostering nostalgia for a golden age that might prompt a desire for its return, Phaedra presents it as an intrusive presence from which its characters feel alienated, only to demonstrate that they are inextricably bound, in their modern dress, to repeat what the tragic past has prescribed for them. Such self-conscious appropriation of Athens’ literary-dramatic and artistic-material remains informs the tragic belatedness of Phaedra and reflects upon the American expatriate director’s sense of foreignness in the homeland of his lover and artistic muse, Greek actress and activist Melina Mercouri.
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Shavit, Yaacov. "Have Jews Imagination? Jews and the Creative Arts." In Athens in Jerusalem, translated by Chaya Naor and Niki Werner, 220–78. Liverpool University Press, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781874774259.003.0009.

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This chapter is devoted to the question as to whether Jews have imagination — namely, whether they have the creativity to produce works of art. In short, the chapter argues that there is a corpus of literary and artistic work created by Jews, which encompasses works of art and literature of all types and reveals a vast and copious creative imagination. However, during the nineteenth century, a different image prevailed, as a popular notion emerged which painted Jews as being without imagination. The chapter stresses that these anti-Jewish notions were even accepted by some Jewish writers. These notions become even clearer when the Jewish mind is contrasted with the Greek mind.
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Worthington, Ian. "Introduction." In Athens After Empire, 1–8. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190633981.003.0001.

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WHEN WE THINK OF ANCIENT Athens, the image that invariably comes to mind is of the Classical city: the Athenian military fighting the Persians for Greek freedom; monuments, like the Parthenon and Erechtheum on the Acropolis, beautifying everywhere one looked; the expansive Agora swarming with people conducting business, discussing current affairs, and generally chit-chatting; citizens taking part in their democracy; and a flourishing intellectual, artistic, and literary life, from performances of tragedies and comedies to the teaching of philosophers like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, to great orators like Pericles and Demosthenes declaiming in the Assembly, where domestic and foreign policy was debated and made. Life was anchored in the ideals of freedom, autonomy, and democracy, and in the fifth century at least, Athens was an imperial power second to none in the Mediterranean....
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Bocksberger, Sophie Marianne. "Ajax in Athens." In Telamonian Ajax, 139–210. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198864769.003.0004.

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This chapter examines the reception of Ajax in Athens during the archaic and the classical period. The discussion is organized in three sections which reflect distinct manners in which the Athenians related to the hero, and which also correspond to different phases in the history of Athens. The first section investigates the role Ajax played in the Athenians’ struggle to take control over Salamis in the sixth century. It analyses the different entries on Ajax in epic catalogues (Catalogue of Ships, Teichoscopia, Catalogue of Women) and surveys the archaic representations of the hero in Attic art. Amongst other things, the chapter broaches the question of the possible influence that the use of the Iliad in Athens may have had on the literary transmission of the poem. The second section ranges approximatively from the time of Cleisthenes’ reform to that of the advent of a more radical form of democracy in Athens in the middle of the fifth century BCE. It investigates the different roles the figure of Ajax plays as one of Athens’ tribal heroes and as a symbol of the Greeks’ victory against the Persians following the battle of Salamis. Ajax’s genealogical connection with the Philaid Miltiades and Cimon is scrutinized. This leads to a discussion the fragments of Aeschylus alleged trilogy on Ajax. The last section focuses on Ajax’s reception in the second part of the fifth century BCE. It mainly shows the way Sophocles exploited the various forms of the myth of Ajax in his eponymous play.
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Fraser, P. M. "Eponymous Coin-Names." In Greek Ethnic Terminology. British Academy, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197264287.003.0011.

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The ktetics of certain Greek cities were in wide circulation from an early date, with reference either to the coins of the cities or to the standard weights and values of their coinage, as used by other cities. The most familiar of these are the Aeginetan and Athenian, and later the Rhodian, all of which appear in a wide variety of sources, and in particular in the weights and measures assigned to votive offerings of precious metals, including coinage, in temple-inventories, notably those of Athens and Delos, and in the long temple-accounts for the work carried out at Delphi in the middle of the fourth century. The ktetic in -ικός/η/όν was regularly used in this context, both in documentary and literary usage.
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Elliott, Brian. "Plato’s Phaedrus on Philosophy and the City." In Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy, 101–5. Philosophy Documentation Center, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/wcp232018221291.

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This paper offers an interpretation of the dramatic setting of Plato’s Phaedrus as an allegory of the situation of the philosopher within Plato’s Athens. Following Jean-Pierre Vernant’s work on the place of class struggle and warfare within the ancient Greek city-state in his Myth and Society in Ancient Greece I decipher key passages on the Phaedrus as implicit responses to Plato’s experience of the city. The key themes that emerge are: the relation between the country and the city; the connection between leisure, luxury, and territorial expansion; the prospects for philosophical rule in the city; and the assessment of writing as a product of urban and commercial development. In my concluding paragraphs I suggest that Plato’s dialogues should more generally be regarded as a confrontation with the social conditions of the city-state as Plato experienced them. I also suggest that Platonic writings such as the Phaedrus are best interpreted allegorically as well as literally to ensure that multiple levels of meaning are drawn out through close analysis.
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Hawes, Greta. "Introduction." In Pausanias in the World of Greek Myth, 1–27. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832553.003.0001.

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This chapter introduces Pausanias as a compiler, narrator, and critic of Greek myth. It surveys some different approaches to Pausanias as a mythographer over the past 130 years. It places him in his literary and cultural context by considering the significance of Greek myth in the Roman empire and determines the particular characteristics of his approach to geographical description. Using the case study of Boreas and Oreithyia at Athens, it argues in particular that the relationship between place and stories was intricate, complex, and inextricable and that the influence of earlier canonical literature was ever-present.
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Llewellyn-Smith, Michael. "Steven Runciman at the British Council: Letters from Athens, 1945–1947." In The British Council and Anglo-Greek Literary Interactions, 1945–1955, 69–110. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315614144-4.

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