The purpose of this volume is to investigate the crucial role played by the return of knowledge of Greek in the transformation of European culture, both through the translation of texts, and through the direct study of the language. It aims to collect and organize in one databas…
Building upon the explosion of recent work on mythography, contributions to this volume direct attention to less frequently explored questions of how ancient poets, historians, and philosophers themselves adopted and adapted the work of mythographers. Study of the way that mytho…
The historical narratives regarding the ancient Maya have been extremely inconsistent since colonial days. The early twentieth-century historians’ enthusiastic praise for the genius of the ancient Maya ended with a pendulum swing of reverse sentiment in later writings. The diffe…
The interests and obsession of this writing lie in exploring femininity as constructed as well as inherited, following a matrilineal thread that is interwoven through genetics, experience, and location. Within this manuscript of poetry, Preying Women, the women figures are self …
This dissertation seeks to answer the question of whether the Byzantine (Byz) text type has a significant role to play for improving the text of the Acts of the Apostles as found in standard editions of the Greek New Testament (GNT) by means of textual criticism (TC). If evidenc…
Black Greek Letter Organizations [BGLOs] have been dealing with the stigma created by poor media representation. Research into this matter has indicated that these groups often only receive coverage that is stimulated by their entertainment or hazing incidents. This study aims t…
Images of virgins in either marital or religious contexts bear reticent and symbolic comparisons to sacrifice in Classical Greek vase painting. Following sociological and structuralist definitions of sacrifice, sacrificial ritual contains a symbolic system of gestures. In the ca…
This study investigates the processes through which attendance at a community school affects the development of cultural and academic identities of Greek/Greek-Cypriot and Pakistani ethnic minority young people who live in the United Kingdom. The development of cultural and acad…
The present thesis investigates adjective ordering across languages, with an emphasis on Greek and Cypriot Maronite Arabic (CMA). Cross-linguistically, attributive adjectives are argued to be ordered according to their semantic class (Hetzron 1978; Dixon 1982; Cinque 1994, 2010,…
This dissertation explores the use of 'Rest' ([special characters omitted]) terminology in the Pseudo-Macarian Corpus, dating between 370 and 420 CE in the region of Syro-Mesopotamia or Asia Minor. The study examines the ways that Pseudo-Macarius uses this significant terminolog…
When compared with compositional works of Koiné Greek, the syntax of the Septuagint can appear peculiar in some ways and quite familiar in others. In order to provide an approach that accounts for this peculiarity and enables rigorous syntactical interpretation of the Septuagint…
This dissertation investigates the translation technique of the Greek Ecclesiastes and proposes the place of the Translator in the history of the transmission of the Greek text. Chapter 1 defines a text of the Greek Ecclesiastes. Since a Göttingen critical edition of the Greek E…
Scholars commonly argue that the unity of modern Europe was anticipated by the medieval religious community of Latin Christendom. This study examines the meaning of Latin Christian identity from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries viewed through one particular lens: the divisi…
This study argues that the existing segregation between Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot schooling can be traced back to the period between 1920 and 1935, when crucial political and educational events shaped the course of subsequent educational development. These events, in con…
This dissertation is a text-critical study of the ancient Hebrew and Greek texts of Malachi. Malachi contains 55 verses which are divided into three Hebrew chapters (four chapters in English of the same number of verses). The Hebrew texts consulted are the Masoretic Text B19a (C…
This dissertation discusses Lucian as a cultural critic. More than just another sophist, using his knowledge of Greek letters to compete for status in the second-century Roman empire, Lucian is better understood as a cultural critic, one who stands apart from the social order in…
This dissertation is an English translation, with introduction and notes by the translator, of Nobel Laureate George Seferis's only completed novel, Six Nights on the Acropolis, originally written in Modern Greek. Poet George Seferis (1900--1971) had an enduring fascination with…
The first, major effort to translate the Hebrew Bible into another language occurred in the third century B.C. when the Greek Septuagint was born. As those translators worked, they left in their wake a pattern of decisions which affected both the linguistic and literary characte…