From the end of WWII to the end of the Cold War Greek foreign policy was shaped by the dynamics of the Cold War. The major issues facing Greek foreign policy decision makers in the post-cold war era are its relations with its Northern neighbors, Albania, The Former Yugoslav Repu…
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From 1950 to 1973, Dr. Rodney Young and a team from the University of Pennsylvania carried out extensive archaeological excavations at the site of Gordion in central Turkey. Their work revealed the modest houses of a sprawling and lively agricultural settlement that grew at the …
Antigone is a play that has haunted me for quite a while. Consumed with the decision Obama faced regarding American intervention in the Syrian conflict, I wanted to find a play that tackled the dilemma of impossible moral choices. Rereading Antigone, the similarities between the…
Repeated verses and lines occur with relative frequency in the Hebrew text of Proverbs. This study explores how those repetitions are translated in the Septuagint version. Translated repetitions provide unique insight into the decision making process of the translator because th…
Archaic and classical Greek infantries fought in a close-order tactical formation known as the hoplite phalanx. As an instrument of military power, the phalanx provided the poleis (city-states) of the classical period (479-323 BCE) with forces that would prove all but invincible…
Greek-Aramaic bilingualism was wide-spread throughout Late Antique Syria and Mesopotamia. Among the various Aramaic dialects, Syriac underwent a particularly intense and prolonged period of contact with Greek. This contact led to changes in both languages. The present study prov…
In the summer of 1974, violence rent the island of Cyprus and resulted in its division into two ethnically homogeneous regions. After nearly a century of British colonial rule (1878-1959), Cypriots had enjoyed a brief period of independence before ideologies and intrigues brough…
The Beatitudes have been interpreted in a varying number of ways throughout the history of the Church. Sometimes these sayings have been divorced from Jesus and reinterpreted in a way that strays from their original meaning. In order to rightly understand the Beatitudes, they ne…
Every community cares deeply about its past. In many literate communities, this historical consciousness manifests itself not only as disparate oral traditions but also as local historiography. The ubiquity of the form is astonishing: whether the focalizer is polis or urbs, stat…
An investigation of the classical education Byron received at the various schools he attended, and at Cambridge, confirms it was at Harrow that he became deeply attached to classical Greek poetry and Greek ideals in poetry. How this attachment influenced his practice as a poet a…
This thesis discusses for the first time the reception of higher level Greek in everyday prose in second- to sixth-century Egypt. It offers insights into the strategies of composition in stylistically ambitious non-literary sources, and investigates the use of select high-level …
This is a critical edition of the Apotelesmatika which is attributed to Manetho and includes an Introduction, Critical Apparatus, Notes, Translation and Selected Bibliography. The text is based upon an examination of photographs of the manuscript.
This dissertation deals with Greek and Latin traditions in the work of George Gennadios Scholarios (c. 1400–1472), the first patriarch of Constantinople during the period of Ottoman rule. Scholarios is famous as a Thomist philosopher, and the translator of many of Thomas Aquinas…
The satyr, that ubiquitous creature of Greek mythology, is often defined from the thousands of images which appear on Attic vases of the Archaic and Classical Periods. This dissertation looks instead at other, mostly non-Attic representations of the satyr in the same periods. Th…
This study examines the way in which the ideas and perceptions of foreign visitors shape the identity of a place. It takes as its subject travel accounts written by European visitors to the Corinthia in Greece in the period between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. These…
A long history of studies exists of how Hebrew and Aramaic influenced NT Greek. Many deal specifically with the Semitic background to the Fourth Gospel. These are flawed, however, by (1) a lack of precision in selection of Greek and Semitic sources used for comparative purposes,…
In the turn of the twenty-first century, some western scholars still hold that no classical rhetoric exists except classical Greek rhetoric. This paper presents the evidence to show that classical Chinese rhetoric is not only a natural practice but also a study of effective disc…
This dissertation examines Emmanuel Lévinas's Talmudic readings and the hermeneutics employed to translate the Talmud into modern language. Lévinas claims to be translating “Hebrew” into “Greek” by rendering into a universal, philosophical language (“Greek”) the ethical structur…
In this study, conducted in the context of a Greek Cypriot high school, I examine how students understand the history of Cyprus, and how this understanding has influenced their political perspectives and their vision about the future of the island. During the last century Cyprus…