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In this paper I discuss the relationship between Cornelius Castoriadis and Ancient Greece by focusing on the meaning of tradition and on the possibility to produce new philosophical and political reflections through it. I analyze the general features of his reading and I argue that his interest also develops in many texts and forms. I distinguish different dimensions of this relationship, which does not concern only the analysis of Greek society but also that of philosophers and their works. I clarify that Castoriadis turns to ancient authors' texts in order to philosophize through them and to develop his own thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After the end of WWII, Dodecanese was set by the British Army. The Italian administration, that collaborated with the Wehrmacht after September 1943, was arrested and deported. Only very few people were allowed to stay and work for the British Military Administration. Among them, the former Podestà of Rhodes, Antonio Macchi, and the sergeant of the Carabinieri Francesco Corletti, who tried to destroy - in collaboration with the Italian government - the most compromising Italian documents, hiding the misdeeds of the past regime. Although they stated, that they had burned the most relevant documents, recent archival discoveries lead us to doubt their words. In 2013 a small group of scholars from Greece and Italy brought to light the important archive of the Royal Carabinieri Group - Special Central Office, hosted for all these years within the Rhodes police station. Founded in 1932, the archive preserves bureaucratic certificates, such as permits and authorizations, as well as confidential reports, records of personal habits and their political views. The new archive contains about 90,000 personal files that include information of a private nature on Italians, Greeks, Turks, Jews and foreigners who lived in Rhodes and on the other islands. Since some of the documents have, in part to do with Jewish citizens, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum of Washington D.C. has expressed a large amount of interest in this archive, offering a grant in order to digitize part of it. As is shown in the paper, Corletti and Macchi over-exaggerated the level of their authorisation to access files kept within archives to Rome. For these reasons, it is difficult to state exactly, what had been destroyed by Macchi and Corletti in 1945-1947. Actually, the fact that they weren't able to touch any important paper from the former Italian administration is more than a suspicion. At the same time, one can underline the attitude of the new democratic Italy, that appears complicit in trying to cover events and misdeeds of the Fascist Regime in Dodecanese. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the evolution of the organization of timber roofing carpentry in Greece and in the colonies of Sicily and Magna Graecia in a chronological scope between the archaic and classical periods. A substantial continuity, lacking evident innovations, characterizes the organization of the carpentry of the roofs constituted, in general, by a horizontal member on which rest on props -- king and queen posts -- coinciding with the purlins, useful for receiving the secondary framework and the roof covering. The lack of evident indicators, in a cognitive framework that is however extremely fragmented, and a constructive culture on timber that does not seem to excel for technological advancement raises many doubts about a possible pioneering use, even in constructions with high distance between supports, of carpentry organized as a truss system, with no pushing component on the wall. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper will be analyzed a close relationship between Priestess of the Moon, a novel by Croatian writer Milena Benini (1966-2020), and the Platonic myth of Atlantis, in light of the power exercised by archaic civilization. This work, as well as the author's entire production, belongs to the genre that in Slavic cultures is called fantastika, an all-encompassing formula for fantasy, science fiction and horror, although in this regard Benini prefers the label of "speculative fiction". Benini wrote the first draft of this novel in the early 1990s, in English, and started publishing it on her blog. She published the English version in 2013 and the Croatian (Svećenica mjeseca) in 2014. The story, that takes place in an indefinite time and clearly draws on the classical age, is the first act of a trilogy dedicated to a strong-willed woman, the young priestess Kalaide Reolis Kharaonda, endowed with superhuman powers that allow her to communicate with the goddess Matrielen. Kalaide comes into contact with Enaor, whose figure reflects various sources of inspiration: the Illyrian world, the civilization of ancient Greece, the Slavic tradition. Benini is aware of the timelessness of the myth and avoids giving the story and the characters a precise chronological position; she laid the foundations for a wide range of possibilities, prefiguring an open and epic narration, with the evolutionary profile suggested in the foreground by time and space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the dramatic model adopted by Aristophanes in his 'pacifist' comedies (Acharnians, Peace and Lysistrata). In spite of the ambiguity of the term 'pacifist,', since the ideology of non-violence is a completely foreign concept to the thought of ancient Greece, the definition may be justified by the need to define the coherent commitment of Aristophanes against the war, that polarizes the maximum social anomaly, able to disrupt the organization of human activities. This subversion, which involves not only the breaking of the natural order on earth, but also a decay of relations among the Olympian gods, cannot be fought or eradicated without breaking other rules that also have core value for the society as a whole: just thanks to the transgression, the supreme rule is reborn, with an unprecedented tour de force. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The modem concept of "nature" was horn in the XVIIIth Century: a nature as object, submitted to man's reason. A long tradition sees the origin of the modern notion of nature in the Greek phúsis. To go from phiisis invites us on the contrary to be critical towards the modern paradigm of a nature opposed to culture. Actually the domination of nature and the exploitation by man of what are for us "natural resources" is at the core of the ideological, economical and financial model imposed on us by neoliberal capitalism. This model shapes and destroys the communities of men as well as their environments. To face anthropologically the Greek phiisis invites us to break off with a technological capitalism based on a destroying productivism. Greek reflection on the relationships between phiisis and nomos leads us to consider the inevitable interactions between the human societies, their technical abilities, and their environments, in a perspective of "anthropopoiesis" and "ecopoiesis". This paper represents the Italian version of the first chapter and the last part of an essay devoted to the interactions mentioned above with an eco-socialistic approach'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The two-days conference "Open Access to research data as a driver for Open Science" (Athens, 15-16 January 2015), as the final event of the RECODE project (Policy RECommendations for Open Access to Research Data in Europe) has been a unique occasion to think about Open Access to research data as a way to move towards Open science. High-level speakers and an active audience have discussed on values, risks, opportunities, open issues, best practices; the aim of this paper is to deal with the complexity of these issues and to give a taste of the importance of open data in the near future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]