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The paper analyzes local Balkan phytonyms used for broom and spread on the territory from the Adriatic coast to Greece. In the past, broom was used for weaving and manufacturing rough textile. One can notice a strong influence of Romance (including Dalmatian) on the Serbo-Croatian plant names for broom (Lat. juncus, Ital. giunco, Venet. zunco). In the northern Albanian dialects, especially in the Albanian-Slavic contact areas, a great role was played by the borrowed Serbo-Croatian word žukа (and probably Venet. zunco as well). South of Northern Albanian Ghegnia – in the middle Gheg and Tosk territories – loan-words from diff erent times can be found: Lat. genista, genesta and Ital. ginestra. Further south, in the Albanian dialects of Labёria, in Greece and Italy (Arbёresh), there is a clear influence from the Greek σπάρτο. The research is based on long-term field observations (the fieldwork was conducted in 2009–2019), as well as on the previously published phytonomastical and ethnological data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Cardiovascular disease is the most prevalent cause of death both in Greece and worldwide. In this paper, the fatal cardiovascular events which are described in the Bible, Old and New Testament, are presented and interpreted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we will focus on some lexical features characteristic of the dialects spoken in the villages of Hloi (Greek Χλόη = Bulgarian Hebilevo/Хебилево) in the Greek region of Komotini (Κομοτηνή = Gyumyurdzhina/Гюмюрджина) and of the related dialects in the nearby village of Gorni Yurutsi (Горни Юруци) in the Bulgarian region of Krumovgrad. In particular, we will pay attention to isotopically significant terminology in the fields of health, healthcare, illness, and related phenomena. The local language variety spoken in both the Greek and the Bulgarian villages is clearly identified as a Bulgarian-based Rhodopean dialect, but the two villages deal with radically different conditions of language contact. In the first section, we will give a short overview of the problems of language contact in general. Then, in section two, we will focus on health terminology. We compare language materials collected on the two sides of the border, and discuss the impact of language contact in this area. Our conclusion is that contact-induced change is observed on both sides of the Bulgarian-Greek border, but it takes very different forms in Bulgaria and Greece due to quite different and very complex language influences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

OBJECTIVE Medical education (ME), as a specific field of knowledge related to the processes of medical teaching and learning, is gradually gaining ground in Greece. It does not need to start from scratch, as relevant papers have been already published in the Greek medical literature. The aim of this paper was to list all the articles that refer to ME, published in the journals of the Athens Medical Society: Archives of Hellenic Medicine (AHM) and Archives of Medical Societies (AMS). METHOD Every single published issue was indexed. After the 4th issue of the 16th volume of ??? (July--August 1999) all articles are available on the web (http://www.mednet.gr/archives/). The earlier issues were found either in the Library of Health Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens or in the Library of the Athens Medical Society. In both cases, the table of contents was first checked, either electronically since July- August 1999 or manually for all previous issues. The abstracts of all articles that initially considered relevant were read and the irrelevant ones were excluded. RESULTS The first issue of AMS was published in the first trimester of the year 1975. The first issue of AHM, the sequel to AMS, was published in February 1984. Having indexed 36 volumes, 47 articles on ME were found (1.28 per year). The first such article was in the 2nd issue of the 5th volume of AMS (1979) and the last in the 3rd issue of the 27th volume of AHM (2010). During its 9-year period of publication, AMS hosted 16 ME articles (1.8 per year), while A?M journal has hosted 31 ME articles in its 26 years of publication (1.2 per year). All papers relevant to ME are listed here, including the 6 that have been recently accepted (2010) but not yet published. CONCLUSIONS Although AMS and AHM are medical and not medical-education journals, ME has found its way into their pages. The listing of ME articles could be helpful to those who intend to work in the field of education of medical students and doctors. The expansion of this indexing to include all other medical journals would contribute to the whole picture of the relevant to Greek bibliography on ME, which should not be ignored by those interested in ME in Greece. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Doctrine of music's Ethos is a phenomenon of musicalphilosophical thought of Antiquity, which combined such concepts as music and morality. Their interaction and mutual influence was examined by the Greek philosophy thoroughly and in detail. All known then music categories -- rhythms, music instruments and modes were divided on beneficial and harmful, depending on their influence on a psychological state of a person. Historical development of these ideas could be quite easily traced back to their first appearance in mythological form. Turning in the future from the religious and magical formulation to the philosophical ones, these ideas have acquired quite secular features. This evolution did not affect the basic ideas and even formal categories and attributes, which remained identical to their prototypes, set out in mythology. Despite this evidence of ancient Greek origin of the teaching of Ethos, versions of its foreign origin were put forward by some historians. The basis for this kind of speculations was the conviction of number of historians of foreign, mainly "Egyptian" origin of ancient Greek philosophy in general. Without going into detail on the issue of the source of ancient Greek philosophy, in this paper the question of the origin of the doctrine of music Ethos is considered. First of all -- the premises of the doctrine's emergence, caused by the existing problems in the life of Greek society and state, resulting in utilitarian character of the doctrine. The mythological sources, which had laid the theory's ideological foundation and which later would receive a philosophical form, are also discussed in detail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ancient Greek theatre and theatre in general, offering a special experience of reality, uses body as its medium to a great extent. At the same time, body is the sovereign of the stage, it benefits from its own possibilities and the possibilities of the text, scene, tendance of the audience. When it comes to tragedy, paradoxically enough, it possesses the greatest power and attracts the highest attention when it reaches the limits of its strength, when it walks on the edge, when it experiences labor, pain, suffering, and even death. Female body has been, and not only in ancient times, perceived as more fragile, open, susceptible to influences, more prone and inclined to experiences such as pleasure and pain. This perception is one of dimensions of a complex polarity in which woman takes place of the other. The conflict between male and female character is in the focus of dramatic action very often: in the opus of Euripides in a way which is maybe the closest to the contemporary audience and readers. This paper has taken as its case study Euripides' drama Hippolitus, which characterizes a woman as a d?st??p?? á?µ???a. This „reversed, disonant harmony" is placed within a female body. Biological limitations force a female being to adapt, mutate, to be at odds with her very self - that is how her inner conflict and ambiguity appear. In reading the chosen tragedy, philological and anthropological will encounter together with the perspectives of gender and culture studies. The here offered reading of Hippolitus is given with the awareness of the struggle for body (or against it) in the XXI century. Contemporary anthropology, other social sciences and humanities prominently aim their attention towards social and cultural dimensions of the body's existence. Medicine and sport vest in the body a media dimension, being concern with its limitations. On the other hand, the today body has increasingly been an object of interpretations, decoding, studying, virtualization, reading and re-reading, and decreasingly an object (and even subject) of reception and experience by the means of sences. On the trail of "somatosophic" thought that the body is an agent for accomplishing interchange, communication, dialog, that eros beholds a dialogical nature as its most distinctive feature, and that there is a desire for dialog in the essence of an erotic desire, it could be said that Euripides' Phaedra longed for interchange and communication, for understanding and empathy - for eros as dialog. This cry and this desire were placed within a female body which witnessed, with its condition, decadent process and finally dissolution, a non-fulfillment of the essential need. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]