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The importance of the 'affective turn' in classical studies is well acknowledged, as it can be perceived through the many interdisciplinary works that have been published in the area during these last decades. Taking into account the challenges and difficulties involving the historical analysis of feelings, this paper intends to account for the contributions that have been made in the last years on the study of emotions in Antiquity. By specially focusing on classical Greece, we seek to offer a wide theoretical framework that could be useful for those willing to embark in this promising field of academic research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The relationship between Sparta and the sanctuary of Delphi was more than fluid before the Peloponnesian War, the panhellenic conflict that ended with the assumption of political and military control of Greece by the Lacedemons and from which the Delphic Oracle was not kept out. But to what extent did Apollo position himself on the Spartan side? Did his interventions prove decisive to the final victory of the Peloponnesian League? This paper investigates the Delphic diplomatic maneuvers carried out during the course of the conflict to try to know the weight that the oracular activities exerted on both sides, relying, for this purpose, on the stories provided by various ancient authors (being Thucydides, as a repporteur and participant in the war, the main source) and in the numerous studies of modern scholarship in this regard. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the texts of authors of Classical Antiquity (De abstinentia by Porphyry and De re coquinaria attributed to Apicius, among others), this paper analyzes the notion of pure food and their implication in the diet and over it. First, it studies the concept of diet, as a part of the therapeutic, that is, one of the medical instruments to restore health. For ancient Greeks and Romans, in addition to healthy eating, rest and exercise, the diet includes baths and purges; both elements are related to the idea of purity. Secondly, this paper shows the Latin terms that are used to describe pure food, crudus, recens, viridis and purus, specifically in the cases of olive oil and honey, which are considered the pure foods most characteristics. To conclude, pure food requires neither cooking nor preservation for consumption, and also can be consumed without mixing or adding any element to the product itself. In consequence, the notion of purity is associated not only with a dietetic domain, but this notion also reaches ethical and metaphoric dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyze the most paradigmatic punishments of the Athenian legal system and its relationship with the social memory. Punishments like atimia, lapidation and petrification go into the tragic scene through the myth, the ritual and the historic memory. In our paper we consider Niobe's myth in its relationship with Antigone's death, the ritual of the Khoes and Orestes' atimia, and, at the end, Licides' death by lapidation. Our sources are Herodotus and Lycurgus and their re-elaboration in Aeschylus and Euripides. The passages that we analyze allow for Athenians to update the collective memory and to legitimate the legal and social imaginary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To study the role of women in Ancient Greek intellectual landscape means facing the absence of textual evidence of their work, which forces to employ the testimonies of their lives embedded, almost always, in others thinkers' doxography. This is the case of Aspasia of Miletus, who was part of Pericles' circle. In this paper I will present a doxographical reconstruction of Aspasia's activity in the fifth century, bearing in mind the historical situation when she lived and the challenges she faced for being a woman. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Francisco de Miranda (1750-1816), hero and martyr Precursor of American independence, was not only a great soldier, but a humanist. He knew Greek and Latin, met in his life a rich library, especially classical. He was the only hero of American independence who visited Greece. Greek authors represented in his library up to 170. In this paper we study Homeric presence in that library. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

: Following a previous research, the purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of silence in the Heideggerian interpretation of Hölderlin’s poetry, and to analyze the ontological nature that this topic acquires in it. In order to do so, it explores how intimately Heidegger connects the idea of silence and Hölderlin’s poetical saying, to which he attributes the problematic endeavour of saying the Being whilst safeguarding its unsayable nature. To fully fathom this effort, special attention should be paid to the poet’s discovery of the simultaneous alterity and dependence of modernity with regard to Greece, and to the study of the way in which this matter determines his poetry, as well as the poetical resources which, according to Heidegger, he uses in order to make the Being appear in his saying as the unsaid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The connections between the sophistic movement and the theatrical universe of classic Athens have been generally understood in a unidirectional way. Scholars have stressed the projection of some of the sophists' interests onto tragedy. On the contrary, in this paper, we will try to highlight interrelationships between sophistry and theater and its consequences in political thought. In order to do that, we will examine fragment B23 allotted to Gorgias, paying special attention to the use of the concepts δíκαιος and ἀπἀτη and to their connection with fragment B23a. On the other hand, the concept of ἀπἀτη will lead us to Aristophanes' comedy (especially to Acharnians and Ecclesiazusae) allowing us to see the scope of gorgianic reasoning and also to close the circle of interrelationships between the sophistic movement and theatre. Finally, we will ask ourselves how much Gorgias' arguments and Aristophanes' approach bring us closer to a key political question of their time: the performative dimension of the Athenian democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on an analysis of the neoliberal construction of European monetary integration, the Greek economic crisis and the Hayekian-style austerity policies being used to deal with it are analyzed. After theoretically characterizing these policies, the paper analyzes how their generalization in Europe is helping to deepen the European crisis and jeopardizing the recovery of the world economy. Nevertheless, the reason of the crisis is the loss of monetary sovereignty of every country and the financing of the state is sustained across the financial bank and not bank investors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper a series of rhetorical arguments devised within the political frame of the Athenian hetaireiai of the V and IV centuries b. C. is analyzed, which are based on the ethos as an argumentative strategy for and against Alcibiades, the celebrated Athenian politician and strategist. The aim of this study is to explore how a political proile is deined --in reference more speciically to Alcibiades--, looking at the matter from the boundary of speech where the frontiers between judicial and deliberative speech genres vanish away, while the public and the private spheres coalesce. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on analysis of public opinion towards European integration in Greece, Portugal and Spain, countries known for their positive attitudes toward integration. In particular, the article analyses how public attitudes towards Europe have been formed in these countries. Secondly, it examines the determining factors of citizens' positive attitudes toward integration and shows the types of variables that are essential to understanding the differences between Greeks, Spaniards and the Portuguese. It also examines traditional euro-optimism in these southern countries. The findings show the relevance of identity and the various impacts of party platforms and ideology in attitudes of support for European integration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We reflect in this paper on the meaning of the nietzschean interpretation of Greece, that although problematic and philosophical, it places itself within the classical western tradition. By determining the intellectual atmosphere in which the "Birth of tragedy" saw its light, we postulate that the German thinker cannot be classified as an "anticlassicist", but as a "neo-hellenist" in whose work we find a struggle between two currents: classical orthodox philology and romantic philology, developing a new type of philology that reconciles reason with art, through a philosophical conception that searches for a deep insight of self-existence within the hellenic world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focusses on the general contributions which the ancients Greeks and Roman did in the study of human anatomy. It has a historical approach narrating the principal achievements of scientific knowledge developed in antiquity on the human body. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper places Greece in the European media education context analysing teachers' attitudes towards media. It describes a practical proposal consisting in the implementation and development of a media literacy training programme for Elementary School based on investigation and learning theories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the Catalogue of Ships of the Iliad and the Homeric Hymns to Dionysus, Demeter and Apollo as part of the genre of travel literature (periplous). Also it considers space as a social project in which political and religious ideas are expressed. It argues that the geography represented in the Catalogue and the Hymns takes part in the construction of Greek identity and panhellenic ideas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following paper shows the contrast between two Greek confederation systems, which took place in the V century BC. Their origins and financing sources are discussed. Finally, the results of this investigation show the rising of two opposite cultural and political paradigms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sooner or later, sociologists and political philosophers, with few exceptions, end up referring to the theme of the differences between what is considered truly political, and what is ethical or moral. This difference however is far from relevant. But it is particularly important in the global times of today, when it is assumed that politics has been replaced by pure economic reasoning. This would mean that in the global times of modernity there are no conflicts, because there are no real actors, neither social nor political. In the face of this catastrophic and resigned manner of thinking, I have protested before in another publication (Mires, 2000). I wish to refer now to the theme of the inter-relations between morality, ethics and politics that has not passed beyond a second level. It has, on the contrary, more validity now if we wish to recover political reasoning, especially in Latin American countries where the process of constructing democracy, both formal and real, is far from being over, with or without globalization. The political sociology of the postmodern age which is still in the making, must recover the ethical-political legacy from the Athenian era up to the present, with an attempt to understand the sense and reason of these public places that were created so that our conflicts and interests could be reconciled without recurring to violence, something that has recently seemed possible in certain Latin American countries. So-called citizen virtues are, effectively, the result of long historical processes marked by multiple pre-political adventures. Before virtues appeared on the citizen menu, a lot of blood flowed under the bridges. This paper is an essay that centers first on the relationships between ethics, politics and morality. In the second place, we refer to the theme of passions, from the point of view of political virtue. Lastly, we refer to a more permanent political theme: truth and non-truth in the life of the citizen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]