Suchergebnisse - Fernandes, Eugenie

Kitten's summer

Adultery

Disease

Divorce

Prostitution

Spells

Antiquity, Reception of. Hellenic culture is the product of a complex and sometimes problematic relationship with its ancient past, cultural and linguistic

Children. For Hellenic culture the family is central and childlessness a catastrophe

Divorce. Greece attitudes to divorce and the practicalities of its execution have undergone radical revision since antiquity and these revisions are revealing, reflecting as they do upon the changing roles of state and religion within the institution of marriage and indeed of the perceived nature and function of marriage itself

Prostitution. In ancient Greece the sex trade was not illegal and there was a ready market for prostitutes who, in contrast to later Christian sexual ethics, were not regarded as improper objects of male desire

The tree that grew to the moon

The little boy who cried himself to sea

Finding Lucy

Children

Adultery. Hellenic culture has exhibited an almost obsessive concern with female chastity since the time of Homer; Helen's elopement with Paris led to the Trojan War, while Aegisthus' seduction of Clytemnestra destroyed her husband and endangered his house

Animals. In Hellenic society animals have been essential with regard to the practicalities of farm work and food production, transport and war, hunting and sacrifice

Dowry. The institution of d. (proix) has been a significant feature of marriage within the Hellenic world from antiquity until well into the 20th century as a material marker of both socio-economic status and interfamilial alliance; and, while the abolition of the dowry system was part of a relatively recent parcel of legal reforms relating to marriage and the family in Greece (Family Law Act 1983), there is evidence to suggest that the practice persists, in rural areas at least

Disease. The earliest aetiological explanation of d. (nosos, nousos) in Greek literature is found in Hesiod's mythical description of the Golden Age of man in his Works and Days (90 - 105), a text dating from the 8th century BC

Marriage. M. has been a central cultural ad economic institution of Hellenic society since antiquity and, while both the practicalities and the perceived function of marriage have undergone various changes, it has demonstrated a remarkable continuity through time

Spells. The vocabulary of casting spells comprehends the terms epoide, literally a "singing over", and pharmakon, a broad designation that straddles the notions of incantation and drug (medicine or poison, possibly enchanted) and which could be extended to describe any psychagogic force: Plato in particular assimilated the power of the spellbinding word to the power of poetry or rhetoric, both of which deprive their objects of the capacity for autonomous action (Charmides, 157a; Republic, 607d; Meno, 80a; df. Gorgias, Encomium of Helen)