The year 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his Origin of Species, an event which provoked an enormous response in many countries and in many fields, including ...

This paper attempts a generic comparison between Kazantzakis’ most celebrated novel and the medieval genre of hagiography. With references to the original Life of Alexis and to other canonical hagiographical texts I ...

Please note: this article is in Greek. The Darwinian and the positivistic tendency in Roidis short stories dealing with animals: Focusing on “The story of a horse” (1894) and “The story of a hen-coop” (1897), it maintains ...

This paper will present a history of the formation and goals of the Confederation of Greek Organisations in Australia, the first national federation of Greek-Australian community organisations, established in October 1949. ...

Peter Michelides, having arrived in circa 1901, helped to pioneer Western Australia’s tobacco industry. Joined by his younger brother Michael, they were soon selling handmade cigarettes from Perth street corners. From these ...

This keynote address concentrates on Cyprus in the EU and on the challenges and opportunities created since the accession of Cyprus to the EU.

Ancient literary sources record a number of small islands with the name Chryse in the Greek world. The most famous of these was located off the coast of Lemnos. The Lemnian Chryse first appears in mythology in the context ...

This paper was given as a public lecture to open the 2007 Conference of Greek Studies. It discusses some themes in ancient Greek thought concerning the origins of the cosmos, and differentiates Greek philosophical cosmogony ...

Please note: this article is in Greek. In this paper we attempted to apply a structural theory of narrative on Greek Folksongs; the oldest of them were created in the 9th and 10th centuries.

A commonsense view about pains and pleasures is that they are mere sensations. Perceiving pains as painful and pleasures as pleasant does not involve beliefs about the world. Plato argues for the bizarre claim that what ...