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"The Journey": The English Text of an Unpublished Story by Christopher Montague Woodhouse
No full textChristopher Montague Woodhouse is now known mainly as a historian of Modern Greek history and for his service in the Greek mountains in World War II. Woodhouse published one fiction book, a collection of stories entitled One Omen, in 1950. However, two unpublished stories were found by the Woodhouse family after the author’s death in 2001 in a box marked “1948” that were not included in that volume. Greek translations of the stories appeared with a Greek edition of One Omen published in 2023. This is the first publication of Woodhouse’s original English text of the story
"Wanderers": A Mobile Locative Sonification of Planetary Movement
No full textWanderers is a responsive experience delivered via a mobile app that responds to the visitor’s movement as sensed by GPS. The app functions as a complement to the Colorado Scale Model Solar System represented by plaques that extend from the Fiske Planetarium to Colorado Boulevard on the CU Boulder campus. Wanderers allows visitors to explore the sonic, temporal, and spatial dynamics of our Solar System as a soundscape extending in all directions from the Sun, located in front of the Fiske Planetarium. The mobile listener can explore a sonification in which the relative mass and orbital period of the planets are expressed, with each celestial body having its own “sound print.” As the listener wanders, and the sonified celestial bodies move at their relative orbital speeds, the participant hears a dynamic soundscape where the volume and direction of the sounds changes depending on the participant’s position and perspective. This article elaborates on experiential ways of knowing facilitated by the app, highlighting the translation of astronomical scale, and spatial and temporal processes to human scale perception via locative media. Posthumanism and philosophy of embodiment provide theoretical foundations
“Greece at the Turning Point”: A “Collective Memoir” of US Marshall Plan Officials in Greece, 1947-1951
No full textPaul R. Porter served as the Mission Chief of the American Mission for Aid for Greece (AMAG) from 1949 to 1950, the Greek division of the European Recovery Program, better known as the Marshall Plan. The Paul R. Porter Papers in the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library feature the written memoirs of twenty former American aid officials and their wives, all of varying length and complexity. Dubbed a “collective memoir” under the title “Greece at the Turning Point,” solicited by Porter in 1982, the stories within point to not just Greece at a crucible during the country’s civil war (1946-1949), which followed the devastating Axis occupation (1941-1944) during World War II, but a turning point for the United States as well. Now that the United States was a superpower at the head of a coalition of Western democracies, the American diplomatic corps were faced with never-before-seen challenges as they sought to implement the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, in turn drawing the fault lines with the Soviet Union that defined the Cold War. Lacking in the international management experience of former imperial powers such as Britain and France, the Marshall Plan in Greece represented a grand experiment in American foreign assistance. The American aid officials’ commentary on their relations with Greek officials, and their wives’ descriptions of raising families in the particular trying conditions of a less developed and war-ravaged Greece, form the central interest of this collective memoir. This article seeks to bring these memoirs into context to add another lens into the history of postwar Greece, as seen through the Americans dispatched to manage the country’s affairs under the terms of the Marshall assistance program
Visual or Symbolic? Best Practices for Encoding Neumes
No full textThe roots of Western musical notation can be traced back to neumatic scripts, found in manuscripts containing plainchant traditions dating from the ninth century onwards. Neumatic scripts are the precursor to modern musical notation, but they differ in their intensity of focus on the textual content—and therefore the semantic meaning—of the chants themselves. Every graphic mark, every part of each neume, is made in service of a nuanced and highly regulated way of declaiming each syllable, but unlike modern musical notation, the symbols do not always correspond to something inherently musical outside the given chant, such as an absolute pitch or an overarching metric or rhythmically repetitive structures. Here, we look into the encoding challenges presented by these early neumes and explore best practices for effectively representing them in MEI schemas, considering both their graphical and symbolic dimensions.We will examine two case-studies in particular: the oriscus and the quilisma, to show how these neume forms relate to each other in term of appearance and performance. The third case-study, the curved and straight tilts, gives us an opportunity to discuss the graphical sophistication of early neumatic scripts
Cavafy’s Hellenistic Antiquities. History, Archaeology, Empire (Βιβλιοκρισία)
No full textA review of Cavafy’s Hellenistic Antiquities. History, Archaeology, Empire. The New Antiquity (Series), by Takis KayalisΒιβλιοκρισία στο Cavafy’s Hellenistic Antiquities.History, Archaeology, Empire. The New Antiquity (Series), του Τάκη Καγιαλ
Was there an ancient Hellenic “Olympic Ideal”?
No full textMany things about the ancient Olympics, e.g., when really did they start, and why then—and there?—are not and never will be completely clear. But on two things everyone is in agreement: that the Games were essentially Hellenic and that they ceased to be celebrated somewhere around 400 AD/CE. The honour of founding a modern Olympic Games and a modern Olympic Movement belongs to Pierre, Baron de Coubertin, an anglophile who wished at the same time to pay respect to ancient Greece, to promote an athletic revival in his own native country of France, and to foster world peace. But did his understanding of the nature and function of the ancient games translate into anything like a close copy or even a reasonably similar modern version? This article argues that he got many fundamental things wrong, among them his notion that there was an ancient Hellenic “Olympic Ideal.Many things about the ancient Olympics, e.g., when really did they start, and why then—and there?—are not and never will be completely clear. But on two things everyone is in agreement: that the Games were essentially Hellenic and that they ceased to be celebrated somewhere around 400 AD/CE. The honour of founding a modern Olympic Games and a modern Olympic Movement belongs to Pierre, Baron de Coubertin, an anglophile who wished at the same time to pay respect to ancient Greece, to promote an athletic revival in his own native country of France, and to foster world peace. But did his understanding of the nature and function of the ancient games translate into anything like a close copy or even a reasonably similar modern version? This article argues that he got many fundamental things wrong, among them his notion that there was an ancient Hellenic “Olympic Ideal.
Sofia Pantouvaki και Peter Mc Neil (επιμ.), Performance Costume: New Perspectives and Methods, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, London, New York, Oxford, New Delhi, και Sydney 2021, xxiii και 399 σ.
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Η «μετάφρασις» του Ακαθίστου ύμνου του Μανουήλ Φιλή
No full textThis article presents a new critical edition of the metrical Metaphrasis of the Akathist hymn by the most prolific poet of the Palaeologan period, Manuel Philes, based on all the codices preserving the work (14 in all). It also attempts a systematic study of the poet’s metaphrastic technique and a metrical analysis of the poem
Logoi Historias across Time: Evolution and Interrelationships in the Writing of Speeches and Letters in Byzantine Historical Works
No full textThe report of someone’s spoken or written words, mostly in the form of speeches and letters, is a typical and somehow standardized element of Byzantine historical works related to classical models. Throughout the centuries, however, this literary element does not remain totally unchanged, and this “evolution”, together with the presence of historiographicallogoi also in other types of history writing (namely chronicles and ecclesiastical histories), may provide some insights into the difficulties posed by the traditional “boundaries” and “oppositions” that still govern the taxonomy of texts in Byzantine literature. In this paper some case-studies will be analysed, with selected authors from the 6th and 7th centuries (Procopius of Caesarea, Agathias of Myrina, Theophylact Simocatta, Evagrius Scholasticus and Chronicon Paschale) and a foray into the 11th and 12th centuries (with the Historia syntomos attributed to Michael Psellos and the Synopsis Chronike by Constantine Manasses)