The name ‘Simonides’ has long been associated with the Persian Wars. More specifically, Simonides is famous in large part because of his commemoration of the Persian War dead in the form of epigrams. The purpose of this paper is to investigate a set of four of the most famous and most distinctively ‘Simonidean’ poems to the end of delineating their stylistic deviations from conventional epitaphic speech. This paper argues that the specific ways in which Simonides departs from the conventions of epigrammatic language serve to convey a distinctively democratic ethos. This ethos is clear in that Simonides’ epigrams privilege the mass efforts of the collective, and do not praise any particular individuals over another. Moreover, that these poems do not include the sort of identifying details that we would normally expect to find in epigrams anticipates a readership that is uniformly knowledgeable about the events of the Persian Wars. This represents another facet of the egalitarian ethos evident in this group of epigrams, as Simonides treats his readers as equally aware of the events of the Persian Wars. Thus, Simonides assumes a unified, panhellenic identity that characterizes both the subjects of his poems as well as his readers: they are all part of the same entity that defeated the Persians. Simultaneously, however, Simonides, or at the very least, the Simonidean name, achieves his own kleos as an individual poet through his distinctive commemorations of the Persian War dead. With these poems comes the emergence of a Simonidean poetic persona that renders the poet’s voice unique because of the way in which Simonides diverges from epigrammatic convention. The allotment of immortal kleos both to the anonymous, undifferentiated masses of Persian War dead and to the name ‘Simonides’ reflects two distinctive ideologies, the latter archaic and the former classical. My reading of these epigrams thus demonstrates how the commemoration of the Persian Wars is poised between two different eras and two different ideologies. / text

Both Plato and the Cambridge Platonists hold the view that moral knowledge depends primarily on cognitive resources which are innate to the mind. There is, nevertheless, a need for our minds to be prompted through experience in order for knowledge to occur. The following study is an attempt to reconstruct and compare the accounts in Plato and the Cambridge Platonists of the empirical conditions that are required for knowledge. For Plato, these conditions are a result of a decline in political and psychological constitutions, through which the intellect is increasingly developed. Dialectical analysis of received customs, laws, opinions, and language may then reveal the moral ideas upon which the polity was initially based and which remain implicit in common sense throughout the historical decline. Philosophical knowledge consists of a recollection of the ancient wisdom which was revealed to the original lawgiver by the gods. In the Cambridge Platonists, philosophical knowledge likewise consists of a recollection of revealed knowledge that stood at the foundation of a form of life, namely, Judaism. The revival of ancient Greek and Jewish philosophical theories in modern times heralds the end of history, in which the complete system of knowledge is both attainable and necessary for salvation. From the perspective of humanity as a whole, knowledge is initially granted through revelation, then generally forgotten, and finally recollected in a highly intellectual age of deteriorating morality and stability. The esoteric traditions of knowledge, coupled with recent developments in science and philosophy, act as the prompts for knowledge, given an intuitive basis that has been formed through the spread of Christianity. This intuitive basis serves as the concrete way in which the natural anticipations of the mind are gradually shaped in order to recognize the truth when it appears in a shrouded manner in modern philosophy. Both Plato and the Cambridge Platonists are critics of the similar intellectual trends in their times and they respond with similar arguments; however, unlike Plato, the Cambridge Platonists are unable to connect their rational critique with their genetic critique of modern ideas, rendering the latter ineffective. / Thesis (Ph.D, Philosophy) -- Queen's University, 2009-09-24 16:19:49.145

Oggetto della tesi è lo studio del “Solone democratico”, di cui si ricostruisce la genesi attraverso le testimonianze degli antichi e le riflessioni dei moderni. Per sottoporre a verifica l’affermazione aristotelica che riconduce a Solone l’origine della democrazia, sono state prese in considerazione primariamente quelle misure che riguardano la costituzione (Eliea, bulé dei Quattrocento, accesso alle cariche), al fine di comprendere se il giudizio degli antichi si basò su una valutazione condivisibile dell’azione del legislatore. Si sono ritenute ugualmente indicative, a questo scopo, alcune leggi ordinarie attribuite a Solone (legge sull’inattività, legislazione funeraria, leggi sulle donne, legislazione assistenziale): di queste leggi si è indagata l’origine soloniana e la compatibilità con il resto della legislazione dell’Ateniese a partire dalla valutazione del loro significato. La tesi è completata da tre appendici che sviluppano alcuni dei temi emersi nel corso dell’indagine e considerati meritevoli di approfondimento: si tratta della questione procedurale nella legge sull’inattività; della datazione e del commento di una legge funeraria concernente alcuni obblighi del demarco; della connessione fra Solone e l’Areopago. / The aim of this thesis is the study of the “democratic Solon”, whose genesis has been reconstructed through the ancients’ accounts and the works of modern scholars. To test the Aristotelian statement that traces the origin of democracy to Solon, we have primarily considered those measures that concern the constitution (Heliaia, boule of the Four Hundred, access to high offices), in order to understand if the ancients’ judgement was based on a shareable assessment of the legislator action. For that purpose some ordinary laws attributed to Solon - on idleness, on women, funerary and welfare laws - have been considered equally indicative. Of these laws it has been investigated the Solonian origin and compatibility with the rest of the Solonian legislation, starting from an assessment of their meaning. To complement the present thesis there are three appendixes which develop some of the themes that arose during the investigation and that have been considered worth to be deepened. It is the case of the procedural question regarding the law on idleness; the dating and comment of a funerary law concerning some duties of the demarch; of the connection between Solon and the Areopagos.

This dissertation establishes how different citizen soldiers were employed and evaluated in the imaginary of fifth century Athens and gives explanations why popular thinking on military personnel was organised in this way. In so doing it emerges that a particular citizen soldier figured in Athenian conceptions about many aspects of martial activity. Also, it has proven necessary to analyse several other conceptions concerning the waging of war in which military personnel strictly play no part because of their indirect but important influence on how this or that class of Athenian fighters was judged. As a result this study ends up throwing light on the ways in which fifth century Athenians conceived not only of citizen combatants but also of warfare in general. The dissertation begins by outlining the primary sources for the Athenian imaginary and its major characteristics. The numerous tragedies and comedies surviving from the fifth century are shown to be sure evidence for the imaginary and the funeral oration of the period to have had a vital role in the transmission of key elements of Athenian self-identity and their understanding of warfare. Although playwrights and public speakers were invariably members of the Athenian elite, the particular contexts in which they performed compelled them to take up and articulate the values and conceptions of their overwhelmingly non-elite audiences. The imaginary then had a decidedly popular character. It was also a sprawling cultural melange within which incongruous and even patently contradictory ideas could subsist side by side. The second part of this dissertation exposes that the citizen hoplite enjoyed a central and paradigmatic role in the popular thinking of fifth century Athens. It was only ever to the heavily armed soldier that poets and orators turned when they wanted to consider general aspects of warfare, the military obligations of citizenship, and gallant and fainthearted behaviour on the battlefield. The Athenian hoplite also served as the pivotal reference point for the marking out of age and gender distinctions within the city and of the differences in military morality between Greeks and barbarians. Critically, as the prevailing definitions of bravery and cowardice were modelled exclusively on the phalanx warfare of the hoplites, Athenian lightly armed troops, cavalrymen and perhaps even sailors with their very different modes of combat were judged one way or another to be cowardly. Yet the final part of this dissertation demonstrates that this normative status of the heavy infantryman in no way prevented citizen sailors from gaining recognition and positive evaluation of their metier and themselves in the Athenian imaginary of the fifth century. The citizen masses of this period saw their city as the major seapower in the Mediterranean and well understood that its formidable might and security rested on its navy. Fifth century Athenians also had a high regard of seamanship in general and great pride in the naval dominance of their city in particular. Indeed, superlative nautical skills were thought to be 'national' traits of the citizens of imperial Athens which they had enjoyed even in the esteemed age of the heroes. Contemporary citizen sailors themselves were also held to be the saviours of the city and were accorded extraordinary esteem and an exalted status if they perished at sea fighting for Athens. Finally, despite the fact that it directly contradicted their hoplite centred conception of bravery, fifth century Athenians firmly believed that fellow citizens serving as sailors could display gallantry in battle.

The concept of social integration has gained prominence in the social and policy debates all over the Europe. Children of immigrants, constituting a significant percentage of modern population of European Union, go through some demanding changes in their processes of social and school integration. As the number of immigrants in Greece is growing, it is of high importance to identify, examine, and understand problems that young immigrants living in this country might have. Our research investigates social and school integration of adolescents’ from Polish immigration families residing in Athens, Greece. By this project we wish to build and advance beyond the current research and contribute to existing knowledge in the field of social integration. The study is based on a qualitative research method relying on semi-structured, in–depth interviews with 12 young respondents from Greek and Polish high schools in Athens. The results indicate that the level of social integration of adolescent Poles is various and depends on the school that young people attend extracurricular activities they participate in, social networks within Greek population, parents’ socioeconomic status and Greek language competency. In case of respondents from the Group of Polish schools at Polish Embassy in Athens observed level of integration was lower, than in the group of pupils from Greek schools. / Η έννοια της κοινωνικής ένταξης έχει κερδίσει εξέχουσα θέση στις κοινωνικές και πολιτικές αντιπαραθέσεις σε όλη την Ευρώπη. Τα παιδιά των μεταναστών, που αποτελούν ένα σημαντικό ποσοστό του σύγχρονου πληθυσμού της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης, υφίστανται σε ορισμένες απαιτητικές αλλαγές κατά την κοινωνική και σχολική τους ένταξη. Καθώς ο αριθμός των μεταναστών στην Ελλάδα αυξάνεται, είναι υψηλής σημασίας ο εντοπισμός, η εξέταση, και η κατανόηση των προβλημάτων που αντιμετωπίζουν οι νέοι μετανάστες που ζουν στη χώρα αυτή. Η έρευνά μας διερευνά την κοινωνική και σχολική ένταξη των εφήβων που προέρχονται από πολωνικές οικογένειες μεταναστών, οι οποίες κατοικούν στην πρωτεύουσα της Ελλάδας, Αθήνα. Στην παρούσα μελέτη προσπαθούμε να οικοδομήσουμε και να προωθήσουμε την έρευνα και να συμβάλουμε στην υπάρχουσα γνώση, στον τομέα της κοινωνικής ένταξης. Η μελέτη βασίζεται σε μια ποιοτική μέθοδο έρευνας η οποία στηρίζεται σε ημι-δομημένες, λεπτομερείς συνεντεύξεις 12 νέων ερωτηθέντων από ελληνικά και πολωνικά γυμνάσια στην Αθήνα. Τα αποτελέσματα δείχνουν ότι ο βαθμός της κοινωνικής ένταξης των εφήβων Πολωνών διαφέρει από άτομο σε άτομο και εξαρτάται από: το σχολείο, το οποίο οι νέοι συμμετέχουν, τις εξωσχολικές δραστηριότητες στις οποίες συμμετέχουν, τα κοινωνικά δίκτυα στον ελληνικό πληθυσμό, την κοινωνικo-οικονομική κατάσταση των γονέων τους και την ευχέρεια τους στην χρήση της ελληνικής γλώσσας. Στην περίπτωση των ερωτηθέντων από το συγκρότημα των πολωνικών σχολείων στην πολωνική πρεσβεία στην Αθήνα, παρατηρήθηκε ότι το επίπεδο της ένταξης τους ήταν χαμηλότερο, συγκριτικά με την ομάδα των μαθητών που προέρχονταν από ελληνικά σχολεία.

Matěj Novotný - Impiety in Classical Athens Abstract The thesis discusses the definition and prosecution of impiety in democratic Athens during the Classical period, i.e. in 5th-4th centuries BCE. The question of "impiety" in the narrower sense, i.e. of what was denoted by the Greek word ἀσέβεια (literally, "the absence/negation of respect"), is set into larger context of other crimes of religious character, covered by special laws: "sacrilege" (ἱεροσυλία), digging out sacred olive-trees, offences against festivals and other delicts which were not subsumed under any more general term in the laws, pragmatically formulated as they were. The dissertation builds on the work of the researchers who show considerable scepticism towards the reliability of later sources, for example Plutarch or Diogenes Laertius - this is connected with doubts concerning processes against philosophers before Socrates. At the same time, the thesis follows the scholars who doubt the authenticity of the documents inserted in the speeches of the Attic Orators. For these reasons, a considerable part of the thesis is devoted to the rebuttal of late reports and inserted documents. A particular attention is given to the Decree of Diopeithes, which is mentioned in Plutarch's Life of Pericles and is usually interpreted as criminalising...

O objetivo desta pesquisa é estudar a memória cultural de Sólon de Atenas no texto “A Constituição dos Atenienses”, atribuído a Aristóteles. Esta obra realiza uma interpretação da poesia de Sólon e do seu contexto histórico através de uma investigação historiográfica da memória política de Atenas. A formação da memória cultural de Sólon nesta obra é um objeto privilegiado para abordar a memória da democracia, a concepção de regime democrático no contexto do séc. IV ateniense, e o estatuto do conhecimento histórico no contexto intelectual da escola aristotélica. / The aim of this research is to study the cultural memory of Solon of Athens on the text “The Athenians Constitution” ascribed to Aristotle. This source performs an interpretation of the Solon’s poetry and his historical context through a historiographical investigation about the political memory of Athens. The shaping of the cultural memory of Solon in this source is a privileged object to approach the memory of ancient democracy, the 4th century BC conception of democratic regime and the historical knowledge status on the context of the Aristotelian school.

O objetivo desta pesquisa é estudar a memória cultural de Sólon de Atenas no texto “A Constituição dos Atenienses”, atribuído a Aristóteles. Esta obra realiza uma interpretação da poesia de Sólon e do seu contexto histórico através de uma investigação historiográfica da memória política de Atenas. A formação da memória cultural de Sólon nesta obra é um objeto privilegiado para abordar a memória da democracia, a concepção de regime democrático no contexto do séc. IV ateniense, e o estatuto do conhecimento histórico no contexto intelectual da escola aristotélica. / The aim of this research is to study the cultural memory of Solon of Athens on the text “The Athenians Constitution” ascribed to Aristotle. This source performs an interpretation of the Solon’s poetry and his historical context through a historiographical investigation about the political memory of Athens. The shaping of the cultural memory of Solon in this source is a privileged object to approach the memory of ancient democracy, the 4th century BC conception of democratic regime and the historical knowledge status on the context of the Aristotelian school.

O objetivo desta pesquisa é estudar a memória cultural de Sólon de Atenas no texto “A Constituição dos Atenienses”, atribuído a Aristóteles. Esta obra realiza uma interpretação da poesia de Sólon e do seu contexto histórico através de uma investigação historiográfica da memória política de Atenas. A formação da memória cultural de Sólon nesta obra é um objeto privilegiado para abordar a memória da democracia, a concepção de regime democrático no contexto do séc. IV ateniense, e o estatuto do conhecimento histórico no contexto intelectual da escola aristotélica. / The aim of this research is to study the cultural memory of Solon of Athens on the text “The Athenians Constitution” ascribed to Aristotle. This source performs an interpretation of the Solon’s poetry and his historical context through a historiographical investigation about the political memory of Athens. The shaping of the cultural memory of Solon in this source is a privileged object to approach the memory of ancient democracy, the 4th century BC conception of democratic regime and the historical knowledge status on the context of the Aristotelian school.

Dès sa découverte en 1962, le Papyrus de Derveni, le plus ancien manuscrit d'Europe, n'a pas cessé de soulever des interrogations majeures relatives à la transmission, à l'interprétation et à la fonction des textes orphiques. Le Papyrus de Derveni nous fournit aussi un témoignage de premier ordre quant à l'influence de la philosophie présocratique sur les doctrines orphiques. Cette thèse est la première édition critique française du Papyrus de Derveni. Celle-ci comprend un apparat critique complet ainsi que des notes au texte. Ce travail de recherche propose aussi une étude monographique du Papyrus de Derveni. Nous avons porté une attention toute particulière à l'analyse du poème orphique, aux techniques exégétiques employées et aux thématiques philosophiques de l'écrit contenu dans le Papyrus de Derveni. Nous avons, en outre, comparé les doctrines cosmologiques et philosophiques proposées par son auteur avec les théories d'Héraclite d’Éphèse, d'Anaxagore de Clazomènes, de Diogène d'Apollonie et Archélaos d’Athènes. / Since his discovery in 1962, the Derveni Papyrus, the most ancient manuscript of Europe, has rase full of major questions about the transmission, the interpretation and the function of the orphic texts. The Derveni Papyrus offers us an emblematic testimony about the influence of Presocratic Philosophy on the orphic doctrines. This thesis is the first french critical edition of the Derveni Papyrus with a critical apparatus and notes on the text. This research paper also provides a monographic study of this document. We especially focused our attention on the orphic poem quoted by the author of the Derveni Papyrus, on the exegetical technics he employed and on the philosophical doctrines he proposed. We particularly compared the cosmological and philosophical theories of the Derveni Papyrus author with that of Heraclitus of Ephesus, Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, Diogenes of Apollonia and Archelaus of Athens.