Ce mémoire présente une traduction commentée des Dokimia (Essais) de D. Katartzis (Editions Ermis, Athènes, 1974, pp. 4-73), inédites du vivant de l’auteur. Dans cette œuvre, Katartzis expose aux lecteurs sa théorie à propos de la langue grecque moderne, de l’éducation, de la religion et de la philosophie. Ses projets pédagogiques s’inscrivent à l’intérieur du mouvement des Lumières en Grèce et de leurs principaux représentants, les Phanariotes. Katartzis, qui était un lecteur enthousiaste de l’Encyclopédie et des philosophes français, développe sa théorie à propos de la Nation grecque, des Romaioi et de leur langue grecque moderne, de l’éducation des enfants grecs et valaques, de la nécessité de traduire des livres étrangers dans la langue actuellement parlée et non pas dans la langue des ancêtres et tout cela parce «qu’il voulait en faire bénéficier sa Nation». / The work is an annotated translation of D. Katartzis’ Dokimia (Essays) (Editions, Athens: Ermis Editions, 1974, pp. 4-73), unpublished in the author’s lifetime. In this work, he presents to the reader his theory on Modern Greek language, education, religion, and philosophy. His educational projects are inscribed within the framework of the Greek Enlightenment and the principal proponents of the movement, the Phanariotes. Katartzis, who was an enthusiastic follower of the Encyclopédie and the French philosophers, elaborates his theory on the Greek Nation, the Romaioi, and their Modern Greek language, on the education of Greek and Wallachian children, on the need to translate foreign works in the actual, spoken language and not the language of the ancestors, because « he wanted to benefit his Nation ».

This thesis takes as its starting point current views on the relationship between man and god in Archaic and Classical Greek literature, according to which mortality and immortality are primarily temporal concepts and, therefore, mutually exclusive. This thesis aims to show that this mutual exclusivity between mortality and immortality is emphasised only in certain poetic genres, while others, namely those centred on extraordinary achievements or exceptional moments in the life of a mortal, can reduce the temporal notion of immortality and emphasise instead the happiness, success, and undisturbed existence that characterise divine life. Here, the paradox of momentary immortality emerges as something attainable to mortals in the poetic representation of certain occasions. The chapters of this thesis pursue such notions of momentary immortality in the wedding ceremony, as presented through wedding songs, in celebrations for athletic victory, as presented through the epinician, and at certain stages of the tragic plot. In the chapter on the wedding song, the discussion focuses on explicit comparisons between the beauty of bride and bridegroom and that of heroes or gods, and between their happiness and divine bliss. The chapter on the epinician analyses the parallelism between the achievement of victory and the exploits of mythical heroes, and argues for a parallelism between the victory celebration and immortalisation. Finally, the chapter on tragedy examines how characters are perceived as godlike because of their beauty, success, or power, and discusses how these perceptions are exploited by the tragedians for certain effects. By examining features of a rhetoric of praise, this thesis is not concerned with the beliefs or expectations of the author, the recipient of praise, or the surrounding milieu. It rather intends to elucidate how moments conceived of as extraordinary are communicated in poetry.

Clement of Alexandria, active in the second half of the second century AD, is one of the first Christian authors to explain and defend the nascent religion in the terms of Greek philosophy and in relation to Greek paideia. His major work, the Stromateis, is a lengthy commentary on the true gnosis of the Christian faith, with no apparent overarching structure or organisational principle, replete with quotations from biblical, Jewish, Greek 'gnostic' and Christian works of all genres. This thesis seeks to read this complex and erudite text in conversation with what has been termed the ‘Second Sophistic’, the efflorescence of elite Greek literature under the Roman empire. We will examine the the text as a performance of authorial persona, competing in the agonistic marketplace of Greek paideia. Clement presents himself as a philosophical teacher in a diadoche from the apostles, arrogating to himself a kind of apostolic authority which appeals to both philosophical notions of intellectual credibility and Christian notions of the authentic handing down of tradition. We will also examine how the work engages key thematic concerns of the period, particularly discourses of intellectual eclecticism and ethnicity, challenging both Greek and Roman forms of hegemony to create a space for Christian identity. Lastly, this thesis will critically examine the Stromateis' intertextual relationship with the Homeric epics; the Iliad and the Odyssey are used as a testing ground for Christian self-positioning in relation to Greek culture as a whole. As we trace this variable relationship, we will also see the cross-fertilisation of reading strategies between Homer and the bible; these developing complex allegorical methods not only presage the rise of Neoplatonism, but also lay the foundations for changes in cultural authority which accompany the Christianisaton of the Roman empire in the centuries after Clement.

The Comparison of the Tax Systems in the Czech Republic and Greece (the Hellenic Republic) Abstract This thesis is primarily trying to compare tax systems between Greece and the Czech Republic as two small and open economies with cca the same level of population that are members of the EU and the most significant international organizations at the same time. Just the membership in the EU very strongly influences the national form of taxes and their structure, too. Its secondary goal concerns the author's opinion of substantial legal enactment of taxes of both states. First it defines, with certain terminology problems across three languages, the term of tax as an obligatory payment, in legal forms strictly stated as a tax, and explains its several theoretical aspects in term of demanded features and structural elements and then it specifies the term of tax system (framework) and focuses on it and a variety of effects on its formation. Probably the only non-legal part including the appendix 2 relates to an economic confrontation of the Czech and Greek tax system. In the practical part it gradually describes a comparison of tax law sources, constitutional fundamentals of taxes, their fiscal assignment and a tax international dimension of both countries, too. A very short historical context i salso mentioned...

This thesis brings to light evidence for the circulation and first-hand reception of Aristotle's Poetics in sixteenth-century England. Though the Poetics upended literary thinking on the Continent in the period, it has long been considered either unavailable in England, linguistically inaccessible to the Greekless English, or thoroughly mediated for English readers by Italian criticism. This thesis revisits the evidentiary basis for each of these claims in turn. A survey of surviving English booklists and library catalogues, set against the work's comprehensive sixteenth-century print-history, demonstrates that the Poetics was owned by and readily accessible to interested readers; two appendices list verifiable and probable owners of the Poetics respectively. Detailed philological analysis of passages from Sir Philip Sidney’s Defence of Poesie proves that he translated directly from the Greek; his and his contemporaries' reading methods indicate the text circulated bilingually as standard. Nor was Sidney’s polyglot access unusual in literary circles: re-examination of the history of Greek education in sixteenth-century England indicates that Greek literacy was higher and more widespread than traditional histories of scholarship have allowed. On the question of mediation, a critical historiography makes clear that the inherited assumption of English reliance on Italian intermediaries for classical criticism has drifted far from the primary evidence. Under these reconstituted historical conditions, some of the outstanding episodes in the sixteenth-century English reception of the Poetics from John Cheke and Roger Ascham in the 1540s to Sidney and John Harington in the 1580s and 1590s are reconsidered as articulate evidence of reading, thinking about, and responding to Aristotle's defining contribution to Renaissance literary thought.

O Terceiro Humanismo de Werner Jaeger constitui um momento crucial na interpretação da Antiguidade, em especial no que diz respeito à sociedade grega clássica. Constituiu uma tentativa de recuperar um ideal humanístico através dos recursos da filologia clássica e das Altertumswissenschaften, conduzida na Alemanha nos anos do regime republicano de Weimar e também sob o nacional-socialismo. A partir de uma análise do desenvolvimento do projeto humanístico de Jaeger, do início da trajetória acadêmica do filólogo, logo antes da Primeira Guerra Mundial, até sua migração para os Estados Unidos, em 1936, a presente pesquisa procura lançar luz sobre as conjunturas políticas, sociais e intelectuais que condicionavam sua trajetória, conduzindo-o a uma tentativa de Gleichschaltung política com o nacional-socialismo no contexto dos primeiros meses do regime, e, em última análise, ao malogro de seu desígnio basilar colocar a serviço do presente forças educativas antigas, éticas e políticas. / Werner Jaeger\'s Third Humanism constituted a crucial moment in the interpretation of Antiquity, especially of classical Greek society. It was an attempt at recovering a humanistic ideal through the resources of classical philology and the Altertumswissenschaften, carried out in Germany in the years of the Weimar Republic and also under the National Socialist regime. By analyzing the development of Jaegers humanistic project, from the beginning of the philologists academic career, right before World War I, to his migration to the United States in 1936, the present research seeks to shed light upon the social, political and intellectual conditions that affected his trajectory, leading up to an attempt at political Gleichsschaltung with National Socialism during the first months of the regime, and ultimately to the failure of his primary goal to place ethical and political formative forces of Antiquity at the service of the present.

O Terceiro Humanismo de Werner Jaeger constitui um momento crucial na interpretação da Antiguidade, em especial no que diz respeito à sociedade grega clássica. Constituiu uma tentativa de recuperar um ideal humanístico através dos recursos da filologia clássica e das Altertumswissenschaften, conduzida na Alemanha nos anos do regime republicano de Weimar e também sob o nacional-socialismo. A partir de uma análise do desenvolvimento do projeto humanístico de Jaeger, do início da trajetória acadêmica do filólogo, logo antes da Primeira Guerra Mundial, até sua migração para os Estados Unidos, em 1936, a presente pesquisa procura lançar luz sobre as conjunturas políticas, sociais e intelectuais que condicionavam sua trajetória, conduzindo-o a uma tentativa de Gleichschaltung política com o nacional-socialismo no contexto dos primeiros meses do regime, e, em última análise, ao malogro de seu desígnio basilar colocar a serviço do presente forças educativas antigas, éticas e políticas. / Werner Jaeger\'s Third Humanism constituted a crucial moment in the interpretation of Antiquity, especially of classical Greek society. It was an attempt at recovering a humanistic ideal through the resources of classical philology and the Altertumswissenschaften, carried out in Germany in the years of the Weimar Republic and also under the National Socialist regime. By analyzing the development of Jaegers humanistic project, from the beginning of the philologists academic career, right before World War I, to his migration to the United States in 1936, the present research seeks to shed light upon the social, political and intellectual conditions that affected his trajectory, leading up to an attempt at political Gleichsschaltung with National Socialism during the first months of the regime, and ultimately to the failure of his primary goal to place ethical and political formative forces of Antiquity at the service of the present.

Every semester across the United States, countless students join Greek letter organizations. While some may recognize the Greek letters, many Americans do not know the racial divide within the Greek life system, and the difference of purpose those organizations hold. This study focuses on eight historically Black fraternities and sororities and more specifically, their chapters at the University of New Orleans, a university that throughout its history has had a predominantly White student body, and often fostered an environment overtly and subtly hostile to African-American students. Using oral histories, university yearbooks, and university newspapers this study demonstrates how Black fraternities and sororities at UNO promoted and supported the academic success of African-American students by emphasizing community service work, communal bonds, and connections to campus activities. These organizations provided emotional and academic support for African-American students and actively resisted the racial divisiveness present on their university campus.

Ce mémoire présente une traduction commentée des Dokimia (Essais) de D. Katartzis (Editions Ermis, Athènes, 1974, pp. 4-73), inédites du vivant de l’auteur. Dans cette œuvre, Katartzis expose aux lecteurs sa théorie à propos de la langue grecque moderne, de l’éducation, de la religion et de la philosophie. Ses projets pédagogiques s’inscrivent à l’intérieur du mouvement des Lumières en Grèce et de leurs principaux représentants, les Phanariotes. Katartzis, qui était un lecteur enthousiaste de l’Encyclopédie et des philosophes français, développe sa théorie à propos de la Nation grecque, des Romaioi et de leur langue grecque moderne, de l’éducation des enfants grecs et valaques, de la nécessité de traduire des livres étrangers dans la langue actuellement parlée et non pas dans la langue des ancêtres et tout cela parce «qu’il voulait en faire bénéficier sa Nation». / The work is an annotated translation of D. Katartzis’ Dokimia (Essays) (Editions, Athens: Ermis Editions, 1974, pp. 4-73), unpublished in the author’s lifetime. In this work, he presents to the reader his theory on Modern Greek language, education, religion, and philosophy. His educational projects are inscribed within the framework of the Greek Enlightenment and the principal proponents of the movement, the Phanariotes. Katartzis, who was an enthusiastic follower of the Encyclopédie and the French philosophers, elaborates his theory on the Greek Nation, the Romaioi, and their Modern Greek language, on the education of Greek and Wallachian children, on the need to translate foreign works in the actual, spoken language and not the language of the ancestors, because « he wanted to benefit his Nation ».

Στην παρούσα έρευνα επιχειρείται η διερεύνηση των προτιμώμενων τρόπων μάθησης των μεταπτυχιακών φοιτητών στα προγράμματα σπουδών του Ελληνικού Ανοικτού Πανεπιστημίου «Σπουδές στην Εκπαίδευση» και «Εκπαίδευση Ενηλίκων», στο πλαίσιο της εξ αποστάσεως εκπαίδευσης. Ως ερμηνευτικό πλαίσιο της έρευνας χρησιμοποιείται η θεωρία της εμπειρικής μάθησης του Kolb. Η συλλογή των δεδομένων στηρίχθηκε στη μέθοδο της επισκόπησης, με εργαλείο μέτρησης το ερωτηματολόγιο. Από την ποσοτική επεξεργασία των εμπειρικών δεδομένων διαπιστώνεται η τάση των μεταπτυχιακών φοιτητών προς τον συγκλίνοντα μαθησιακό τύπο. Τα αποτελέσματα δείχνουν ότι η μεθοδολογία της εξ αποστάσεως εκπαίδευσης εμπίπτει στις προτιμώμενες μαθησιακές συνθήκες του συγκεκριμένου μαθησιακού τύπου. / This research focuses on the attempt to look into the learning preferences of Hellenic Open University’s post graduate students, in the fields of “Education” and “Adult Education”, that they study in the context of open and distance learning methodology. The interpretative context of the research is formed by Kolb’s theory of experiential learning. The research method is based on the questionnaire. The quantitative processing of data ascertains the tendency of post graduate students towards convergent learning style. The results demonstrate that the methodology of open and distance education, as a learning environment, supports the preferences which associate with convergent learning style.