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Hellenes

the self-designation of the Greeks. As a term designating all Greeks, it is first encountered in the works of the poet Archilochus (seventh century B.C.).

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Ancient Hellenes usually encountered these beliefs in myths of epic and tragedy.

Emily Baragwanath and Mathieu De Bakker (eds.), Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus

So a first lesson to be drawn from the Hellenic experience is the multiplicity of the self and the necessity to take into account alternative self-understandings/representations whether inside or outside a "collective self." Hellenes saw their identities not only through ethnic or religious prisms, if those prisms actually had the same importance or value as they had in the modem period in the west, but also through their political or civic identities, their federal, colonial, intra-Hellenic, or Panhellenic ones.

Travelogues of difference: IR theory and travel literature

The Hellenes saw a cosmos driven by Eros and consisting of beasts fighting in tangled erotic unions as if Aphrodite was the other face of the hydra.

"The silent handmaiden": poison & poeisis in the Women of Trachis

What is different is that ancient Hellenes thought of bodily movement as a product of the psyche (mind/soul), (35) and in Plato's case at least, sought to train the psyche for virtue--as the Chinese did--partly through bodily movement.

East to Olympia: recentering Olympic philosophy between East and West

We: the Alexandrians, the Antiochenes, the Seleucians, and the numerous other Hellenes of Egypt and Syria, and those in Media, and those in Persia, and so many others.

Alexandria the Great: on the Mediterranean at the western edge of the Nile delta stands the most important and enduring of all the many cities founded by Alexander. Though much of its material past has been destroyed or lies underwater, Alexandria's reputation as the intellectual powerhouse of the Classical world, fusing Greek, Egyptian and Roman culture, lives on

For this reason, our novelist has strengthened her flight by an accumulation of knowledge which is meant to support her passage through time, for instance, from the ancient Hellenes to modern times in the 21st century.

Aleksandra Mokranjac. Illusionism

It begins: "We are Hellenes: the intolerant monotheism of the Hebrews is alien to us--their rejection of the visual arts, their slavish attachment to the flesh, to the getting of heirs, to seed." Stroop proceeds to attack the Christian dogma that same-sex acts are unnatural.

Lifestyles of the Gay and Banished

tour is under the auspices of the World Council of Hellenes Abroad, and has the support of the Greek ministries of tourist development, foreign affairs, transportation and communications, as well as UNESCO.

Greece is the word

Founded in 1991 and now under the auspices of the World Council of Hellenes Abroad, Plant Your Roots in Greece seeks to involve Greeks and those of Greek descent in improving and protecting their homeland's environment.

Rising from the ashes

Identified by the publisher as the first English-language publication to systematically treat Panhellenism, this book argues that in archaic and classical Greece, both Panhellenism and barbarism defined the community of the Hellenes and gave it political substance.

Panhellenism and the barbarian in Archaic and classical Greece

Dentro de las traducciones anteriores, unas, como la de Garcia y Bellido, tenian el inconveniente de la transcripcion deliberadamente arcaizante, que era practicamente una transliteracion, de los nombres propios, que hacia que se convirtiera en algo extrano y chocante incluso para el propio especialista, que se encontraba con expresiones como hellenes o lakedaimonioi por griegos y espartanos, o una solucion de compromiso: helenos y lacedemonios, cuando no con ouettones, lysitanoi o keltiberes, en vez de vetones, lusitanos o celtiberos.

Estrabon (2007): Geografia de Iberia

THE bottle was sold as part of the former collection of King George I of the Hellenes at the end of January.