Search for dissertations about: "Greek Epics"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Greek Epics.

  2. 1. Dēmokratia : The Prehistory of a Word in Relation to the Greek Typology of Constitutions

    Author : Fredrik Sixtensson; Ingela Nilsson; David Westberg; Carol Atack; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Democracy; δημοκρατία; ἀρχή; κράτος; Greek democracy; kratos; archē; Greek typology of constitutions; Greek polis; Grekiska; Greek;

    Abstract : This thesis discusses how the term δημοκρατία relates to the classical Greek typology of constitutions. The two other major constitutional terms, μοναρχία and ὀλιγαρχία, have another suffix than δημοκρατία. READ MORE

  4. 2. Eustathios of Thessalonike: Parekbolai on Homer’s Odyssey 1–2 : Proekdosis

    Author : Eric Cullhed; Ingela Nilsson; Filippomaria Pontani; Emmanuel Bourbouhakis; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Eustathios of Thessalonike; Parekbolai; Homer; The Odyssey; Komnenian literature; authorship; rhetoric; hermeneutics; ideology; codicology; textual criticism; Greek; Grekiska;

    Abstract : This thesis provides a critical edition of the Parekbolai (“Excerpts”) on the first two rhapsodies of Homer’s Odyssey produced by Eustathios (c. 1115–95), teacher and celebrated orator in Constantinople under the reign of Manuel I Komnenos and later archbishop of Thessalonike, the second city of the Byzantine empire. READ MORE