Search for dissertations about: "Grekisk litteratur"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words Grekisk litteratur.

  2. 1. Her Story in Partonopeu de Blois : Rereading Byzantine Relations

    Author : Ellen Söderblom Saarela; Carin Franzén; ingela Nilsson; Anna Watz; Megan Moore; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Partonopeu de Blois; Hysmine and Hysminias; Alexiad; courtly lyric; romance; vernacular; Byzantine novel; Komnenian literature; ancient novel; Apuleius; Longus; Achilles Tatius; feminine subjectivity; literary subjectivity; subjectivity; twelfth century; Partonopeu de Blois; Hysmine and Hysminias; Alexiad; hövisk litteratur; medeltidsromanen; den antika romanen; elvahundratalet; fornfranska; Bysans; grekisk tradition; Apulejus; Achilles Tatius; Longus; Anna Komnena; kvinnlig subjektivitet; litterär subjektivitet; subjektivitet;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the twelfth-century Old French anonymous romance Partonopeu de Blois in relation to the Greek novel tradition and the Byzantine world. The study focuses on the erotic narrative in the romance and articulations of feminine subjectivity. READ MORE

  4. 2. Researcher, Traveller, Narrator : Studies in Pausanias' Periegesis

    Author : Johanna Akujärvi; Grekiska (antik och bysantinsk); []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Greek history warfare in; Panhellenism; Second Sophistic; second person narrative; homodiegetic narrative; narrator; Pausanias; Periegesis; and reception of ; Greek literature; Grekisk litteratur;

    Abstract : This is a study of the second century AD literary work 'Periegesis Hellados', i.e. description of, or guide to, Greece, written by the otherwise unknown author Pausanias. This is a purely textual study with the whole of the Periegesis as its object. READ MORE

  5. 3. Saint Daniel of Sketis. A Group of Hagiographic Texts Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

    Author : Britt Dahlman; Grekiska (antik och bysantinsk); []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Kristendom; Christianity; desert fathers; holy cross-dresser; salos; holy fool; secret servant of God; secret saint; monasticism; xeniteia; hagiography; Apophthegmata Patrum; Anastasia Patrikia; Andronikos and Athanasia; Thomais Alexandrina; Eulogius latomus; Eulogios the Stone-cutter; Marcus salus; Daniel of Scetis Mark the Fool; Alexandria; Egypt; Byzantine Greek; Late Antiquity; History of the Christian church; Kristna kyrkans historia; Greek language; Grekiska språket; Greek literature; Grekisk litteratur; Byzantinology;

    Abstract : This volume is a new edition with a parallel English translation of eight Greek stories related to Daniel of Sketis: 1) Abba Daniel from Sketis; 2) Abba Mark the Fool; 3) The blind man; 4AB) A holy and chaste young woman; 5) The woman who pretended to be a drunkard; 6) Eulogios the Stone-cutter; 7) Andronikos the Money-dealer and his wife Athanasia; 8) Anastasia Patrikia. The stories deal with secret saints and holy cross-dressers in sixth-century Egypt. READ MORE

  6. 4. John Philoponus against Cosmas Indicopleustes : A Christian Controversy on the Structure of the World in Sixth-Century Alexandria

    Author : Birgitta Elweskiöld; Grekiska (antik och bysantinsk); []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Filosofins historia; history of ideas; History of philosophy; Humaniora; Humanities; Cosmas Indicopleustes ; John Philoponus ; philosophical terms ; heaven; Two-floor building ; firmament; idéhistoria; Greek language; Grekiska språket; Greek literature; Grekisk litteratur;

    Abstract : The scope of this study is to compare John Philoponus and Cosmas Indicopleustes, two Christian individuals of different backgrounds and belonging to different fractions of the Church in the turbulent time for the Church in sixth century Alexandria. Any Christian is likely to feel the need to define how the tenets of his or her faith relate to contemporary science. READ MORE

  7. 5. Herodes Atticus Reflected in Occasional Poetry of Antonine Athens

    Author : Foteini Skenteri; Grekiska (antik och bysantinsk); []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Grekiska språket; Greek language; Humaniora; Humanities; ancient rhetoric; Menandros Rhetor; Kephisia; Avlona; Marathon; Triopion; epigraphy; inscriptions; occasional poetry; Antonine Athens; Herodes Atticus; Second Sophistic; Greek literature; Grekisk litteratur;

    Abstract : The occasional poetry of the Antonine period relating to the wealthy sophist and important second century AD political personality in Athens, Herodes Atticus, is studied. Some of the functions of poetry are illustrated, as it is used by one of the leading personalities of the Second Sophistic. READ MORE