This study examines how Greek-Cypriot students aged 12 to 18, an understudied group of students, construct their ethnic identity in a complex setting such as Cyprus and what motivates the students in the selection of ethnic identity labels. The choice to focus on students aged 12-18 was made on the hypothesis that young children, who did not experience the 1974 war in Cyprus, may have a differe...

In his article "Greek, Latin, and th that while it is hardly new that the models of contemporary comparative and world literature Eurocentric in their origins and structures, the precise nature of Eurocentrism is less Beecroft argues that far from representing (as Goethe had wished) era of comparative and world literature the notion of "national literatures." Beecroft explores the national basi...

Greece is ranked third after Spain and Italy in virgin olive oil production. The number of Greek olive cultivars-excluding clonal selections-is greater than 40; however, more than 90% of the acreage is cultivated with 20 cultivars, adapted to a wide range of environmental conditions. Greek virgin olive oils, produced mainly with traditional, non-intensive cultivation practices, are mostly of ex...

Ancient Greek literature gives us many relevant traces of the way people represented maritime spaces. Greek narratives endow these spaces with meaning and make them legible. Indeed, these testimonies are a significant contribution to our knowledge of the “odological” space at sea, a space of description including numerous cultural features rather than a space described. This space is based on e...

Recently, it has been announced by economic policy makers, that Greece’s ambition for the 21 century is to become a business and transport hub, linking south-east Europe with EU markets. Undoubtedly, public infrastructure plays a determinant role in fulfilling these expectations and plans. Nevertheless, the impact of public infrastructure on Greek economy has rarely been systematically examined...

A long-standing issue in the literature on clitics, namely, whether they can be best analysed as aaxes or syntactically autonomous words (postlexical clitics), is here addressed with respect to the Modern Greek`weak form' possessive pronoun. It is argued that distributional and phonological evidence strongly support an aaxal analysis. Apparent diiculties for extending to possessive aaxes an HPS...

epic poetry is a sort of ancient literature which exists in most of the world's literatures such as roman, greek, indian and iranian; but arabic literature has not used this type of literature. major reasons for this are as follows: 1. lack of nationalistic sense 2. arabic poetry is mostly based on vocality 3. there haven't been real long term wars between arabs 4. arabic poetry has h...