Maria Pavlou

Theological School of the Church of Cyprus · Theology

This paper seeks to contribute to the discussion of the political ramifications of Pythian 10 by drawing attention to two less studied features of the ode’s mythical narrative: the glossing over of King Polydectes within Perseus’ story, and the attribution of the rare appellation λαγέτας to Perseus. Additionally, it is argued that, as well as targe...

The educational value of play has long been acknowledged. During recent decades, much attention has been paid to video games and the multifarious ways in which they can promote and enhance learning. My main objective in this study is to weave game principles, learning and the notion of playfulness into assessment principles, in an attempt to invest...

The educational value of play has long been acknowledged. During recent decades, much attention has been paid to video games and the multifarious ways in which they can promote and enhance learning. Μy main objective in this study is to weave game principles, learning and the notion of playfulness into assessment principles, in an attempt to invest...

Platonic dialogues are full of poetic references. As well as revealing a vivid interest in, and acquaintance with, previous poetic works, Plato's citations of the poets are also reflective of a widespread - but in Plato's view reprehensible - 4th century Athenian practice of treating poetry as a compendium of absolute and undeniable truths and of a...

(T.) Phillips Pindar’s Library: Performance Poetry and Material Texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. x + 344. £87. 9780198745730. - Volume 138 - Maria Pavlou

This paper discusses the two references to Hesiod- one explicit (207a), the other implicit (155d)-that we encounter in the Theaetetus. Whereas at first glance Socrates seems to evoke Hesiod with a view to lending authority to or illustrating his own ongoing argument, if we go back to the original Hesiodic text and examine the wider context of the l...

GREEK VICTORY LITERATURE - Nicholson (N.) The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West. Epinician, Oral Tradition, and the Deinomenid Empire. Pp. xx + 353, ills, maps. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Cased, £47.99, US$74. ISBN: 978-0-19-020909-4. - Maria Pavlou

Kambanellis? Letter to Orestes constitutes Clytemnestra's apologia for the murder of Agamemnon and is addressed to her estranged son Orestes. Until now, research has concentrated mainly on the content, verbal message and metatheatrical dimension of Clytemnestra's letter, laying emphasis upon Kambanellis? intertextual links with the ancient Greek tr...

The proemium’s elaborate account of the writing down of Socrates’ conversation prepares the reader for the questions about testimony and knowledge that are the substance of the Theaetetus.

One arresting feature in the Aeginetan epinician songs of Pindar and Bacchylides is the idealized image of Aegina that they generate. The paper argues that this image should not be taken at face value because it hardly maps onto the fifth-century Aeginetan milieu; rather, it is an ideological construct that conceals existing tension and strife.

The poem represents a specific type of paean, which Athens sought to promulgate as intrinsically Athenian in an attempt to forge its identity as the cultural leader of the Ionians and the Greeks in general.

The two wreath-bearing sirens featuring in the sympotic scene on a black-figure Laconian cylix in the Louvre (E667) have been the subject of much discussion and have been interpreted as symbolising either the souls of the symposiasts, or the festivity / erotic ambience of the convivial gathering. As I argue, the function of the sirens in this scene...

This article re-examines Pindar's opening statement in Nemean 5, that he is not a sculptor who fashions motionless statues, by taking into account the ode's actual performance venue. This contextualization of the poem enables a better understanding of Pindar's claim, and shows that the mobility which he ascribes to his song is not merely external,...

Literature - Morrison(A.D.)Performances and Audiences in Pindar's Sicilian Odes. (BICS Supplement 95). London: Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, 2007. Pp. 146. £30. 9781905670093. - Volume 129 - Maria Pavlou

Clothing has both a material and a non-material dimension. Far from merely covering one's body, clothes reveal and reflect something about the wearer's identity: his or her character, gender, social status, ideas, and emotions. The opposite is also true, insofar as clothes can be used in order to and conceal one's real values and beliefs, thus tran...

BrocciaG., La Rappresentazione del Tempo Nell' Opera di Orazio (Quaderni della “Rivista di cultura classica e medioevale” 8). Rome: Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 2007. Pp. 68. ISBN 8-88476-107-7. €18.00. - Volume 98 - Maria Pavlou

Scholarly discussions of Pindar's Olympian 9 normally examine the opening reference to Archilochus' kallinikos hymn, the mythical exemplum of Heracles' theomachy, and the narrative of the foundation of Opus separately. The present study will attempt to examine these references together, as forming a dynamic whole. As will become clear, such an appr...