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Tales of archaic Greek city foundations continue to be told and retold long after the colonies themselves were settled, and this book explores how the ancient Greeks constructed their memory of founding new cities overseas. Greek stories about colonizing Sicily or the Black Sea in the seventh century B.C.E. are no more transparent, no less culturally constructed than nineteenth-century British tales of empire in India or Africa; they are every bit as much about power, language, and cultural appropriation. This book brings anthropological and literary theory to bear on the narratives that later Greeks tell about founding colonies and the processes through which the colonized are assimilated into the familiar story-lines, metaphors, and rituals of the colonizers. The distinctiveness and the universality of the Greek colonial representations are explored through explicit comparison with later European narratives of new world settlement. ... Read more

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An accessible introduction to the turbulent post-war history of this unique Balkan country, it is a slice of the real Greece beyond the picture postcard destination with which we are all familiar. Draws extensively on research on modern Greece in recent decades and on the many perceptive commentaries on recent events in the Greek press. This book adopts both an analytical and chronological approach and shows how Greece has both converged with western Europe and remained distinctively Balkan. David Close writes clearly and forcefully, examines the profound changes since 1990 and the death of Papendreou, and presents a lively picture of the Greek political system, economic development, social changes and foreign relations.For anyone interested in the history of Greece and/or its role in the postwar world. ... Read more

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This is the seventh volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed for the needs and interests of today's undergraduates, Greekless scholars in other disciplines, and the general public. Classical oratory is an invaluable resource for the study of ancient Greek life and culture. The speeches offer evidence on Greek moral views, social and economic conditions, political and social ideology, law and legal procedure, and other aspects of Athenian culture that have been largely ignored: women and family life, slavery, and religion, to name just a few. The Athenian rhetorician Isocrates (436-338) was one of the leading intellectual figures of the fourth century. This volume contains his orations 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, and 14, as well as all of his letters. These are Isocrates' political works. Three of the discourses--Panathenaicus, On the Peace, and the most famous, Panegyricus--focus on Athens, Isocrates' home. Archidamus is written in the voice of the Spartan prince to his assembly, and Plataicus is in the voice of a citizen of Plataea asking Athens for aid, while in To Philip, Isocrates himself calls on Philip of Macedon to lead a unified Greece against Persia. ... Read more

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This volume contains six works by Isocrates (Panegyricus, On the Peace, To Phillip, Archidamus, Panathenaeus, Plaiticus) and his nine extant letters.

This is once-more a very enjoyable volume, with an introduction to oratory in general, Isocrates in particular, and then to each individual speech and letter. The translation is clear and supplemented by footnotes. A better translated Isocrates could not be asked for. ... Read more

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This is the sixth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed for the needs and interests of today's undergraduates, Greekless scholars in other disciplines, and the general public. Classical oratory is an invaluable resource for the study of ancient Greek life and culture. The speeches offer evidence on Greek moral views, social and economic conditions, political and social ideology, law and legal procedure, and other aspects of Athenian culture that have been largely ignored: women and family life, slavery, and religion, to name just a few. Demosthenes is regarded as the greatest orator of classical antiquity; indeed, his very eminence may be responsible for the inclusion under his name of a number of speeches he almost certainly did not write. This volume contains four speeches that are most probably the work of Apollodorus, who is often known as "the Eleventh Attic Orator." Regardless of their authorship, however, this set of ten law court speeches gives a vivid sense of public and private life in fourth-century BC Athens. They tell of the friendships and quarrels of rural neighbors, of young men joined in raucous, intentionally shocking behavior, of families enduring great poverty, and of the intricate involvement of prostitutes in the lives of citizens. They also deal with the outfitting of warships, the grain trade, challenges to citizenship, and restrictions on the civic role of men in debt to the state. ... Read more

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This is the twelfth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed for the needs and interests of today's undergraduates, Greekless scholars in other disciplines, and the general public. Classical oratory is an invaluable resource for the study of ancient Greek life and culture. The speeches offer evidence on Greek moral views, social and economic conditions, political and social ideology, law and legal procedure, and other aspects of Athenian culture that have recently been attracting particular interest: women and family life, slavery, and religion, to name just a few. Demosthenes is regarded as the greatest orator of classical antiquity. This volume contains three important speeches from the earliest years of his political career: Against Leptines, a prosecution brought against a law repealing all exemptions from liturgies; Against Meidias, a prosecution for aggravated insult (hybris) brought against an influential politician; and Against Androtion, an indictment of a decree of honors for the Council of Athens. Edward M. Harris provides contemporary English translations of these speeches, two of which (Leptines and Androtion) have not been translated into English in over sixty years, along with introductions and extensive notes that take account of recent developments in Classical scholarship. ... Read more

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Chapters: Greek Telephone Tapping Case 2004-2005, Former Cabinets of Greece, Minister for the Interior, Decentralisation and E-Governance, Cabinet of Greece, Minister for Industry, Energy and Technology, Greek Senate, Minister for Culture, Minister for Public Order, Minister for Trade, Adamantios Vassilakis, Hellenic National Defense General Staff, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Minister for Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs, Greek Passport, Minister for Macedonia-thrace, Presidium, Presidential Departments, Parliamentary Committees, Minister for the Aegean and Island Policy, Eett, Minister for the Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works, Minister for Finance, Minister for Development, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Networks, Minister for Justice, Transparency and Human Rights, List of Speakers of the Hellenic Parliament, Minister for Rural Development and Food, Minister for Employment and Social Security, Minister for the Press and the Media, Hellenic Amateur Athletic Association, Minister for Tourism, Minister for National Defence, Minister for Mercantile Marine and Island Policy, Conference of Presidents, Minister for Health and Social Solidarity, Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate Change, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece, Efimeris Tis Kyverniseos, Minister for Reconstruction. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 114. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Greek telephone tapping case of 2004-2005, also referred to as Greek Watergate, involved the illegal tapping of more than 100 mobile phones on the Vodafone Greece network belonging mostly to members of the Greek government and top-ranking civil servants. The taps began sometime near the beginning of August 2004 and were removed in March 2005 without discovering the identity of the pe...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3934511 ... Read more

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Chapters: Government Ministers of Greece, Members of the Parliament of Greece, Prime Ministers of Greece, Constantine Kanaris, List of Prime Ministers of Greece, Ioannis Kapodistrias, Konstantinos Karamanlis, Andreas Papandreou, Georgios Papadopoulos, Kostas Karamanlis, George Papandreou, Melina Mercouri, Costas Simitis, Ioannis Metaxas, Nikolaos Plastiras, Charilaos Trikoupis, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Panagis Tsaldaris, Alexander Papagos, Spyros Markezinis, Georgios Christakis-Zografos, Xenophon Zolotas, Prime Minister of Greece, Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens, Alexandros Koumoundouros, Evangelos Venizelos, Themistoklis Sophoulis, Stephanos Skouloudis, Ioannis Rallis, Petros Voulgaris, Stylianos Gonatas, George Rallis, Georgios Theotokis, Ioannis Kolettis, Prince Alexander Mavrocordatos, Giorgos Papakonstantinou, Alexandros Svolos, Theodoros Pangalos, Alexandros Papanastasiou, Tzannis Tzannetakis, Dimitrios Gounaris, Yannis Papathanasiou, Georgios Kondylis, Georgios Tsolakoglou, Theodoros Deligiannis, Alexandros Zaimis, Josef Ludwig Von Armansperg, Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Evripidis Stylianidis, Ilias Tsirimokos, Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Spyridon Trikoupis, Adamantios Androutsopoulos, Panagiotis Chinofotis, Alexandros Diomidis, Alexandros Othonaios, Dimitrios Voulgaris, Konstantinos Tsaldaris, Anastasios Charalambis, Alexandros Koryzis, Sophoklis Venizelos, Emmanouil Tsouderos, Andreas Michalakopoulos, Nikolaos Triantaphyllakos, Kitsos Tzavelas, Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, Apostolos Kaklamanis, Dimitrios Deligeorgis, Stephanos Dragoumis, Konstantinos Skenderis, Georgios Kountouriotis, Sotirios Krokidas, Andreas Loverdos, Epameinontas Deligeorgis, Konstantinos Konstantopoulos, Georgios Kafantaris, Dimitrios Rallis, Tina Birbili, Spyridon Lambros, Antonios Kriezis, Konstantinos Georgakopoulos, Nikolaos Stratos, Amalia Fleming, Louka Katseli, Kyriakoulis Mavromichalis, Petros Protopapadakis, Dimitrios Gontikas, Konstan...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=207787 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Small Business Management, published by International Council of Small Business on January 1, 1999. The length of the article is 1581 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The Greek government, through the non-profit Hellenic Organization for Medium- and Small-Size Enterprises and Handicrafts (EOMMEX), provides artistic, technical and other assistance to the country's artisans and craftsmen. Working alongside EOMMEX is another non-profit organization whose task is to provide consulting services to small and medium enterprises, the Greek Productivity Centre. These organizations not only aid the economy by promoting the long-term development of rural, small-scale enterprises as they also ensure that cultural tradition is preserved through small businesses.

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Title: Preserving culture through small business: government support for artisans and craftsmen in Greece.
Author: Leo Paul Dana
Publication: Journal of Small Business Management (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1999
Publisher: International Council of Small Business
Volume: 37Issue: 1Page: 90(3)

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The Greek polis has been arousing interest as a subject for study for a long time, but recent approaches have shown that it is a subject on which there are still important questions to be asked and worthwhile issues to be explored. This book contains a selection of essays which embody the results of the latest research. Beyond the historical development of the Greek polis, the contributors ask questions about the civic institutions of ancient Greece as a whole and their relationships to each other. Questions of power or the significance of a written code of law are discussed as well as the nature of Greek overseas settlements. Development of the Greek Polis presents up-to-date research and asks up-to-date questions on various aspects of an important topic. ... Read more

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This volume brings together young researchers in an interdisciplinary study of Greek interaction with other Balkan states over the past two hundred years. The thirteen chapters of the volume reflect the diversity of a long and complex relationship between Greece and its Balkan neighbours. They thus shed refreshing light on its persistent attributes of opportunity and risk, attraction and enmity, exchange and exclusion, through exploration of historical, anthropological, literary, political and economic perspectives. ... Read more

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The Greek Slogan of Freedom and Early Roman Politics in Greece elucidates the main steps and ways in which the slogan of freedom emerged and developed into the fundamental principle of Greek diplomacy and politics, long before the Romans appropriated and used this slogan to establish their domination over the Mediterranean.

Originally employed by the Spartans and Athenians, who used it to subvert each other's military alliances before and during the Peloponnesian war, the slogan of freedom helped to maintain political and military balance among the major Greek powers during the classical period, putting a check on their aspirations. After Philip II and Alexander III (the Great) established Macedonian rule over Greece, and in the subsequent Hellenistic period, the slogan of freedom not only continued to be an important tool for undermining rival military alliances and vindicating aggressions on behalf of those whose freedom was allegedly violated or endangered, but also served to determine the status of individual Greek communities.

Once Rome became involved in Greek affairs, she made the slogan of freedom part of her policy in Greece. The Romans' claim of protecting Greek freedom was their only justification for interfering in Greek affairs. Individual Greek cities preserved their status, including freedom, by pledging loyalty and good faith to Rome. This network of mutual obligations and responsibilities evolved into a system of political control over the Greeks, which came to be known as the Roman Peace (pax Romana). This book argues, therefore, that the Roman Mediterranean empire was built not only on military might, but also on diplomacy, including a skillful Roman adaptation to local political practices and vocabulary. ... Read more

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Now that contemporary Greek democracy is consolidated and functioning, this book re-examines its foundations and original political design. Focusing on the formative 1974-81 period, it analyses the 'making' of this democracy through the differing logics of its newly emergent parties, the antithesis between charismatic leadership and bureaucratic party organization, the persistence of clientelist practice and the impact of populist discourse. At a micro-analytical level, it offers a systematic examination of the conservative Nea Demokratia (New Democracy) party which was in power until 1981, and in fact led the process to democratic consolidation. ... Read more