O cunning guide, son of Maia, I fear that you might steal my lyre and my curved bow. For you hold the office from Zeus to establish deeds of exchange among men throughout the fertile earth. But if you would suffer to swear the great oath of the gods for me, either by nodding your head or by the mighty water of the Styx, you would accomplish everything pleasing to my own heart. —Homeric Hymnes 1...

The article examines the relationships between Asclepius and Trikki, Asclepius’ place in Greek mythology and history, and Asclepius’ significance for sports education. The research focuses on the discovery of the Trikkeos Asclepius sanctuary, the most ancient sanctuary in Greece, and description of rituals and cults related to diagnostic and therapeutic medicine, prayers, dreams, divination, gy...

This paper delimits and analyzes the effects of the harassment perpetrated by ETA's terrorist network in the Basque Country. The aim was to provide a taxonomy of the consequences of psychological violence and to validate this taxonomy, by means of a content analysis of 37 testimonies of victims of terrorist violence. The taxonomy of consequences of psychological violence is made up by four comp...

Were the ancients Greeks “racists” in the modern sense of the term “racist”? The terms ancient Greek “proto-racism”, tribalism (and/or racism) are used here to denote the abstract, narcissistic notion that not only the non-Greek barbarians, but also certain ancient Greek tribes (like the Macedonians, the Boeoteans etc.) should be excluded from the Hellenic community, for they were considered to...

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Criticism of Wole Soyinka’s Season Anomy alongside the Greek mythological story “Orpheus and Eurydice” has usually been an engagement in drawing parallels between both texts, or uncovering symbols allusions found within novel that echoes myth. None, however, explored at same time range similarities dissimilarities narratives; nor is there available a sustained attention devoted to criticism bot...

The present study explores the representation of woman’s character in literary works and also encompasses retelling Greek mythology from Madeline Miller’s female protagonist’s perspective. Gender stereotypes established by require that women must be submissive marginalized. Those characters are not according to these termed as negative characters. Moreover, this women’s stereotypical characteri...