{"title":"Tirukkural, Quran and Old Testament: The Relationship between Greek Hippolytus, Hebrew Joseph, Arabic Yūsuf and Buddha with Chastity, Orphic and Sobriety","authors":"D. Pugazhendhi","doi":"10.30958/ajp.11-1-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30958/ajp.11-1-3","url":null,"abstract":"Hippolytus is a tale seen in ancient Greek literature. It deals primarily with the sexual desire of a stepmother towards her stepson. Euripides also wrote a play on this theme with the similar name. In this he mentioned familiarity in which the poet also can sing. Ancient Greek Historian Pausanias mentioned that the alien who has learnt Greek, knows about this tale. So it is a need to search, how far this tale could travel. Ancient Greeks traded with Tamil Nadu, India. The same tale is also seen in Indian Buddhist text, with other proper names, that mentioned the same is related with the former birth of Buddha. A similar story of Hippolytus is also found in the Hebrew Old Testament and the Arabic Qur'an. These also need comparison. So this study considered the religious value of this Greek tale ‘Hippolytus’. The chastity and vegetarianism of Hippolytus are mentioned as the best morals in an ancient book called Tirukkuṟaḷ, which is on par with Buddhist philosophy. This paper outcomes the concept of chastity and vegetarianism, mingled in the tale, which is the philosopy of Buddhism and how the Greek philosophy admired and induced the Indians to worship the Grecian Deities. Keywords: Tirukkuṟaḷ, Hippolytus, Tamil Nadu, Buddhism, Chastity, Quran, Old Testament","PeriodicalId":475876,"journal":{"name":"Athens Journal of Philology","volume":"521 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140448241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imagery of Childhood from the Homeric Poems","authors":"Ana Paula Pinto","doi":"10.30958/ajp.11-1-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30958/ajp.11-1-1","url":null,"abstract":"As the first European literary documents, the Iliad and the Odyssey ensure in the cultural history of the West a unique status, assuming itself since Antiquity as the first foundation of philological and philosophical research, and also as superior literary and artistic model. In the framework of their traditional nature, due to the creative elaboration of generations of aedos, both epics, based on a peculiar technique of production and transmission, articulate in an enigmatic poetic plot threads of mythic narratives and historical realities that modern archaeological investigations confirm. From the poetic testimony of Homer, we will try to analyse the references to childhood. While some occur generically as images of a certain extract of human society, marked by peculiar characteristics, functions and needs, others, supported by peculiar mentions, assume a dramatic functionality in the mythical plot of the two poems, which contributes to their symbolic density. These poetic founding references, plastically reflected in the Greek ceramic art of the classical period, will offer us the pretext not only to better understand the ancient worldview, but also to interpret in it the symbolic expressiveness of the childhood universe. Keywords: Homer, Iliad, Odyssey, childhood, classical ceramic art","PeriodicalId":475876,"journal":{"name":"Athens Journal of Philology","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140447683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What are the Goals of Teaching Literature in L1? Examining European Models of Essays in the Upper Secondary School-leaving Exam","authors":"Ivana Zajc","doi":"10.30958/ajp.11-1-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30958/ajp.11-1-2","url":null,"abstract":"The comparative analysis of ten different European models of essays in the upper secondary school-leaving external examination in a mother tongue shows that different models of essays anticipate different types of goals and show different approaches to literature teaching. We show that students in some countries can avoid educational and emotional goals of literature teaching in the upper secondary school-leaving essays and that for the models of essays in other countries the functional goals (writing and reading skills) seem to be more important. We argue that the model which would effectively check the achievement of the educational goals of teaching literature, should include both literary-theoretical and literary-historical knowledge and the emotional goals of teaching literature that are often neglected or oversimplified in essay assignments. Keywords: didactics of literature, L1 language, literature teaching, upper secondary school-leaving exam, essay","PeriodicalId":475876,"journal":{"name":"Athens Journal of Philology","volume":"251 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140447145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pragmatic Features of Code-switches in Gender-oriented Glossy Magazines","authors":"Ekaterina V. Bakalova","doi":"10.30958/ajp.11-1-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30958/ajp.11-1-4","url":null,"abstract":"Linguists all over the world have conducted various research on how gender affects language. Code-switches, as one of the forms of bilingual speech, interact with many variables, including gender. This paper provides insights on the phenomenon of code-switches in mass media discourse, specifically in modern glossy magazines Elle and Gentlemen’s Quarterly. We focus our analysis mostly on pragmatic and gender aspects. The objective of the research is to illustrate how the code-switch patterns differ by gender in terms of frequency and pragmatic use. We collected the data from two gender-oriented glossy magazines. The theoretical and conceptual background of the study is the Matrix Language Frame Model by C. Myers-Scotton and the functional classification of code-switches by G. Chirsheva. Findings indicate that code-switches in glossy magazines have eight different functions: topic-related, effort-saving, quotational, self-identification, humorous, metalinguistic, addressee-oriented and emotional. One of the major research results expressed in numerical form: journalists use twice as many code-switches in Elle in comparison to Gentlemen’s Quarterly (434 and 234, respectively). The contrastive analysis has also shown that code-switches perform common and specific pragmatic functions in women-oriented and in men-oriented glossy publications. Keywords: bilingualism in media discourse, code-switch, glossy magazine, gender in language, pragmatic features of code-switches","PeriodicalId":475876,"journal":{"name":"Athens Journal of Philology","volume":"52 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140445771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}