Edited by Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers

Description

This set of articles brings Classicists and Modern Greek Studies scholars together in an effort to widen the perspective of Greek cultural studies. The goal is to create a dialog that spans the ages and views the issues at hand, typical for both ancient and Modern Greece, in a diachronic continuum. Issues that traditionally have been considered characteristic of ancient Greek culture have re-emerged over two millennia later in Modern Greece, revealing the cyclical nature of cultural life and the ties between the two worlds, ancient and modern. The phenomenon suggests the possibility that the best solutions to many contemporary problems may lie in understanding their ancient origins and evolutionary process.

From scapegoating as an ancient practice to its modern form; from the inception of feminism in nineteenth-century Greece to its eccentric expression in contemporary poetry and to the oppression and exploitation of migrant women in Greece itself; from the Greeks' struggle with racism against foreign people in their citizenry to their own acculturation as immigrants in other countries, this collection studies aspects of the formation of feminine, national, and ethnic identity in the span of the past two and a half millennia from the perspective of literary criticism and the standpoint of anthropological, ethnographical, and political theory.

Introduction
Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers
Assistant Professor of Classics
Department of Modern Languages & Classics
University of Alabama

Scapegoating and the Barbarization of the Female in the Discourse of Greek Culture
Constance Tagopoulos
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Greek
Department of European Languages and Literatures
Queens College, City University of New York

The Inception of Feminism in Nineteenth-Century Greece
Maria Anastasopoulou
Modern Greek Studies and Comparative Literature
University of Maryland, College Park

Greek Women Poets in the Twentieth Century
Konstantinos Kapparis
Associate Professor of Classics
The University of Florida

Female, Barbarian, and Slave: Migrant Women in Modern Greece
Neovi M. Karakatsanis
Department of Political Science
Indiana University
Jonathan Swarts
Department of Political Science
Purdue University North Central

"That Imagination Called Hellenism": Connecting Greek Worlds, Past and Present, in Greek America
Yiorgos Anagnostou
Assistant Professor, Modern Greek Studies, Anthropology
Department of Greek and Latin
The Ohio State University

Greece in the Historic ΓΙΓΝΕΣΘΑΙ
Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers
Assistant Professor of Classics
Department of Modern Languages & Classics
University of Alabama

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