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The Birth Of Afghanistan: From Ancient Persia To A Modern-Day Multiethnic And Linguistic Country, Tyler A. Worm

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

This thesis offers a comprehensive historical analysis of the formation and evolution of Afghan identity from antiquity through the early medieval period, emphasizing the region’s role as a dynamic crossroads of civilizations. It traces the origins of Afghan populations to Indo-Iranian pastoralist migrations and examines the successive influence of major imperial formations, including the Median and Achaemenid Persian empires, the conquests of Alexander and the Seleucid period, and the rise of the Kushan, Parthian, and Sasanian states. Through this longue durée approach, the study demonstrates how Afghanistan’s geographic position facilitated continuous cultural interaction, economic exchange, and political contestation, producing a …

“Off To Greek Camp”: A History And Examination Of Greek America And Its Adaptation Of American Summer Camp Culture, Julia J. Walsh

Honors Theses

Camps are one of the most distinct institutions of American childhood, offering children a place to socialize and explore their identities. Since the late 19th century, camps have been used to inspire religious, social, and ethnic identity. Extensive research has been done into some kinds of summer camps, this thesis attempts to add to this literature through analysis of Greek Orthodox Summer Camp programs run under the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (The Metropolis of Boston Camp and Ionian Village). This dissertation examines the role of the modern religious summer camp in building and maintaining Greek American and Greek Orthodox …

Academic Reasearch On Saint Sava Of Serbia In Greece, Ioannis Kaminis

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

The paper examines Greek Academic studies dedicated to Saint Sava, the first archbishop of the Serbs. It focuses on St. Sava's activities, the historical relations between Greeks and Serbs during the Middle Ages and beyond, and the most significant research on the Serbian saint. The analysis primarily addresses books concerning the Orthodox Church in Serbia, featuring prominent researchers such as Antonios-Emilios Tachiaos, Ioannis Tarnanidis, Athanasios Angelopoulos, Dimitrios V. Gonis, and Georgios-Nectarios Loes, along with one postgraduate thesis and one dissertation. The study concludes with a critical assessment of the current state of research and proposes potential future avenues for studying …

The Greek Merchant Marine: A Unique Combination Of Nautical Skill And Commercial Savvy, Alexander Billinis

All Theses

The Greek-owned merchant fleet remains the world’s largest, and while plenty of histories have been written about this fleet, there is a definite absence in the historiography about why the Greeks’ relation to the sea is unique, and how this fleet came into existence. The author argues that the Greek merchant fleet is a successful hybridization of a commercial middleman minority ethos born out of conditions in the Ottoman Empire and post-independence Greece, combined with the shipping skills of a littoral people who invested in this expertise.

To understand the how and why of the Greek merchant fleet, it is …

Co-Opted, Cults And The Classics: Highlighting The Magna Mater Cult In Rome, Janessa Reeves

Honors Projects

This paper argues for a more critical approach to classics, pushing for the de-sanctification of classical antiquity and deconstruction of ‘western civilization’ as a tool able to be co-opted by white supremacist agendas. In the latter part of the paper, I demonstrate what I hope this will look like through analysis of Roman reception of the Mother of the Gods cult, known in Rome as the cult of Cybele or Magna Mater, or the Phrygian cult, and how Roman reactions to the cult reveal xenophobic sentiments and toxic masculinity within the social fabric. Throughout this work, I engage with questions …

Encountering Greek American Soundscapes, Anthony Shay

Pomona Faculty Publications and Research

For this chapter I will look at Greek American music making through the eyes of a non-Greek, my younger self, who enjoyed and sought out this musical tradition for over fifty years, primarily as a folk dance enthusiast. For the international recreational dancer of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, Greek music has rich melodic lines and many different rhythmic patterns (5/8; 7/8; 9/8, etc.) that attracted many individuals of Anglo American background like me to learn these dances, especially in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s when recreational and performance folk dance constituted a major leisure-time activity for hundreds of thousands …

Tapestry Of Russian Christianity: Studies In History And Culture, Jennifer B. Spock, Editor, Nickolas Lupinin, Editor, Donald Ostrowski, Editor

EKU Faculty and Staff Books Gallery

Tapestry of Russian Christianity: Studies in History and Culture. Nickolas Lupinin, Donald Ostrowski and Jennifer B. Spock, eds. Columbus, Ohio: Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures and the Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies, The Ohio State University, 2016.

The Ethnic Identity And Redefinition Of The Galatians In The Hellenistic World, Qizhen Xie

Honors Theses and Capstones

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Honor, Reputation, And Conflict: George Of Trebizond And Humanist Acts Of Self-Presentation, Karl R. Alexander

Theses and Dissertations--History

The present study investigates the verbal strategies of self-presentation that humanist scholars employed in contests of honor during the early fifteenth century. The focus of this study is George of Trebizond (1395-1472/3), a Cretan scholar who emigrated to Italy in 1416, taught in Venice, Vicenza, and elsewhere, served as an apostolic secretary in Rome, and composed the first major humanist treatise on rhetoric, his Rhetoricorum libri quinque, in 1433/34. Trebizond feuded with many prominent humanists during his career, including Guarino of Verona (1374-1460) and Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459). His quarrels with both men illustrate how humanist conflicts were the sites upon …

More Than An "Immoderate Superstition": Christian Identity In The First Three Centuries, Edward Mason

Theses and Dissertations--History

Only recently have scholars given particular attention to the development of the racial discourse present in early Christian apologetics. This study is aimed at understanding the Latin and Greek literary antecedents to the development of a Christian discourse on race and identity and examining in detail the apex of this discourse in the work of third century apologist Origen of Alexandria. Origen’s work represented the apex of an evolving discourse that, while continuing to use traditional vocabulary, became increasingly universalizing with the growth of the Roman Empire. By understanding how Christians in the first three centuries shaped their attitudes on …

Sozomen, Barbarians, And Early Byzantine Historiography, Walter Stevenson

Classical Studies Faculty Publications

Sozomen, writing in mid-fifth century Constantinople, stands out as an exception proving the rule in Byzantine historiography. He is the first and last Christian Byzantine historian to make a serious effort at ethnography.⁵ When we consider how quickly Christianity was spreading outside the boundaries of the eastern Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries it is striking how little mention barbarians and their evangelization earn in the early ecclesiastical histories.⁶ To illustrate this point I will begin by showing that Sozomen’s predecessors, Eusebius, Rufinus, and Socrates, de-emphasized the natural interest that the historical genre had expressed in ethnography, …

Freud's Dream Of Interpretation, Ken Frieden

Books

Frieden explores methods of dream interpretation in the Bible, the Talmud, and in the writings of Sugmund Freud, and brings to light Freud's Troubled relationship to his Judaic forerunners. This book reveals unfamiliar associations in intellectual history and challenges received ideas in biblical, Talmudic, and Freudian scholarship.

The Way We Were: A History Of Student Life At Gettysburg College 1832-1982, Anna Jane Moyer

College History Publications

In writing The Way We Were: A History of Student Life at Gettysburg College, 1832-1982, it has been my purpose to capture what it was like to be a student at Gettysburg as the changing patterns of that life evolved and shifted with the growth of the College and events in the world outside the campus. Space confines impose perimeters. No attempt has been made to detail the history of organizations or to include many of the names of persons involved in campus leadership. The role of athletics has been mentioned only briefly as two monographs in the History …

The Independent And Montgomery Transcript, V. 91, Thursday, July 1, 1965, [Number: 5], The Independent, Paul W. Levengood

The Independent and Montgomery Transcript Newspaper, 1952-1984

[8] p. "Accept and Defend the Truth." Newspaper published in Collegeville, Pa. Weekly. Contains local, county, state and national news, editorials, letters, classified and local business advertisements.

The Independent, V. 78, Thursday, September 18, 1952, [Number: 16], The Independent, Paul W. Levengood

The Independent Newspaper, 1898-1952

[6] p. Newspaper published in Collegeville, Pa. Weekly. Contains local, county, state and national news, agricultural reading matter, fiction, public sales and advertisements.

The Ursinus Weekly, October 3, 1949, Betty Leeming, Jane Hartzel, Nancy R. Bare, Joyce Derstine, George E. Saurman, Donald Stauffer, Jack Corcoran

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

First epistle to the freshmen • Fords to be rivals in home grid clash • Hockey drills start; Frick leads squad • Harriers condition for championships • Bruin eleven yields 21-0 as Drexel breaks streak • Greek prof begins seventeenth season as soccer mentor • Interdorm program set; includes tennis, football • Bears elect leader for grid campaign • Bakermen prepare for season opener • From the sidelines • Kunz, Nicholls go continental • Ursinus star shines in summer theater • Editorial: Senior to frosh • Six assume posts on Ursinus faculty • Forums to include verse and opinions on …

The Ursinus Weekly, March 6, 1939, Allen Dunn

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Forum to meet in science auditorium • Dr. Naumann to debate French politics tonight • Melodrama of gay nineties to be presented by booster committee; Byrne, Lawton in leads • "Love-in-a-mist" chosen by juniors • Soph hop and Wrigley in spotlight this Friday • Men debaters travel to New York and Connecticut • Twenty-six take part in Pocono conference • Women meet Dickinson; to debate Rutgers and Wagner • Dr. Williams speaks at AAUW dinner Wednesday • March 14 IRC Quarterly to have more major articles • Penn English professor, stained glass artist secured to speak at coming all-Ursinus conference …

The Ursinus Weekly, June 10, 1935, E. Kermit Harbaugh

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Eighty-eight graduate at commencement • Dr. Belden speaks at baccalaureate; Patterson speaker at commencement • Board of directors holds spring meet • College receives portrait of former vice-president • College chorus presents oratorio to large crowd • Seniors score hit in class day with mock May pageant • Athletic club elects officers, committee at meet Saturday • T.K.A. initiates nine members, holds annual banquet Saturday • Dr. Ernest C. Wagner presides at annual banquet of alumni • Awards and prizes granted at commencement exercises • McBride elected editor of Lantern for next year • Dr. Omwake improving • Pete Stevens, …

The Ursinus Weekly, December 15, 1924, Howard T. Herber, George Leslie Omwake

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Schaff Society presents annual play • Affirmative debating team defeats Temple • Basketball season given good start • Dr. William W. Baden dies after a short illness • Elliott Speer secured for February week of prayer • Girls' basketball team defeats Osteopathy • To the men and women of Ursinus in education

The Ursinus Weekly, December 22, 1919, J. Leroy Miller

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Schaff's 49th anniversary a brilliant spectacle • Hahnemann an easy victim for Ursinus • Ursinus conquers St. Joseph's quintet, 34-27 • Fisk singers delight large audience • Scrubs open season with victory • Program for 1920 football season • Alumni Library news • Gift • Word of appreciation • Saturday night dance in field cage • Philadelphia Club • Grossman's upstarts defeat Franklin's misfits • English-Historical group meeting

The Ursinus Weekly, September 22, 1919, J. Leroy Miller

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Opening address by President Omwake • Football prospects at Ursinus for 1919 • Associations' reception forecasts big year • Ursinus men in the war: Frank M. Glendenning • Freshmen win tug-o-war

The Ursinus Weekly, March 18, 1918, Purd Eugene Deitz, George Leslie Omwake

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Varsity basketball five completes excellent season • Eight games scheduled for baseball team • Week of prayer success at Ursinus • "Weekly" staff elected • Business meeting of YMCA • In memoriam: William H. Yoch, '18 • Choir will sing "The Crucifixion" • Literary societies • Seminary notes • Lecture course announcements • A fable of the monger of choice expressions • Summary of 1918 basketball season

The Ursinus Weekly, March 11, 1918, Purd Eugene Deitz, George Leslie Omwake

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Varsity wins final game • Joint choirs sing "Holy City" • Week of prayer at Ursinus this week • Patriotism and college financial campaigns • A fable of the character analyst • Disloyal citizens • Christian associations • Literary societies • Another kind of fable

The Ursinus Weekly, March 4, 1918, Purd Eugene Deitz, Marion Grater, George Leslie Omwake, Benjamin F. Paist

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Freshmen conquer sophomores • Varsity drops two games • Choirs to give sacred cantata • Zwinglian prize essay: A longer daylight day • Student Volunteer Band holds meeting • Literary societies • Snow-white • The fable of the man with the new idea

The Ursinus Weekly, February 25, 1918, Purd Eugene Deitz, Marion Grater, George Leslie Omwake

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Ursinus continues winning streak • Ursinus observes Universal Day of Prayer • William H. Yoch, '18: First Ursinus man to give life in country's service • Varsity wins two more • Zwinglian prize essay: A longer daylight day • Showy aster • Christian associations • Literary societies • A fable of a chemist • On the campus

The Ursinus Weekly, February 18, 1918, Purd Eugene Deitz, George Leslie Omwake, Philip May

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Founders' Day a most enjoyable occasion • Winter meeting of the Board of Directors • Peer Gynt recital crowning event • Zwinglian prize essay: War and education • Literary societies • Scrubs are again defeated • William H. Yoch, ex-18, dies at Camp Meade • On the campus • Varsity easily disposes of Moravian

The Ursinus Weekly, February 11, 1918, Purd Eugene Deitz, George Leslie Omwake, Philip May

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

The making of an airman • Perkiomen, 38; scrubs, 29 • Dog House beats the world • College calendar • Zwinglian prize essay: War and education • A fable of a ministerial student • War platform of the College Presidents' Association of Pennsylvania • Christian associations • Literary societies • Peer Gynt recital • On the campus

The Ursinus Weekly, February 4, 1918, Purd Eugene Deitz, George Leslie Omwake, Wilbur K. Mckee

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Ursinus adopts a war time program: Faculty votes to speed up the work and close early • The training of an airman • Prize oration: The skeleton in the closet • A fable of the light-bringing professor • Literary societies • Bennett essay prize • Wallace Lysinger Danehower • On the campus

The Ursinus Weekly, January 28, 1918, Purd Eugene Deitz, George Leslie Omwake

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Ursinus loses hard game to Temple • Plans completed for Founders Day • Varsity takes successful trip • The air service • College men, attention! • Penny social • Day of prayer • On the campus

The Ursinus Weekly, January 21, 1918, Purd Eugene Deitz, George Leslie Omwake

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Coal shortage hits Ursinus • Joint meeting of literary societies • Dog House wins in fast contest • Contributed article: What the college stands for • Examination days • Fable of the bluffing student • Mr. Advertiser • Among the colleges • On the campus