R M Dawkins
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 280381 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | R M Dawkins |
| NOMBRES | R M |
| APELLIDO | Dawkins |
| FIRMA | DAWKINS R M |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 80 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 80 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1903 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1956 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
More Greek Folktales
More Greek Folktales
Modern Greek Folktales
Forty-Five Stories from the Dodecanese
Notes on Life in the Monasteries of Mount Athos
These six short papers should be taken as notes supplementary to my book The Monks of Athos; after each title I give the reference to the page of the book, except for the last paper, Learning on Mount Athos, as this stands rather apart. The material for it is drawn almost entirely from the published catalogues of the Athos libraries
Shorter Bibliographical Notices
The Silent Princess
Recently Published Collections of Modern Folktales
For two reasons I feel justified in sending this small paper to the volume of the British School Annual to be dedicated to my friend Professor A. J. B. Wace. From his earliest visits to Greece, from the days before the First World War when he and I travelled together in the Greek Islands, Professor Wace, together with his learning as an archaeologist, has always shown the most sympathetic interest in the later and contemporary life of the Greek p…
The Meaning of Folktales
A FOLKTALE may be described as a story handed down by oral tradition from mouth to ear among people generally in fact illiterate, though not necessarily so, for even in the academic world the stories told from man to man of such great characters as Jowett or Robinson Ellis or J. E. B. Mayor are in fact a local folklore, and none the less so as many of these anecdotes have from time to time strayed from the conversation of Commonrooms into the pub…
Forty-Five Tales from the Dodekanese
The Story of Griselda
The old tag Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt came very strongly to my mind when, some time after this paper had been sent to the Editor of Folk-Lore, Professor H. J. Rose told me that he had reviewed in Folk-Lore-the reference is to Vol. xliii, 1932, p. III-a paper in which the author pointed out, and Professor Rose thought with good reason, a connection between the story of Griselda and folktale. The paper in question is The Origin of the Gr…
The Folk Tale, by Stith Thompson
Some Remarks on Greek Folktales
THE word Folktale covers much ground. In essence it means a tale which has been handed down orally, and in general by people not much given to reading and writing. Among these tales it is possible to distinguish several well marked varieties. We have the fairy story, such as Puss in Boots, Cinderella or Jack and the Beanstalk ; we have the simple oral novel, a story of what is presented as being real though much romanticised life : here may rank …
The Later History of the Varangian Guard
The famous Varangian corps of mercenary soldiers in the service of the emperors of Byzantium is well known in its earlier days to have been recruited from the Scandinavian north. Forging their way from their own inhospitable lands the Northmen, first of all from Sweden, reached the Volga and the lands even to. the south of the Caspian; later by the ‘East Way’, called also the ‘Varangian Way’, they came down through Russia by way of the Dnieper an…
Greece
Greece Get access Greece. By A. W. Gomme. 1945. (London, New York, Toronto: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press. World Today Series. 71⁄2′′ × 41⁄2′′. vii + 131 pp. Illus. Maps. Biblio. 3s. 6d.) R. M. Dawkins R. M. Dawkins Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 22, Issue 2, April 1946, Pages 302–303, https://doi.org/10.2307/3017579 Published: 01 April 1946
Greece
Journal Article Greece Get access Greece. Compiled by Kathleen Gibberd. 1944. (London: Cambridge University Press. New York, Toronto, Bombay: Macmillan. British Survey Handbooks, No. 3. 7′′ × 41⁄4′′ vii + 106 pp. Map. 3s.) R. M. Dawkins R. M. Dawkins Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 21, Issue 2, April 1945, Page 277, https://doi.org/10.2307/3016410 Published: 01 April 1945
Greek Fire, Thucydides and Modern Politics and Greece and Britain
Journal Article Greek Fire, Thucydides and Modern Politics and Greece and Britain Get access Greek Fire. By André Michalopoulos, C.B.E., Greek Minister of Information, 1941–1943. With a Foreword by Compton Mackenzie. 1943. (London: Michael Joseph. 83⁄4′′ × 51⁄2′′. 183 pp. 10s. 6d.)Thucydides and Modern Politics. (A Paper read at the Opening Meeting of the Classical Association, Cambridge, April 13, 1943.) By Demetrius Caclamanos 1943. (London: Lu…
A Modern Greek Folktale and Comments
Folklore in Stories from the Dodecanese
THE folklore of modern Greece is extensive and now well recorded; it has perhaps an added interest as being the lore of the same people, for so I hold them, as produced the classical literature, which has always occupied so central a place in the culture of all later generations. The impulse to make a systematic study of their own folklore came to the Greeks towards the end of the last century, and for fifty years or so they have pursued this new…
Soul and Body in the Folklore of Modern Greece
(1942). Soul and Body in the Folklore of Modern Greece. Folklore: Vol. 53, No. 3, pp. 131-147
A Short History of Modern Greece, 1821–1940 and Remember Greece
The Colchicum Crocus at Knossos
A Beam Oil-Press in Tunisia
The Pontic Dialect of Modern Greek in Asia Minor and Russia.
The Process of Tradition in Greece
The word ‘tradition’, used to mean either the process of oral transmission or the story so transmitted, may cover two things: the oral relation from man to man of real events with the possible value of such traditions for history, and this amounts to the study of what is called folk-memory, or the transmission of legends dealing with such supernatural happenings as no one is likely to regard as true. This paper deals exclusively with the latter. …
Ancient Statues in Mediaeval Constantinople
(1924). Ancient Statues in Mediaeval Constantinople. Folklore: Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 209-248
The Meaning of Folktales
A FOLKTALE may be described as a story handed down by oral tradition from mouth to ear among people generally in fact illiterate, though not necessarily so, for even in the academic world the stories told from man to man of such great characters as Jowett or Robinson Ellis or J. E. B. Mayor are in fact a local folklore, and none the less so as many of these anecdotes have from time to time strayed from the conversation of Commonrooms into the pub…
The Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos, 1911
In the spring of 1910 the work which had engaged the School at Sparta since 1906 was brought to an end, and it was decided to devote a season to a supplementary excavation at the prehistoric site of Phylakopi in Melos, the scene of the School's activity from 1896 to 1899. These dates are of some significance; the work in Crete, which has revolutionised our ideas of the Bronze Age in the Aegean, was only begun in 1900 with the first work at Knosso…
Excavations at Palaikastro. IV
Work began on March 29th, and continued, with the usual break for Easter, until June 17th, with an average of about sixty to seventy workmen. Mr. W. A. Kirkwood of the University of Toronto was present for the first few weeks, rendering valuable assistance, and later Mr. C. H. Hawes of Trinity College, Cambridge, in the course of a journey in Crete undertaken for anthropological work, came and superintended the excavation of a Middle Minoan ossua…
Excavations at Palaikastro. III
The rapid increase of our knowlege of prehistoric Aegean antiquities has inevitably brought with it the necessity for repeated amplification of nomenclature. In Schliemann's day, and for some time after, ‘Mycenaean’ seemed easily to cover the field. Presently ‘Proto- and Pre-Mycenaean’ had to be invented. Until lately in Crete all bronze-age fabrics were divided (and the division was taken as chronological as well as according to style), into Kam…
Notes from Karpathos
These notes are for the most part devoted to questions of phonetics, dealing more with Lautlehre than with Formenlehre , and do not pretend to give a complete account of the dialect. I have thought this side of the subject most worth developing, because it is that which native collectors, excellent from the sides of lexicography and literature, are apt to neglect. The dialect of Karpathos belongs to the south-eastern or south-Sporadic group of mo…
Notes from Karpathos
It was my good fortune in the early summer of 1903 to spend three weeks in the island of Karpathos, travelling with the aid of a grant from Emmanuel College. My object was to see as much as possible of the antiquities of the island, and to make observations on the mode of life and customs of the modern inhabitants. For this study of modern Greek life Karpathos, owing to its retired position, offers a peculiarly favourable field. Theodore Bent con…
Forty-Five Tales from the Dodekanese
The Story of Griselda
The old tag Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt came very strongly to my mind when, some time after this paper had been sent to the Editor of Folk-Lore, Professor H. J. Rose told me that he had reviewed in Folk-Lore-the reference is to Vol. xliii, 1932, p. III-a paper in which the author pointed out, and Professor Rose thought with good reason, a connection between the story of Griselda and folktale. The paper in question is The Origin of the Gr…
Some Remarks on Greek Folktales
THE word Folktale covers much ground. In essence it means a tale which has been handed down orally, and in general by people not much given to reading and writing. Among these tales it is possible to distinguish several well marked varieties. We have the fairy story, such as Puss in Boots, Cinderella or Jack and the Beanstalk ; we have the simple oral novel, a story of what is presented as being real though much romanticised life : here may rank …
Soul and Body in the Folklore of Modern Greece
(1942). Soul and Body in the Folklore of Modern Greece. Folklore: Vol. 53, No. 3, pp. 131-147
Modern Greek Studies
Excavations at Plati in Lasithi, Crete
When I was at Candia in the autumn of 1913, Dr. Hatzidakis, the Ephor of Antiquities, told me that a report had reached him of a Minoan site near the village of Pláti in the plain of Lasithi, and suggested that the School should apply for a permit to excavate it. Before leaving Crete I made a preliminary inspection of the site, and the prospects seemed to justify the School in undertaking the work. The local account was that a woman had had a dre…
Byzantine Pottery from Sparta
In the course of the excavations carried on by the School from 1906 to 1910 at Sparta, a considerable quantity was found of the mediæval glazed pottery that is usually called Byzantine. As specimens of this fabric are not common in museums, and its date and general relations are still matters of some doubt, it seems desirable to publish all the pieces of any interest as material for further study, although the writers of this paper have no claim …
Excavations at Palaikastro. IV
Further trial-pits were made this year at the foot of the northern slopes of the Kastri at the site called τὰ ̔Ελληνικά where the two ossuaries described in B.S.A. x. pp. 197 and 202, were found, resulting in the finding of another of the same type, which, with this year's discovery on the top of the knoll of Sarandári makes a total of seven, plans of five of which are given in Fig. 4. Of these, numbered chronologically, I. is described in B.S.A.…
Excavations at Palaikastro. II
In Block ε at least five houses can be clearly made out. It is triangular and covers about 760 sq. m. It is separated from γ by a narrow lane that runs up the hill from the main street, from ο by a narrow, crooked, lane and from the unexcavated Block ζ by a straight, well-paved street. This street, as running level, has no gutter like the lanes that lead down to the main street on both sides of ε . Rooms 1–18 .—This house occupies the northern pa…
Excavations at Palaikastro. II
Block γ lies South of β on the other side of the main street. An L-shaped area, nearly 900 sq. metres, has been uncovered. Rooms 1–12 form the most important house in the block. The entrance, which faces the centre of the façade of Block β , and part of the vestibule were uncovered in 1902. The façade of this house, as far as it is preserved, is built of large squared freestone blocks. On the left-hand side of the entrance they have been removed,…
Excavations at Palaikastro. II
This block, although not fully uncovered, is already the largest yet found (area 1800 sq. m.). It contains several houses, one being in point of architecture the finest yet found. Unfortunately this excellence has led to much destruction, for the freestone blocks used in the best walls are prized as building material by the modern inhabitants. In consequence much of this insula, especially the West end, is completely ruined. There has also been m…
Excavations at Palaikastro. II
In consequence of the torrential rains which made it impossible to commence work on the Roussolakkos site immediately upon our arrival at Palaikastro, an excavation was carried on from March 23rd to March 28th at a site named Kouraménos, situated close to the sea-shore about half an hour's walk north of Angathiá. Six men were employed on the first day, and an average of twenty-one on the succeeding days. About half a mile N.E. of the Kastri is a …
Notes from Karpathos
It was my good fortune in the early summer of 1903 to spend three weeks in the island of Karpathos, travelling with the aid of a grant from Emmanuel College. My object was to see as much as possible of the antiquities of the island, and to make observations on the mode of life and customs of the modern inhabitants. For this study of modern Greek life Karpathos, owing to its retired position, offers a peculiarly favourable field. Theodore Bent con…
Excavations at Palaikastro. II
1.—A very great quantity of pottery has been found in the two seasons' work at Palaikastro. It will give an idea of the amount to say that in the season of 1903 about 650 vases were found more or less complete, of which 160 come from the cemeteries and the rest from the houses. In addition the Roussolakkos site yielded great quantities of fragments. From fifty to eighty baskets full were brought in daily. All the sherds were washed, a record kept…
Excavations at Palaikastro. III
The rapid increase of our knowlege of prehistoric Aegean antiquities has inevitably brought with it the necessity for repeated amplification of nomenclature. In Schliemann's day, and for some time after, ‘Mycenaean’ seemed easily to cover the field. Presently ‘Proto- and Pre-Mycenaean’ had to be invented. Until lately in Crete all bronze-age fabrics were divided (and the division was taken as chronological as well as according to style), into Kam…
Excavations at Palaikastro. III
On the hillock to the south of the town a preliminary trial had brought to light a fine vase, and the commanding nature of this part of the site made it a likely position for a fine house. So, notwithstanding the shallowness of the soil as revealed by trial-pits, an area of some 600 sq. m. (Blocks ς and ύ on the plan) was cleared on the highest part of the knoll. The work was well repaid by the discovery of the two exquisitely carved ivory statue…
Excavations at Palaikastro. III
Although the slopes of the καστρί had been rifled by native diggers there were indications on the southern side, at a site called Τὰ ̔Ελληνικά that something still remained. The trial pits struck at once two small burial-enclosures, lying close together. The northern of the two proved to be a structure some six by seven metres, with the western wall lacking, divided into two unequal compartments
Excavations at Palaikastro. III
A little west of the town-site lies a hillock called τὸ Kεφαλάκι or τοῦ Kονᾶ τὸ Kεφάλι the Kονᾶδες being a family living at Karýdhi, to whom the land formerly belonged. The west side and top of the hillock are rocky, but on the better covered east and north slopes ancient walls crop up above the surface. The owner of the field on the south side was known to have improved his land by pulling out blocks of stone, but enough ground was left on the e…
Excavations at Palaikastro. III
The region of the fifth house in this block (rooms 36–43 on the plan), only partly dug last year, has now been fully cleared. The remains were found to consist chiefly of a house destroyed by fire early in the Late Minoan II. period. This house was extremely rich in finds. It was built on the site of a Middle Minoan house, scanty remains of which were found beneath the floor, chiefly near the entrance on the main street. Lastly, a few walls at a …
Excavations at Palaikastro. III
A good deal of work was done on this block in this year's campaign. Our main objects were to work out the stratification of walls in the regions uncovered last year, to clear certain rooms still undug, and to find the limits of the block to the south and east. The general result was to show that whilst the block at its latest period consisted of the large mansion shown on the key-plan, the garden and court connected with it, and two smaller house…
Notes from Karpathos
These notes are for the most part devoted to questions of phonetics, dealing more with Lautlehre than with Formenlehre , and do not pretend to give a complete account of the dialect. I have thought this side of the subject most worth developing, because it is that which native collectors, excellent from the sides of lexicography and literature, are apt to neglect. The dialect of Karpathos belongs to the south-eastern or south-Sporadic group of mo…
Excavations at Palaikastro. III
South-east of the part of this block now excavated, the ground falls away rapidly in a terraced slope, and all remains seem to have disappeared. In this direction a limit, or at all events a break, in the continuity of the town has been reached. Of the first house all that is left is a row of rooms on the East side of Street ξ—π . These rooms go down to a considerable depth, and the remains in them are of the Late Minoan I period, although traces…
Excavations at Palaikastro. III
This large block, covering about 650 sq. m., lies to the south of Block ε on the slope of the hillock that overlooks the town on the south. Bounded on three sides by streets, towards the south the remains become gradually thinner, disappearing with the rise of the ground and the shallower soil. The superposition of one wall upon another, and the objects found at different levels, enable us to distinguish at least three separate strata of habitati…
Greek and Cretan Epiphany Customs
Excavations at Palaikastro. IV
Work began on March 29th, and continued, with the usual break for Easter, until June 17th, with an average of about sixty to seventy workmen. Mr. W. A. Kirkwood of the University of Toronto was present for the first few weeks, rendering valuable assistance, and later Mr. C. H. Hawes of Trinity College, Cambridge, in the course of a journey in Crete undertaken for anthropological work, came and superintended the excavation of a Middle Minoan ossua…
Excavations at Palaikastro. IV
The ridge of conglomerate and gravel, on the lower stretch of which the Middle Minoan ossuary was found in 1902, descends from the slopes of Petsofá, parallel to a second ridge a little to the west. Between the two the ground sinks, and the overhanging ledges seemed likely to harbour tombs; and indeed several interesting objects were found here last year when a good many trenches were made on these slopes. This year trialpits were dug all round t…
Excavations at Palaikastro. IV
Further trial-pits were made this year at the foot of the northern slopes of the Kastri at the site called τὰ ̔Ελληνικά where the two ossuaries described in B.S.A. x. pp. 197 and 202, were found, resulting in the finding of another of the same type, which, with this year's discovery on the top of the knoll of Sarandári makes a total of seven, plans of five of which are given in Fig. 4. Of these, numbered chronologically, I. is described in B.S.A.…
Excavations at Palaikastro. IV
This block of buildings, covering some 1300 sq. m. (see Key plan, Pl IX.), has now been fully excavated, and although no more Greek inscriptions or anything in the nature of a Minoan shrine were found, a layer, in some places as much as a metre thick, of archaic terracotta architectural fragments and bronze objects and the lower courses of what was probably a temenos -wall of the temple were uncovered, whilst the Minoan strata were deeper than an…
A Visit to Skyros
In March 1905 I went to Skyros for a week, primarily to see and photograph the Carnival masquerade described in B.S.A. vi. p. 125, by Mr. Lawson. I was there for the last of the three Sundays of Carnival, and the following Monday, when, to the scandal of the Hegoumenos of St. George of Skyros, it being the first day of Lent, the festival is at its height. Although the village sounds with the clatter of the bells of these strange figures all throu…
Excavations at Palaikastro. IV
The completion of work on this block consisted almost entirely or examining lower strata in the northern and eastern quarters. Whilst in one part of the block (26 on Plates XII. and XIII.) the rocky subsoil rises so high as to have led to the total destruction of all remains, in the immediately adjacent regions to the north and east it sinks so low as to leave some three or four metres of deposit with four clearly separate strata of walls. Plate …
Excavations at Palaikastro. IV
Of the various antiquities found from time to time in the district, which we have been accustomed from the beginning of the excavation to buy for the Candia Museum, by far the greater number have always been neolithic stone axes, some entire, some broken, but nearly all bearing marks of weathering due to exposure on the surface. Thus in 1902 six, in 1903 twenty-one, in 1904 twenty-eight were acquired in this way, and this year, when the habit of …
Notes from the Sporades, Astypalaea, Telos, Nisyros, Leros
These notes are part of the results of a journey undertaken by us in the summer of 1906. We have been led to put them together in the hope that they may be of some service to other travellers, and perhaps serve as a basis for a fuller and more perfect account of the islands concerned. Any references not given in footnotes to the text will be found in the Bibliography at the beginning
Excavations at Palaikastro. V
Although it had been intended to close the excavation in 1905, a few days were spent in 1906 in clearing up doubtful points. Work was carried on for only eight days with about ten men, but in spite of this small scale of operations a good deal of fresh light was thrown on the nature of Late Minoan II. burials. I was assisted throughout by Mr. J. P. Droop, of Trinity College, Cambridge. Our first object was to test the field in which were found so…
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