Artemis Leontis
Biographic Data
| ID | 1090402 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Artemis Leontis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Artemis |
| FAMILY NAME | Leontis |
| SIGNATURE | LEONTIS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction
A small but growing body of scholarship and creative work brings to the forefront the unacknowledged cultural, emotional, physical, social, and care labor performed by Greek American women, giving visibility to their agency and capabilities. Identifying this material as a distinct corpus and outlining its primary themes of critical exploration creates a foundation for nuanced, in-depth discussion of Greek America that places women's work and live…
Topographies of Hellenism
How do people map a homeland? How does the homeland define them? Focusing on the interrelations between culture and geography, Artemis Leontis illuminates the making of modern Greece. As she fashions a new approach to contemporary Greek literature, Leontis explores the transformation of Hellenism from a cultural ideal to a nation-state. In Leontis's view, a homeland exists not when it has been inhabited, but after it has been mapped. The mapping …
Eva Palmer Sikelianos
Eva Palmer Sikelianos
This is the first biography to tell the fascinating story of Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874-1952), an American actor, director, composer, and weaver best known for reviving the Delphic Festivals. Yet, as Artemis Leontis reveals, Palmer's most spectacular performance was her daily revival of ancient Greek life. For almost half a century, dressed in handmade Greek tunics and sandals, she sought to make modern life freer and more beautiful through a cr…
Patron of Byzantine Music
This chapter tracks Eva Palmer Sikelianos's activities in a different performance medium, music. An organ named for her (Evion Panharmonium), records from a school of Byzantine music where she taught, two lectures, and more letters and photographs structure an inquiry into her collaboration with three subaltern musicians: Penelope Sikelianos, Konstantinos Psachos, and Khorshed Naoroji. Each one of these figures shaped Eva's journey in a different…
Culture and Customs of Greece
The Parthenon. Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle. Homer’s epic poems. Gods and goddesses lounging around, indulging in pleasures on Mount Olympus. All of these images bring to mind the traditional icons of Greece, the cradle of Western Civilization. But what do we know of modern Greece? The answer to that question and more can be found in this comprehensive look at contemporary Greek culture. This one-stop reference source is packed with illustrativ…
Mediterranean Theoria
Whereas the Mediterranean has not submitted easily to strong theories, still it has inspired a certain kind of theorizing from the ground. The setting of the Mediterranean viewed from the land's edge gave the world theoria, which Greek etymology and usage associates with looking onto a scene with amazement, viewing drama, being sent as an emissary to consult the oracle, or traveling for the purposes of sightseeing. The present essay explores some…
The Bridge between the Classical and the Balkan
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 98, Number 4, Fall 1999
Primordial Home, Elusive Home
This article builds on a developing interdisciplinary discussion of home. It studies two 20th-century texts in counterpoint: political philosopher Agnes Heller's essay, `Where Are We at Home,' and novelist Melpo Axioti's My Home, a nostalgic recollection of life on Mykonos. Heller contrasts the elusive, self-appointed geography of postmodern living with a traditional view of primordial dwelling, a non-transient way of dwelling that gave to Earth …
Mediterranean Topographies before Balkanization
I place my work under the rubric of spatial studies: an investigation of how people inhabit their world. The corner of the world I examine is the northeastern Mediterranean, a highly contested region that has brought into contact numerous peoples: Greek, Persian, and Roman in ancient times; Byzantine, Slavic, Arabic, Venetian, Frankish, Jewish, Armenian, and Ottoman in the late ancient to early modern period; and Greek, Turkish, Slavic, and Alban…
Mediterranean Topographies before Balkanization
Diaspora 6:2 1997 Mediterranean Topographies before Balkanization: On Greek Diaspora, Emporion, and Revolution Artemis Leontis1 The Ohio State University Introduction I place my work under the rubric of spatial studies: an investigation of how people inhabit their world. The corner of the world I examine is the northeastern Mediterranean, a highly contested region that has brought into contact numerous peoples: Greek, Persian, and Roman in ancien…
The Diaspora of the Novel
Diaspora 2:1 1992 The Diaspora off the Novel Artemis Leontis The Ohio State University Travels of a Genre: The Modern Novel and Ideology. Mary N. Layoun. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. Reflection on the history of the novel usually begins with consideration of the social, political, and economic transformations within society that favored the "rise" of a new type of narrative. This remains true even with the numerous and important s…
Cultural Politics and Populist Uses of the Ancients
Populism is a discourse made up of a specific signs, techniques, strategies, and truth claims that set in motion certain ways of talking about "the people" ( laós ). This discourse has served to regulate Greek culture for nearly a century. It offers the story of an indigenous organic community struggling to express itself authentically and to survive against outside threats. The populist investment in the ancient past happened in two successive s…
Minor Field, Major Territories
Minor Field, Major Territories: Dilemmas in Modernizing Hellenism Artemis Leontis Questions of Modernization and Legitimation When the Greek critic and author Yiorgos Theotokas set out in 1929 to consider the cultural potential of modern Hellenism, he undertook to chart from his "airborne" perspective the position and expanse of Greek in relation to contemporary European traditions. He thought that it would be especially fruitful to make comparat…
Topographies of Hellenism
How do people map a homeland? How does the homeland define them? Focusing on the interrelations between culture and geography, Artemis Leontis illuminates the making of modern Greece. As she fashions a new approach to contemporary Greek literature, Leontis explores the transformation of Hellenism from a cultural ideal to a nation-state. In Leontis's view, a homeland exists not when it has been inhabited, but after it has been mapped. The mapping …
Mediterranean Topographies before Balkanization
Diaspora 6:2 1997 Mediterranean Topographies before Balkanization: On Greek Diaspora, Emporion, and Revolution Artemis Leontis1 The Ohio State University Introduction I place my work under the rubric of spatial studies: an investigation of how people inhabit their world. The corner of the world I examine is the northeastern Mediterranean, a highly contested region that has brought into contact numerous peoples: Greek, Persian, and Roman in ancien…
Mediterranean Theoria
Whereas the Mediterranean has not submitted easily to strong theories, still it has inspired a certain kind of theorizing from the ground. The setting of the Mediterranean viewed from the land's edge gave the world theoria, which Greek etymology and usage associates with looking onto a scene with amazement, viewing drama, being sent as an emissary to consult the oracle, or traveling for the purposes of sightseeing. The present essay explores some…
The Bridge between the Classical and the Balkan
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 98, Number 4, Fall 1999
Minor Field, Major Territories
Minor Field, Major Territories: Dilemmas in Modernizing Hellenism Artemis Leontis Questions of Modernization and Legitimation When the Greek critic and author Yiorgos Theotokas set out in 1929 to consider the cultural potential of modern Hellenism, he undertook to chart from his "airborne" perspective the position and expanse of Greek in relation to contemporary European traditions. He thought that it would be especially fruitful to make comparat…
Cultural Politics and Populist Uses of the Ancients
Populism is a discourse made up of a specific signs, techniques, strategies, and truth claims that set in motion certain ways of talking about "the people" ( laós ). This discourse has served to regulate Greek culture for nearly a century. It offers the story of an indigenous organic community struggling to express itself authentically and to survive against outside threats. The populist investment in the ancient past happened in two successive s…
The Diaspora of the Novel
Diaspora 2:1 1992 The Diaspora off the Novel Artemis Leontis The Ohio State University Travels of a Genre: The Modern Novel and Ideology. Mary N. Layoun. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. Reflection on the history of the novel usually begins with consideration of the social, political, and economic transformations within society that favored the "rise" of a new type of narrative. This remains true even with the numerous and important s…
Mediterranean Topographies before Balkanization
I place my work under the rubric of spatial studies: an investigation of how people inhabit their world. The corner of the world I examine is the northeastern Mediterranean, a highly contested region that has brought into contact numerous peoples: Greek, Persian, and Roman in ancient times; Byzantine, Slavic, Arabic, Venetian, Frankish, Jewish, Armenian, and Ottoman in the late ancient to early modern period; and Greek, Turkish, Slavic, and Alban…
Mediterranean Topographies before Balkanization
Diaspora 6:2 1997 Mediterranean Topographies before Balkanization: On Greek Diaspora, Emporion, and Revolution Artemis Leontis1 The Ohio State University Introduction I place my work under the rubric of spatial studies: an investigation of how people inhabit their world. The corner of the world I examine is the northeastern Mediterranean, a highly contested region that has brought into contact numerous peoples: Greek, Persian, and Roman in ancien…
The Bridge between the Classical and the Balkan
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 98, Number 4, Fall 1999
Primordial Home, Elusive Home
This article builds on a developing interdisciplinary discussion of home. It studies two 20th-century texts in counterpoint: political philosopher Agnes Heller's essay, `Where Are We at Home,' and novelist Melpo Axioti's My Home, a nostalgic recollection of life on Mykonos. Heller contrasts the elusive, self-appointed geography of postmodern living with a traditional view of primordial dwelling, a non-transient way of dwelling that gave to Earth …
Mediterranean Theoria
Whereas the Mediterranean has not submitted easily to strong theories, still it has inspired a certain kind of theorizing from the ground. The setting of the Mediterranean viewed from the land's edge gave the world theoria, which Greek etymology and usage associates with looking onto a scene with amazement, viewing drama, being sent as an emissary to consult the oracle, or traveling for the purposes of sightseeing. The present essay explores some…
Culture and Customs of Greece
The Parthenon. Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle. Homer’s epic poems. Gods and goddesses lounging around, indulging in pleasures on Mount Olympus. All of these images bring to mind the traditional icons of Greece, the cradle of Western Civilization. But what do we know of modern Greece? The answer to that question and more can be found in this comprehensive look at contemporary Greek culture. This one-stop reference source is packed with illustrativ…
Eva Palmer Sikelianos
Eva Palmer Sikelianos
This is the first biography to tell the fascinating story of Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874-1952), an American actor, director, composer, and weaver best known for reviving the Delphic Festivals. Yet, as Artemis Leontis reveals, Palmer's most spectacular performance was her daily revival of ancient Greek life. For almost half a century, dressed in handmade Greek tunics and sandals, she sought to make modern life freer and more beautiful through a cr…
Patron of Byzantine Music
This chapter tracks Eva Palmer Sikelianos's activities in a different performance medium, music. An organ named for her (Evion Panharmonium), records from a school of Byzantine music where she taught, two lectures, and more letters and photographs structure an inquiry into her collaboration with three subaltern musicians: Penelope Sikelianos, Konstantinos Psachos, and Khorshed Naoroji. Each one of these figures shaped Eva's journey in a different…
Topographies of Hellenism
How do people map a homeland? How does the homeland define them? Focusing on the interrelations between culture and geography, Artemis Leontis illuminates the making of modern Greece. As she fashions a new approach to contemporary Greek literature, Leontis explores the transformation of Hellenism from a cultural ideal to a nation-state. In Leontis's view, a homeland exists not when it has been inhabited, but after it has been mapped. The mapping …
Introduction
A small but growing body of scholarship and creative work brings to the forefront the unacknowledged cultural, emotional, physical, social, and care labor performed by Greek American women, giving visibility to their agency and capabilities. Identifying this material as a distinct corpus and outlining its primary themes of critical exploration creates a foundation for nuanced, in-depth discussion of Greek America that places women's work and live…
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