Evangelos Avdikos
Biographic Data
| ID | 392025 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Evangelos Avdikos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Evangelos |
| FAMILY NAME | Avdikos |
| SIGNATURE | AVDIKOS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of History and Archaeology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lament Songs Glorifying Greek Soldiers Killed in Battle During the Balkan Wars (1912–1913)
The aim of the text is to study the way in which the funeral song, a mournful, interactive, narrative genre that frames the ritual process of exit from life is transformed when its content changes. In other words, interaction between the morphological expression and the content on the one hand and social function on the other hand is a basic issue in the text. The tradition of lament in Greek history is not a modern phenomenon. It became a signif…
Seeking Borders and Their Mythology in Western Thrace, Greece
This article deals with the boundaries of western Thrace, a Greek region bordering both the Bulgarian (northern) and Turkish (eastern) Thrace. The main aim here is to re-contextualise the perspective of the residents of western Thrace on Thracian borders. Such an interpretive process has to take account of the political changes in the southern part of the Balkan Peninsula after the collapse of the communist regime in Bulgaria and the increasing i…
Vampire Stories in Greece and the Reinforcement of Socio-Cultural Norms
This paper investigates the relationship of humans with the supernatural and the function of the latter as a normalizing factor in social organization. The focus is on traditional Greek stories about vampires and the aim is to study the relationship between vampires and the ‘cultural capital’ of the local community, on the one hand, and, on the other, beliefs about the progress of the soul after its departure from the body upon death. The Greek v…
Vampire Stories in Greece and the Reinforcement of Socio-Cultural Norms
This paper investigates the relationship of humans with the supernatural and the function of the latter as a normalizing factor in social organization. The focus is on traditional Greek stories about vampires and the aim is to study the relationship between vampires and the ‘cultural capital’ of the local community, on the one hand, and, on the other, beliefs about the progress of the soul after its departure from the body upon death. The Greek v…
Vampire Stories in Greece and the Reinforcement of Socio-Cultural Norms
This paper investigates the relationship of humans with the supernatural and the function of the latter as a normalizing factor in social organization. The focus is on traditional Greek stories about vampires and the aim is to study the relationship between vampires and the ‘cultural capital’ of the local community, on the one hand, and, on the other, beliefs about the progress of the soul after its departure from the body upon death. The Greek v…
Seeking Borders and Their Mythology in Western Thrace, Greece
This article deals with the boundaries of western Thrace, a Greek region bordering both the Bulgarian (northern) and Turkish (eastern) Thrace. The main aim here is to re-contextualise the perspective of the residents of western Thrace on Thracian borders. Such an interpretive process has to take account of the political changes in the southern part of the Balkan Peninsula after the collapse of the communist regime in Bulgaria and the increasing i…
Lament Songs Glorifying Greek Soldiers Killed in Battle During the Balkan Wars (1912–1913)
The aim of the text is to study the way in which the funeral song, a mournful, interactive, narrative genre that frames the ritual process of exit from life is transformed when its content changes. In other words, interaction between the morphological expression and the content on the one hand and social function on the other hand is a basic issue in the text. The tradition of lament in Greek history is not a modern phenomenon. It became a signif…
History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Philippine History and Culture (2 works) · Ancient history (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (1 work) · Battle (1 work) · Classical Studies and Philology (1 work) · Classics (1 work)