Stella Alekou
Biographic Data
| ID | 5718004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stella Alekou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stella |
| FAMILY NAME | Alekou |
| SIGNATURE | ALEKOU S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ioannina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Philhellenism
The history of Philhellenism has its roots in antiquity. The term philhellenismos derives from the adjective philhellen and was applied to foreign rulers and individuals who expressed a particular affinity for Greek culture and adopted a behavior that was beneficial to Greece. This embrace of Hellenism was particularly empowered in the nineteenth century, during the Greek Revolution of 1821–9, when philhellenism became a pan‐European movement.
The Art of Death in Ovid's Heroides
Notwithstanding the focalization in Ovid's Heroides on love, one may also identify a consistent emphasis on death, as the letters grow to become a literary refuge for women who experience loss as well as physical and social isolation. Death plays a decisive role in the portrayal of the female writers as sympathetic victims. The fictionalization of death acts as a means of persuasion also for the poet, who situates his text against the background …
Female (Anti-) exempla in Plinian and Ovidian Letters
This article does not discuss the intertextual allusions to Ovidian epistolography in Pliny's letters, but puts forward the claim that women in both Ovid's and Pliny's letters are part of a female literary culture that implicitly clashes with the conventional gender patterns of what constitutes a female exemplum and a female anti-exemplum. This article presents Pliny's letters as both prescriptive and descriptive, and argues that the texts extol …
La femme voyageuse dans les Héroïdes 10, 12 et 21
In this paper, the discussion centres on the portrayal of the female traveller in Ovid’s Heroides 10, 12 and 21. Notwithstanding the predominance of travelling narratives in the collection, most letters tend to focus on the description of the heroes’ journeys as passively attested by the abandoned puellae, whereas the epistles of Ariadne, Medea and Cydippe explicitly address the issue of travelling as – also – a feminine activity. The examination…
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La femme voyageuse dans les Héroïdes 10, 12 et 21
In this paper, the discussion centres on the portrayal of the female traveller in Ovid’s Heroides 10, 12 and 21. Notwithstanding the predominance of travelling narratives in the collection, most letters tend to focus on the description of the heroes’ journeys as passively attested by the abandoned puellae, whereas the epistles of Ariadne, Medea and Cydippe explicitly address the issue of travelling as – also – a feminine activity. The examination…
The Art of Death in Ovid's Heroides
Notwithstanding the focalization in Ovid's Heroides on love, one may also identify a consistent emphasis on death, as the letters grow to become a literary refuge for women who experience loss as well as physical and social isolation. Death plays a decisive role in the portrayal of the female writers as sympathetic victims. The fictionalization of death acts as a means of persuasion also for the poet, who situates his text against the background …
Female (Anti-) exempla in Plinian and Ovidian Letters
This article does not discuss the intertextual allusions to Ovidian epistolography in Pliny's letters, but puts forward the claim that women in both Ovid's and Pliny's letters are part of a female literary culture that implicitly clashes with the conventional gender patterns of what constitutes a female exemplum and a female anti-exemplum. This article presents Pliny's letters as both prescriptive and descriptive, and argues that the texts extol …
Philhellenism
The history of Philhellenism has its roots in antiquity. The term philhellenismos derives from the adjective philhellen and was applied to foreign rulers and individuals who expressed a particular affinity for Greek culture and adopted a behavior that was beneficial to Greece. This embrace of Hellenism was particularly empowered in the nineteenth century, during the Greek Revolution of 1821–9, when philhellenism became a pan‐European movement.
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