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Greek Journeys and Philosophical Reflections Reflections MMOODDEERRNN GGRREEEEKK SSTUTUDDIIEESS AASSSSOOCCIIAATTIIOONN OOFF AAUUSSTTRRAALLIIAA AANNDD NNEEWW ZZEEAALLAANNDD Greek Greek JourneysJourneys andand PhilosophicalPhilosophical ReflectionsReflections SPECIALSPECIAL ISSUEISSUE OFOF MODERNMODERN GREEKGREEK STUDIESSTUDIES (AUSTR(AUSTRAALIALIA ANDAND NEWNEW ZEALAND)ZEALAND) EDITORS:EDITORS: MICHAELMICHAEL TSIANIKASTSIANIKAS ∙∙ GEORGEGEORGE COUVALISCOUVALIS ∙∙ MARIAMARIA PALAKTSOGLOUPALAKTSOGLOU printed using 100% solar power. created2print.com AdelaideAdelaide 20192019 Greek Journeys and Philosophical Reflections Greek Journeys and Philosophical Reflections SPECIAL ISSUE OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES (AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND) Edited by: Michael Tsianikas George Couvalis Maria Palaktsoglou Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand Adelaide 2019 Series: Journal of Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand) — Special Issue Title: Greek Journeys and Philosophical Reflections Edited by: Michael Tsianikas, George Couvalis, Maria Palaktsoglou The contributions in this special issue on Greek Journeys and Philosophical Reflections, are all refereed through the standard process of blind peer reviewing. The journal is a DEST recognised publication. ISSN: 1039-2831 Published: Adelaide, 2019 All correspondence to: Department of Language Studies – Modern Greek Flinders University GPO Box 2100 ADELAIDE SA 5001 AUSTRALIA CRICOS Provider Number: 00114A Cover Image: “Hydra”, painted by Maria Loizidou, 1978 Photo: Antonios Litinas Cover Design: Irene Belperio Typesetting: Irene Belperio Printed and Bound: Created2Print Copyright in each contribution to this journal belongs to its author. © 2019, Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand All rights reserved. No part of this publication may reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand President: Vrasidas Karalis, University of Sydney Vice-President: Elizabeth Kefallinos, Macquarie University Secretary: Panagiotis Diamantis, University of Technology, Sydney Treasurer: Panayiota Nazou, University of Sydney MGSAANZ was founded in 1990 as a professional association by scholars and researchers in Australia and New Zealand engaged in Greek Studies. Membership is open to all interested in any area of Greek studies (history, literature, culture, transition, economy, gender studies, sexualities, linguistics, cinema, Diaspora, etc). Dedicated to Layla Plummer. Hard Working. A Well Organised Mind. A Charismatic Soul. A Leader. Contents Grief and Consolation in Greece and Rome: Ancient and Modern Perspectives……………………………………………………………………...1 Han Baltussen, University of Adelaide The Puzzle of the Pseudo-Platonic Axiochus………………………………16 Rick Benitez, University of Sydney Philoponus, Kant, and Russell on the Beginning of Time………………36 George Couvalis, Flinders University, Adelaide Aristotle and Democracy……………………………………………………..53 Scott Mann, Western Sydney University Euclid’s Geometry: the Case of Contradiction…………………………….71 Chris Mortensen, University of Adelaide Plato and Hurka and the Place of Reason in the Good Life……………..84 Matthew Usher, Flinders University, Adelaide From Ancient Greek Myth to Contemporary Science in Australia: Cronus as an Environmental Hypothesis…………………………………………..101 Helena González-Vaquerizo, Autonomous University of Madrid Evangelising Zeus: the Illiad According to Loukanes…………………..123 Calliope Dourou, Harvard University Australians in Crete in World War II…………...…………………………143 Peter Monteath, Flinders University, Adelaide vii Gorootamos and After: Tom Barnes’ Greek Archive, 1942–45……….163 Katherine Barnes, Australian National University, Canberra Greasy Spoon Dagoes: Sydney’s Greek Food-Caterin henomenon s–1952 …………………………………………………………………...…186 Leonard Janiszewski, Macquarie University, Sydney Effy Alexakis, Macquarie University, Sydney dentity and ocial Connection of Gree ancin in iasora ………..217 Maria-Irini Avgoulas, LaTrobe University, Melbourne Rebecca Fanany, Central Queensland University ost in Translation nestigatin the inuistic and Concetual nderstandin of ranslated et for lder dults of Gree acround …………………………………………………………………….232 Michael Tsianikas, Flinders University, Adelaide Irene Belperio, Flinders University, Adelaide ersonal arratie After troe: tories from ilinual Gree-Enlish mmirants iin in outh ustralia…….……………………...………..260 Maria Kambanaros, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol Gree-Australian Women’s Love Poetry: of Terrain and Transnationalism …..…………………………………………………………280 Konstandina Dounis, LaTrobe University, Melbourne eliious acraments and ance in the Gree rthodo Church………………………………………………………………………….301 Patricia Riak, Montclair State University, New Jersey he mae of uins in Gree estheticism: Eoin the istant ast and eflectin the uman Emotion………………………………….319 Panagiota Douti, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens viii Grief and onsolation in Greece and ome: Ancient and odern Perspectives Han Baltussen1 In this talk I surveyed various ancient and modern approaches to grief in order to study the enduring problem of how we humans cope with grief and how these can be productively studied from a comparative angle. The recent upsurge in the study of grief and consoling strategies is especially interested in the healing arts, which is making use of various mechanisms from the humanistic tradition to cope with grief and loss. The paper hopes to spark new debates on how a diachronic analysis can allow for discovering new approaches. It will become clear that we need a great variety of solutions to allow for the processing of grief across a broad spectrum of personalities. Preface: reflecting on death, grief and consolation Grief and death are slowly emerging from the shadows of a long-standing taboo and it is important that we acknowledge the experience as a deeply human one, known to humankind since the beginning of time. My interest in this project on grief in antiquity began some ten years ago, not from a morbid interest in death and dying, but because I saw the significance of ancient writings for this crucial aspect of our human lives, that is, how we cope with grief. The topic has made quite a come-back in recent years as for instance in Time magazine, where a cover article revealed the grief of a highly placed executive of Google,2 or when in the New York Times recent 1 I want to thank the organisers for their kind invitation and for this opportunity to share some of my work with a wider audience. This talk is a revised version of my talk for the Australian National University in 2012, building on Baltussen, 2009a, 2013. 2 Sheryl Sandberg, who published a book about her experience Option B. Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy in 2017. 1 HAN BALTUSSEN books on grief were reviewed. This recent public focus has been noted by many and some believe that the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, played a role in this development. Parallels abound between us and earlier historical periods and it is worth our while exploring the lasting value of coping mechanisms and grief strategies.3 In this paper I will argue that antiquity also experienced a new important development in grief management and that their insights may well inform our own approaches to grief. I will start from the fifth century BC Greek orator Antiphon who claimed to have a method to heal grief. In making rhetorical techniques his tool, he started something quite new in that he now applied consciously and purposefully what others before him had explored intuitively. I am calling this new approach the therapeutic turn, a phrase which I will for the moment clarify as: the significant change in how one human consciously attempts to assist other humans with their grief in a way that relies on language. Many of you will be familiar with the claim that Greek philosophers believed that philosophy could have a therapeutic role: it was for the mind what medicine was for the body. And while all my examples today will exhibit some philosophical influence, what needs emphasising is that the earliest therapeutic use of language came about in the context of rhetorical practice. Admittedly, Thucydides’ marvellous report on the funeral speech of Pericles is quite famous as a rhetorical case of public consolation (Pelop. War 2.34–46). But I would hold that this case represents a different type in which the act of consolation is addressed to the community, in this case, to clarify the sacrifice made and lift the spirits of the citizens — which Pericles of course did by turning the speech into a eulogy of Athens itself and the Athenian way of life. Antiphon’s claim was different: according to our sources, he set up shop in the marketplace and promised that he could cure individuals by way of analysing the causes of their grief and by using words (διὰ λόγων): Antiphon is said to have composed tragedies both by himself and with the tyrant Dionysius. While he was still involved in poetry he designed a method for the cure of grief (τέχνη ἀλυπίας), on the analogy of the treatment of the sick by doctors and, getting himself a dwelling in Corinth near the market-place, he advertised that he was able to cure those suffering from grief through [the power of] words (διὰ λόγων); and discovering the causes of their sickness by 3 I cannot in this paper deal with all relevant texts, such as literary, philosophical and “fringe- consolation” such
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