2024-25

Representations of 1940s in Greek Postwar Literature

The course deals with the life of Muhammad and his career as a religious, political and military leader (570-632). It examines the creation and the evolution of the first Islamic community, firstly in Mecca and later in Medina. Different aspects of pre-Islamic Arab society (religion, culture, economy, social stratification, racial organisation and others.) are analysed, as well as how they affected Islam and, in their turn, how they were affected by the new religion

The course examines the various forms of Greek folk handicraft, such as pottery, wood carving, copper working and the work of silver- and goldsmiths, weaving, painting and architecture. The course also examines folk theatre and the popular cinema, in terms of context, technique, subject and form and its products. Particular reference is made to traditional technology, to workshops and to their economic relations, to the social position of skilled workmen, product distribution networks and their contribution to the formation of popular taste.

Στόχος του μαθήματος είναι η εξοικείωση των φοιτητών με την προοδευτική εξέλιξη του κοινωνίας των Ελλήνων πολιτών και της ταυτότητας του Έλληνα στους δύο αιώνες από τη σύσταση του ελληνικού κράτους.