Contents

1. Liana Lomiento, University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”: Between myth and plot: necessary mediations in Sophoclean tragedy...............................................................3

2. Helen Gasti, University of Ioannina: Sophocles’ Electra 147-149: An Authorial Comment ...............................................................................................21

3. Spyridon Tzounakas, University of Cyprus: Contrast of Prayers in Persius’ Second Satire ...........................................................37

4. Luigi Andrea Berto, Western Michigan University: I Musulmani nelle cronache dell’Italia centro-settentrionale altomedievale (secoli VIII-XI).................57

5. Roumpini Dimopoulou, University of Athens: Buondelmonti’s Delos: Restoring the present with reminiscences of the past embellished by borrowings.....97

6. Dora E. Solti, Eötvös-Loránd-University, Budapest: Ein deutsches Prognostikon über die Rückeroberung Konstantinopels und seine griechische Übersetzung...........................................................................................119

7. Arnd Kerkhecker, University of Berne: Gottebenbildlichkeit in Goethes Faust .....129

8. Konstantinos Spiridon Doukakis, Hellenic Open University – Open University of Cyprus: Between the public and the private: Social welfare in the Ionian State (1815-1864)........................................................145

9. Stathis Birtachas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki: “In defence of the liberty and the rights of Great Mother Greece”. The Italian Garibaldini Volunteers in Epirus: the decline of a long tradition in Greece. Evaluation of an old story and new research perspectives ......................................161

10. Sapfo Mortaki, Hellenic Open University-TEI of Central Macedonia: Migration Stories: the case of Greek migrant artists in America ............................183

11. Etolia-Ekaterini (Eliana) Martinis, Ionian University: Mediterranean nature and interwar modernism: the Homeric shores of Gerasimos Steris ..................................................................211

12. Thanassis Agathos, University of Athens & Yannis G.S. Papadopoulos, University of Peloponnese: Imperial palaces and village huts: Byzantium in Greek cinema and television...............................................................243

13. Theodora D. Patrona, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Independent Scholar): The Italian-American Macho Housekeeper: Male Ethnic Identity in Who’s the Boss (1984-1992)...............................................261

Book reviews..................................................................................................................279

Guidelines for authors....................................................................................................287