Κοινωνικές παραδοσιακές επιδράσεις ηθών εθίμων και τραγουδιών στα έργα του Διονύσιου Σολωμού
Part of : Παρνασσός ; Vol.ΜΘ, No.1, 2007, pages 389-438
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389-438
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Traditional social influences of uses, customs and songs in the works of Dionysios Solomos
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The author explores the influence of Greek folk culture, expressed through various uses, customs and popular songs (dimotika), in the poetical works of Dionysios Solomos. This influence is visible in a vast array of topics encountered in Solomos’ poetry, such as the value of young girls’ virginity, the vanity of life, the emotional response of saints to extraodrinary events, the intertwining between life and death, the contrast between death and nature’s resurrection in spring, the custom of blood brothers, the legendary water of eternal life, the transformation of young people into trees after their death, the presence of life symbols in funerary customs, the folk culture practices around the deathbed, the symbolic value of crowns in Greek Orthodox marriage, the inevitability of fate, the divinatory interpretation of dreams, the gifts given by the godfather to the godchild, the participation of nature in human suffering, the religious and popular customs of Easter, etc.
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