Background
Bien, Peter Adolph was born on May 28, 1930 in New York City. Son of Adolph F. and Harriet (Honigsberg) Bien.
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Light is the central metaphor in the religious lives of Friends, but not of Friends alone. “The light that lighteth every person who cometh into the world” has served as an image of sacred mystery for ancient Hebrews and Greeks, for Dante, for modern poets, and for theorists on the physics of electromagnetism. What has Light meant to different people throughout the ages? How did various ideas about Light influence the prologue toohn’s Gospel? What did early Friends understand Light to mean? ln this pamphlet, Peter Bien explores the theology and poetry of Friends’ favorite religious symbol.
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This companion workbook contains additional exercises as well as a crossword puzzle, ideas for student compositions and dialogues, an English-language explanation of an aspect of Greek culture, a grammar review, and an exam, all aimed at inspiring students to explore the Greek world in lively and often humorous ways.
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Greek Today presents an up-to-date communicative approach for students of Modern Greek. Aimed at the introductory to intermediate levels, it is a completely revised and expanded edition of the popular Demotic Greek I. Presenting material that relates to a wide range of cultural interests, the textbook offers twelve lessons with a total of sixty grammar points, all conveyed through dialogues that present the realities experienced by young people and adults in contemporary Greece. Lessons are supplemented by songs, poems, realia, images, and cultural texts. A large number of cartoons by Greece’s eminent artist Kostas Mitropoulos provide a running commentary on modern Greek culture and its relation to Europe and the ancient Greek past. Employing a vocabulary of more than 2,000 words and introducing students to the most current Greek idioms, Greek Today also includes etymological notes on the evolution of the Greek language and the Greek roots of many English words.
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Integrated sequel to DEMOTIC GREEK I for second-year students uses scenarios and readings based on authentic Greek texts drawn from folktales, ballads, and writers such as Herodotus, Kazantzakis, Koraes, Myrivilis, and Seferis.
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This unique bilingual anthology presents the achievements of Greek poetry in the 20th century. Included are 109 poets and 456 poems, with the Greek original and the English translation on opposite pages. Included are the internationally recognized C.P. Cavafy, the Nobel Prize winners George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis, as well as all the major Greek poets of the 20th century. Many of the poems in the Greek original and many translations are published for the first time. The four editors, all award winning authors and translators, not only selected the poems but also have translated many of them. In all 63 translators contributede their work to this anthology. Also, included are Kimon Friar’s unpublished corrections/modifications to his original translations.
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Book by Bien, Peter, Rassias, John, Yiannakou-Bien, Chrysanthi
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Integrated sequel to DEMOTIC GREEK I for second-year students uses scenarios and readings based on authentic Greek texts drawn from folktales, ballads, and writers such as Herodotus, Kazantzakis, Koraes, Myrivilis, and Seferis.
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Bien, Peter Adolph was born on May 28, 1930 in New York City. Son of Adolph F. and Harriet (Honigsberg) Bien.
Student, Harvard University, 1950. Bachelor, Haverford College, 1952. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1957.
Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1961. Postgraduate, Bristol University, England, 1959. Postgraduate, Woodbrooke College, England, 1971.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Thessaloniki, 2007.
Lecturer, Columbia University, New York City, 1957-1958, 59-61;
instructor department English, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1961-1962;
assistant professor, Dartmouth College, 1963-1965;
associate professor, Dartmouth College, 1965-1968;
professor, Dartmouth College, 1969-1997;
Geisel professor, Dartmouth College, 1974-1979;
Frederick Sessions Beebe '35 professor in art of writing, Dartmouth College, 1989-1997;
professor emeritus, Dartmouth College, since 1997;
visiting professor, Harvard University, 1983;
visiting professor, U. Melbourne, 1983;
visiting professor, Woodbooke College, 1995;
professor emeritus, Dartmouth College, since 1997. Author: L.P. Hartley, 1963, Constantine Cavafy, 1964, Kazantzakis andthe Linguistic Revolution in Greek Literature, 1972, (with others) Demotic Greek I, 1972, Demotic Greek II, 1982, Nikos Kazantzakis, 1972, Antithesis and Synthesis in the Poetry of Yannis Ritsos, 1980, Three Generations of Greek Writers, 1983, Tempted by Happiness: Kazantzakis' Post-Christian Christ, 1984, Kazantzakis: Politics of the Spirit, Nikos Kazantzakis-Novelist, 1989, Words, Wordlessness, and the Word:Quaker Silence Reconsidered, 1992, (with Darren J.N. Middleton) God's Struggler: Religion in the Works of Nikos Kazantzakis, 1996. Translator: The Last Temptation, 1960, Saint Francis, 1962, Report to Greco, 1965 (all by Nikos Kazantzakis), Life in the Tomb (Stratis Myrivilis), 1977, 87.
Co-editor: Modern Greek Writers, 1972. Associate editor Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 1975-1982, Journal Modern Greek Studies, 1983-1989, editor, since 1990.
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Trustee Kinhaven Music School, Weston, Vermont, 1972-1978, 81-84, 86-92, president, 1988-1990. Trustee Pendle Hill, Wallingford, Pennsylvania, 1977-1992, 94-2005, 2007-2009, presiding clerk, 1983-1984, 86, Quaker in Residence, 1998. Member corporation Haverford College, 1974-2001.
President board trustees Hanover Monthly Meeting, Society Friends, 1977-1984, clerk, 1968-1970, 1976-1978, treasurer, 1998-2008. Chair board overseers Kendal at Hanover, 1989-1995, chair board directors, 1995-1996, president residents council, 2006-2007. Trustee American Farm School, since 1998.
Member Modern Greek Studies Association (president 1982-1984, 99-2002, member executive committee 1968-1985, 99—2005), Yale Club (New York City), Hellenic Authors' Society (honorary).
Married Chrysanthi Yiannakou, July 17, 1955. Children: Leander, Alec, Daphne.