demotic

“Depictions of women in demotic song largely reflected the harshness of rural life and the specific predicament of women within its social and economic structure.”

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity

“Perhaps the richest insights into the predominantly rural social environment of pre-revolutionary Greece are contained in demotic verse, much of which was composed, sung, and transmitted to subsequent generations by women.”

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity

“Recurrent scenarios in demotic songs convey the repressive behavioural codes governing gender relations, the trauma of forced/arranged marriages, as well as the abduction of women by obsessed admirers.”

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity

“11The female warrior figure in demotic verse has a longer tradition, however, and can be traced to female warriors in ancient and Byzantine Greek myth.”

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity

“In the late period an even more cursive writing came into use, called demotic, or “popular” writing.”

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“In the 8th century there was a further abridgment of the hieratic writing, which was called the demotic, or people's writing, and was used in commerce.”

Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 04

“The same words on the stone were repeated in Egyptian hieroglyphics, in a cursive form of hieroglyphics called "demotic," and in Greek.”

Analog Science Fiction and Fact

“It's also the language which gives Davies away here: not just the use of the second person, but also the word "demotic", which doesn't mean what Davies thinks it means.”

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“Every book is in Eileen’s loose hand, one that doesn’t go for prettiness, but instead depends on speed and a kind of demotic script, generic, loose, easygoing—just about the opposite of what a book handwritten by me would look like.”

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