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ASTER TOU PONTOU

Title: Αστήρ του Πόντου: Περιοδικον σύγγραμμα (Astēr tou Pontou: Periodikon syngramma).

Years: 1885-1886.

Volumes: 2.

Frequency: Weekly.

Editors: I.A. Parkharidis and Th. Grammatikopoulos. 

Publisher: (Trapezounta) Trabzon: D. Xiphilinos and G. Sophianos, 1885-1886.

Publication history: Dec. 1884- Dec. 1886.

Subject: Humanities (religion, ethics, pedagogy, philology, archaeology, history, physics, mathematics, philology, agriculture, linguistics).

Notes:

A journal with articles about Religion, Ethics, Pedagogy, Philology, Archaeology, History, Physics, Mathematics, Plutology, Agriculture, Linguistics. Also, short stories, novels, poems, community news, speeches, jokes, riddles, etc. It was published weekly with the permission of the Department of Education. The journal had a variety of subjects. They paid special attention to the position and education of middle-class women, to natural sciences and the ancient Greek past. We are not sure about the duration of the publishing other than 2 years (1885, 1886).

This first issue was published at the end of 1884. 

Other topics include religion and morality, pedagogy, philology, science and mathematics, archaeology, funny and curious tidbits, news related to Greek orthodoxy, Examples of articles include "On superstition," "On secularism," "The woman as a wife and as a hostess," "The woman as a mother," "The woman as a citizen," "On the education of girls" [apparently, women were still uppity, hence the need for "instruction"], "On encyclopedia and methodology of the philological sciences," "On the clothes of the ancients," "On astronomy," "On myths of Pontus."

Online: Available in Psifiothiki.

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