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Author: E. G. Vallianatos
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 179

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Author: Edward Pococke, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Publisher: Philaletheians UK
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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The land of Hellas was named from a range of heights in Baluchistan; Hellenes, from an ancient sun-worshipping tribe of Rajput. Hel-en, the Sun King, whose land was called in Greek Hella-dos and in Sanskrit Hela-des, left his kingdom to Aiolus, his eldest son, while he sent forth Dorus and Zuthus to make conquests in foreign lands. The Kings of Oxus or Ookshainos established the kingdom of Oox-ina in Hellas; their descendants altered it to Axeinos or Euxine. By their numbers and their prowess, the children of the Sun or Asii, the mighty warlike tribes, gave their enduring name to the Continent of Asia. The Scanda-Nabhi (Scandi-Navi) or Scanda Chiefs, and the Indian Kshatriya or warrior caste, became the European Scandinavians. Hellas was pure Indian during the Trojan war. Notable examples of the Indianisation of the land of Hellas by the Kshatriyas included the Logurh-Ooksh-Walœ and the Baihooyas, who settled in Ozolian Locris and the island of Eu-boia, respectively. It is impossible not to be struck with the singular similarity of the tract of country both old and new: how truly did the Indian settlers exchange one land of mountain and of flood for another, almost its exact counterpart! Dodona was much anterior to the Trojan war, which took place 6,000 years BCE. It was from its temple that the bloodless offerings of the Hyperboreans to Apollo were despatched. Then Su-Meru, the Olympus of the Hindoo Pantheon, became the Epirote Tomaros. The Chiefs of Hellas or Hellopes settled west of Tomaros. Equidistant between Doda and Mer was the town of Pambur. When settled in Epirus, the Kashmiri emigrants commemorated the lake nearby as Pamvotis or land of the Pambur. The ancient people of Pambur, now grouped along the western heights of the Grecian Tomaros, are the Hellopes or Chiefs of Hela. Their adopted country is the Land of Hela or Hella-dos; their sacred tribe, the Dodo; their priests, the Selli or Brahmans; their oracle was fixed towards the northerly line of the Hellopes. In Thessaly, the eastern neighbours of the Hyperboreans, were Peshawari emigrants who settled in the south of the holy mountain. They since appeared on stage in the Greek guise of Passaron. The connection between the settlements of Dodan and the Dodonian Oracle, the Peshawar people, and the offerings of the Hyperboreans or “men of Khyber-Poor,” who were all priests of Apollo, is now firmly established. The Epirote Dodon and Bodon tribes were at the heart of Ancient Greece. The Dodon tribe represented the Brahmanical sect; the Bodon tribe, the Budhistic sect. The former was based in Dodona; the latter in Damastium, a town five miles north of Dodona. Hi-Pur or Epirus was Budhist throughout, land and home of a noble equestrian Rajpoot tribe. Graikoi were clans of Griha: Macedonian Lords Paramount and Indian Emperors. Immigrant Graihakas were staunch Budhists. Such Great Truths Geography has restored to History.

Author: Lucien J. Frary
Publisher: Oxford Studies in Modern Europ
ISBN: 0198733771
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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Lucien J. Frary explores how Russian politics and religion were instrumental in the shaping of modern Greece, providing a broad understanding of 19th-century Russian foreign policy and religious enterprise, as well as the relationship between religion, nationalism, and state-building.

Author: Dimitris Tziovas
Publisher: Classical Presences
ISBN: 019967275X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439

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"This book had its origins in a conference I organized at the University of Birmingham in June 2011 and represents a selection of the papers presented there" -- Page v.

Author: Petros T. Pizanias
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527562484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558

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How is a society historically formed? How are its historical references, its economy, its social structures, and its language shaped? This book explores these general questions with reference to the case of the Modern Greeks. Who were they? How did they re-emerge on the historical stage after centuries of obscurity since the decline of Antiquity? How was the phenomenon described as New Hellenism historically shaped? What were the historical processes that enabled the New Hellenes to differentiate themselves from the Ottoman system of rule and become distinct from the other Balkan national and cultural groups? This text examines the emergence and formation of various social groups and populations that shaped the historical phenomenon of New Hellenism. It shows that the Modern Greeks were historically formed by way of successive differentiations from the Ottoman frames without initially appearing as homogenous. The book scrutinizes the making of all such differentiations for every social group in each separate geographical area. The activities of these groups in each area eventually formed a distinct economic and cultural space, within the confines of the Ottoman Empire, the space of the New Hellenism.

Author: Gregory Jusdanis
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9781400824151
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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In this controversial look at nationalism, Gregory Jusdanis offers a sweeping defense of the nation as a protector of cultural difference and a catalyst for modernization. Since the end of the Cold War, the nation-state has undergone intense scrutiny among critics in the media and the academy. Many believe that civic nationalism may be fruitful but that cultural nationalism fosters xenophobia and backward thinking. Jusdanis, however, emphasizes the positive collaboration between nation-building and culture. Through a series of critical readings of multicultural, postcolonial, and globalization theories, the author reveals how nationalism enables people to defend their distinctive ways of life, to fight colonial oppression, and to build an independent society of citizens. He explains why people over the last two hundred years have politicized their ethnic identities and have sought a union of culture and power within an autonomous nation-state. While seeking to defend nationalism, Jusdanis also examines its potential to unleash extraordinary violence into the world. He thus proposes federalism as a political solution to the challenges posed by nationalism and globalization. Jusdanis applies the tools of disciplines ranging from anthropology to philosophy, as he explores the nation-building projects of numerous and diverse countries around the world. What emerges is a fresh perspective on the subjects of national culture, identity, political nations, globalization, postcolonialism, and diaspora.

Author: Lucy Mary Jane Garnett
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Author: Takis Kayalis
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031349024
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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This book reinterprets C. P. Cavafy’s historical and archaeological poetics by correlating his work to major cultural, political and sexualized receptions of antiquity that marked the turn of the 20th century. Focusing on selected poems which stage readings of Hellenistic and late ancient texts and material objects, this study probes the poet's personal library and archive to trace his scholarly sources and scrutinize their contribution to his creative practice. A new understanding of Cavafy's historicism emerges by comparing his poetics to a broad array of discourses and intellectual pursuits of his time; these range from antiquarianism, physiognomy and Egyptomania to cultural appropriations of the classics which sought to legitimate British colonial rule as well as homoerotic desire. As this volume demonstrates, Cavafy embraced antiquarianism as an empathetic and passionate way of relating to the past and shaped it into a method that allowed his poetry to render modern meanings to Hellenistic antiquities.

Author: Dimitris Paradoulakis
Publisher: V&R Unipress
ISBN: 3847013947
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 333

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This volume deals with matters of public religious expression and aspects of interconfessionality in the case of the Greek Orthdox clergyman and scholar Gerasimos Vlachos (1607–1685) from Candia, Crete. The book proceeds to an interpretative approach to Gerasimos Vlachos' ideological, political and religious identity in all the phases of his life. As the principal factor of the work is promoted Vlachos' perception of his contemporary trans- and interconfessional tendencies and cross-cultural relations firstly within the 17th-century Venetian Republic and secondly in the wider European and Ottoman sphere. Dimitris Paradoulakis aims to interpret the scholar's attitude towards his contemporary theological controversies, the Venetian concept of socio-political tolerance and confessional conciliation, and Vlachos' personal perception on matters of multiconfessional coexistence and freedom of worship.

Author: Sarah F. Green
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400884357
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Maps and borders notwithstanding, some places are best described as "gaps"--places with repeatedly contested boundaries that are wedged in between other places that have clear boundaries. This book explores an iconic example of this in the contemporary Western imagination: the Balkans. Drawing on richly detailed ethnographic research around the Greek-Albanian border, Sarah Green focuses her groundbreaking analysis on the ambiguities of never quite resolving where or what places are. One consequence for some Greek peoples in this border area is a seeming lack of distinction--but in a distinctly "Balkan" way. In gaps (which are never empty), marginality is, in contrast with conventional understandings, not a matter of difference and separation--it is a lack thereof. Notes from the Balkans represents the first ethnographic approach to exploring "the Balkans" as an ideological concept. Green argues that, rather than representing a tension between "West" and "East," the Balkans makes such oppositions ambiguous. This kind of marginality means that such places and peoples can hardly engage with "multiculturalism." Moreover, the region's ambiguity threatens clear, modernist distinctions. The violence so closely associated with the region can therefore be seen as part of continual attempts to resolve the ambiguities by imposing fixed separations. And every time this fails, the region is once again defined as a place that will continually proliferate such dangerous ambiguity, and could spread it somewhere else.