Author: E. G. VallianatosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
From Graikos to Hellene
Author: E. G. VallianatosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Graikos, Hellene, Hellas
Author: Edward Pococke, Helena Petrovna BlavatskyPublisher: Philaletheians UK
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
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.
Russia and the Making of Modern Greek Identity, 1821-1844
Author: Lucien J. FraryPublisher: Oxford Studies in Modern Europ
ISBN: 0198733771
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
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.
Re-imagining the Past
Author: Dimitris TziovasPublisher: Classical Presences
ISBN: 019967275X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
"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.
Enlightenment and Revolution
Author: Paschalis M. KitromilidesPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674727665
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 603
Book Description
Greece sits at the center of a geopolitical storm that threatens the stability of the European Union. To comprehend how this small country precipitated such an outsized crisis, it is necessary to understand how Greece developed into a nation in the first place, Paschalis Kitromilides contends. Enlightenment and Revolution identifies the intellectual trends and ideological traditions that shaped a religiously defined community of Greek-speaking people into a modern nation-state--albeit one in which antiliberal forces have exacted a high price. Kitromilides takes in the vast sweep of the Greek Enlightenment in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, assessing key developments such as the translation of Voltaire, Locke, and other modern authors into Greek; the conflicts sparked by the Newtonian scientific revolution; the rediscovery of the civilization of classical Greece; and the emergence of a powerful countermovement. He highlights Greek thinkers such as Voulgaris and Korais, showing how these figures influenced and converged with currents of the Enlightenment in the rest of Europe. In reconstructing this history, Kitromilides demonstrates how the confrontation between Enlightenment ideas and Church-sanctioned ideologies shaped the culture of present-day Greece. When the Greek nation-state emerged from a decade-long revolutionary struggle against the Ottoman Empire in the early nineteenth century, the Enlightenment dream of a free Greek polity was soon overshadowed by a romanticized nationalist and authoritarian vision. The failure to create a modern liberal state at that decisive historic moment, Kitromilides insists, is at the root of Greece's recent troubles.
The Making of the Modern Greeks
Author: Petros T. PizaniasPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527562484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
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.
The Necessary Nation
Author: Gregory JusdanisPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9781400824151
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
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.
Socrates from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
Author: Michael TrappPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351899120
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Socrates, son of Sophroniscus, of Alopece is arguably the most richly and diversely commemorated - and appropriated - of all ancient thinkers. Already in Antiquity, vigorous controversy over his significance and value ensured a wide range of conflicting representations. He then became available to the medieval, renaissance and modern worlds in a provocative variety of roles: as paradigmatic philosopher and representative (for good or ill) of ancient philosophical culture in general; as practitioner of a distinctive philosophical method, and a distinctive philosophical lifestyle; as the ostensible originator of startling doctrines about politics and sex; as martyr (the victim of the most extreme of all miscarriages of justice); as possessor of an extraordinary, and extraordinarily significant physical appearance; and as the archetype of the hen-pecked intellectual. To this day, he continues to be the most readily recognized of ancient philosophers, as much in popular as in academic culture. This volume, along with its companion, Socrates in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, aims to do full justice to the source material (philosophical, literary, artistic, political), and to the range of interpretative issues it raises. It opens with an Introduction surveying ancient accounts of Socrates, and discussing the origins and current state of the 'Socratic question'. This is followed by three sections, covering the Socrates of Antiquity, with perspectives forward to later developments (especially in drama and the visual arts); Socrates from Late Antiquity to medieval times; and Socrates in the Renaissance and Enlightenment. Among topics singled out for special attention are medieval Arabic and Jewish interest in Socrates, and his role in the European Enlightenment as an emblem of moral courage and as the clinching proof of the follies of democracy.
Greece of the Hellenes
Author: Lucy Mary Jane GarnettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Cavafy's Hellenistic Antiquities
Author: Takis KayalisPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031349024
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
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.