Portraits of Hellenes in Antipodes
Author : Vivienne Morris
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,78 MB
Release : 2021-08-11
Category :
ISBN : 9780646845302
A Guide to Greek Traditions and Customs in America
Author : Marilyn Rouvelas
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 15,17 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
"A clear and comprehensive guide to the religious and secular life of the Greek-American community," including naming a baby, planning a baptism, observing name days, baking communion bread, buying popular Greek music, what to say (in Greek) on special occasions, and much more.
Zanoni
Author : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,17 MB
Release : 1842
Category : France
ISBN :
Book Description
The Greeks in Australia
Author : Anastasios Tamis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 16,29 MB
Release : 2005-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139443111
Book Description
The Greeks have made an enormous contribution to Australian cultural and social life, and this book vividly tells their story. Beginning with an examination of the conditions in Europe that led to migration, it details the role of the Greeks in Australian settlement, the two large waves of Greek migration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the ways in which the Greeks have maintained a solid sense of Greek cultural expression. Numbering approximately half a million, the Greek community in Australia comprises the second largest ethnic minority after the Italians. The contribution of Greek settlers to the large industrial cities and other major urban centres modernised them by injecting new ideas into the economic, social and political life of their new environment. The role of Greek settlers has been vital in building the nation we have today.
The Station
Author : Robert Byron
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 15,28 MB
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
The Station by Robert Byron is Byron's in-depth record of his travels to Mount Athos, the spiritual heart of Eastern Orthodox Monasticism. Excerpt: "Letters from foreign countries arrive in the afternoon. Each envelope advertises a break in the monotony of days; each reveals on penetration only one more facet of a standard world. But latterly another kind has come, strangely addressed, stranger still within. "We learn," runs one, "that you are safely returned to your own glorious country and are already in the midst of your dearest ones, enjoying the best of health..."
Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece
Author : Renaud Gagné
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 18,41 MB
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110743534X
Book Description
Ancestral fault is a core idea of Greek literature. 'The guiltless will pay for the deeds later: either the man's children, or his descendants thereafter', said Solon in the sixth century BC, a statement echoed throughout the rest of antiquity. This notion lies at the heart of ancient Greek thinking on theodicy, inheritance and privilege, the meaning of suffering, the links between wealth and morality, individual responsibility, the bonds that unite generations and the grand movements of history. From Homer to Proclus, it played a major role in some of the most critical and pressing reflections of Greek culture on divinity, society and knowledge. The burning modern preoccupation with collective responsibility across generations has a long, deep antecedent in classical Greek literature and its reception. This book retraces the trajectories of Greek ancestral fault and the varieties of its expression through the many genres and centuries where it is found.
The Gospel of Hellas
Author : Daisy Oopsy
Publisher : Steiner Books
Page : pages
File Size : 11,30 MB
Release : 2004-08
Category :
ISBN : 9780000001139
Book Description
"To be reminded in a utilitarian, materialistic age that the ideals of the Greek mind can quicken culture, even today, is refreshing to heart and soul." R. M. Querido The Christian civilization of the Western would is built on two colums: the heritages of the Old Testament and that of Hellas. This has been know since the days Clement of Alexandria, the found of the first Christian philosophy in the second century A.D., who was by descent a Greek and by faith a Christian. Clement appraised the dialectic of Plato and the metaphysics of Aristotle to be equally significant with the Genesis of Moses and the books of the prophets. In placing the message of the Greeks on the same level as the revelation of the Old Testament, he laid the cornerstone for building a true hhistory of the mission of Hellas. In fact, it is an integral part of the task of this book to show that besides the events in the lives of the Hebrews there was nothing that more immediately prepared humanity for the coming of Christ than what lived in the spirit of Hellas. Hence, the story of the heathen heritage becomes the Gospel of Hellas."
The Martyrdom of Man
Author : William Winwood Reade
Publisher :
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 18,51 MB
Release : 1872
Category : Civilization
ISBN :
Book Description
Gates of Fire
Author : Steven Pressfield
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 20,68 MB
Release : 2007-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0553904051
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Steven Pressfield brings the battle of Thermopylae to brilliant life.”—Pat Conroy At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army. Day after bloody day they withstood the terrible onslaught, buying time for the Greeks to rally their forces. Born into a cult of spiritual courage, physical endurance, and unmatched battle skill, the Spartans would be remembered for the greatest military stand in history—one that would not end until the rocks were awash with blood, leaving only one gravely injured Spartan squire to tell the tale. . . .
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers
Author : Michael Psellus
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,91 MB
Release : 1979-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0141904550
Book Description
This chronicle of the Byzantine Empire, beginning in 1025, shows a profound understanding of the power politics that characterized the empire and led to its decline.
