Daniel W. Graham, Ph.D.1, and Eric Hintz, Ph.D.2,     1 Department of Philosophy Brigham Young University Provo, Utah.   2Department of Physics and Astronomy Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 84602       JournalofCosmology.com, July, 2010 The regularity of the orbits of comet Halley has made possible the determination of its visits backwards in time through the Middle Ages […]

Tymphaios    July 21, 2010     Macedonia since the days when Macedonians could be said to exist has been inhabited by Greeks. Indeed the ancient Macedonians were instrumental through their campaigns in ushering the Hellenistic age and shaping a universal kind of Hellenism that has endured to the present time. Daniel Hannan wrote recently in the Telegraph mentioning an […]

05/13/2010          Ancient Greeks at the end of the 4th century BC apparently went through a period of austerity and curtailment of wasteful spending similar to that Greece is facing today, according to finds in tombs in Ancient Pydna recently brought to light by excavations conducted by the 27th Ephorate of Prehistorical and Classical Antiquities.    A […]

The Hellenic Identity according to Jonathan Hall In the 4th century BC, the Athenian assembly debated whether to align with King Philip II of Macedonia, who had begun invading Greek city-states. Isocrates hoped to unite the bickering city-states and believed Philip could lead a war against longtime enemy Persia. Echoing Philip’s own argument, he contended that the Macedonian king in […]

The future of Greece By Evaggelos Vallianatos Economy and society With the sole exception of shipping where Greece owns the largest merchant fleet in the world, Greece has pretty much stayed out of industrial development, manufacturing nearly nothing and exporting very little outside of students, emigrants, olive oil and cheese. Growing up in Greece in the 1950s and 1960s, I […]

Από τα Συμπόσια στους Σκούφους Θα άρεσε άραγε στον Πλάτωνα και στον Σωκράτη το μενού της Σπονδής; Την απάντηση δεν θα τη μάθουμε ποτέ, ανατρέχοντας όμως στις διατροφικές συνήθειες των αρχαίων Ελλήνων μπορούμε να κάνουμε τις υποθέσεις μας. ΕΙΚΟΝΕΣ Φανταστείτε έναν διαγωνισμό γεύσεων την εποχή της Αρχαίας Αθήνας, όπου οι καλοφαγάδες θα έπρεπε να απονείμουν τον «Χρυσό Σκούφο» στον καλύτερο […]

Australian Macedonian Advisory Council May 03, 2009 In his recent article under the title “Satrapal appointments in Alexander’s Empire”. Mr. Gandeto actually thought he discovered America in 2009 AD, when he wrote that out of 52 persons appointed by Alexander the Great as satraps in the conquered regions of the Persian empire, only 5 were southern Greeks, while the rest […]

By Miltiades Elia Bolaris “εξ ιστορίας αναιρεθείσης της αληθείας, το καταλειπόμενον αυτής ανωφελές γίνεται διήγημα” Πολύβιος,  Ιστορίαι Α,14,6 “once the truth is stripped out of history, all that is left of it is but a useless narrative” Polybios,  Histories, I.14.6 Some revisionists of ancient history, in their attempt to promote their modern ultra nationalist agendas in the lower Balkans, have […]