Posts Tagged “hellenes”
 Dionysios Pyrros the Thessalian, 1818 and "Methodic Geography of the whole universe,on behalf of his friends and pupils and the Hellenic genus"
“She (Hellas) is today subjugated to the despotic rule of the Turk emperor,the so-called Sultan,who descends from the interior of great Asia,which was once utterly defeated by the Macedonian Alexander the Great”
“Hellas was called ... Tags: albanians, bulgarian, dionysios pyrros, geography, hellenes, macedonia, macedonians, turks
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Macedonia / Macedon
The Macedonians were of Hellenic stock, claiming legendary descent from the Dorians who conquered Sparta and much of Greece towards the end of the Mycenaean period. Their name is generally thought to mean 'highlander', which would be entirely appropriate for their mountainous homeland. They probably arrived in the northernmost parts of Greece on ... Tags: Dorians, Greece, greeks, hellenes, historyfiles.co.uk, macedon, macedonia, Mycenaean, Sparta
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By Ptolemy
November 18, 2008
The common definition of “taking text out of context” is to remove a passage from its surrounding matter in such a way as to distort its true meaning. In other words, a shorter extract or phrase is used purposedly in an attempt to represent the views of the ... Tags: Ancient Macedonia, fyrom, hannibal, hellas, hellenes, lyciscus, macedonia, philip v of macedon, Risto Stefov
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Pantelis Nigdelis and Asterios Lioutas presented a couple of years ago, a very interesting research entitled "First of the Hellenes in the Province- a new inscription from Mygdonia" focused on an inscription coming from the region of Mygdonia. As the archaeologists noted, the Inscription was found specifically in the Palaiokastron hill archaeological site, which is approximately one kilometre northwest of the village ... Tags: asia minor, greek identity, hellenes, Έλληνες, langada, macedonian archaeology, macedonians, mygdonia, thessaloniki
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 - The Hellenism during Nicaean Period
- The use of the terms "Graikoi" and "Hellenes" in Byzantium.
- The Emperor Theodore II Laskaris in the panegyric of his father calls Alexander the Great as "Emperor of the Hellenes"
Thanks to Kostas68 for providing the images. Tags: Alexander the Great, byzantium, emperor of hellenes, graikoi, hellenes, hellenism, nicaean empire, Theodore II Laskaris
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Greek intellectuals [...] did not consider the Ancient Macedonians to be a Hellenic nation. Paparrigopoulos, for example, one of the first Modern Greek historians, in his book “General History” published in 1848 wrote: “Macedonian nation fulfilled, in the frame of the general world history, one completely different mission than the one of the Hellenic nation.”
The ... Tags: ancient macedonians, greek historians, hellenes, hellenic, Hercules, konstantinos paparrigopoulos, macedonia, thessaly
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Presentation of ancient Greek tribes being segregated by the rest of Greeks
In the cases of Athenians:
"When the estrangement which had arisen between the Athenians and the Hellenes became noised abroad, there came to Athens ambassadors from the Persians and from the Hellenes. [Diodoros of Sicily 11.28.1]
"...the Hellenes gathered in congress decreed to make ... Tags: acanthus, athens, boeotia, brasidas, cretans, demosthenes, diodorus, greeks, hellenes, herodotus, lokrians, philipic, phocis, phokians, spartans, syrakousai, thebans, thessalians, thukydides
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HLA Update and ALERT: Mission Accomplished in UTAH , Skopjian Conference Exposed; Anti-Hellenic Film Released
For Immediate Release: November 13, 2009
We, at the HLA, are proud to proclaim our recent campaign against the Anti-Hellenic Conference at University of Utah, a victory. A victory in the sense that for the first time, in quite some time, we ... Tags: anti-hellenic, hellenes, ouranio toxo, refugee children, utah
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 Patrologia Graeca is a collection of "Πατερικά Κείμενα", written in Greek, Latin and some Anatolian Languages. The Best collection is the one called Patrologiae Cursus Completus, of the French Jacques Paul Migne. This collection consists of 221 tomous, published between 1844-1855 and covers 10 centuries of ecclesiastical authors until 1216 A.D.
Ironically today FYROM's propaganda employs texts taken ... Tags: Alexander the Great, FYROM Propaganda, hellenes, macedonia, Macedonian ethnicity, macedonians, patrologia graeca, slavs, thessalonians
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 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 ... Tags: america, ancient Greeks, athenians, eu, Europeans, Greece, greek economy, Greek war of Independence, greeks, hellenes, turkey, USA
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