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Patriarch Bartholomew: We owe our hospitals to Byzantium

Ellopos Blog — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:11:27 +0000

How many people know that the modern hospital originated in the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine Empire? It is widely acknowledged that the first hospitals were created in Cappadocia, sometime around 370 A.D. by St. Basil, Bishop of Caesarea. There had been a tradition since Antiquity of maintaining hostels for those without [...]

Patriarch Bartholomew: Martyrdom is Revolutionary

Ellopos Blog — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:04:22 +0000

In the early years, citizens of Rome saw Christ’s followers persecuted, tortured, brutalized, and murdered in huge numbers, throughout the Empire. In most cases, they did not resist the evil that was done to them – but rather, they went willingly to their painful deaths. Why? Of course they had faith – a giant faith, [...]

Chicago University International Conference of Greek Linguistics

Ellopos Blog — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:42:36 +0000

Under the general title “The course of the Greek language throughout the centuries - approaches to its study and analysis”, the 9th International Conference of Greek Linguistics was held at Chicago University from 29 to 31 October under the auspices of the International Society for Greek Linguistics and the Midwest Committee for Modern Greek Linguistics. According [...]

Sylvain Gouguenheim: La culture europeenne ne devrait pas grand-chose a l islam

Duplicator — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:01:43 +0000

Here is a presentation from Le Monde of Sylvain Gouguenheim’s “Aristotle in Mont Saint Michel”. I hope in the near future Ellopos will give its own view on this interesting book. So far as I know the book is not translated yet in English. It is translated in Greek (Olkos editions). Etonnante rectification des préjugés de [...]

Defining the European Union

Ellopos Blog — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:06:06 +0000

Interesting as always, Aeneas Quest comes with a post about the boundaries of the European Union, suggesting that these are primarily cultural and not geographical: “a culture is not limited by physical boundaries, but by human minds”. Visitors of Ellopos Blog know how much emphasis is put by these pages to the fact that people need [...]

It Was September 11 In The Year 1822

Ellopos Blog — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:14:04 +0000

The Times, London - Wednesday, September 11, 1822 Many details of the horrible barbarities committed by the Turks at Scio [Chios] have already been laid before the public. We refer to a paragraph in the German papers, where will be found, in few words, the amount and effect of those barbarities. A population of 120,000 souls [...]

Byzantium in War

Ellopos Blog — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:02:06 +0000

The conviction that there was utility in using the mind to devise cunning stratagems, ruses, and techniques of war to wage war effectively yet cheaply was a two-edged inheritance from antiquity. It encouraged an admirable proclivity to use one’s head in thinking about war, yet it also many times created a dangerous even disastrous over-confidence [...]

Economic growth needs Science, Technology, Will to Power, and Masses

Ellopos Blog — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:49:26 +0000

Searching for the reasons of the economic growth achieved by the West and then by more or less westernized countries, we saw that, first, there is a need for those wanting such a growth to gather all their powers towards this aim, i.e. to underestimate other ways of life. We can describe this with a [...]

Does economic growth depend on a specific form of government?

Ellopos Blog — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:54:34 +0000

How the presence or absence of a near-monopolistic super-state shaped the preconditions for modern economic growth and levels of well-being? Was the political division of Europe good for its material prosperity? Would we enjoy today such a “prosperity”, if we did not have a disunity (if, for example, Justinian had managed to maintain and expand [...]

Beware of Turkish friendship

Ellopos Blog — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:38:43 +0000

In a recent post at My Greek Odyssey the editor makes some interesting comments on the will of some Turkish people to be friends with Greeks. This will is expressed by such letters as this: “History, history, history… I dont really understand what is the importance to keep bring up this subject and be stuck [...]