February 2007  *  Web version

 

New @ European Prospect

David Turner,  Byzantium : The 'alternative' history of Europe

How can the West accept the existence of an "alternative" to European history, a history which it has taken for granted, and with which it thinks itself so intimately acquainted? Furthermore, how can we explain certain radical differences between Eastern and Western Europe, with their respective capitals at New Rome (Constantinople) and Old, given that both appear to be rooted in the very same cultural milieu (the world of Antiquity) that the West has for so long - and so exclusively - called "Mother"?   If there is an alternative history of Europe, is there an alternative way of interpreting Europe and her broader philosophical, political, social and cultural heritage? In other words, can the study of "Byzantium" constitute a pleasantly subversive activity on the threshold of the twenty-first century? - Read more

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New @ Ellopos Blog

Turkish barbarity, now an attraction * In Greece and Cyprus * Greek Culture Foundation in Trieste, Italy * Al. Vasilief : A History of the Byzantine Empire * Prime minister of Greece pays hommage to French scholar J-P Vernant * Discovering Ancient Greek Music * Nick Cave: Rising above the earthbound * Do Protestants need Orthodoxy? * A Greek Anthology of Macarius’ works * A child’s prayer * A new exhibition at the Byzantine and Christian Museum, Greece * Paris-Athens 1863-1940 exhibition

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New @ Meister Eckhart Site

Lee Evans Poem : Deaf, Dumb, and Blind  & Comments

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New @ Writing Community

Poems by Arcadian : Inside The Byzantium Church * At The Homer Recital * Bast Aroused * An Afternoon under the Parasol * Sand Castles - ( Sardine, or Napoleonic Sonnet )

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New @ Koinonia

Aeschylus, Eumenides 269-270 * Various Ancient Greek words for God in NT * How to make study booklets from Google books * Answer key White's First Greek Book & Interlinears * Protestantism and Orthodoxy * Orthodoxy and science: a changing relationship? * At Google Book - a book of Greek quotations * Trying to learn Greek by myself

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Μακάριος ο Μέγας - Ανθολογία
(Μυστικοί της Ορθοδοξίας)

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Links

Εκκλησία της Ελλάδος : Κέντρα Βοήθειας : Υπηρεσίες βοηθειών της Ελληνικής Εκκλησίας σε πάσχοντες και ανίσχυρους * Ζωγραφική του Γιάννη Σταύρου * A Bibliography on Byzantine Literature * Ancient Greek Music : concerts, information, audio files)

 

Word of Farewell

          In Baxter's view the care for external goods should only lie on the shoulders of the "saint like a light cloak, which can be thrown aside at any moment.'' But fate decreed that the cloak should become an iron cage. ... No one knows who will live in this cage in the future, or whether at the end of this tremendous development entirely new prophets will arise, or there will be a great rebirth of old ideas and ideals, or, if neither, mechanized petrification, embellished with a sort of convulsive self-importance. For of the last stage of this cultural development, it might well be truly said: "Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved."

Max Weber