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A Culture of Freedom – New Book about the Ancient Greek City-States
  • James Romm The Wall Street Journal
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  • April 19, 2012
A city's central space reveals much about the society that built it. In the middle of the typical Greek city-state, or polis, stood neither a palace nor a temple—the dominant centering structures of A...
The Agony of Survival: A Novel about Fear and the Future
  • TNH staff
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  • April 19, 2012
NEW YORK – Infinity Publishing has released “The Agony of Survival”, the latest novel by Dr. Spyros Vrettos. Translated from the Greek by Harikleia Georgiou Sirmans, the book is the first of a projec...
‘Abundance,’ by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
  • April 01, 2012
The past few years have been trying ones for the world’s optimists. In rapid succession, our global crises have ranged from the environmental to the economic — from tsunamis leveling entire regions of...
New Book Depicts the Genocide of the Ottoman Greeks
  • TNH staff
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  • January 12, 2012
NEW YORK - On February 28 The Genocide of the Ottoman Greeks, will be published by Aristide D. Caratzas, comprised of the work of nineteen distinguished international scholars. The book, edited by Tes...
Do You Really Know What You’d Like? Do You? Really? I’d Like Knows
  • Aphrodite Matsakis
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  • September 01, 2011
I’d Like By Amanda Michalopoulou Translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich Dalkey Archive Press, 142 pages, $12.50 paperback Do you really know what you like? Does anyone for that matter? In h...
The Multifaceted Word Epitaphios More Than a Sacred Good Friday Tradition
  • Grigoris Maninakis
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  • May 05, 2011
NEW YORK- What comes to mind when someone brings up the word Epitaphios? I assume that most of us would respond by saying that it all depends on the context and the kind of conversation or discussion ...
Tina Fey, Teutonic Greek, is not a Troll, But She is Funny and the Real “Bossypants”
  • Jaslin Maslin - The New York Times
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  • April 07, 2011
“Tina Fey is an ugly, pear-shaped, bitchy, overrated troll.” Somebody once wrote that on a mean-spirited Web site, whence it could have vanished into oblivion. But Ms. Fey liked the remark too much to...
It’s an Old Story, but a New History of the Peloponnesian War
  • Demetrios Liappas
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  • March 17, 2011
The title of Lawrence A. Tritle’s book begs the question: Do we really need a new history of the Peloponnesian War? The answer, sadly, is that we do. Despite loud proclamations to the contrary, the en...
A Book’s Argument: I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be An Atheist
  • Constantinos E. Scaros
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  • February 24, 2011
Most of you reading this review, are as I, Greek Orthodox Christian. Most of us have been so from the time that we were baptized as infants, when we were too young to even realize what was going on, l...
Kazantzakis Biography Scales New Ground
  • George Beres
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  • January 11, 2011
EUGENE, ORE. - Chicago's Theodora Vasils, a long established authority on Nikos Kazantzakis, has just completed what I find to be the most dramatic, authentic book on the writings of the great Cretan ...
Before the 300 Spartans, the Athenians Beat the Persians – at Marathon
  • Alexandros K. Kyrou
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  • November 02, 2010
RICHARD A. BILLOWS. Marathon: How One Battle Changed Western Civilization. New York and London: Overlook Duckworth, 2010. At the beginning of the Fifth Century B.C., a conflict of nations erupt...
Greece's Perrenial Economic Woes Turks' Fault Says New Book
  • Christopher Tripoulas
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  • October 04, 2010
Over the past year, Greece has become the international poster child for corruption. Following hundreds of billions of dollars in loans by the IMF and European Union, media around the world began to r...
Scholars Still Follow John Campbell’s Footsteps Across Greece
  • Alexandros K. Kyrou
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  • June 20, 2010
BOSTON – Anthropologists have contributed significantly to our understanding of Greek culture and society. The most important and influential book on Greece by an anthropologist was also written by th...
Spies of the Balkans novel features Greek protagonist
  • Jaslin Maslin - The New York Times
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  • June 17, 2010
The man around whom Alan Furst’s new spy novel revolves is Constantine Zannis, a highly placed police official in Salonika, Greece. In late 1940, as “Spies of the Balkans” begins, Zannis’s specialty i...
“Thinking Through Faith” Bids to Inspire Christians & Inform Public Policy
  • Alexandros K. Kyrou
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  • April 09, 2010
ARISTOTLE PAPANIKOLAOU and ELIZABETH H. PRODORMOU, eds. Thinking Through Faith: New Perspectives From Orthodox Christian Scholars. Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2008. Pp. 376. $20.0...
Edith Hamilton’s Timeless Classic “Mythology” Still Delights & Inspires
  • Alexandros K. Kyrou
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  • March 06, 2010
EDITH HAMILTON. Mythology. Boston: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company, 1998. Pp. xiv, 497. $13.99 (paperback). BOSTON - There have been countless attacks in the postmodern...
Lars Brownworth: Podcasting Byzantium’s Legacy and the Debt Owed by West
  • Angelike Contis
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  • January 28, 2010
NEW YORK - “I recorded a lecture. We put it online and nothing happened. Then the day Apple announced podcasting, my brother put it up, online, and people started downloading it and people started ema...
Book Captures Stories of “Greeks in Auschwitz-Birkenau”
  • Sylvia Klimaki
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  • January 28, 2010
NEW YORK - On January 26 Photini Tomai, Director of the Historical Archives of the Greek ministry of Foreign Affairs, presented her book “Greeks in Auschwitz-Birkenau,” at the Greek Press Office in Ne...
Book Review: The Convent by Panos Karnezis
  • Financial Times
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  • January 11, 2010
Panos Karnezis, a graduate of the creative writing programme at the University of East Anglia, announced his arrival in the world of letters with Little Infamies, a well-received collection of short s...
History and its flaws seen in Thucydides
  • John Timpane - Philadelphia Inquirer
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  • January 03, 2010
Thucydides The Reinvention of History By Donald Kagan This is an important book, largely right and largely misguided, by one of the most eminent scholars in the field. Kagan, who is Sterling Prof...
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