Authored by the editor of ELLOPOS, the book asks questions like these:

What is the reason that Greeks abandoned their ancestral religion? Is it true that the ancient Greeks developed and propagated Christianity? What is the use of classical studies today?

What can we learn about God from Homer? What are the main characteristics of Greeks according to Homer? How is the theological view of Greeks related with their scientific and technological endeavour?

Why Plato calls philosophy a studying of death? How is ancient religion and philosophy related with the formation of the Polis?...

Coming from Byzantium and being used until our days in Greek speaking Orthodox Churches, this version is the most authoritative form of the original New Testament text.

Elpenor's edition follows the 1904/12 text of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople with corrections of typos made by the Church of Greece and Elpenor itself, not to be found in any other publication.

Illuminated with images of Byzantine manuscripts, photos of Churches of Athos Holy Mount and all of Greece, Orthodox Icons and various Orthodox style drawings, this edition features also a large typeface for...

Here is a selection and translation (in modern Greek) of Symeon's Hymns, of some of the greatest Byzantine poems, describing the experiences of their author from living with God.

The text is accompanied by images of the Christ and of angels, in full color, and by an introduction explaining the endeavour of Symeon to set the Church free from a conventional and faceless perception of faith.

Official page: elpenor.org/books/symeon/default.asp

If you have read David Copperfield you can use this opportunity to recall it, and if you haven't, the combination of the illustrations with chapter excerpts provides a great introduction to the power of Dickens' writing, the characters and the most important themes and developments, since Phiz co-operared with the author in what and how should be selected: this anthology is indeed a realization of what Dickens himself thought as crucial for a possible overview and presentation of his favorite novel.

Official page: elpenor.org/books/phiz/default-en.asp

Notes, essays, reviews - under the name of elements, because they give prominence to simple values and principles, each text contributing to a living wholeness and being itself complete.

Despite their brevity and variety, in the expression of primary ideas and the cohesion of an apparent and latent order, they claim plenitude.

The educational value prevails, to the degree, of course, that the intentions are fulfilled, providing some support in case someone advances 'from a dark day to the real one.'

The structure of the book in sections - History, Church, Culture, Politics -...

St. Porphyry, one of the best known elders in modern Greece, having direct experience of God and a whole life devoted to the guidance of his spiritual children, left precious speeches. The present edition offers important excerpts along with notes that explain Porphyry's thinking.

Porphyry emphasizes the secrecy that fits the divine love, the sensitivity and confidence, the awareness, devoutness, freedom and mildness of faith, when life becomes a prayer, realizing the identity of Christ, that "He is our friend, our brother, He is everything good and nice. He is Everything, but He is a...