Kategoria BISAC: History >> Europe - Greece (see also Ancient - Greece)

-A jewel of memory.---Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Book-of-the-Month Club

At the crossroads of East and West, Salonica (now Thessaloniki) was an oasis in a swirl of conflicting powers and interests, a vibrant world of varied peoples, where Leon Sciaky grew up at the turn of the twentieth century. This Paul Dry Books rediscovered classic includes many photos courtesy of Leon Sciaky's son Peter, who has also written a short biographical sketch of his father's life in America.

-Farewell to Salonica is a fresh and charming book that throws a kindly light on a sector of human...

Das Leben des Kaisers Basilios I. (867-886), des Grunders der Makedonischen Dynastie, ist die einzige erhaltene Sakularbiographie der byzantinischen Literatur, in Bedeutung und hinsichtlich des Genres mit der Vita Caroli Magni von Einhard vergleichbar. Im Gelehrtenkreis um Basilios' Enkel Konstantin VII. Prophyrogennitos und unter dessen Ansporn schon 957 und 959 entstanden, ist die Vita Basilii eine der Hauptquellen fur die Kultur- und politische Geschichte von Byzanz und seinen Nachbarn im 9. und 10. Jahrhundert.

Die bisherigen Ausgaben (ob aus dem 17. oder dem...

Austrian-Greek Encounters over the Centuries does not only look back to the past, but it also tries to develop perspectives for the future. It sheds new light on an incredible wealth and diversity of important links between Austria and Greece. Two highly visible expressions of this intense relationship, amongst many others, are the emblematic buildings of the Academy of Athens and the Austrian Parliament with the Athena Fountain in front. This is why these two buildings, which were both officially opened in 1883 and designed by the same architect, Theophil Hansen, are shown on the...

The existence of eunuchs was one of the defining features of the Byzantine Empire. Covering the whole span of the history of the empire, from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries AD, Shaun Tougher presents a comprehensive survey of the history and roles of eunuchs, making use of extensive comparative material, such as from China, Persia and the Ottoman Empire, as well as about castrato singers of the eighteenth century of Enlightenment Europe, and self-castrating religious devotees such as the Galli of ancient Rome, early Christians, the Skoptsy of Russia and the Hijras of India.

The image of a woman bearing arms is a potent symbol of modern Greece's nation-building conflicts. Margaret Poulos traces the influence of this image on Greek feminist discourse from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1970s and 1980s. The study begins with the heroines of the 1821 Revolution and the extent to which Greek protofeminism capitalized on this legacy. Poulos then explores the role of partisan women in the communist-led resistance movement during World War II and Greece's subsequent collapse into Civil War, which saw a striking and controversial increase in the number of women...