Oi Archaioi Ellines (Understanding the Ancient Greeks)

Authored by the editor of ELLOPOS and being offered at cost price, 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? What is the reason of the development of democracy? What is the meaning of the distinction between Greeks and barbarians?

What was the vision of Alexander the Great? What is the meaning of Platonic Ideas, and how are they related with Homer and Christianity? What is the ground of the birth of Tragedy? What is the relationship between Tragedy and the whole spirituality of the athenian Polis?

How God intervenes to educate men? What is the meaning of education?

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