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Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age is a book written by four-time British Prime Minister William Gladstone in 1858, discussing a range of issues in Homer including an original thesis on colour perception in Ancient Greece. [1] Gladstone was M.P. for the University of Oxford at the time of publication, but had been trained as a classicist.
Volume 1 of Black Athena is an extraordinarily interesting and dangerous book: interesting in its sweeping sociology of the historiography of early Greece from the fifth century B.C.E. to the present; dangerous, because in reopening the nineteenth-century discourse on race and origins, the work, sadly, inevitably, has become part of the problem ...
Hellenic studies (also Greek studies) is an interdisciplinary scholarly field that focuses on the language, literature, history and politics of post-classical Greece.In university, a wide range of courses expose students to viewpoints that help them understand the historical and political experiences of Byzantine, Ottoman and modern Greece; the ways in which Greece has borne its several pasts ...
Black Greeks, also known as Afro-Greeks (Greek: Αφροέλληνες), [1] are Black people who are citizens or residents of Greece. African immigrants in Modern Greece [ edit ]
This bibliography of Greece is a list of books in the English language which reliable sources indicate relate to the general topic of Greece This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The Gennadius Library main building in Athens, designed by the American architects John Van Pelt and W. Stuart Thompson and inaugurated in 1926.. The Gennadius Library (Greek: Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη), also known as the Gennadeion, is one of the most important libraries in Greece, with over 110,000 volumes on Greek history, literature and art from Antiquity until modern times.
Egyptian Greek is the variety of Greek spoken in Egypt from antiquity until the Islamic conquest of Egypt in the 7th century. Egyptian Greek adopted many loanwords from Egyptian language; there was a great deal of intracommunity bilingualism in Egypt. [16] [17] The following is an example of Egyptian Greek language, used in the Coptic Church:
The National Library of Greece houses over 1.1 million items, 300 million electronic resources, and over 15,000 newspaper and magazine titles. [8] The library has 5,500 Greek manuscripts which is one of the greatest collection of Greek scrips. [9] There are also many chrysobulls and archives of the Greek Revolution.