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Radu Teodorescu
Greece
Tradition and present
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CONTENT
INTRODUCTIONChapter 1: Ancient GreeceChapter 2: The quest of Greece: science and knowledgeChapter 3: The spirituality of GreeceChapter 4: Greece between reality and mythological: AthensConclusion
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INTRODUCTION
Many days have pasted since Homer wrote his Iliad and Odyssey.
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Time is passing andwith this “passing” many of the histories of the past we forget. The passing of time make usforget that the beginnings of Europe were some kind Homeric. Homer’s philological epicswere the first Europeans epics. Today, many Europeans don’t find meaning into these epics.Is Homer and his odyssey poetry actual?
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  The present volume is my homage to Greece and its past, a land that is controversialtoday and many times let’s say misunderstood. Across historical ages Greece has passed bymany transformations. These transformations have been many times very controversial intothe history of Europe mostly. We know of the military campaigns of Alexander the Great intofar Asia. Alexander the Great was eventually one of the most famous Hellenics of all times. The empire that he has created has extended on three continents.
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 In the present paper I will not deal with the religions of Greece. I will like to remind thatis still theologically to define why at the crucifixion of Christ in the year 33 AD in Jerusalemthere was on the inscription on the cross of Christ among the other texts in Hebrew and Latina Hellenic writing JESUS CHRIST THE KING OF THE JEWS [Ιεσους Χριστος ο βασιλεος Ισαελος]. This is a fact that has given much of thinking not only to theologians but also to historiansdue to the fact that at the crucifixion of Christ there was no Hellenic present. This was ahistorical issue that was very much debated due to the fact that the religions of ancientGreece were in most part heathen.But our aim is not the religious past in as much the present of Hellenic life. As historyhas shown, Greece has created a sound Mediterranean civilization and a very rich culturethat is today sent into oblivion. We cannot be deny the influence of Hellenic culture acrossages. From Alexander the Great to modern day culture men Greece was a land of hope formany and mostly for us the Europeans. Greece gave us some across ages many worthythings. These things we must search for them. The things from the past of Greece we mustlook for them and find them. The ancient culture of Hellenics and their ideals of beauty andtruth are still some actual things.Many historians consider that Greece is an ended land and there is nothing that we cando to rebuild the past. Greece is above a land that was not known by great economical skillsbut very much by humanistic and creative ideals. Some of these ideas were very muchstopped during the ottoman yoke. As history recalls, ottoman yoke was the great period of 
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Homer’s ideals of philosophy created a Ukrainian city Odessa near the Black Sea. Many of us we don’t knowthat Odessa in Ukraine is for instance a Hellenic city at its origins. Another great European city founded byHellenic ideals was Paris. Paris was a rebellious Hellenic from the ancient city of Troy who wantedindependence from Greece in the early beginnings of Europe.
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