Category Archives: Greece
Greeks Finally have a Nation State…
… after several millennia. On February 3, 1830, the three Great Powers (The United Kingdom, The Kingdom of France and the Russian Empire) established Greece as an independent, sovereign state with the adoption of “The London Protocol.” (Note: Unless otherwise … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Greece, History
Tagged Byzantine Empire, city-state, Greece, Greek culture, Greek language, nation-state, Ottoman Empire, Roman Empire
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“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants”
These are the words of Sir Isaac Newton, 1675 A.D., quoting a well-known saying coined a few hundred years earlier. He was reminding us of the debt that current scholars owe to the great ones of the past. Newton was a physicist, … Continue reading
Posted in Greece, History
Tagged Empedocles, Gorgias, Heraclitus, Herodotus, Plato, Pre-Socratic philosophers, Protagoras, Pythagorean Theorem, Sir Isaac Newton, Thales of Miletus
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