On the 25th of March 1821, the Greeks’ fight for independence from the Turks began. After about 8 long years of numerous battles, Greece was able to gain their independence in 1829. Their independence would not have been achievable without the help of their allies, who were mainly the French, Russia, and Great Britain. The philhellenes, or Greece-loving people, in those countries would rally support for Greece, and their revolution was a success because of their support. Greece would not have been
Perhaps the most influential politician in the Roman Republic, Marcus Porcius Cato, better known as Cato the Elder, was a superb orator and the careful cultivation of his personality gave him significant political clout throughout the 100s BC. Decades before the rise of Gaius Marius and other generals engaging in the political realm, Cato the Elder warned of “Roman warlords” he feared would dominate politics at the expense of the Senate’s power. A conservative and traditionalist, Cato had genuine
Courses in modern Greek literature, language, and history are offered for credit in many colleges and universities. Some were initially promoted by members of the Modern Greek Studies Association, founded at Princeton in 1969. Most relate to Greece, of course, but the scholarly study of Greek America has also expanded in recent years. Such systematic study goes back at least to 1911, when Henry Pratt Fairchild published Greek Immigration to the United States. Thomas Burgess followed with Greeks in
once similar in their oddity and uniquely different in their portrayal. While both emperors were interested in Greek culture Nero's excesses and patronage of the arts were viewed as emblematic of the decline of the Roman state, while Hadrian's “philhellenism” was viewed as positive adaption of provincial practices. This difference in imperial perception is attributable to both the military and administrative success, or lack thereof, of each emperor but also relative to the time and under what conditions
home for his family in the United States was more worthy it. This is the period, which is called `From Hellenism to Americanization' and it's from 1920s-1940s. The final period is from the 1940s to the present, which is named as the `era of Philhellenism'. At this period the Greek immigrants were transformed into an American of Hellenic descent. Having worked hard to achieve a place in the United States, The American Greek felt an awakening need to express himself in new ways, and to press closer
"hellenocentric" to describe the essential nature of the Greek influence on the development of modern European culture; his method of interpreting Greek culture rests on an attempt both to reanimate the waning classicism of nineteenth century philhellenism and to challenge the widespread, Nietzschean-inspired "war against the excessive rationalization of modern life," a war that also leads, claims Jaeger, to a carte blanche historiographical dismissal of Greek paideia as excessively rationalistic