Ellopos Blog

The first valuable contribution the Greeks made to political study was that they invented it. It is not too much to say that, before fifth-century Greece, politics did not exist. Rameses and Nebuchadnezzar, Croesus the Lydian and Cyrus the Persian, ruled over great empires; but within their ::More

During the episodes of 1968 in France Alexandre Kojeve was asked what the students in the streets of Paris should do. His answer was “learn Greek.” Did Kojeve mean that the rebellious students should do something really useful, enlightening and revolutionary? At least this is how I ::More

This is a well constructed, short and accurate video on the 1453 Islamic attack to Constantinople: “Bands of soldiers began now looting. Doors were broken, private homes were looted, their tenants were massacred. Monasteries and Convents were broken in. Their tenants were killed, nuns were ::More

The first emergence of the Greek city-state in the Aegean and the last traces of municipal self-government in the Roman Empire are phases in the history of a single civilization. It may seem a paradox to call this civilization a unity. But the study of Greek and Latin literature leaves no doubt ::More

In Rob Cohen’s “Daylight” (1996), an adventure movie with Stallone, there is an element characteristic for the USA and the whole West. When a team tries to figure out what they should do to face the catastrophe, someone says an opinion which is against what the chief thinks, and ::More