Agios Georgios is a village in Elis whose community recorded 668 permanent residents in the 2021 census. The shape of the settlement, its administrative history and a folklore record compiled in 1967.
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Across Kamares Bay lies Agia Marina, the Pera Panta of Sifnos. The story of its name and its administrative history, with a note on the church from which the settlement takes its name.
The Iliad and the Odyssey, from questions of dating and the Homeric Question to the theory of oral composition. And how the Hellenistic age came to honour Homer almost as a god.
Homer all but ignores the division of the Greeks into Dorians, Aeolians, Ionians and Achaeans. How the names, genealogies and dialects of the ancient Greek tribes took shape.
How the discovery that the Indo-European languages are related turned, in the nineteenth century, into a theory of “Aryans” and “Semites” setting out from the Pamir, and what linguistics and ancient DNA now reveal about the roots of Greek.
Herodotus of Halicarnassus recorded the conflict between Greeks and Persians and called his work ‘ἱστορίης ἀπόδεξις’. His life, the structure of the Histories, his method and the criticism he has faced from antiquity to the present day.
The icon of the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple from Krivoye on the Northern Dvina, now in the State Russian Museum, unites three moments of the story beneath a three-domed temple and adds a rare figure: Joseph the Betrothed.
Full-length and in an attitude of prayer, Joachim and Anna flank an arched opening in the katholikon of the Pantanassa. Their supplication belongs to a fifteenth-century programme that extends from the sanctuary up to the dome.
In the Hagioi Anargyroi at Kastoria, around 1180, Saints George and Demetrios stand beside the sanctuary with spears and armour that differ in almost every detail. The analysis links the image to the Lemniotes family of donors and looks closely at the face of Demetrios.
The 1774 treaty ended the Russo-Turkish War and opened the Black Sea and the Straits to Russian merchant shipping. Its Articles 7 and 14 became the starting point of a long dispute over the protection of Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire.
