ABSTRACT

Hellenism is the living culture of the Greek-speaking peoples and has a continuing history of more than 3,500 years. The Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition contains approximately 900 entries devoted to people, places, periods, events, and themes, examining every aspect of that culture from the Bronze Age to the present day. The focus throughout is on the Greeks themselves, and the continuities within their own cultural tradition. Language and religion are perhaps the most obvious vehicles of continuity; but there have been many others--law, taxation, gardens, music, magic, education, shipping, and countless other elements have all played their part in maintaining this unique culture.

Today, Greek arts have blossomed again; Greece has taken its place in the European Union; Greeks control a substantial proportion of the world's merchant marine; and Greek communities in the United States, Australia, and South Africa have carried the Hellenic tradition throughout the world. This is the first reference work to embrace all aspects of that tradition in every period of its existence.

part |913 pages

Volume 1

chapter |208 pages

A

entry |2 pages

Abortion

entry |3 pages

Academy of Athens

entry |3 pages

Acarnania

entry |2 pages

Achaea

entry |2 pages

Achilles Tatius

entry |3 pages

Acragas

entry |5 pages

Acropolis of Athens

entry |2 pages

Adoption

entry |3 pages

Adrianople

entry |2 pages

Adultery

entry |2 pages

Aegae

entry |3 pages

Aegina

entry |2 pages

Aeolians

entry |3 pages

Aeschines c.390-c.322 BC

entry |3 pages

Aeschylus c.525-456 BC

entry |3 pages

Aesop

entry |3 pages

Aesthetics

entry |2 pages

Aetolia

entry |4 pages

Africa, North

entry |2 pages

Afterlife

entry |2 pages

Agesilaus II c.444-359 BC

entry |5 pages

Agora of Athens

entry |4 pages

Agriculture

entry |2 pages

Akindynos, Gregory c.1300-c.1348

entry |2 pages

Akropolites, George 1217-1282

entry |2 pages

Albania

entry |2 pages

Alchemy

entry |3 pages

Alcibiades 451/50-404/03 BC

entry |4 pages

Alexander III the Great 356-323 BC

entry |3 pages

Alexandria

entry |3 pages

Alexios I Komnenos c.1057-1118

entry |2 pages

Ali Pasha of Ioannina 1750-1822

entry |3 pages

Alphabet

entry |2 pages

Altars

entry |2 pages

Amalfi

entry |2 pages

Amasis

entry |2 pages

Ambelakia

entry |3 pages

Amphipolis

entry |2 pages

Anastasios of Sinai, St

entry |3 pages

Anatolia

entry |4 pages

Anatomy and Physiology

entry |2 pages

Anaxagoras c.500-428 BC

entry |2 pages

Anaximander

entry |3 pages

Ancestor Worship

entry |2 pages

Andrew of Crete, St. c.660-740

entry |2 pages

Andronikos I Komnenos c.1118/20-1185

entry |2 pages

Andronikos II Palaiologos 1259 or 1260-1328

entry |3 pages

Andronikos, Manolis 1919-1992

entry |2 pages

Angelopoulos, Thodoros 1935-

entry |2 pages

Ani

entry |3 pages

Animals

entry |2 pages

Anthology, Greek

entry |4 pages

Anthropology, Social

entry |3 pages

Antigonids

entry |2 pages

Antioch

entry |2 pages

Antiochus III the Great c.242-187 BC

entry |3 pages

Anti-westernism

entry |3 pages

Antiquity, Reception of

entry |2 pages

Antisemitism

entry |3 pages

Apelles

entry |3 pages

Aphrodisias

entry |2 pages

Apollonius of Perge

entry |3 pages

Apollonius Rhodius c.295-215 BC

entry |2 pages

Apologists, Greek

entry |2 pages

Apophthegmata Patrum

entry |2 pages

Apostasy

entry |2 pages

Appian c.AD 95-160S

entry |2 pages

Apseudes, Theodore

entry |2 pages

Apulia

entry |2 pages

Arabia

entry |3 pages

Arabs

entry |2 pages

Aratus

entry |3 pages

Arcadia

entry |3 pages

Archaeological Service

entry |3 pages

Archaeology

entry |3 pages

Archaic Period c.700-479 BC

entry |2 pages

Archilochus

entry |2 pages

Archimedes c.287-212/11 BC

entry |4 pages

Architecture

entry |4 pages

Fortifications

entry |3 pages

Military, and Masonry Developments

entry |3 pages

Palaces

entry |4 pages

Public Works

entry |4 pages

Religious

entry |1 pages

Archives

entry |3 pages

Byzantium

entry |5 pages

Modern

entry |2 pages

Arethas of Caesarea

entry |2 pages

Argenti, Eustratios c.1687-c.1757

entry |3 pages

Argolid

entry |2 pages

Argos

entry |3 pages

Argyropoulos, John c.1415-1487

entry |2 pages

Aristarchus of Samothrace c.215-c.143 BC

entry |2 pages

Aristides, Aelius AD 117-c.180

entry |2 pages

Aristocracy

entry |3 pages

Aristophanes

entry |3 pages

Aristotelianism

entry |4 pages

Aristotle 384-322 BC

entry |2 pages

Aristoxenus

entry |2 pages

Armatoloi

entry |5 pages

Armenia

entry |3 pages

Army

entry |2 pages

Arrian c.AD 90-160

entry |3 pages

Arta

entry |4 pages

Asia Minor Campaign and Disaster 1919-1922

entry |2 pages

Astrology

entry |3 pages

Astronomy

entry |2 pages

Athanasios of Athos, St c.927/30-c.997

entry |2 pages

Athanasius of Alexandria, St c.300-373

entry |2 pages

Atheism

entry |2 pages

Athenaeus

entry |2 pages

Athenagoras 1886-1972

entry |5 pages

Athens

entry |5 pages

Athos, Mount

entry |2 pages

Atomism

entry |3 pages

Attalids

entry |3 pages

Attica

entry |3 pages

Australia

chapter |66 pages

B

entry |2 pages

Babrius

entry |2 pages

Bacchylides

entry |1 pages

Bactria

entry |3 pages

Balkan Wars 1912-1913

entry |3 pages

Banking

entry |3 pages

Baptism

entry |2 pages

Barlaam of Calabria c.1290-1348

entry |2 pages

Basil I c.830-886

entry |3 pages

Basil II 958-1025

entry |3 pages

Basil the Great, St c.330-379

entry |1 pages

Beirut

entry |2 pages

Berlin, Treaty of 1878

entry |2 pages

Bessarion c.1400-1472

entry |5 pages

Biography and Autobiography

entry |3 pages

Birth

entry |3 pages

Bishops

entry |2 pages

Bithynia

entry |3 pages

Black Sea

entry |2 pages

Blemmydes, Nikephoros 1197-1272

entry |2 pages

Boeotia

entry |4 pages

Books and Readers

entry |2 pages

Bosnia

entry |2 pages

Botany

entry |2 pages

Botsaris, Markos 1790-1823

entry |2 pages

Bouboulina, Laskarina, c.1770-1825

entry |2 pages

Brigandage

entry |2 pages

Britain

entry |3 pages

Bulgaria

entry |3 pages

Bulgars

entry |3 pages

Bureaucracy

entry |2 pages

Burial Practices

entry |3 pages

Byron, George Gordon, Lord 1788-1824

entry |6 pages

Byzantine Period, Early 330-843

entry |4 pages

Byzantine Period, Middle 843-1204

entry |4 pages

Byzantine Period, Late 1261-1453

entry |3 pages

Byzantines

entry |2 pages

Byzantium

chapter |166 pages

C

entry |2 pages

Cacoyannis, Michalis 1922–

entry |3 pages

Calabria

entry |2 pages

Calendar

entry |2 pages

Callas, Maria 1923–1977

entry |4 pages

Callimachus c.320 BC–c.240 BC

entry |2 pages

Canada

entry |2 pages

Canals

entry |2 pages

Candia, Fall of 1669

entry |4 pages

Canon Law

entry |2 pages

Canonization

entry |2 pages

Cappadocia

entry |2 pages

Carneades 214/13–129/28 BC

entry |3 pages

Carthage

entry |3 pages

Cartography

entry |3 pages

Cassius Dio c.AD 164 –after AD 229

entry |2 pages

Catalans

entry |2 pages

Catana

entry |2 pages

Caucasus

entry |3 pages

Cavafy, Constantine 1863–1933

entry |3 pages

Celibacy

entry |3 pages

Censorship

entry |2 pages

Ceremony, Byzantine

entry |2 pages

Chaeronea, Battle of

entry |3 pages

Chalcidice

entry |2 pages

Chalcis

entry |2 pages

Chandris, Antony 1924–1984

entry |2 pages

Chatzidakis, Georgios N. 1848–1941

entry |2 pages

Chatzimichail, Theophilos 1873–1934

entry |2 pages

Chersonese, Thracian

entry |2 pages

Chersonesus

entry |3 pages

Children

entry |4 pages

Chios

entry |2 pages

Choricius of Gaza

entry |3 pages

Chortatsis, Georgios

entry |4 pages

Christianity

entry |2 pages

Chronicles

entry |3 pages

Chronology

entry |2 pages

Chrysaphes, Manuel

entry |2 pages

Chrysoloras, Manuel c.1350–1415

entry |5 pages

Church – State Relations

entry |3 pages

Cilicia

entry |2 pages

Cimon c.510–c.450 BC

entry |3 pages

Cinema

entry |3 pages

Cities

entry |2 pages

City State

entry |4 pages

Civil War 1945–1949

entry |4 pages

Classical Period c.479–323 BC

entry |2 pages

Cleisthenes fl.525–505 BC

entry |1 pages

Clement of Alexandria, St c.AD 150 – c.AD 215

entry |3 pages

Cleomenes III 260–219 BC

entry |3 pages

Cleopatra 69–30 BC

entry |2 pages

Climate

entry |3 pages

Coinage

entry |4 pages

Colonization

entry |4 pages

Comedy

entry |4 pages

Commonwealth, Byzantine

entry |2 pages

Communist Party (KKE)

entry |2 pages

Constantine I 1868–1922

entry |3 pages

Constantine I the Great 273/74–337

entry |2 pages

Constantine V 718–775

entry |3 pages

Constantine VII 905–959

entry |3 pages

Constantine IX Monomachos c.1000–1055

entry |2 pages

Constantine XI Palaiologos 1405–1453

entry |5 pages

Constantinople

entry |3 pages

Constantinople, Fall of 1453

entry |2 pages

Constantinople, Sack of 1204

entry |3 pages

Constitution

entry |2 pages

Contraception

entry |3 pages

Conversion to Islam

entry |2 pages

Copais, Lake

entry |2 pages

Copper and Tin

entry |2 pages

Copts

entry |4 pages

Corfu

entry |3 pages

Corinth

entry |2 pages

Corinth, Sack of 146 BC

entry |3 pages

Coronation

entry |2 pages

Corruption

entry |3 pages

Corydalleus, Theophilos c.1574–1646

entry |2 pages

Cos

entry |2 pages

Cosmology

entry |4 pages

Councils, Ecumenical

entry |2 pages

Crates of Mallus

entry |4 pages

Crete

entry |2 pages

Crimea

entry |3 pages

Croatia

entry |4 pages

Crusades

entry |2 pages

Cult

entry |3 pages

Cyclades

entry |2 pages

Cynics

entry |4 pages

Cyprus

entry |3 pages

Cyrenaica

entry |3 pages

Cyrene

entry |3 pages

Cyril I Lukaris 1570–1638

entry |2 pages

Cyril, St 826/27–869

entry |3 pages

Cyril of Alexandria, St c.378–444

entry |2 pages

Cythera

chapter |80 pages

D

entry |3 pages

Dalmatia

entry |3 pages

Damaskinos, Michael c.1530-c.1592

entry |3 pages

Dance

entry |3 pages

Dark Age 1200-700 BC

entry |2 pages

Dead, Cult of the

entry |3 pages

Death

entry |4 pages

Delian League

entry |2 pages

Deliyannis, Theodoros 1826-1905

entry |2 pages

Delos

entry |4 pages

Delphi

entry |2 pages

Demetrius, St d. c.300

entry |4 pages

Democracy

entry |4 pages

Demography

entry |2 pages

Demons and Spirits

entry |4 pages

Demosthenes 384-322 BC

entry |2 pages

Dialectic

entry |3 pages

Dialects

entry |3 pages

Diaspora

entry |2 pages

Digenis Akritis

entry |4 pages

Dimaras, K.T. 1904-1992

entry |2 pages

Dio Cocceianus c.AD 40-112

entry |3 pages

Diocese

entry |2 pages

Diodorus Siculus

entry |2 pages

Diogenes Laertius

entry |2 pages

Diogenes of Sinope

entry |2 pages

Dionysios of Phourna c.1670-after 1744

entry |2 pages

Dionysius I c.430-367 BC

entry |2 pages

Dionysius of Halicarnassus

entry |2 pages

Dionysius the Areopagite, pseudo-

entry |2 pages

Dioscurides fl. c.AD 45-75

entry |4 pages

Diplomacy

entry |3 pages

Disease

entry |3 pages

Dithyramb

entry |3 pages

Divination

entry |2 pages

Divorce

entry |3 pages

Dodecanese

entry |4 pages

Dodona

entry |2 pages

Dorians

entry |2 pages

Doukas family

entry |3 pages

Dowry

entry |2 pages

Doxiadis, Constantinos Apostolouy 1913-1975

entry |3 pages

Dreams

entry |4 pages

Dress

entry |2 pages

Dyrrhachium

chapter |80 pages

E

entry |2 pages

Eagle, Double-Headed

entry |2 pages

EAM and ELAS

entry |3 pages

Earthquakes

entry |2 pages

Ecology

entry |4 pages

Economy

entry |2 pages

Ecumenism

entry |6 pages

Education

entry |3 pages

Egypt

entry |4 pages

Eleusis

entry |2 pages

Elytis, Odysseus 1911-1996

entry |3 pages

Emigration

entry |3 pages

Empedocles c.492-432 BC

entry |3 pages

Enamel

entry |5 pages

Enlightenment

entry |4 pages

Enosis

entry |3 pages

Epaminondas

entry |3 pages

Ephesus

entry |2 pages

Ephorus

entry |1 pages

Ephorus

entry |2 pages

Ephraim the Syrian, St c.306-373

entry |3 pages

Epicurus 341-270 BC

entry |2 pages

Epidaurus

entry |3 pages

Epigram

entry |2 pages

Epiphanius of Salamis, St

entry |4 pages

Epirus

entry |3 pages

Epistolography

entry |2 pages

Erasistratus c.315-c.240 BC

entry |3 pages

Eratosthenes

entry |2 pages

Eretria

entry |1 pages

Estates

entry |3 pages

Ethics

entry |2 pages

Etruscans

entry |4 pages

Euboea

entry |2 pages

Euclid

entry |2 pages

Eudoxus c.390-c.340 BC

entry |2 pages

Eunuchs

entry |4 pages

Euripides c.480-c.407/06 BC

entry |3 pages

European Community and European Union

entry |2 pages

Eusebius c.AD 260-339

entry |2 pages

Eustathios c.1115-c.1195

entry |2 pages

Evagoras c.445-374/73 BC

entry |2 pages

Evagrius of Pontus c.345-399

entry |2 pages

Evil Eye

entry |2 pages

Execias

entry |3 pages

Exile and Detention

chapter |35 pages

F

entry |3 pages

Fable

entry |3 pages

Fairs and Markets

entry |3 pages

Family

entry |3 pages

Fascism

entry |2 pages

Fasts

entry |2 pages

Fate

entry |2 pages

Federal States

entry |4 pages

Festivals

entry |3 pages

Finance

entry |2 pages

Fire, Greek

entry |3 pages

Fishing

entry |2 pages

Florina

entry |2 pages

Folklore

entry |4 pages

Food and Drink

entry |3 pages

Foreigners

entry |1 pages

Forestry

entry |4 pages

France

entry |2 pages

Freedom

entry |3 pages

Fundamentalism, Orthodox

entry |2 pages

Furniture

chapter |66 pages

G

entry |3 pages

Galen AD 129-?208/16

entry |4 pages

Games and Sports

entry |3 pages

Gardens

entry |2 pages

Gatsos, Nikos 1916-1995

entry |2 pages

Gaza

entry |2 pages

Gaza, Theodore c.1400-1475/76

entry |3 pages

Gems and Seals

entry |2 pages

Gender

entry |3 pages

Gennadios II Scholarios c.1405-c.1472

entry |2 pages

Genoese

entry |3 pages

Geography

entry |3 pages

Geology

entry |2 pages

Geometres, John

entry |3 pages

Geometric Period c.900-c.700 BC

entry |2 pages

George I 1845-1913

entry |2 pages

George II 1890-1947

entry |3 pages

George of Pisidia

entry |2 pages

George of Trebizond 1395-1472/73 or c.1484

entry |3 pages

Georgia

entry |2 pages

Germanos I

entry |4 pages

Ghika 1906-1994

entry |4 pages

Glass

entry |2 pages

Gnostics

entry |4 pages

Gods and Goddesses

entry |3 pages

Gold

entry |1 pages

Gortyn

entry |3 pages

Goths

entry |4 pages

Government, Theories of

entry |2 pages

Graeco-Turkish War 1897

entry |3 pages

Grammar

entry |3 pages

Great Idea

entry |2 pages

Great Palace

entry |2 pages

Gregoras, Nikephoros

entry |3 pages

Gregory V 1745-1821

entry |3 pages

Gregory of Nazianzus, St c.329-c.390

entry |2 pages

Gregory of Nyssa, St. c.330-c.395

entry |2 pages

Gregory Palamas, St 1296-1359

entry |1 pages

Guilds

entry |3 pages

Gypsies

entry |2 pages

Gyzis, Nikolaos 1842-1901

chapter |86 pages

H

entry |2 pages

Hades

entry |2 pages

Hadjidakis, Manos 1925-1994

entry |2 pages

Hadrian AD 76-138

entry |3 pages

Hagia Sophia

entry |2 pages

Hagiography

entry |3 pages

Halicarnassus

entry |3 pages

Harbours

entry |3 pages

Haaling Cults

entry |3 pages

Health

entry |2 pages

Hecataeus of Miletus

entry |2 pages

Helena, St c.AD 255–c.330

entry |2 pages

Heliodorus

entry |3 pages

Hellenes

entry |4 pages

Hellenism and Neohellenism in the Greek tradition

entry |3 pages

Hellenism as viewed by visiting artists

entry |4 pages

Hellenistic Period 323–31 BC

entry |2 pages

Hellenization

entry |2 pages

Heraclitus fl. c.500 BC

entry |2 pages

Herakleios c.575–641

entry |4 pages

Heresy

entry |2 pages

Herodas

entry |3 pages

Herodes Atticus c.AD 101/03–177

entry |2 pages

Herodotus 484–c.425 BC

entry |3 pages

Heroes and heroines

entry |3 pages

Heron

entry |2 pages

Herophilus c.330–c.260 BC

entry |2 pages

Hesiod

entry |2 pages

Hesychasm

entry |3 pages

Hetairists

entry |2 pages

Hieron I

entry |2 pages

Hieronymus of Cardia c.364–?260 BC

entry |2 pages

Hipparchus

entry |2 pages

Hippocrates c.460–c.370 BC

entry |2 pages

Hippocrates' Oath, translated by the author

entry |2 pages

Hippodrome

entry |4 pages

Historiography

entry |5 pages

Byzantium and Tourkokratia

entry |4 pages

Modern

entry |4 pages

Homer

entry |3 pages

Homosexuality

entry |2 pages

Honour and Shame

entry |2 pages

Modern

entry |4 pages

Hospitality

entry |1 pages

Hospitaller Knights of St John

entry |3 pages

Humanism

entry |3 pages

Hunting

entry |3 pages

Hydra

entry |2 pages

Hymnography

entry |2 pages

Hypatia c.370-415

chapter |46 pages

I

entry |3 pages

Icon

entry |4 pages

Iconoclasm

entry |3 pages

Identity

entry |3 pages

Ignatius, St c.AD 30-107

entry |2 pages

Illyrians

entry |2 pages

Imperial Cult

entry |4 pages

Imperialism

entry |4 pages

Independence, War of 1821-1832

entry |3 pages

Industry

entry |3 pages

Inheritance

entry |4 pages

Inscriptions

entry |3 pages

Instruments, Musical

entry |3 pages

Ioannina

entry |3 pages

Ionian Islands

entry |2 pages

Ionians

entry |2 pages

Irenaeus c.AD 130-c.202

entry |2 pages

Irene c.752-803

entry |2 pages

Iron

entry |3 pages

Isaac the Syrian, St

entry |2 pages

Isocrates c.436-338 BC

entry |1 pages

Italos, John

entry |3 pages

Italy

entry |4 pages

Ivory

chapter |34 pages

J

entry |2 pages

Janissaries

entry |3 pages

Jeremias II Tranos c.1530-1595

entry |2 pages

Jerusalem

entry |4 pages

Jewellery

entry |5 pages

Jews

entry |2 pages

John I Tzimiskes c.925-976

entry |3 pages

John II Komnenos 1087-1143

entry |2 pages

John III Vatatzes c.1192-1254

entry |2 pages

John VI Kantakouzenos c.1295-1383

entry |3 pages

John VIII Palaiologos 1392-1448

entry |3 pages

John Chrysostom, St c.347-407

entry |2 pages

John of Damascus, St

entry |2 pages

John Klimakos, St c.575-c.649

entry |2 pages

Joseph the Hymnographer, St

entry |2 pages

Josephus, Flavius AD 37-after AD 93

entry |3 pages

Judicial Procedure

entry |3 pages

Julian the Apostate AD 331/32-363

entry |3 pages

Junta 1967-1974

entry |2 pages

Justin Martyr, St c.100-c.165

entry |3 pages

Justinian I c.482-565

chapter |45 pages

K

entry |2 pages

Kabasilas, Nicholas c.1319-c.1391

entry |2 pages

Kafeneion

entry |2 pages

Kaftantzoglou, Lysandros 1811-1885

entry |2 pages

Kalamata

entry |3 pages

Kalvos, Andreas 1792-1869

entry |2 pages

Kanaris, Constantine 1795-1877

entry |2 pages

Kantakouzenos family

entry |2 pages

Kapodistria, Count Ioannis 1776-1831

entry |3 pages

Karaghiozis

entry |2 pages

Karaiskakis, Georgios 1782-1827

entry |2 pages

Karamanlides

entry |2 pages

Karamanlis, Constantine 1907-1998

entry |2 pages

Kassia

entry |3 pages

Kastoria

entry |3 pages

Kavalla

entry |3 pages

Kazantzakis, Nikos 1883-1957

entry |4 pages

Kinship

entry |2 pages

Klontzas, Georgios c.1535-1608

entry |3 pages

Knossos

entry |2 pages

Kodjabashis

entry |2 pages

Kolettis, John 1774-1847

entry |2 pages

Kollyvades Movement

entry |3 pages

Kolokotronis, Theodore 1770-1843

entry |2 pages

Komnene, Anna 1083-c.1153/54

entry |2 pages

Komnenos family

entry |3 pages

Kontoglou, Photis c.1895-1965

entry |3 pages

Korais, Adamantios 1748-1833

entry |3 pages

Kornaros, Vitsentzos 1553-c.1614

entry |2 pages

Kosmas the Aetolian, St 1714-1779

entry |2 pages

Koukouzeles, St John

entry |2 pages

Kritoboulos, Michael

part |844 pages

Volume 2

chapter |56 pages

L

entry |2 pages

Laconia

entry |4 pages

Land tenure

entry |2 pages

Landscape

entry |6 pages

Language

entry |2 pages

Larissa

entry |2 pages

Laskaris family

entry |3 pages

Latin Empire 1204–1261

entry |2 pages

Laurium

entry |2 pages

Lausanne, Treaty of 1923

entry |5 pages

Law

entry |2 pages

Laz

entry |2 pages

Lebadea

entry |3 pages

Lemnos

entry |2 pages

Leo III c.685–741

entry |3 pages

Leo V c.780–820

entry |2 pages

Leo VI 866–912

entry |2 pages

Leo the Mathematician c.790–after 869

entry |4 pages

Leonidas c.530–480 BC

entry |2 pages

Lesbos

entry |2 pages

Libanius AD 314–c.393

entry |2 pages

Libraries

entry |3 pages

Linear B

entry |3 pages

Literacy

entry |3 pages

Liturgy

entry |2 pages

Livanos, George P. 1926–1997

entry |3 pages

Logic

entry |2 pages

Longus

entry |2 pages

Lucian c.AD 120–180

entry |2 pages

Lyceum

entry |2 pages

Lycia

entry |3 pages

Lycophron

entry |2 pages

Lysander

entry |2 pages

Lysias c.459/58–c.375 BC

entry |2 pages

Lysippus

entry |2 pages

Lytras, Nikephoros 1832–1904

chapter |148 pages

M

entry |2 pages

Macarius (pseudo-)

entry |5 pages

Macedonia

entry |3 pages

Magic

entry |2 pages

Magistrates

entry |4 pages

Magna Graecia

entry |4 pages

Makarios III, Archbishop 1913–1977

entry |3 pages

Makriyannis, Yannis 1797–1864

entry |3 pages

Mallia

entry |4 pages

Mani

entry |2 pages

Manuel I Komnenos 1118–1180

entry |3 pages

Manuel II Palaiologos 1350–1425

entry |3 pages

Manuscripts

entry |2 pages

Manzikert, Battle of

entry |1 pages

Mar Saba

entry |3 pages

Marathon, Battle of

entry |3 pages

Marble and other decorative stones

entry |2 pages

Mardaïtes

entry |4 pages

Marriage

entry |2 pages

Martyrdom

entry |3 pages

Mary, Blessed Virgin

entry |2 pages

Massilia

entry |3 pages

Mathematics

entry |2 pages

Mausolus

entry |2 pages

Mavrokordatos family

entry |3 pages

Mavromichalis family

entry |2 pages

Maximos the Confessor, St 580–662

entry |3 pages

Maximos the Greek, St c.1470–1556

entry |4 pages

Media

entry |3 pages

Medicine

entry |3 pages

Megalopolis

entry |2 pages

Megara

entry |3 pages

Mehmet II 1432–1481

entry |2 pages

Melas, Pavlos 1870–1904

entry |2 pages

Melos

entry |3 pages

Men

entry |2 pages

Menander 342–292 BC

entry |2 pages

Messene

entry |3 pages

Messenia

entry |4 pages

Metalwork

entry |3 pages

Metaphysics

entry |2 pages

Metaxas, Ioannis 1871–1941

entry |3 pages

Meteora

entry |2 pages

Methodios, St c.815–885

entry |2 pages

Metics

entry |2 pages

Metochites, Theodore 1270–1332

entry |2 pages

Miaoulis, Andreas 1769–1835

entry |1 pages

Michael of Ephesus

entry |3 pages

Michael VIII Palaiologos c.1225–1282

entry |2 pages

Miletus

entry |3 pages

Military League

entry |3 pages

Minerals and other natural resources

entry |3 pages

Mines and Quarries

entry |3 pages

Minoans

entry |2 pages

Minorities

entry |2 pages

Missionaries

entry |2 pages

Missolonghi

entry |3 pages

Mistra

entry |6 pages

Modern Period

entry |2 pages

Moisiodax, Josephos c.1725–1800

entry |3 pages

Moldavia

entry |3 pages

Monarchy

entry |4 pages

Monasteries

entry |4 pages

Monasticism

entry |2 pages

Monemvasia

entry |4 pages

Monophysites

entry |2 pages

Montenegro

entry |3 pages

Mosaic

entry |3 pages

Museum of Alexandria

entry |2 pages

Museums

entry |8 pages

Music

entry |3 pages

Muslims

entry |4 pages

Mycenae

entry |2 pages

Mycenaeans

entry |2 pages

Myrivilis, Stratis 1892–1969

entry |3 pages

Mysticism

entry |6 pages

Mythology

chapter |45 pages

N

entry |5 pages

Nationalism

entry |2 pages

NATO

entry |2 pages

Naucratis

entry |2 pages

Naupactus

entry |3 pages

Nauplia

entry |3 pages

Navy

entry |3 pages

Naxos

entry |2 pages

Necromancy

entry |2 pages

Nektarios of Aegina, St 1846–1920

entry |2 pages

Nemesius

entry |3 pages

Neo-Orthodoxy

entry |3 pages

Neoclassicism

entry |2 pages

Neomartyrs

entry |3 pages

Neophytos Enkleistos 1134–1219

entry |4 pages

Neoplatonism

entry |3 pages

Nero AD 37–68

entry |3 pages

Nestorius c.381–c.451

entry |2 pages

New Testament

entry |2 pages

Niarchos, Stavros 1909–1996

entry |3 pages

Nicaea

entry |2 pages

Nicander

entry |1 pages

Nicopolis

entry |3 pages

Nomokanon

entry |2 pages

Nonnus

entry |2 pages

Normans

entry |3 pages

Novel

entry |3 pages

Modern

chapter |54 pages

O

entry |1 pages

Obsidian

entry |2 pages

Odessa

entry |2 pages

Ohrid

entry |2 pages

Olbia

entry |2 pages

Old Calendarists

entry |2 pages

Oligarchy

entry |3 pages

Olive

entry |3 pages

Olympia

entry |4 pages

Olympic Games

entry |3 pages

Olympus, Mount

entry |2 pages

Olynthus

entry |4 pages

Onassis, Aristotle 1900 (or 1906)–1975

entry |4 pages

Onomastics

entry |2 pages

Opera and Operetta

entry |3 pages

Oracles

entry |3 pages

Oral Tradition

entry |3 pages

Orchomenus

entry |2 pages

Orgiastic Cults

entry |2 pages

Origen AD 184/85–254/55

entry |3 pages

Orphism

entry |5 pages

Orthodox Church

entry |5 pages

Orthodoxy and Hellenism

entry |4 pages

Orthodoxy and Nationalism

entry |2 pages

Ostracism

entry |2 pages

Otho 1815–1867

entry |4 pages

Ottoman Period (Tourkokratia)

entry |4 pages

Ottomans

chapter |210 pages

P

entry |2 pages

Paestum

entry |4 pages

Paganism

entry |7 pages

Painting

entry |3 pages

Paisy Velichkovsky, St 1722–1794

entry |3 pages

Palaiologos family

entry |2 pages

Palamas, Kostis 1859–1943

entry |2 pages

Palestine

entry |2 pages

Pallis, Alexandros 1851–1935

entry |2 pages

Palmyra

entry |3 pages

Pamphylia

entry |2 pages

Panselinos, Manuel

entry |2 pages

Papacy

entry |3 pages

Papadiamantis, Alexandros 1851–1911

entry |2 pages

Papadopoulos, George 1919–1999

entry |3 pages

Papagos, Alexandras 1883-1955

entry |2 pages

Papanastasiou, Alexandros 1876/79–1936

entry |1 pages

Papandreou family

entry |3 pages

Paparrigopoulos, Konstantinos 1815–1891

entry |3 pages

Paphos

entry |2 pages

Papyrus, parchment, and paper

entry |3 pages

Parmenides c.515–c.440 BC

entry |2 pages

Parren, Callirrhoe 1859–1940

entry |2 pages

Parthians

entry |4 pages

Pastoralism

entry |2 pages

Patmos

entry |1 pages

Patras

entry |2 pages

Patriarchate of Constantinople

entry |3 pages

Patronage

entry |2 pages

Paul, St

entry |2 pages

Paulicians

entry |2 pages

Pausanias c.AD 115–180

entry |2 pages

Pelagonia, Battle of

entry |2 pages

Pelion, Mount

entry |2 pages

Pella

entry |3 pages

Peloponnese

entry |4 pages

Peloponnesian War 431–404 BC

entry |4 pages

Pergamum

entry |4 pages

Pericles c.492–429 BC

entry |4 pages

Persian Wars

entry |2 pages

Persians

entry |3 pages

Petra

entry |2 pages

Phaestus

entry |4 pages

Phanariots

entry |2 pages

Phidias

entry |3 pages

Philhellenes

entry |3 pages

Philip II 383/82–336 BC

entry |2 pages

Philip V 238–179 BC

entry |2 pages

Philo

entry |2 pages

Philodemus c.110–40 BC

entry |2 pages

Philokalia

entry |2 pages

Philopoemen c.252–182 BC

entry |2 pages

Philoponus, John

entry |6 pages

Philosophy

entry |2 pages

Phoenicians

entry |3 pages

Photios c.810–c.893

entry |2 pages

Photography

entry |3 pages

Physics

entry |1 pages

Pikionis, Dimitris 1887–1968

entry |4 pages

Pilgrimage

entry |2 pages

Pindar c.518–c.438 BC

entry |2 pages

Pindus

entry |2 pages

Piracy

entry |3 pages

Piraeus

entry |4 pages

Pisistratus

entry |1 pages

Plants

entry |3 pages

Planudes, Maximos c.1255–c.1305

entry |2 pages

Plastiras, Nikolaos 1883–1953

entry |3 pages

Plataea

entry |4 pages

Plato 429–347 BC

entry |2 pages

Plethon, George Gemistos c.1360–1452

entry |2 pages

Plotinus AD 205–269/70

entry |3 pages

Plutarch c.AD 50–120

entry |4 pages

Poetry, Epic

entry |5 pages

Poetry, Lyric

entry |4 pages

Political History to 490 BC

entry |4 pages

Political History 490–323 BC

entry |4 pages

Political History 323–31 BC

entry |4 pages

Political History 31 BC–AD 330

entry |4 pages

Political History AD 330–802

entry |4 pages

Political History 802–1204

entry |3 pages

Political History 1204–1261

entry |4 pages

Political History 1261–1453

entry |3 pages

Political History 1453–1832

entry |4 pages

Political History since 1832

entry |2 pages

Politis, Nikolaos 1852–1921

entry |3 pages

Pollution

entry |2 pages

Polybius c.200–c.118 BC

entry |2 pages

Polygnotus

entry |2 pages

Pomaks

entry |3 pages

Pontus

entry |2 pages

Porphyry AD 234–c.305

entry |3 pages

Portraiture

entry |3 pages

Posidonius c.135 BC–c.51 BC

entry |4 pages

Pottery

entry |2 pages

Praxiteles

entry |3 pages

Prehistory

entry |1 pages

Prespa, Lake

entry |1 pages

Prevelakis, Pantelis 1909–1986

entry |3 pages

Priene

entry |2 pages

Priesthood

entry |3 pages

Printing

entry |2 pages

Proclus AD 410/11–485

entry |2 pages

Procopius of Caesarea

entry |2 pages

Procopius of Gaza c.475–c.538

entry |1 pages

Prodromos, Theodore

entry |3 pages

Proselytism

entry |3 pages

Prostitution

entry |2 pages

Protestantism

entry |3 pages

Psellos, Michael 1018–after 1081

entry |2 pages

Psycharis, Yannis 1854–1929

entry |4 pages

Ptolemies

entry |2 pages

Ptolemy

entry |2 pages

Purple

entry |2 pages

Pydna

entry |2 pages

Pylos

entry |2 pages

Pyrrho c.365–275 BC

entry |2 pages

Pyrrhus 319–272 BC

entry |3 pages

Pythagoras

chapter |49 pages

R

entry |2 pages

Railways

entry |3 pages

Ravenna

entry |3 pages

Refugees

entry |2 pages

Relics

entry |3 pages

Religion, Ancient

entry |2 pages

Religious Brotherhoods

entry |3 pages

Renaissance, Palaiologan

entry |3 pages

Renaissance, Veneto-Cretan

entry |2 pages

Republic

entry |4 pages

Rhetoric

entry |4 pages

Rhodes

entry |2 pages

Ritsos, Yiannis 1909–1990

entry |3 pages

Roidis, Emmanouil 1836–1904

entry |3 pages

Roman Catholic Church

entry |3 pages

Roman Period 31 BC–AD 330

entry |4 pages

Romance, Byzantine

entry |3 pages

Romania

entry |2 pages

Romanos I Lekapenos c.870–948

entry |3 pages

Romanos the Melodist, St

entry |2 pages

Romanticism

entry |3 pages

Rome

entry |3 pages

Rumeli

entry |6 pages

Russia

chapter |122 pages

S

entry |2 pages

Sacrifice

entry |3 pages

St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai

entry |2 pages

Sakellarides, John Theophrastos

entry |3 pages

Salamis (city)

entry |2 pages

Salamis (island)

entry |2 pages

Samos

entry |1 pages

Samothrace

entry |2 pages

Sanctuaries

entry |2 pages

Santorini

entry |2 pages

Sappho

entry |3 pages

Sarakatsans

entry |2 pages

Sassanians

entry |3 pages

Satyr Play

entry |3 pages

Scepticism

entry |3 pages

Schism

entry |3 pages

Scholarship, History of

entry |4 pages

Schools and Universities

entry |3 pages

Scopas fl.360–335 BC

entry |4 pages

Sculpture

entry |1 pages

Second Sophistic

entry |3 pages

Secularization

entry |3 pages

Seferis, George 1900–1971

entry |3 pages

Seleucids

entry |2 pages

Seljuks

entry |3 pages

Septuagint

entry |3 pages

Serbia

entry |3 pages

Serbs

entry |2 pages

Serres

entry |3 pages

Sèvres, Treaty of 1920

entry |6 pages

Ships and shipping

entry |2 pages

Shrines, Wayside

entry |6 pages

Sicily

entry |3 pages

Siegecraft

entry |2 pages

Sikelianos, Angelos 1884–1951

entry |3 pages

Silk

entry |3 pages

Silver and Lead

entry |2 pages

Simokattes, Theophylaktos

entry |2 pages

Simonides

entry |2 pages

Simplicius

entry |2 pages

Sinope

entry |3 pages

Skalkottas, Nikolaos 1904–1949

entry |2 pages

Skopje

entry |3 pages

Slavery

entry |2 pages

Slavs

entry |3 pages

Smyrna

entry |3 pages

Socrates 470–399 BC

entry |3 pages

Solomos, Dionysios 1798–1857

entry |2 pages

Solon c.640–c.560 BC

entry |4 pages

Song

entry |1 pages

Sophists

entry |4 pages

Sophocles c.496–406 BC

entry |2 pages

Souli

entry |2 pages

South Africa

entry |3 pages

Soutsos, Mikhail 1778–1864

entry |2 pages

Spain

entry |3 pages

Sparta

entry |2 pages

Spells

entry |3 pages

Sphrantzes, George 1401–1477/78

entry |2 pages

Sporades

entry |2 pages

Stephan IV Dushan

entry |3 pages

Stoicism

entry |2 pages

Strabo c.64 BC–c.AD 19

entry |2 pages

Sublime Porte

entry |2 pages

Superstition

entry |2 pages

Syllabary, Cypriot

entry |2 pages

Symeon of Thessalonica, St d. 1429

entry |2 pages

Symeon the Logothete

entry |3 pages

Symeon The New Theologian, St 949–1022

entry |2 pages

Symi

entry |2 pages

Symposium

entry |2 pages

Synesius AD 370–413

entry |3 pages

Syracuse

entry |3 pages

Syria

chapter |83 pages

T

entry |3 pages

Tarentum

entry |2 pages

Taxation

entry |4 pages

Technology

entry |3 pages

Textiles

entry |3 pages

Thasos

entry |3 pages

Theatres

entry |2 pages

Thebes

entry |3 pages

Theme System

entry |2 pages

Themistius c.AD 317–c.388

entry |3 pages

Themistocles c.525–459 BC

entry |2 pages

Theocritus

entry |2 pages

Theodora c.497–548

entry |2 pages

Theodora d. 867

entry |3 pages

Theodorakis, Mikis 1925–

entry |2 pages

Theodore of Stoudios, St 759–826

entry |2 pages

Theodoret c.393–c.466

entry |3 pages

Theology

entry |2 pages

Theophanes of Crete c.1490–1559

entry |3 pages

Theophanes the Confessor, St c.760–818

entry |2 pages

Theophilos 812/13–842

entry |2 pages

Theophrastus c.371–c.287 BC

entry |2 pages

Theopompus 378/77–c.320 BC

entry |3 pages

Theotokis, George 1844–1916

entry |2 pages

Theotokis, Nikiphoros 1731–1800

entry |2 pages

Theotokopoulos, Domenikos (El Greco) c.1541–1614

entry |4 pages

Thessalonica

entry |3 pages

Thessaly

entry |2 pages

Thrace

entry |2 pages

Thucydides

entry |2 pages

Timaeus

entry |2 pages

Tinos

entry |2 pages

Tiryns

entry |2 pages

Tobacco

entry |3 pages

Tourism

entry |3 pages

Town Planning

entry |3 pages

Trade

entry |4 pages

Tragedy

entry |2 pages

Transhumance

entry |3 pages

Translation from Greek

entry |4 pages

Translation into Greek

entry |3 pages

Travel

entry |3 pages

Trebizond

entry |1 pages

Trikkala

entry |2 pages

Triklinios, Dimitrios c.1280–c.1340

entry |2 pages

Trikoupis, Charilaos 1832–1896

entry |2 pages

Tripolis

entry |2 pages

Trojan War

entry |2 pages

Tsakonians

entry |2 pages

Tsarouchis, Ioannis 1910–1989

entry |2 pages

Turkey

entry |2 pages

Tyranny

entry |3 pages

Tzanes, Emmanuel c.1610–1690

entry |2 pages

Tzetzes, John

chapter |7 pages

U

entry |2 pages

Ukraine

entry |2 pages

Uniates

entry |3 pages

Urbanization

entry |3 pages

USA

chapter |26 pages

V

entry |2 pages

Varnalis, Kostas 1884–1974

entry |3 pages

Velestinlis, Rigas c.1757–1798

entry |2 pages

Velouchiotis, Ares 1905–1945

entry |3 pages

Venetians

entry |3 pages

Venetokratia 1204–1797

entry |2 pages

Venice

entry |3 pages

Venizelos, Eleftherios 1864–1936

entry |2 pages

Verroia

entry |3 pages

Village Society

entry |2 pages

Vine

entry |3 pages

Vizyinos, Georgios 1849–1896

entry |4 pages

Vlachs

entry |2 pages

Volcanoes

entry |2 pages

Volos

entry |3 pages

Votive Offerings

entry |2 pages

Voulgaris, Evgenios 1716–1806

chapter |17 pages

W

entry |2 pages

Wallachia

entry |6 pages

Warfare

entry |3 pages

Water management

entry |3 pages

Women

entry |2 pages

Women’s cults

entry |2 pages

Woodworking

entry |3 pages

World War I 1914–1918

entry |3 pages

World War II 1939–1945

chapter |5 pages

X

entry |2 pages

Xanthus

entry |3 pages

Xenakis, Iannis 1922–

entry |2 pages

Xenophon c.430–c.353 BC

chapter |4 pages

Y

entry |2 pages

Yarmuk, Battle of

entry |3 pages

Ypsilantis family

chapter |12 pages

Z

entry |2 pages

Zagori

entry |2 pages

Zealots

entry |2 pages

Zeno of Citium 335–263 BC

entry |2 pages

Zenobia

entry |2 pages

Zervas, Napoleon 1891–1957

entry |2 pages

Zoe c.978–1050

entry |2 pages

Zonaras, John

entry |2 pages

Zoology