... Γιατί οι Έλληνες;

(1) (2) (3) (5)

(1) 15-08-2015 εγώ με τον Βασιληά Λεωνίδα της Σπάρτης, μπροστά στο Μουσείο της Ακρόπολης.

(2) 22-11-2015 μπροστά στην Ακρόπολη.

(3) 26-11-2015 στην πλατεία Συντάγματος, μπροστά στο κτίριο της Βουλής.- ανάμεσα στο Συντριβάνι και το Δένδρο των Χριστουγέννων.

(4) 01-05-2016 me and my Masters, the Great Ancient Greek Philosophers Plato, and Aristotle.

(5) 30-05-2016 Beautiful Greece & the Greek Islands from Space on a beautiful clear day.Thank you NASA.

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…Μακάριοι οί Λαοί πού, γυρνώντας πίσω στο διάβα του χρόνου, μπορούν νά έμπνέωνται και νά φρονηματίζονται άπό την Ιστορία τους. Μέ τό κεφάλι ψηλά θα μπορούν αισιόδοξα ν’ άντικρύσουν τό μέλλον…

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« Κάθε λαός είναι υπερήφανος για την πνευματική του κτήση. Αλλά η ελληνική φυλή στέκεται ψηλότερα από κάθε άλλη, διότι έχει τούτο το προσόν, να είναι η μητέρα παντός πολιτισμού. »

Ούλριχ Μέλεντορφ Βιλαμόβιτς (Ulrich von Wilamowitz Mðllendorf), (1848-1931), Γερμανός φιλόλογος, κορυφαίος ερμηνευτής του αρχαίου ελληνικού πολιτισμού.

«Όποιος σκέπτεται σήμερα, σκέπτεται ελληνικά,

έστω κι αν δεν το υποπτεύεται.»

Jacqueline de Romilly

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Συχνά αποκαλείται το «λίκνο του πολιτισμού», η Αρχαία Ελλάδα προανήγγειλε πολλές προόδους στην φιλοσοφία, την επιστήμη, τη μηχανική και τα μαθηματικά που διαμόρφωσαν την κατανόησή μας του σύγχρονου κόσμου.

Ο δυτικός πολιτισμός έχει επηρεαστεί από πολλούς πολιτισμούς, αλλά η γέννησή του πραγματοποιήθηκε στην αρχαία Ελλάδα. Εκτός από τους φιλοσόφους όπως ο Αριστοτέλης και ο Σωκράτης, τους ολύμπιους Θεους, τις αρχές της δημοκρατίας και τους κατακτητές όπως ο Μεγας Αλέξανδρος, η Ελλάδα παρουσιάζεται ως συμβολή στις cool ιδέες της ανθρωπότητας που εμπλούτισαν την τέχνη της αρχιτεκτονικής και της κατασκευής.

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Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

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ελληνικά

Καταραμένε Έλληνα,

Όπου να γυρίσω τη σκέψη μου, όπου και να στρέψω τη ψυχή μου, μπροστά μου σε βρίσκω. Τέχνη λαχταρώ, ποίηση, θέατρο, αρχιτεκτονική, εσύ μπροστά μου, πρώτος κι αξεπέραστος. Επιστήμη αναζητώ, μαθηματικά, φιλοσοφία, ιατρική, κορυφαίος και ανυπέρβλητος. Για δημοκρατία διψώ, ισονομία και ισοπολιτεία, εσύ μπροστά μου, ασυναγώνιστος κι ανεπισκίαστος. Καταραμένε Έλληνα, καταραμένη γνώση. Γιατί να σ' αγγίξω; Για να αισθανθώ πόσο μικρός είμαι, ασήμαντος, μηδαμινός; Γιατί δεν μ' αφήνεις στη δυστυχία μου και στην ανεμελιά μου

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Verdammter Grieche...

Wohin ich mein Denken drehe,

wohin ich meine Seele wende

Sehne ich mich nach Kunst, Poesie, Theater,

Architektur bist du davor, erster, unuberstroffen.

Suche ich nach Wissenschaft, Mathematik, Philosophie,

Medizin bist du fuhrend und unuberwindbar.

Durste ich nach Demokratie, Fairness und Gleichheit,

bist du vor mir, unachahmbar konkurrenzios.

Verfluchter Grieche... Verfluchtes Wissen

Warum soll ich dich beruhren?

​Um zu spuren, wie klein ich bin, unwichtig, unbedeutend?

..... Warum lassen Sie mich nicht in mein Elend und in meine Sorglosigkeit.

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Damned Greek...

​​Every where I turn my thought,

every where I turn my soul,

I find you in front of me.

Should I long for Art, Poetry, Theater, Architecture,

you are front of me, first and unsurpassable.

Should I long for Science, Mathematics, Philosophy,

Medicin (you are) top and unbeatable.

​​​If I am thirsty for Democracy, Justice, Equality

​you are again in front of me unrivaled.

Damned Greek... damned Knowledge

Why should I touch you? To feel how shall I am, unimportant, unsignificant? Damned Greek, you found everything; Philosophy, Geometry, Physics, Astronomy... You left nothing to us. Why do not let me in my misery and my carelessness?"

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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

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ελληνικά

Αποδεδειγμένα σε κάθε περίοδο της εξέλιξής του ο δυτικοευρωπαϊκός πολιτισμός προσπάθησε να απελευθερώσει τον εαυτό του από τους Έλληνες.

Η προσπάθεια αυτή είναι διαποτισμένη με βαθύτατη δυσαρέσκεια, διότι οτιδήποτε κι αν (οι δυτικοευρωπαίοι) δημιουργούσαν, φαινομενικά πρωτότυπο και άξιο θαυμασμού, έχανε χρώμα και ζωή στη σύγκρισή του με το ελληνικό μοντέλο, συρρικνωνότανε, κατέληγε να μοιάζει με φθηνό αντίγραφο, με καρικατούρα.

Έτσι ξανά και ξανά μια οργή ποτισμένη με μίσος ξεσπάει εναντίον των Ελλήνων, εναντίον αυτού του μικρού και αλαζονικού έθνους που είχε το νεύρο να ονομάσει βαρβαρικά (για κάθε εποχή) ό,τι δεν είχε δημιουργηθεί στο έδαφός του.

Μα ποιοι, επιτέλους, είναι αυτοί των οποίων η ιστορική αίγλη υπήρξε τοσο εφήμερη, οι θεσμοί τους τόσο περιορισμένοι, τα ήθη τους αμφίβολα έως απαράδεκτα, και οι οποίοι απαιτούν μια εξαίρετη θέση ανάμεσα στα έθνη, μια θέση πάνω από το πλήθος.

Κανένας απο τους επανεμφανιζόμενους εχθρούς τους δεν είχε την τύχη να ανακαλύψει το κώνειο, με το οποίο θα μπορούσαμε μια για πάντα να απαλλαγούμε απ' αυτούς.

Όλα τα δηλητήρια του φθονου, της ύβρεως, του μίσους έχουν αποδειχθεί ανεπαρκή να διαταράξουν την υπέροχη ομορφιά τους.

Έτσι, οι άνθρωποι συνεχίζουν να νιώθουν ντροπή και φόβο απέναντι στους Έλληνες.

Βέβαια, πού και πού, κάποιος εμφανίζεται που αναγνωρίζει ακέραιη την αλήθεια, την αλήθεια που διδάσκει ότι οι Έλληνες είναι οι ηνίοχοι κάθε επερχόμενου πολιτισμού και σχεδον πάντα τόσο τα άρματα άσο και τα άλογα των επερχόμενων πολιτισμών είναι πολύ χαμηλής ποιότητας σε σχέση με τους ηνίοχους (Έλληνες), οι οποίοι τελικά αθλούνται οδηγώντας το άρμα στην άβυσσο, την οποία αυτοί ξεπερνούν με αχίλλειο πήδημα.

*Απόσπασμα από το βιβλίο του Friedrich Nietzsche, Η γέννηση της τραγωδίας, 1872, κεφ. 15.

(Eκδόσεις: Πανοπτικόν - 2010, Βιβλιοπωλείον της Εστίας - 2009, Βάνιας - 2008, Κάκτος - 2006, Νησίδες - 2001, Γκοβόστης - 1983).

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"Why do they hate the Greeks'

Nietzsche explains the European anti-Greek sentiments

More timely than ever is Friedrich Nietzsche, arguably one of the most important German philosophers, namely one of the first "existentialist" philosophers. His first book, entitled "The Birth of Tragedy" (1872), in particular Chapter 15, Nietzsche made a special reference to the Greek nation by showing that Nietzsche is far ahead of its time.

The attitude of certain circles in Europe toward the Greeks in conjunction with the mistrust that exists around the Greeks have made scepticals from time to time the most severe judges of Greeks.

"The Greeks are lazy and fraudsters" are just some decorative comments heard internationally in recent months by many to wonder why such a fury around people with a glorious history and an enviable culture.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche gives a unique answer ...

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"Proven in every period of its development, the western European culture has tried to rid himself of the Greeks. This work is imbued with deep disappointment, because whatever we create, seemingly original and worthy of admiration, lose color and life in comparison with the Greek mode, came to resemble a cheap copy, a caricature.

So again and again soaked in a rage erupts hatred against the Greeks, against this small and arrogant nation, who had the nerve to call it barbaric whatever that had not been established in its territory ...None of the recurrent enemies had the fortune to discover the hemlock, which could forever be rid of them. All poisons of envy, of hubris, hatred, have been insufficient to disturb the great beauty.Thus, people continue to feel shame and fear of the Greeks. Of course, occasionally, someone appears to recognize intact truth, truth which teaches that the Greeks are the charioteers of any upcoming culture and almost always as the chariots and horses of the upcoming cultures is very low quality compared to the charioteer, who eventually work out driving his chariot into the abyss, which are beyond the Achilles 'Leap'

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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy chapter. 15, paragraph. 2:

Before we could recognize this fact, before we convincingly established the innermost dependence of every art on the Greeks, from Homer right up to Socrates, we had to treat these Greeks as the Athenians treated Socrates. Almost every era and cultural stage has at some point sought in an profoundly ill-tempered frame of mind to free itself of the Greeks, because in comparison with the Greeks, all their own achievements, apparently fully original and admired in all sincerity, suddenly appeared to lose their colour and life and shrivelled to unsuccessful copies, in fact, to caricatures.

And so a heartfelt inner anger always keeps breaking out again against that arrogant little nation which dared to designate for all time everything that was not produced in its own country as “barbaric.” Who were those Greeks, people asked themselves, who, although they had achieved only an ephemeral historical glitter, only ridiculously restricted institutions, only an ambiguous competence in morality, who could even be identified with hateful vices, yet who had nevertheless laid a claim to a dignity and a pre-eminent place among peoples, appropriate to a genius among the masses?

Unfortunately people were not lucky enough to find the cup of hemlock which could easily do away with such a being, for all the poisons which envy, slander, and inner rage created were insufficient to destroy that self-satisfied magnificence. Hence, confronted by the Greeks, people have been ashamed and afraid, unless an individual values the truth above everything else and dares to propose this truth: the notion that the Greeks, as the charioteers of our culture and every other one, hold the reins, but that almost always the wagon and horses are inferior material and do not match the glory of their drivers, who then consider it amusing to whip such a team into the abyss, over which they themselves jump with the leap of Achilles.

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Will Durant, 1885-1981 , Αμερικανός ιστορικός & φιλόσοφος

To the philosopher, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. -- Emerson

If Greek civilization seems more akin and "modem" to us now than that of any century before Voltaire, it is because the Hellene loved reason as much as form, and boldly sought to explain all nature in nature's terms.

The liberation of science from theology and the independent development of scientific research were parts of the heady adventure of the Greek mind. Greek mathematicians laid the foundations of trigonometry and calculus; they began and completed the study of conic sections, and they brought three-dimensional geometry to such relative perfection that it remained as they left it until Descartes and Pascal.

Democritus illuminated the whole area of physics and chemistry with his atomic theory. In a mere aside and holiday from abstract studies, Archimedes produced enough new mechanisms to place his name with the highest in the records of invention. Aristarchus anticipated and perhaps inspired Copernicus; and Hipparchus, through Claudius Ptolemy, constructed a system of astronomy which is one of the landmarks in cultural history.

Eratosthenes measured the earth and mapped it. Anaxagoras and Empedoeles drew the outlines of a theory of evolution. Aristotle and Theophrastus classified the animal and plant kingdoms and almost created the sciences of meteorology, zoology, embryology and botany. Hippocrates freed medicine from mysticism and philosophical theory, and ennobled it with an ethical code; Herophilus and Erasistratus raised anatomy and physiology to a point which -- except in Galen -- Europe would not reach again till the Renaissance.

In the work of these men we breathe the quiet air of reason, always uncertain and unsafe, but cleansed of passion and myth. Perhaps, if we had its masterpieces entire, we should rate Greek science as the most signal intellectual achievement of mankind.

But the lover of philosophy will only reluctantly yield to science and art the supreme places in our Grecian heritage. Greek science itself was a child of Greek philosophy -- of that reckless challenge to legend, that youthful love of inquiry, which for centuries united science and philosophy in one adventurous quest. Never had men examined nature so critically and yet so affectionately; the Greeks did no dishonor to the world in thinking that it was a cosmos of order and therefore amenable to understanding. They invented logic for the same reason that they made perfect statuary; harmony, unity, proportion, form, in their view, provided both the art of logic and the logic of art.

Curious of every fact and every theory, they not only established philosophy as a distinct enterprise of the European mind, but they conceived nearly every system and every hypothesis and left little to be said on any major problem of life. Realism and nominalism, idealism and materialism, monotheism, pantheism, and atheism, feminism and communism, the Kantian critique and the Schopenhaurian despair, the primitivism of Rousseau and the immoralism of Nietzsche, the synthesis of Spencer and the psychoanalysis of Freud -- all the dreams and wisdom of philosophy are here in the age and land of its birth. And in Greece men not only talked of philosophy, they lived it; the sage, rather than the warrior or the saint, was the pinnacle and ideal of Greek life.

Through all the centuries from Thales, that exhilarating philosophical bequest has come down to us, inspiring Roman emperors, Christian Fathers, Scholastic theologians, Renaissance heretics, Cambridge Platonists, the rebels of the Enlightenment and the devotees of philosophy today. At this moment, thousands of eager spirits are reading Plato -- perhaps in every country on the earth.

Civilization does not die, it migrates; it changes its habitat and its dress, but it lives on. The decay of one civilization, as of one individual, makes room for the growth of another; life sheds the old skin and surprises death with fresh youth. Greek civilization is alive; it moves in every breath of mind that we breathe; so much of it remains that none of us in one lifetime could absorb it all.

We know its defects -- its insane and pitiless wars, its stagnant slavery, its subjection of woman, its lack of moral restraint, its corrupt individualism, its tragic failure to unite liberty with order and peace. But those who cherish freedom, reason and beauty will not linger over these blemishes. They will hear behind the turmoil of political history the voices of Solon and Socrates, of Plato and Euripides, of Phidias and Praxiteles, of Epicurus and Archimedes; they will be grateful for the existence of such men and will seek their company across alien centuries.

They will think of Greece as the bright morning of that Western civilization which, with all its kindred faults, is our nourishment and our life.

Ιστορική κληρονομιά που απεικονίζεται σε αυτά τα ταχυδρομικά γραμματόσηματου 1890-1940

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